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12-20-2013, 11:43 PM
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Population tanking
Friday primetime US timezones
110 No variance, no players Most of the new players have learned they will never see boss mobs unless they join nihilum and tons are quitting, leaving the toxic shitbags that have ruined red from the jump. Server needs variance, you must put it in! | ||
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#2
12-20-2013, 11:53 PM
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varience would make zero difference 2 me if i even cared about playing here hardcore
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#3
12-20-2013, 11:58 PM
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110 on a lull from the break within a break... people are traveling today, receiving travelers, internets going down from freezing shit... id say that number is within normal range for this time given circumstances
Tracking Server Population - Thanksgiving 2013 http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=129767 | ||
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#6
12-21-2013, 12:12 AM
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they were chasing us flowers around earlier, all over kunark and you know where... without 4 +/-, we just say eh, succor out go somewhere else.
at least if there was risk to them of OOR assistance then both sides would stay to engage, but as it stands... eh, prplgrpz is handling Body Count just fine | ||
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#7
12-21-2013, 12:16 AM
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I played red99 for a while. I didn't get griefed or relentlessly hunted/killed. But I couldn't find anyone with gear I could buy, despite having the plat. Mostly quit because it didn't seem like a lot was going on. Maybe I was just too low of a level?
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#8
12-21-2013, 02:43 PM
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Inflation has pushed the prices of anything worthwhile so high that there really is no point in selling mid range stuff. It isn't even worth the effort to log in an alt to sell 1 or 2k worth of items. XP is so easy, class imbalances as far as PvE goes, and the fact that so much of the population has been around forever means that there is little interesting to do once you do make 54/55. I've finished about 1/3d of the solo artist challenge just screwing around on a friend's retired account, why bother doing it with a group. Allow boxing and there is zero incentive to deal with players who are not as familiar with various zones and game mechanics. HB keeps trying to make a point about leveling a melee, but the reality is that outside of PvP, most melee is boring as hell. What does a rogue do? Sit with a group and hit 1 key over and over again. Warrior? Hit mob then afk while procs keep agro. Monk can be interesting in certain spots but for most content is an inefficient puller. And we all know how much love there is for the hybrids. And for what trade off? If you are one of the 15% of the player base who even cares about raiding, you become useful. Other than that, you are basically a charity case. Every time someone steps up and puts the effort into a new guild, VV, Red Dawn, Rule of Rile, or whatever, a bunch of new players get involved and a bunch of old players revisit parts of Norrath that they may have missed the first time around. But they also eventually get to the point where there is very little left to do(outside of the extraordinary timesink of raiding) and quit logging in regularly. The PvP here is awful here on so many levels it is hardly a reason for anyone to stay, and with Alecta having hardware problems, I imagine TESO and WildStar will both be out before we see any meaningful changes to red. | |||
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#9
12-21-2013, 02:54 PM
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it maybe would have been different if i was a caster, but all the worthwhile dungeons at 49+ are a long way from the places where a paladin can bind. as it stood, i was spending half of my play sessions just doing corpse runs. i've griped about this before, and i was told "learn to PVP"... but no amount of PVP skill is gonna save me when i'm at 40% health with a mob beating on me and i get jumped by someone 8 levels higher than me.
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#10
12-21-2013, 02:59 PM
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it's horribly unfair and unjust when some untwinked melee is fighting for their lives in s ro and a druid or 3 roll into s ro just to rolfstomp u on their way to a raid or pixel farm TLDR, flowers will let u level in their zones as long as u wear their tag and help them pvp their enemies. and players like lewis will let u pvp with them vs the raid geared people, its do-able when u have some good buff support, bard speed also i see plenty mid range pvp gear, like white gold necklaces being sold for 500p even a dwarven ring the other day, plenty good enough to pve in 2 sarnak tabbard, etc u need to catch the pop mid swing, right as people are logging on and off, if u catch it at peek or its lowest spot, ur going to miss out on people looking to do stuff, sell, run around norrath, port I know its a pain to schedule, i am trying to reconcile work + EQ + not letting my body go to shit patience is the key, and avoiding burnout from those 20 hr solo grind sessions GBS, 3k, 2:07 EST, not really low end but attainable with a bit of farmage solo pvp, u cant make a ton of mortal enemies, don't ever pvp alone on a melee ur screwed, u have to beg for those druid/bards to come fight with u and prove ur worth, those melees who talk shit about 1v6 are punks who just have mad gears | |||
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