p99 is slowly dying

[Izmael]

If forum account creation rate is any indication (I would say it's a strong one), then the answer is: no, P99 is not dying.

I wrote a little something to extract account creation dates from the user profiles on the P99 forums. I took care to spread the querying over many days as to not to add any noticeable load to the server.



Data starts on October 13, 2009 and ends on July 12, 2021 (July 13 had incomplete data so I discarded it). The data represents daily number of forum account creations.

Total profiles queried: 231878
Successfully extracted join date from: 159478
I suppose the difference comes from deleted (spammer) accounts and whatnot. Also maybe people who made their profile/join date private or something.





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[k9quaint]

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

If forum account creation rate is any indication (I would say it's a strong one), then the answer is: no, P99 is not dying.

I wrote a little something to extract account creation dates from the user profiles on the P99 forums. I took care to spread the querying over many days as to not to add any noticeable load to the server.



Data starts on October 13, 2009 and ends on July 12, 2021 (July 13 had incomplete data so I discarded it). The data represents daily number of forum account creations.

Total profiles queried: 231878
Successfully extracted join date from: 159478
I suppose the difference comes from deleted (spammer) accounts and whatnot. Also maybe people who made their profile/join date private or something.





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Kudos to you sir!

[starkind]

will consist of 1 server with 124 casual neckbeards, onlhy 30 of who'm log in at any given time and buttslap eachother.

there will be a once a year opportunity to kill the dragons in vp and tov

tradeskill gear will become the norm

[starkind]

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

will consist of 1 server with 124 casual neckbeards, onlhy 30 of who'm log in at any given time and buttslap eachother.

there will be a once a year opportunity to kill the dragons in vp and tov

tradeskill gear will become the norm

and there will be tradeskill kingpins who vehemently chastise and beat up anyone who doesn't role play

[Ella`Ella]

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

End of an era

Forgot option: Server died years ago

[Nirgon]

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

End of an era

You didn't get a 2 week suspension for this like I did.

They don't love you the same.

[Baler]

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

You didn't get a 2 week suspension for this like I did.

They don't love you the same.

all's fair in love and war

[Viscere]

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

You didn't get a 2 week suspension for this like I did.

They don't love you the same.

This is just a RnF thread inquiring about the state of the elf realm

You started a racist guild on the elf realm and the elf gods punished you for it.

[Danth]

Population is pretty good overall, but being split between two servers means each individual world feels a little bit "thin." It'll be interesting to see what happens if they eventually merge the servers back together, how many Green players stick with their characters versus retiring them in favor of the next progression round. The lower population has been most noticeable in the dearth of new guild creation, especially a distinct lack of new leveling guilds/newbie guilds on Blue of late.

With respect to an above poster, sure we launched with low populations, not much over 100 at first (I ought to know, I was there), but it grew soon enough (and kept on growing) and the old world with ~300 people is a lot different than a Velious world with 300 people. More generally, I'm amazed P99 maintained a stable and large population for as long as it has. It could close up tomorrow and I'd call it a great run. It won't--P99 should be around for a good while yet, even if in a state of gradual decline--so it has to be regarded as a tremendous success. I've played P99 FAR longer than I played original EQ at this point, and like it better.

Danth

[Twochain]

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

Population is pretty good overall, but being split between two servers means each individual world feels a little bit "thin." It'll be interesting to see what happens if they eventually merge the servers back together, how many Green players stick with their characters versus retiring them in favor of the next progression round. The lower population has been most noticeable in the dearth of new guild creation, especially a distinct lack of new leveling guilds/newbie guilds on Blue of late.

With respect to an above poster, sure we launched with low populations, not much over 100 at first (I ought to know, I was there), but it grew soon enough (and kept on growing) and the old world with ~300 people is a lot different than a Velious world with 300 people. More generally, I'm amazed P99 maintained a stable and large population for as long as it has. It could close up tomorrow and I'd call it a great run. It won't--P99 should be around for a good while yet, even if in a state of gradual decline--so it has to be regarded as a tremendous success. I've played P99 FAR longer than I played original EQ at this point, and like it better.

Danth

Gotta disagree with the newbie guild part. <Ex Astra> went from a guild i've never heard of to ALWAYS having more than 20+ people on /who all lists at any part of the night .... in the span of like 3 weeks! lmao