Change up the ZEM

[Ennewi]

It's a number of things, but ZEM seems to play a part. More than that though, it's the lack of zone crowding. On blue, there used to be semi-regular groups in Sol A, Dalnir, Kaesora, hell, even Plane of Hate at one p oint. Granted, that was pre-Velious but still. With less real estate to work with, players had to work around one another while trying to get xp wherever possible. Having all classic expansions available, not to mention the addition of another PVE server (+Quarm) more of the player base is spread out.

When the Hole received its ZEM boost, KC stopped being the default go-to spot for PUGs and since the Hole could support more players, groups could be had from top to bottom. There are other large, underused zones that would benefit from similar treatment. Skyfire, Skyshrine, Plane of Growth, etc.

[|tda| fatal]

just roll the next server already pls

[onmove_broke]

^^ This

[Wakanda]

In my fantasy version of a server Upper Guk and Runnyeye would be used more too.

In early P99 I remember grouping in both of these places and the exp being great. I guess the main reason was that there was a ton of ogres, trolls, and other people from the Freeport area who saw it more feasible to level in OASIS with LFG turned on in hopes of getting a group in Guk. Taking a boat ride to UR would be high risk if you couldn't get a group etc.

Also the loot from Runnyeye is kind of good on a new server. It's common to see people running around in a bunch of blackened iron armor.

A couple of zones I really can't stand not being part of the meta are Lake of Ill Omen and Sebilis though. I started P99 on P99 Green, and I wanted to see Kunark so bad, but it wasn't out yet. For me Kunark was when I started to really get serious about the game as a child. I remember Lake of Ill Omen having close to 200 people in it, and there being dozens of groups in the Sarnak fort. When Kunark first launched on Green the first thing I did was make an Iksar, and once I got high enough level, I rushed to LOIO excited to see all of the players. Was going to be an awesome nostalgia trip. I was confused by how quiet it was, got no /tells after I announced I was LFG, so then I typed /who and was confused that I was the only person in the zone.

Sebilis also. On my server it was considered absurd to stay in KC passed level 52. A lot of people wouldn't even stay that long. I remember Sebilis as being the premiere leveling zone for 52-60, with tons of people at the zone in, and lots of groups throughout the zone. Again on P99, I worked really hard to get my key (lol, the frogs respawn rates are a little over tuned I think), finally got it, and was again, confused that I was the only person in the entire zone.

Like I don't think you would have seen level 59 players grouping in KC on live. Not like you do on P99. I remember trying to farm AA in KC as a 50+ character and it was too painfully slow.

[Wakanda]

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

In my fantasy version of a server Upper Guk and Runnyeye would be used more too.

In early P99 I remember grouping in both of these places and the exp being great. I guess the main reason was that there was a ton of ogres, trolls, and other people from the Freeport area who saw it more feasible to level in OASIS with LFG turned on in hopes of getting a group in Guk. Taking a boat ride to UR would be high risk if you couldn't get a group etc.

Same is probably true for Splitpaw. The Splitpaw groups I got on P99 (and there was many of them), I usually wasn't even really looking for a group, but would be in South Karana solo'ing when someone would ask me to join. Now those zones aren't near as populous. I guess the side effect of an older server.

[Rygar]

Worst thing about seb here is no one calls it OS. That was what we all called it back in the day (i.e. Old Sebilis). Know your classic roots folks, for fucks sake...

[Wakanda]

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

Worst thing about seb here is no one calls it OS. That was what we all called it back in the day (i.e. Old Sebilis). Know your classic roots folks, for fucks sake...

I'm not actually sure if this was accurate for each server. Every server seemed to have different rules and names. I've started trying to give popular camps on Pantheon ridiculous names in hopes that they would take off [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] like to this day the Disco camps in Sebilis don't make sense to me. but apparently disco is a more common and popular term in the UK or something?

[Rygar]

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

It was never OS on any server I played on. Rathe, Morell Thule, Vazaelle.

Torvonillous for the win. We were ahead of the curve clearly

[cd288]

UGuk and Seb tend to be pretty populated when the server population is higher. Pre-Green for example when we were all on one server I could pretty frequently find PUGs in Seb and UGuk.

We just need a merge

[onmove_broke]

Merge would be nice, however I think you will still have similar numbers because most of the people will play a fresh server. However, I think a fresh server needs some shaking up or QoL improvements like D2R