Real talk: Blue is a beta cess pool

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

What do you mean by *now* there is reasonable doubt? rogean said it at the very beginning of the green servers release.

The whole "recycle server" idea was pitched by staff long before Green ever came to fruition and it was pitched as a server that would start fresh at classic and progress to end of the standard P99 timeline then merge with blue and restart fresh again. It was then reiterated around launch time by Nilbog on 9/13/2019:

The green server will, at a time yet to be decided, eventually merge into blue and start over again. This merge will not happen until at least 6 months after the last patch in velious (No earlier than January 2023)

A month later 10/21/2019 Rogean said the previously mentioned quote:

Server Merge - The staff has had considerable discussion internally regarding the merging of Green into Blue at the end of the timeline. We've heard your concerns. At this time, we haven't made a final decision, but we have also decided that we will leave the door open. A lot can change in 3 years, and we may chose to leave Green running independently as we open additional servers in the future.

The important part being "we may chose to leave Green running independently as we open additional servers". This was the first time the idea of leaving green running and starting additional servers was mentioned since the first mention of "Recycle99" like a year+? before green launched. My hunch is that Rogean said this due to the massive influx of people playing green at launch (thus creating the Teal server as temporary overflow) and he might have been thinking the influx of players would sustain blue/green + another recycle server. However as of right now I think most people would agree that there isn't enough of a sustained playerbase here to support 3 healthy servers. P99 is at it's best when the avg player count is somewhere between 800 and 1400 or so. As it stands with the size of the community here 3 servers would result in sub 500 players per server which is bad.

There very likely will be a significant bump in players when/if green 2.0 or whatever they call the new server launches but as everyone knows that number tends to drop pretty aggressively once the initial hype dies off. I've been an on again off again P99 player since early 2010 and from my experience the size of the playerbase here hasn't changed significantly in 10+ years. It ebbs and flows slightly but mostly hovers in the neighborhood of 1000-1500 online at peak times and I don't see any reason why that would change. That being the case I can't see 3 servers being a good idea unless somehow the population increases by a good amount.