Sick of socking?

[phatogre]

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

This is actually somewhat interesting and caught my eye. How's the population generally during EST/PST?

I also left p99 for a PoP server, after years of mindless anti-post-veliousism and end game raiding, and I can say everything OP said is true. P02 and TAKP are really fun if you want to enjoy the good parts of that era of EQ without the toxic sludge garbage pale that is p99 culture and raiding. Of course you can't really convince or argue with the neckbeard autists here that maybe their server is like some religious colony separated from modern society and told that only terror and dismay are on the other side of the fence.

The populations are definitely lower than p99 but it never feels empty. Global chat is always lighting up with activity, guilds field 50+ people (100+ characters) easily, and groups are not that hard to find once you get out of like 30ish. The people are generally friendlier, there is no camp fighting typically, and raiding is fun because of the challenge of the encounters, not who can fraps who breaking the rules. I won't go into debating the pros and cons of the era like better itemization and AAs etc, but the content is really great and having so much more to do makes the game feel much more open and exciting.

The GMs and devs are super active. Bugs are fixed shortly after reporting them. Petitions are answered same-day. In some ways the PoP servers feel more "alive" than p99.

To answer your question, usually around 250-300 are online, if you assume every single person is 3 boxing (most aren't constantly 3 boxing, duo is more common) then there are around 100 people on when I play prime time US time.