What's the actual population of the Green server?

[Widan]

Red had the most boxing for sure, anyone who played there knows. But boxing has always been a thing on p99 since the very beginning.

[starkind]

Naw p would just automate the button push. It has to be something prohibitively hard for a machine to solve.

Can't think of too much as there's already pretty convincing Turing machines that are really hard to foul up. Like GPT3.

Just have to make everyone follow the rules and random good drops. Machine and man alike. Can't let them own a camp indefinitely.

A 400 pop vanilla only pvp server with itemloot would be lit AF tho.

[Darkwoo]

As the server population continues to decrease, I anticipate that boxing will be more and more widespread.

[beargryllz]

Green is the most active Everquest server

That's accounting for all of Everquest, not just specific to P99

[unsunghero]

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

Green is the most active Everquest server

That's accounting for all of Everquest, not just specific to P99

Hard to say. If you include boxes, then Rizlona is probably the largest, because it has huge armies of boxers

Once it launches, Bristlebane/Mischief TLP will be capped at I believe ~2000 players, and will stay that way for a while if it remains popular

[Darkwoo]

Based on the following poll, at least 1 in 4 players think that boxing is fine:

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2738

[Sabin76]

I don't think a poll from 11 years ago when p99 first came online (where I'd bet most of the people who took the poll no longer play) holds any weight in the current discussion.

[Darkwoo]

Originally Posted by Sabin76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think a poll from 11 years ago when p99 first came online (where I'd bet most of the people who took the poll no longer play) holds any weight in the current discussion.

Since most of us are from 20 years ago, I think the poll is still somewhat relevant... but I agree with you to some extent.

[Sabin76]

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

Since most of us are from 20 years ago, I think the poll is still somewhat relevant... but I agree with you to some extent.

My point was more that people have now been playing on this "boxless" server for quite some time, if they aren't new, and opinions on whether that's a good or bad thing could have shifted immensely in that time.

[tristantio]

p99 should take a page out of the private DAOC Phoenix server's way of handling/preventing boxing.

Phoenix prevents boxing using VPNs across multiple VMs/Docker images by requiring using a custom launcher to get into the game - that launcher runs checks across common files these virtualization solutions typically have (down in driver files etc. for them).

On host machine, it associates hardware info (hard drive serial id, mac address on NIC etc.) with an account, to prevent account sharing (after a hardware fingerprint is registered with an account, that hardware cannot run any other accounts).

Still can't prevent it entirely though - if people have 3 distinct hardware machines and 3 VPNs, and play in a way where they don't interact with their boxed accounts, nothing can really be done about them tripling their solo camps or group play.