Why Red has such a low pop

[timhutton]

You guys are insane for thinking there are so many people that want to play on this server.

With the perfect ruleset, the perfect community, and all of the people who started and quit with intentions of playing long term back you're looking at 300-400 people tops.

EQ PvP has NEVER been anywhere as close to as popular as PVE, and blue pulls in ~1000 players on a good night. Best case scenario for red is getting maybe a 1/3rd of that.

This is a dead game we play bros, new blood is not coming in at a fast pace, and all the old blood together is only going to combine for a given fraction of what blue has, just like happened on live.

It's never happened, it will never happen. Enjoy what we've got.

(I'm not saying it can't be better, but I think the idea of having blue-like population on the box and every zone full and inviting to new players is a pipe-dream. Players are always going to be soloing at low levels here because of nobody to group with. Any change or event would only be temporary at best).

[runlvlzero]

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

You guys are insane for thinking there are so many people that want to play on this server.

With the perfect ruleset, the perfect community, and all of the people who started and quit with intentions of playing long term back you're looking at 300-400 people tops.

EQ PvP has NEVER been anywhere as close to as popular as PVE, and blue pulls in ~1000 players on a good night. Best case scenario for red is getting maybe a 1/3rd of that.

This is a dead game we play bros, new blood is not coming in at a fast pace, and all the old blood together is only going to combine for a given fraction of what blue has, just like happened on live.

It's never happened, it will never happen. Enjoy what we've got.

(I'm not saying it can't be better, but I think the idea of having blue-like population on the box and every zone full and inviting to new players is a pipe-dream. Players are always going to be soloing at low levels here because of nobody to group with. Any change or event would only be temporary at best).

Then box should be instant 51 (non planar gear) or get rid of the boring part of the game for returning pvpers. /testbuff to 25 with reasonable MR gear and kunark weapons.

[heartbrand]

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

Then box should be instant 51 (non planar gear) or get rid of the boring part of the game for returning pvpers. /testbuff to 25 with reasonable MR gear and kunark weapons.

holy fuck thank god staff doesnt listen to you