Project 1999: Teal

[Keza]

So then are they being merged when Kunark launches are they both staying split until they get dumped onto blue?

I'm not thrilled about the pop split. People will play less over time, and regardless of the split important camps will always be camped, so the saturation only effects exp, which isn't hard to get. Camps with 1 or 2 mobs were common even in classic, so this seems beneficial explicitly to people who refuse to either move camp or solo/play a different character/play a different game/do something else when they can't get a camp.

Population splits have other effects beyond farming exp and pixels as well, especially in a closed environment. Consider WoW classic. It had tons of servers, but most streamers and their fans dogpiled onto Faerlina, resulting in the server becoming dogshit. So much so that it had massive queues and crashing, plus it's super-saturated with far more than normal. Doing this on p99 will have unforeseeable results in regards to guilds and the population. It's not just player_001 deciding to switch, it's an entire guild, their friends, their friends, their friends, their guilds, their guilds, their guilds. Or refuse to, and lose their friends.

It's impossible to balance, more like just hoping for the best. All because someone couldn't wait to get that sweet sweet orc 1 camp. I don't think it's the best choice. Surely some sort of list system for camps (as opposed to handing it off to friends/guildmates) would be preferable? Although it's easy to just say it I guess, I can't code it for you.

Hopefully it all works out. I've played a lot of MMOs and there is nothing worse than playing on a dead server. The only people who would enjoy that are pixel farmers, and no one cares about them.