How do we get players to return to Project1999?

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

Everyone seems to be caught up in the raiding aspect, when I think the real issue is that no one is around at the lower levels. It's hard to get new people to play when those new people have no one else to play with. Some come with friends, but a lot are just trying to relive the memories and group up at the lower tier.

Heck, when there was around 1k people peak the lower tier was really fun because you could get groups within 30 minutes between 10-30. Now I see almost no one on at all in that range.

So the question would then be, what would bring back the lower level people? Only non-classic things would really do. Global chats, faster XP, easier mobs, hotzones, etc have been mentioned, and I think it's a start. These were added in to later expansions for a reason, and that's because new people just stopped joining.

I don't know if those "non-classic" solutions will fly here, but hopefully something can be figured out before the server is reduced to 50 people at peak hours...

I actually just started leveling on the server at the end of January. I made it a point to engage anybody who was lfg in a few zones. I found 4-5 good people that I leveled up to 40 with. Unfortunately the glue of the group stopped playing and the rest started logging in less and less. I had to do most of the rest soloing. Which is unfortunate. What I am not seeing is groups in solb/guk anymore. I ground out level 58 Soloing LDC's. That should have not been an option due to population. Now that I am leveling a shadowknight (14) I have not seen anybody leveling in the same fashion. Maybe the weapon skill hurt us that bad in the short term, combined with the D3 release. I really loved velious's 35+ dungeons. I loved Crystal Caverns "back in the day". Exp seemed a little faster.

The hybrid penalty really hurts people wanting to go with paladins and rangers. Along with the stigma of playing these classes. Sk's can get a pass a lot due to their excellent aggro generation. But I am seeing a bunch of them grind up to about 55 and quitting. Without a 40% penalty they would be near the top of that final hump. Maybe creating just a global lfg channel, or enabling of the lfg tool would be a good idea. People seem to like alts to go /role or /anon. The hybrid penalty would be on an faster timeline than classic. But due to velious being postponed it would not be outside of the "real life" time frame.


Also I hear that Full Circle guild is doing big things at the lowbie level.