A Green Story...

[Tecmos Deception]

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

1,500 is okay when players are spread out. It is not okay when they are in the same five zones. I don't want to turn this into a whining about the population thread please! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You sure? Cause you repeatedly complained about it in your first post. It was a whining about the population thread, at least in part, right from the beginning. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

When I logged on, there were over 150 players in Nektulos Woods. I was aware that there is no way that there will be a single MOB available

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After seeing that the lower level MOBs in EC were already camped, I ran into West Freeport....same thing.....East Freeport.....same thing.....I ran into NRO.

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It took me three and a half hours to get to level 3......three and a half hours.

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That was me being sarcastic. 1,500 is way too many players for one EQ server.

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Yesterday I ran into NRO and camped a spawn there for about 12 hours straight.

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The only downside is the ridiculous amount of people on this server. Why anyone voted against the server split is beyond me.

[Deathrydar]

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

You sure? Cause you repeatedly complained about it in your first post. It was a whining about the population thread, at least in part, right from the beginning. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm sure. Needed as context for my story. Thanks!

[Deathrydar]

I forgot to add that somewhere between level 2 and 3 (which was a loooooooooong time) I ran out of water and some awesome human brought me water and food. Love ya!

[cd288]

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

1,500 is way too many players for one EQ server

Eh, 1,500 isn't way to many players for one EQ server it's just way too many players to have packed into only a few zones because everyone is still low level. It will get better as more people get into their teens and above and can start expanding out into lesser used zones and camps, etc.

1,500 isn't close to the total number that was on your average EQ server back in the day, which was more like ~2k-2.3k

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Eh, 1,500 isn't way to many players for one EQ server it's just way too many players to have packed into only a few zones because everyone is still low level. It will get better as more people get into their teens and above and can start expanding out into lesser used zones and camps, etc.

1,500 isn't close to the total number that was on your average EQ server back in the day, which was more like ~2k-2.3k

But those average EQ servers had 5 continents.

[cd288]

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

But those average EQ servers had 5 continents.

I meant pre-Kunark. This led them to of course open more servers eventually, but they were in 2k pre-Kunark for quite awhile. Brad mentioned this in a Pantheon interview or forum post at some point a year or two ago IIRC, I'll try and find it.

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I meant pre-Kunark. This led them to of course open more servers eventually, but they were in 2k pre-Kunark for quite awhile. Brad mentioned this in a Pantheon interview or forum post at some point a year or two ago IIRC, I'll try and find it.

There were never this many players on a server pre kunark, and if there were, it wasn't until mostly everyone was out of the newbie zones.. It didn't get packed like that until after Kunark and more towards Velious! Verant had plenty of servers that made the population more spread out.

[Lamil]

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

There were never this many players on a server pre kunark, and if there were, it wasn't until mostly everyone was out of the newbie zones.. It didn't get packed like that until after Kunark and more towards Velious! Verant had plenty of servers that made the population more spread out.

You turned this into a post about server population

[cd288]

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

There were never this many players on a server pre kunark, and if there were, it wasn't until mostly everyone was out of the newbie zones.. It didn't get packed like that until after Kunark and more towards Velious! Verant had plenty of servers that made the population more spread out.

There absolutely were this many people on a server pre-Kunark (Brad confirmed it as I said). However, you're right that there weren't this many people on a server all at once on day 1. The servers hit these numbers after like a month, so people had time to level and spread out rather than cramming 2k into the newbie zones on launch day.

[Wwen42]

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