[loramin]

Of course you can define failure any number of objective ways, but I I meant it objectively: it doesn't come anywhere close to the population levels of an actual EverQuest server, and that's with people playing 3x accounts.

By definition an emulated EverQuest server is trying to emulate a real EverQuest server, so it's logical to define success as "close to live population levels". As someone recently reported here, Verant (at least back in the day) aimed for roughly a 1500 prime time population number.

So if any emulated server fails to get anywhere close to such a number, and especially when you have to divide their visible population numbers by three to get the real number ... and it's been going for years but still hasn't gotten more popular ... I'd argue that at least by some obvious objective measures, it's a failure.

I'm sure you'll try and "redefine success" in a way that makes the server seem better... but I don't think you're going to sell many people here on that definition.

And to be clear, I don't want P2002 to be a failure. I would LOVE to play in Luclin and PoP and even LDoN again. But y'all other emulated servers just keep depending on boxing, and failing.