Solution to lower level grouping woes: hotzones or group XP?

[Galaa]

After years of hopping around different MMORPGs (even played FFXIV, Rift and still having an active SWTOR sub), Im coming back to Everquest again LOL.

Just started a character and cant seem to find much people playing around in the newbie zones. I did a /who all 10-20 and saw that everyone is scattered around in different zones, probably soloing. Im sure not everyone wants to solo, but many lowbies are forced to due to unable to find people to group with.

Makes me wonder, if there are hotzones (level 10-49) and group XPs, will it encourage people to gather around specific zones? With more people within the same zone, it will lead to more chance of grouping IMO.

With a small XP gain in hotzones (10%), it will encourage low level characters to congregate in specific zones, and giving an additional XP bonus for grouping, it makes people want to group as well.

These measures will encourage more new players into the server as well IMO, as they know they have a chance to group with people again (the reason why we all wanna play EQ), as well as encourage players to create alts (again adding to more chance for grouping for new players).