how is tracking for 72 hour allowed

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

But this mentally it what causes dwindling population. When a player gets locked out they walk away just like anything in life. Look at red.

I disagree. The TLP servers are instanced, and they lose population faster than P99. Why? Because everybody gets what they want quickly, and then they get bored.

The difficulty of getting an item is what keeps P99 players engaged. It is a huge rush to get a Vulak Axe after months of waiting. Especially when you know that only like 20 Axes drop per year. You enter into a fairly small group of players with that loot, even after all of these years.

The dwindling population mostly comes from two things:

1. People getting bored of timelocked content. You will eventually get bored of playing the exact same content on any kind of server, instanced or not. There is no future expansion coming to P99 that will re-engage those players.

2. It is difficult to get new players on to P99 due to the complicated on-boarding process. Since the P99 devs cannot recompile the client, this issue can never be fixed. It is a hard technical limitation.