Teal merged into green without warning.

[Tenudil]

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

I can't help but feel this is hyperbole. You literally talked to 13+ people in your guild who all said they aren't going to play for a bit?

But also, you're making a critically flawed assumption:



Your assumption is that the staff cares what "the majority" wants ... but they don't.

They certainly do care about the overall health of the project, but otherwise ... Nilbog is famous for saying (and I'm paraphrasing here) that he'll keep making things more classic here even if it leads to a population of 10 .

Different guild I'm guessing and also guessing like mine they didn't have to talk to the person. They just said screw this taking a break hopefully it dies down.

[Shimring]

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

I can't help but feel this is hyperbole. You literally talked to 13+ people in your guild who all said they aren't going to play for a bit?

I have literally talked to over a dozen people in my guild who will not be logging in for awhile in hopes that things will die down or will just wait until Kunark, which will actually have enough zones to sustain this populace. I am not in a large guild either, so a dozen people not logging in is a large chunk. There is a program called Discord, I know it didn't exist in 1999 but it certainly does now.

For those that say these are classic numbers, fine, except people didn't know what they were doing back in 1999. 75% of the server was not 30+ by this point in the timeline. When you have to compete with the majority of the server 40+ for only a few zones, it really stinks. It really is awesome to go into a zone once you get a group set up and do a CC and people come back with "everything". It usually ends up with one of us splitting off to each of the zones to see what is open and nothing is. SolB, LGuk, CT and even MM (which is greening out at this point) are all camped. We have even tried Permafrost, which apparently has no mobs in our level range, all are solid green or red. If we could get some of our necros their required words, we would even give Kedge a try, even with its awful pathing.

It was hard enough to find camps open when the servers were split, now it is near impossible.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

which will actually have enough zones to sustain this populace

If you can't find stuff to kill now, I don't understand why you'd be happy come Kunark. There is not a lack of places to be right now. There's just a lack of will to leave the beaten path/best ZEMs/best loot camps.

Yeah. 1000 players who generally know the "best" spots to exp/farm isn't classic. But neither is being unwilling to leave the half-dozen "best" zones in the game to find fun elsewhere in lieu of bitching about crowding on the forums.

[Danth]

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

If you can't find stuff to kill now, I don't understand why you'd be happy come Kunark.

Agree. It took Velious for stuff to open up decently on "Blue."

Danth

[cd288]

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

I have literally talked to over a dozen people in my guild who will not be logging in for awhile in hopes that things will die down or will just wait until Kunark, which will actually have enough zones to sustain this populace. I am not in a large guild either, so a dozen people not logging in is a large chunk. There is a program called Discord, I know it didn't exist in 1999 but it certainly does now.

For those that say these are classic numbers, fine, except people didn't know what they were doing back in 1999. 75% of the server was not 30+ by this point in the timeline. When you have to compete with the majority of the server 40+ for only a few zones, it really stinks. It really is awesome to go into a zone once you get a group set up and do a CC and people come back with "everything". It usually ends up with one of us splitting off to each of the zones to see what is open and nothing is. SolB, LGuk, CT and even MM (which is greening out at this point) are all camped. We have even tried Permafrost, which apparently has no mobs in our level range, all are solid green or red. If we could get some of our necros their required words, we would even give Kedge a try, even with its awful pathing.

It was hard enough to find camps open when the servers were split, now it is near impossible.

Sounds like an MMO with instances would be more up your alley. Try the TLPs or WoW

[bum3]

It was 650teal-750green prime time. It was 1300 prime time green after merge. However, blue gained 150 people post merge.

You can verify via tlp pop tracker.

[bum3]

My guild alone has over a dozen people who aren't logging in or is taking a break after merge hoping people quit playing in a week or two. My guild can't be alone in this.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by bum3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My guild alone has over a dozen people who aren't logging in or is taking a break after merge hoping people quit playing in a week or two. My guild can't be alone in this.

/shrug

I think the post from yesterday about the guy's post-merge experience sums it up nicely. There are going to be certain negatives (ex. if you want to group in the most popular zones, it's going to be tough), but certain positives as well.

I haven't really had a negative experience on either my grouping main or my solo alt thus far. Granted, I'm not trying to find a group in Unrest for instance.

[fridayjones]

Last couple of days I've been seeing a lot of duos where one player would be considered a little low-level for that zone and the other partner is more than ten levels higher. And all in XP spots. These power leveling duos could very well be two-boxed.

[pdub]

" without warning "

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Nov 01, 2019 - 8:34 PM - by Rogean

Therefor, we are happy to announce that we will be opening Project 1999: Teal within the next 24 hours. The goal is to keep both servers at a healthy population for the amount of content available. We will be keeping an eye on player numbers and merge Teal back into Green as soon as the combined population is appropriate for the current content, whether that be in weeks, months, or years.