Theres also the limited pop, you cant act like this is live EQ. The pop is fragile and has to be nurtured. Theres alot of things i remember clearly from live. Another one of them is the number of players that came up in Eastern Karana when i /who'd it during the halloween event: 205 players.
Thats not what we are working with here. That was the big mistake from the red launch, we had a 600 pop and as soon as it was clear that xp loss was gonna kill the pop (barely a week into it) it should have been taken care of. Instead it was left to rot and when it was fixed (mid-kunark or something) it was already too late, the pop had dried up to single digit at night.
You either do a little brainstorm work before launch to make sure the mechanics are good and check on it after launch, or watch feedback closely during the next weeks after launch. If youre just gonna go with an obviously bad setup, turn a switch on and forget about the server like what seemed to be what went down in 2011 why even bother. I wont.
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