Population falling?

[Erati]

I think Velious launch it hit 2K for that night...

I remember some kind of announcement by big R when we hit that kind of milestone

[Movember]

I do believe it's probably declining now that the vast majority of the content is released - Velious acts as an endpoint for the server since it's not going into the other expansions.

There's some post-velious content that I think we'll still get but on the whole I bet the population will trend slightly down until a fresh server is released.

[Lhancelot]

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

a fresh server is released.

This is the best news ever. Can't wait!

[Hakubi]

I, for one, stick around for the hopes of getting my epic and torpor on my FOTM class. I mean... sure since I have started the scale for my epic alone alone has gone from 45-65k while the actual cash camps like FBSS have dropped from 9k -> 3.8k but... that just makes grinding Grachnist at 3 am for months that much more fun... right? Inflation of low end items and only things out of Seb being worth anything are classic! Low end inflation-high end deflation... that spells fun!

[Lhancelot]

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

I, for one, stick around for the hopes of getting my epic and torpor on my FOTM class. I mean... sure since I have started the scale for my epic alone alone has gone from 45-65k while the actual cash camps like FBSS have dropped from 9k -> 3.8k but... that just makes grinding Grachnist at 3 am for months that much more fun... right? Inflation of low end items and only things out of Seb being worth anything are classic! Low end inflation-high end deflation... that spells fun!

Yeah it sucks that larger raid guilds sit on the tears, hold them on alts and sell the MQ for it. Used to be 25-30k, now the greedy fucks monopolize them and sell the MQ for 65k. That's classic. Right? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lojik]

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

Yeah it sucks that larger raid guilds sit on the tears, hold them on alts and sell the MQ for it. Used to be 25-30k, now the greedy fucks monopolize them and sell the MQ for 65k. That's classic. Right? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You realize the golems went from 8 hour respawn to 3 day respawn right?

[Lhancelot]

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

You realize the golems went from 8 hour respawn to 3 day respawn right?

Nope. But how many were banked over the years I wonder. To go from 25k to 65k is a bit extreme, but maybe it's just me.

Just an example of the man holding us down, man! Even on a 17 year old elf sim, held down by the man!

[Dronuspk]

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

Nope. But how many were banked over the years I wonder. To go from 25k to 65k is a bit extreme, but maybe it's just me.

Just an example of the man holding us down, man! Even on a 17 year old elf sim, held down by the man!

Why are your thoughts on burly men holding you down when our world as we know it is ending??

[Danth]

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

Nope. But how many were banked over the years I wonder.

Probably not all that many. The tears weren't heavily farmed when the golems were 8 hour spawns and fear raids often left them rot. On top of that, Shaman's one of the most popular classes and nearly all of them get their epic so there's a fair demand to vaccuum up any banked tears that were floating around out there.

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P1999 turned 7 years old last month. For the majority of that seven years the average nightly peak was probably less than it is right now. The server's quite likely past its peak (which occurred at Velious release), but even being a bit over the hill it's still fine for now. The day will eventually come when it isn't fine anymore, and that's okay too. Few folks realistically expect something like this to last forever....If it makes 10 years with a solid population that's a pretty good lifespan for a video game.

Danth

[Freakish]

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

Nope. But how many were banked over the years I wonder. To go from 25k to 65k is a bit extreme, but maybe it's just me.

Just an example of the man holding us down, man! Even on a 17 year old elf sim, held down by the man!

I've personally seen 3+ tears banked on toons people have quit. I've got one on my cleric from pre-velious but one thing that drives price higher than kunark is that you're raising faction for a one time pay off. In kunark I could raise faction and sell tear after tear and the only work I did was a factioning once. Since I can't replace this tear, I'm going to make sure that I make enough plat for it to be worth my time.