Classic population

[nilbog]

This was most definitely classic... it was removed later.. about the time it showed more than 2000 results? Can't remember specifically, but I know I never saw more than 2000 with a / all count.

It would always show.

There are _____ players on Erollisi Marr.
and.. Countt chocula, the enchanter, if he happened to be online.

This was summer, 99.

[Bruman]

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

This was most definitely classic... it was removed later.. about the time it showed more than 2000 results? Can't remember specifically, but I know I never saw more than 2000 with a / all count.

It would always show.

There are _____ players on Erollisi Marr.
and.. Countt chocula, the enchanter, if he happened to be online.

This was summer, 99.

I remember the exact same thing (even the same server!) but for total. Then a guy showed up who was named Total, and it would fuck it up.

[vinx]

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

There are _____ players on Erollisi Marr.
and.. Countt chocula, the enchanter, if he happened to be online.

how did this guy manage to evade the name changers back then [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Landis]

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

Originally, you could do a / all count

It would show you the total players on your server at the time.

agreed i remember this.

i also thought there wasn't a limit on the number of players returned when you did something like / all unrest (at least if there was a limit it was 100 or more)

[Zordana]

to say it the brittish way: this is most good, most good!

Quote: "Hey darling, we could have sexual intercorse." - "Yes, yes." - "But let's rather not."

[chaple]

I dunno, I remember the population being around 800 on my server back in the day when they still showed actual numbers... can't be positive though.

[nilbog]

The 2000ish figure was from late Kunark or Velious.

You could / all count for a long time.

If I had to guess, prekunark figures were 1000-1500 online, tops. That is my guess though, hopefully we will find real figures somehow.

[Omnimorph]

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

to say it the brittish way: this is most good, most good!

Quote: "Hey darling, we could have sexual intercorse." - "Yes, yes." - "But let's rather not."

I'm english, and i've never heard someone say something is "most good". That's just stereotyping :/

[Myth]

Good question. I miss the old character select

[kariden]

1999-2000 servers would break 1200 and then they would open a new server to reduce the crashes caused by such a high population. Pre RoK it seemed that the game wanted servers to stay around 1k players at peak.
During server upgrades doing RoK days and then into SoV servers could and did hit as high as 1800 at peak times. Like one or two of the more popular servers even broke into 2100 range. More server splits to reduce population to ease the server load.
Of course you have to take into account the added zones and spread of players across all of the zones and all the level ranges.

Right now I see P99 at 2am EST on a friday night and it reminds me of early morning PST time when I would raid with euro players. At the average peak times it reminds me of most weekday evenings during pre RoK days.