Teal for Kunark Launch

[Castle2.0]

Originally Posted by Noselacri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The difference is that not everyone's starting an iksar on Kunark's launch day. The vast majority of players are gonna be on their level 50 mains. Given the small selection of classes available to iksars and the fact that they technically have two starting zones (you don't have to level in FoB), I'm not convinced it'll be bad enough that opening a second server will be necessary. And I say that as someone who will be playing an iksar. When green launched, 100% of the playerbase was starting from fresh, so even though they were spread out across a number of starting zones, I don't expect the iksar region to be as crowded as green's launch was.

Why go through the trouble to re-open teal for like three days? FoB might have a hundred dudes in it on launch night but it's not like that's gonna remain the case. Now that there's the possibility of getting ported and bound in some other starting zone, I doubt anyone will find themselves unable to play an iksar just because there's too many of them around.

You might be right, but let's play this one out...

Originally Posted by Castle2.0

Everyone was level 1 when green started, but we had about 12 starting areas.

If Kunark launch pop is similar to Green launch pop and 8-10% of people decide to roll an Iksar and play in the Iksar newbie yard, it will be similar congestion to the other starting areas on Day 1 of Green.

On launch day we had 2652 peak pop. Day 2 was 2442. Day 3 was 2077. It was either that day or the following Day Teal came out. One reason for the pre-Teal population drop was overcrowding.

Let's say 2652 all spread out evenly across the 12 or so starting areas. That's 221 people per starting area. Probably had more in gfay/qeynos and fewer in innothule/feerrott.

How many people do you think are going to roll Iksars and go to field of bone the first day of kunark?