Economy barrier for new players

[veejur]

When I played on live, there were plenty of high level characters. There were also people who had alts that they wanted to gear up, and they would spend some of the money they made on their main equipping them earlier. None of this bothers me in the slightest. You're absolutely right - you were there earlier, and you have a right to profit from the inflation.

The only thing that bothers me a little is that folks don't seem content with leveling up characters at the rate the game takes and go to absurd levels twinking with the goal of farming spots or raiding with multiple accounts when it's the same person. If you have 6 characters that are all uberly geared from your efforts - hats off. If you have 6 characters but they are on separate accounts that come from a couple IPs that's really just you playing, that kind of bums me out.

I really hope that most of the people I see geared out there are just folks enjoying the game that have done the work and love it. I gotta admit though I read some of the threads on here about camping spawns and have experienced myself the "spawnlock" that seems to exist in some areas (ala the person camping AC camps and relogs each time the spawn is back up) and there's a fine line between "dynamic game mechanics" and just generally being a loot whore / douchebag.

Everyone defines that line differently and everyone's free to enjoy *their* game. But I do lose respect for people that don't consider others. I can't say what the balance of that is on this server. For every guy who is cockblocking a camp or training people, I've run across folks that have ported me refusing payment and helped me recover a corpse.

[veejur]

To clarify - I don't have anything wrong with camping and relogging when your spawn is up at a named (though if your gone theoretically someone can claim the camp due to server rules if I'm interpreting it correctly). It's when you have a bunch of chars all camped at farm spots. Maybe that's all we have to look forward to at 60 for some people and I just have no insight to the raiding scene though.

[Lyra]

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

Old news bud, this server is plagued with it. Thus the reason the population keeps dwindling

*rolls eyes*

Let's talk about this: "keeps dwindling"

That sounds like it's been a steady flow of people leaving.

The population is there for all to see. The population started hitting just over 1K prime time regularly for the first time since inception in February. So when you say "keeps" do you mean since then?

Or do you mean in the last three days? If you mean the last three days, I was laughing out loud to myself in Kelethin yesterday morning before work. There were true newbies asking why the lift doesn't work (sure sign). Caused me to do /who There were a LOT of true newbies there! I think the server received some very good advertising recently.

Those that might be "away" right now, will be back. I did a thorough investigation. It is apparent to me, not everyone did.

[Kraftwerk]

Lyra, the server existed before you joined in January and cracked 1k on reg for bit there long before you joined. Pop is low compared to a peak during kunark launch. Climbing back now and I bet hits near 2k on Velious launch.

[Lyra]

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

Lyra, the server existed before you joined in January and cracked 1k on reg for bit there long before you joined. Pop is low compared to a peak during kunark launch. Climbing back now and I bet hits near 2k on Velious launch.

OH pardon me! I was misinformed. I understood the server just peaked recently. I did read that it hit over 2k at Kunark release, but it wasn't a consistent population.

By the way, the server might have existed before I joined, but it will never be the same after. P~