Lost the spark?

[douglas1999]

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

Like i said yesterday:The people who voted "NO" on the "Server Split" were the upper-half of the population well ahead of the curve.

The server is gonna be unplayable for 90% of people in a month or so. We're gonna have literally 2000+ players in the level 40-50 range and, MAYBE, two dozen level-appropriate experience camps (and that doesn't even account for the speedrunners who are gonna be solo and duoing many of these camps for item drops)

If the ratio is really that dire, then obviously the vote is going to always swing toward no split. It's literally only been live five days, give it a month or so sheesh.

I honestly was expecting level 50s by monday and there still aren't any 30's I'm aware of. It's not as bad as you think.

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If the ratio is really that dire, then obviously the vote is going to always swing toward no split. It's literally only been live five days, give it a month or so sheesh.

not sure I see the logic here. The longer we wait, the worse it will be.

[douglas1999]

Yeah but I mean, p99 blue flourished and grew to huge success, and it had WAY LONGER windows within each expansion. Never underestimate the nerd lust for pixels.

[larsbars]

I have a few friends who are casual (myself included). I can sense that the overpopulation is an issue for them. I think they chalked it up to being launch day/week but if it doesn't simmer down I fear all its gonna take is 4-6 hours per level at lvl 6 due to lack of mobs and they'll quit forever. In the end we might just have blue and green with basically the same population as blue was. We should re-do the server split vote and make every effort for people to understand they will be re-merged.

[greatdane]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah but I mean, p99 blue flourished and grew to huge success, and it had WAY LONGER windows within each expansion. Never underestimate the nerd lust for pixels.

P99 started with like 100 players and grew gradually over time. It didn't have 1k players arriving at the endgame at the same time.

[Deathrydar]

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

P99 started with like 100 players and grew gradually over time. It didn't have 1k players arriving at the endgame at the same time.

Maybe someone will read this and let it soak in cause I have said it a dozen times on these boards and no one seems to understand that.

[douglas1999]

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

Maybe someone will read this and let it soak in cause I have said it a dozen times on these boards and no one seems to understand that.

So, instancing then? I really do understand the concern here but I just don't see any good solution. Yes when p99 launched it only had about 100 players. But when p99 kunark launched it was well over 1000 and there was no talk of a split. There will always be a stratification of the playerbase, I just don't see a glaring issue if I can play as casually as I do and not really feel any anxiety about the rate of progression for other people.

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, instancing then? I really do understand the concern here but I just don't see any good solution. Yes when p99 launched it only had about 100 players. But when p99 kunark launched it was well over 1000 and there was no talk of a split.

Because there was another entire continent for everyone to play on and a slew of new dungeons. Not to mention there is a huge difference between 1000 players and 2,300.

This is not rocket science.

[cd288]

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

Maybe someone will read this and let it soak in cause I have said it a dozen times on these boards and no one seems to understand that.

We understand, most of us just don’t care and have no issue with the current state of the server. Past level 3/4, it’s very easy to find groups and extremely easy to find mobs to kill. The population isn’t causing an issue.

[Jimjam]

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

P99 started with like 100 players and grew gradually over time. It didn't have 1k players arriving at the endgame at the same time.

Ironic, blue started with 100s of players and peaked at 2k. Greens gonna start with 2k and end up with 100s?