GLOBAL ooc/auction. Poll time.

[utenan]

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

At no time in classic were NK/EK/WK, all of Qeynos, Erudion and Toxx COMPLETELY EMPTY like they were for me Sunday night when I ran through them.

I'll take your word for it, but I have yet to see this. always a handfull of noobs in qeynos/ qeynos hills, (I run through quite often and sow people), because of bb's popularity. SK is always full, ther surrounding karanas have a few lvlers sometimes, but mostly port traffic and foot traffic from NK - SK. The karanas always did feel isolated in classic eq though, people primarily ran through them, didnt stick around long.

[President]

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

I'll take your word for it, but I have yet to see this. always a handfull of noobs in qeynos/ qeynos hills, (I run through quite often and sow people), because of bb's popularity. SK is always full, ther surrounding karanas have a few lvlers sometimes, but mostly port traffic and foot traffic from NK - SK. The karanas always did feel isolated in classic eq though, people primarily ran through them, didnt stick around long.

Qeynos hills was one of the zones I forgot to /who as I did my run, but the times I have run to Halas, I have seen a handful between there and BB. I did a /who in EK/NK/WK and saw zero people on my run. Yes, NK will have people, mostly due to ports, and SK has more enticing drops/quests/camps/dungeons so some people will be there. Both Qeynos zones were empty, which was really surprising as I expected to find at least 1 noob leveling up there.

In response to Otto - Odus was somewhat of a ghost town on my server (Povar) compared to other areas, but there was still fighting that took place there. I went exploring the other night waiting for a port in Toxx and had nostalgia moments of actually grouping there and checking out Kerra Ridge. Also remember ~5-10 people at any time trying to kill wisps in Erud's Crossing.

Again this was between about 11-12 midnight mountain time.

[pickled_heretic]

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

At no time in classic were NK/EK/WK, all of Qeynos, Erudion and Toxx COMPLETELY EMPTY like they were for me Sunday night when I ran through them.

Pretty much. This server spikes to 700 max with an average of 500 people and a low of 200 or less. This is less than a third of the average of classic EQ servers. Like president said, qeynos is hardly a "wilderness" zone; it was cool feeling like you're in the wilderness when you're deep in the karanas killing aviaks but it's not classic to be the only person in Qeynos or anywhere on the entire continent of Odus. we should be ready to pull the trigger on this if we get up to about double what we have now, but for now it's fine the way it is.

[lumin]

I really don't understand why having global OOC makes you feel less "lonely" when you're in a zone with nobody else there. Sure you can chat to a bunch of people, but it's not like you're going to get any help if you need a rez or a port, etc.

The problem I have is that people are using Project 1999 as a big chat room. If you want to chat with people, start a P1999 IRC channel. This is a GAME, not a chat room.

[astarothel]

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

start a P1999 IRC channel. This is a GAME, not a chat room.

There already is an IRC channel. OMGZ!

[lumin]

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

There already is an IRC channel. OMGZ!

Then there you go. If you wanna chat with people, play EQ in windowed mode and open IRC. In other words take your BS and GTFO of the game so the rest of us can play it.

[Tseng]

Can there be some sort of compromise? Like a joinable global channel?

[Ceridain]

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

Can there be some sort of compromise? Like a joinable global channel?

I voted YES, but I was also wondering if the chat channels can be used to create a global chat that would be optional to join? I envision this channel being something like a general/help/noobie chat I've seen in some other games.

Obviously this is not a classic solution, but maybe it would be a good compromise...?

Thoughts? And are chat channels intact in Titanium?

[nilbog]

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

Thoughts? And are chat channels intact in Titanium?

Source guys can try and get them to work. I do believe they *can* work.

[Adramelk]

Poop, is a debate raging online right now as well? Dang work.