Population falling?

[stormlord]

It eventually has to decline, for a lot of reasons. No matter how good a game is, you eventually will tire of it. Same stuff every day with a different coat of paint just doesn't do it. You're human afterall.

I know because I played EQ for years and years. I've played so many games I should be dead already. But I know they all get boring. Your eyes literally bleed until you stop. Some you revisit. Some you don't.

A fresh server would help, but realistically it just delays hte inevitable. That doesn't mean we should just quit because for many of you this game is still worth playing. So what're they waiting for? Create another server already. It could possibly be a $$$ thing. How much does it cost to do a server? Or are they concerned about splitting the population? Well they shouldn't be, with so many high levels on the server splitting it would actually be a good thing.

BUT I think if the population falls below ~500, global chat should be reintroduced. There're some things in EQ1 which work against it if the populations falls too low or gets too high. It's not a very flexible system. This is why EQ1 changed so dramatically over the years. It wasn't designed from the start to adjust itself to circumstances. On the downside, these necessary changes were mixed with others not so necessary and it got ruined.