The problem is not that our server has too few people. In fact the high end raiding scene is actually very crowded: we have 3 guilds that can take any target in Kunark (TR,TMO, and VD could handle VP if they had keys) plus Divinity, BDA, Taken and so on. If Rogean snapped and deleted the characters of TMO and TR, there would still be enough players to race for every Kunark dragon.
The problem is that the leveling zones are empty. When I was leveling up in February/March, all of the low level zones were packed: Mistmoore usually had entrance, GY, and CE/Pit groups, while Guktop had King, Undead ZL, scryer, and so on. After Kunark came out, Sebilis would never drop below 25 people, and Karnor's hit 70+ (what a trainwreck). I remember being in Hate and TR sent a group up there for XP because it was so crowded in Kunark! But now the high end zones are empty because most people are 60. Meanwhile the influx of new players is tapering off a bit (after all P1999 has been out for 2 years now or something, most people have heard of it), and what new players there are level really fast because they have access to Kunark gear, either directly for the cheaper items or by grouping with twinks. If I had to guess, I would say maybe 1/3 of the population is 55+ and playing their mains, 1/3 is 55+ and playing on their twinks, and 1/3 is actual new players.
I think the population solution has to be Velious and epics, which open up a ton of raiding content for our top-heavy player base. Of course our devs, not being full time paid employees, are releasing content a lot more slowly than Verant. Remember, Kunark came out maybe 9 months ago. If we are on the real timeline, we should have had Veeshan's Peak for months, Epics for a bit, and Velious should be happening right around now.
I've considered a wipe but I think it would do exactly the opposite of what we want: all the powergamers (especially the ones who came later) would clap and all the casuals would quit in disgust, and in 6 months we would have an even more top-heavy server. Yendor would probably commit suicide at the thought of trying to level up another ranger
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