Population decline since velious release?

[heartbrand]

Supposedly DB is doing a boxing free progression server. I'd try that but probably not until it hit Luclin / PoP as the initial mass wave of people and non classic shit is annoying.

[Swish]

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

Supposedly DB is doing a boxing free progression server. I'd try that but probably not until it hit Luclin / PoP as the initial mass wave of people and non classic shit is annoying.

I wonder how they'll enforce that without spending any money on it. Interesting idea.

[am0n]

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

.I don't know, professionalism(?) that the devs on p99 show, I don't think I could deal with any other servers.

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

Here is a developer's reply.

How about we start banning for hacking models, maps, because they can be altered to give an unfair advantage?

Do you think enforcing models revolved around someone "liking luclin better"???

You don't like classic models? They are in the spirit of the server. Sorry.

You wanna blame someone for it going in, when there are plenty of things to work on?

Red Server is over there. ====>

The whining is enough to make me push disabling the mouse scroll wheel next patch.

Get over it. You want luclin models? EQLive is F2P. Go whine there.

..... boy, I am sassy today. Heh.

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

So. In the Classic spirit. Besides scroll wheel, what other classic client feature would tick people off as much as spell timers, if it were removed?

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[Voland]

I would love to see PoP, it would be like Al'Kabor server, but without boxing[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Taeoz]

am0n, I knew someone would bring that stuff up, hence the question mark. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They may not be professional as far as behavior, but they do stick to their guns. They set out to do something and they've been doing their best to achieve their goals. For a hobby project that is available for free, the work and effort they've put into this server is quite impressive and despite Haynar seemingly thriving on the tears of the players whenever he takes away a QoL feature, all of them can be defended as far as the server ideology is concerned. And this has been going on for years.

Even after so many years, they're still actively fixing things and maintaining the server. I doubt other emulated servers can match the dedication and promise equal longevity. I could be wrong though, since I don't really follow the EQEmu scene, at all.

[Landylil]

I was actually really excited for Velious, me and the friends I have that play on the server are all 55-60 and were going to return, but then they added the mandatory classic character models. Some of us used 100% classic models, most used a mixture of classic and Luclin. Pushed our group away from becoming active again for Velious.

[am0n]

Oh, there is no question about their dedication. However, dedication != professionalism.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

observations about population changes are accurate. over this past winter, server was hitting ~2k 7 days a week. Now it is down to ~1500 or less.

But for perspective, prior to the 2014-2015 population jump, weekend populations were ~1k.

And the server still was hopping, imo.

Blue only needs to worry if the population gets down to the sub-300 levels such as Red deals with and fools itself into thinking they got a happening server.

[Swish]

Close to 400 most nights, sorry to bubble burst.

[Itap]

When I started in April of 2012, we were lucky to have 500 during primetime, just to give you an idea of the population now.

I do believe there should be more playing here though