Poll: Reopen Teal (Digital Social Distancing)

[Tethler]

Originally Posted by LoricL1222 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i mean the pop nose dived why split server?

[Castle2.0]

The Devs have shown vast determination to persist in the current direction despite the deafening outcry from a super majority of Green. It's almost commendable.

But will they shun precious Iksarian tears of every monk, necro, shaman, and SK lizard when Kunark goes live?

Will they consign all the young reptilians to be prisoners of their own devices in the empty empty depths of Kurns?

Will they leave the intentionally-old-GPU true-blue classic players in an unplayable state due to being surrounded by hundreds of other other players which neither their GPU can process nor their CRT display anyway?

Say it ain't so.

[Fammaden]

Teal sounds nice for a few months of Kunark, but I doubt it happens unless the server has an absolutely massive spike in interest. Even with 2k playing many are going to be packing into 50+ loot/leveling zones with enough space and divergent paths (xp, loot, keys, quest items, legacy items, faction for Chardok and hammers) that the crush shouldn't be terribly burdensome on any particular places like it was in the newbie yards for launch. It will be crowded yes, but crowded in general is a good thing (to a degree) for making the server feel alive and active.

With so many of the current player base likely to decide they want to grind their mains/50's the Iksar starting area shouldn't be too crazy. Anyone who IS rolling Iksar day one just helps to alleviate the load on higher level zones. Overall the population will be a more self limiting factor spread across all of Kunark+classic+Hole than it was when they opened teal. It is also entirely possible that opening day population is more like 1500 tops and quickly subsiding as time goes on.

Incidentally, no one is going to believe you have anything but ulterior motives for wanting this. I don't blame you, I'd rather have less contested camps and a less toxic raid scene too. But Teal isn't coming back, and you don't have any more noble purpose in banging the drum so hard for it. Just drop the pretense at this point and be honest about why you want two servers so badly.

[cd288]

Damn Fam with the total roast

[drackgon]

I have a feeling, come kunark Teal will be back. Doesn't matter about this post at all. Just a lot of people quit until Kunark. So server will be back to being packed. AkA they will reopen Teal for a few months.

[Swish]

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

I have a feeling, come kunark Teal will be back. Doesn't matter about this post at all. Just a lot of people quit until Kunark. So server will be back to being packed. AkA they will reopen Teal for a few months.

I'm not so sure this time. I think it would be good to see if only to take some of the load from green Field of Bone etc.

[NPC]

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

I have a feeling, come kunark Teal will be back. Doesn't matter about this post at all. Just a lot of people quit until Kunark. So server will be back to being packed. AkA they will reopen Teal for a few months.

Doubtful, I'm sure there are many not returning. Especially with the Teal merger fiasco, a better solution would be to up the old world ZEM top to bottom (1st-50th level) to try and spread people out.
Also, even if Teal did re-open I wouldn't play it because you don't know if its gonna poof or when, so there ton of other people thinking the same thing. They dun fuk'd it an there's no going back.

[Swish]

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

...a better solution would be to up the old world ZEM top to bottom (1st-50th level) to try and spread people out.

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[NPC]

Well only having one server isn't classic either . . .

[Fammaden]

I'm not sure the initial rush for Kunark will be anything near the 2K+ concurrent we saw for green. Hard to say though. Population could also shrink a lot sooner after Kunark than it took for it to subside after the initial launch.