Population falling?

[Daldaen]

I hope the population drops down to around 500 and then they enable 2 boxing.

Would be so good being able to box on P99. Don't have to waste time asking for Rezzes, ports and PLs. Can do it all yourself. Save the actual interaction for raid content as it should be $$$.

[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.

[eqravenprince]

The beauty of EQ is as the population declines generally people band together more. It was a lot of fun back when the server first opened and only a fraction of what we have now. Granted global chat made it feel like there was a ton of people.

[QFuzzle]

There was a thread awhile ago that had people talking about the populations of servers back in the actual classic days (1999-2001'ish). A lot of them seemed to give numbers between 1800-2500, most of which claimed it was ridiculous finding stuff to kill because of how congested zones were (granted, level distribution was different back then).

That said, maybe we're at a pretty comfortable spot right now. Just enough for some competition here and there, but not to the point where things were at pre-Velious (less zones, less quests, less gear, a lot less raid targets, quite a few guilds clawing and scratching at each other for a single dragon kill).

I see about 1100-1200 people on at peaks hours. 1,200 actual humans. No bots. No boxes (supposedly). I think that's an awesome number.

[Vibrate]

2k was quite common for popular servers on live, but other expansions opening up helped even the playing field for lvling.

The current pop on blue is about how it was on Rallos zek, maybe a tad bit more on Rallos.

The timeline here is kinda what screwed peoples minds, when velious came out it was like OOOOH AHHH NEW LVLING ZONES WOO

No one likes to lvl Velious over Kunark for the simple fact that xp is better in Kunark. But back then it was amazing and new to people to lvl in Velious.

[Izmael]

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

I hope the population drops down to around 500 and then they enable 2 boxing.

Would be so good being able to box on P99. Don't have to waste time asking for Rezzes, ports and PLs. Can do it all yourself. Save the actual interaction for raid content as it should be $$$.

That would be so great. Everyone would run around with an army of boxed toons, everyone would have their own guild !

Then only if we could also have the PoK books, soulbinders, corpse summoners and mercenaries, the server would be perfect. PERFECT.

[Alanus]

A year ago, I recall the typical peak being about 1500. Right now it's about 1200. Since velious was just released then, it's expected it would be a bit less now. It's been at the current levels for about 8 months now.

[Lhancelot]

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

That said, maybe we're at a pretty comfortable spot right now. Just enough for some competition here and there, but not to the point where things were at pre-Velious (less zones, less quests, less gear, a lot less raid targets, quite a few guilds clawing and scratching at each other for a single dragon kill).

I see about 1100-1200 people on at peaks hours. 1,200 actual humans. No bots. No boxes (supposedly). I think that's an awesome number.

I agree with this. From my standpoint, the population seems fine and doesn't hurt my playing experience.

I can't speak about issues regarding how raid mobs are done now, I am no longer a part of that.

I think the only problems we have on the server are from past and present cheating; duping items, hacking, cheating for plats, general gaming-nerd asshattery that is damaging to the servers economy.

Any problems the server has are not due to server population numbers but either bad raid rules, and/or bad players doing bad things to (in their mind) win.

Essentially most of the bad things I see and read about are from the actual players own doings.

[fadetree]

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

That would be so great. Everyone would run around with an army of boxed toons, everyone would have their own guild !

Then only if we could also have the PoK books, soulbinders, corpse summoners and mercenaries, the server would be perfect. PERFECT.

I think allowing 2 concurrent logins would be OK, and it would be sort of 'classic'. It's enough to enable some boxing, but not enough to allow people to ignore each other or shut out prime spots by themselves. I know my Ranger would appreciate having his handy sidekick around, as I did in Live. I still grouped regularly then, but I had an option if I couldn't find one.

[Lhancelot]

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

I think allowing 2 concurrent logins would be OK, and it would be sort of 'classic'. It's enough to enable some boxing, but not enough to allow people to ignore each other or shut out prime spots by themselves. I know my Ranger would appreciate having his handy sidekick around, as I did in Live. I still grouped regularly then, but I had an option if I couldn't find one.

I am happy with no boxing. Boxing would only allow people to be bigger asshats and be even more anti-social and asinine.

Boxing also would ruin the chances for people to get in on certain camps because hardcore nerds would use boxing to do everything solo.

Yeah, screw boxing. Bad idea wanting to let people box.