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Originally Posted by Silverfalcon
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I am not demanding anything. I am just not understanding why the two servers (green and teal) which were higher in population than blue and red btw. Were merged. Does that escape your comprehension? It's not about what was going on in 1999. It's about what is going on currently in 2020. There were 4 servers now there are 3. Red is about dead. Blue is about half of what green is. So why merge green and teal when I can't recall reading any threads in green or teal asking for the servers to be merged. From most accounts I can tell most people were pretty happy with how Green and Teal were. Judging by the votes for this thread 5Xs more players are unhappy than happy there was a merge.
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Teal was created as a temporary measure to deal with overpopulation of over 2.4k people as of Green launch. The goal was to create Teal to take on some of the players for a little bit until people spaced out more in the level ranges rather than them being all packed into the same couple low level zones. The population has declined by a lot since Green's original launch and the remaining population is relatively evenly spaced out across the level ranges. Ergo, Teal served it's purpose and was merged back into Green.
Teal was NOT created just for the sake of splitting the population so that you can easily farm valuable drops on your Shaman lol. It accomplished what the staff wanted it to.
Side note, there were plenty of threads and comments by people saying the servers should be merged. Just like the initial poll taken on whether to split in the first place was pretty even.
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Originally Posted by Silverfalcon
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BTW did you actually play during EQ classic years? I did on Inny starting around march of 2000 or so and I really don't remember having the issues for doing things that I do now. In fact I still have all my original discs from EQ do you?
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Considering I was a GM, I would say I played during the classic years lol. Also, if you started in March 2000, then that would partially explain why you don't recall things being as crowded. Kunark released in April 2000, which expanded the game world a ton. Depending on when in March you started, you might not have even been high enough level in March to start farming some of the things you're referencing in your comments...so by the time you were Kunark would have been out and things would be even more spaced out. But to answer your question in general, yes things like you are experiencing were par for the course in 1999.