Why don't more people play here?

[MaksimMazor]

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

Want to kill dragons and gods and receive epic loot? Come to P99 where you just have to spend 16 hours at your keyboard tracking every weekend for half a year for your chance at that encounter and special items.*

*plus hundreds of hours building your character to the point you can be allowed to wait at your keyboard.

Lol bullseye

[zanderklocke]

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

Want to kill dragons and gods and receive epic loot? Come to P99 where you just have to spend 16 hours at your keyboard tracking every weekend for half a year for your chance at that encounter and special items.*

*plus hundreds of hours building your character to the point you can be allowed to wait at your keyboard.

I don't know how anyone on the blue server could possibly think more players on the server would be a good thing.

I mean all guilds on the server already zerg the content in a non developer envisioned manner due to their huge rosters of nerds available at a moment's notice 24/7.

[nyclin]

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

Want to kill dragons and gods and receive epic loot? Come to P99 where you just have to spend 16 hours at your keyboard tracking every weekend for half a year for your chance at that encounter and special items.*

*plus hundreds of hours building your character to the point you can be allowed to wait at your keyboard.

This is pretty much why there aren't more people here, I think. From what I hear most raiders don't last more than 6-8 months before they quit. I can't really blame them.. you level a main to 60, then park it at the next available raid target. After that you're basically just rolling alt after alt and parking each one at a new target once they hit 60. Even as someone who enjoys alts, that seems unappealing.

Then after a certain point you can afford Chardok AOE spots which means you can fast forward from 50 to 60, and have even more level 60 alts to park at raid targets! Hooray!

[kaev]

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

Then after a certain point you can afford Chardok AOE spots which means you can fast forward from 50 to 60, and have even more level 60 alts to park at raid targets! Hooray!

Chardok AE is a huge part of the cancer the keeps people away, having successfully supplanted the selling of accounts and resultant character farming that used to be permitted here. Account selling & Chardok AE are the evils that have made 5 years of Kunark so horrible. Without the creation of hundreds (thousands?) of surplus level 60s, enabled and encouraged by character farming (which still happens with shared "guild" accounts, especially for magicians and wizards) and then Chardok AE, you wouldn't have the ugly overcrowded shitfest that has been the raid scene on p99 for the last 3+ years.

Without the twin evils of character farming & Chardok AE we'd have a less ugly, less overcrowded, less shitty shitfest, and we'd still bitch about it all the time.

[nyclin]

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

Without the twin evils of character farming & Chardok AE we'd have a less ugly, less overcrowded, less shitty shitfest, and we'd still bitch about it all the time.

I don't personally have anything against Chardok AOE.. if you want to spend your money & time there, that's your own prerogative. It's classic game mechanics. That being said, I do think that it existing ruins the levelling experience after 55. 50-55 are actually relatively quick due to the abundance of groups in KC. After 55, moving to Sebilis or HS is ideal, but there are usually very few groups in these two zones.

For a server of this population, this doesn't make any sense. Sebilis should be packed almost 24/7 and HS should see much more traffic.

Instead, HS is basically only pet groups and soloing Shamans, and Sebilis is mostly guild groups and people farming NG/crypt/king.

Why? Is it just because caster mobs are so brutal on this server?

[DevGrousis]

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

If it's people not knowing about P99, in what way can we advertise it?

theres no way to really advertise the game without a budget, unless we did some type of crowd funded social media marketing, where we got on twitter, IG, and FB and everytime someone posted something about everquest, we sent them a link and invitation to come check it out.

If we paid a monthly sub to play here, rogean would have money to play around with marketing using facebook and google ppc ads. But we don't, and the money they get from donations is probably barely enogh to keep a 6-12month run way ahead of us at all times.

[Jayneweigh]

I didn't know about the server until a few months ago, then the whole installing can scare a lot of non technical people away. I found out about it because I was reminiscing about the old days with a friend and decided to check out Youtube to see what kind of vids were out there and I found some about P99. The rest is history, I'm back in EQ (here) and having a blast! But I think those are the 2 main reasons, people don't know and people are scare of the technical aspect of installing it. Also I think a lot people do join, check it out, play for a bit then get their fill of it and leave. Not everyone wants the difficulty level this game has.

[Auvdar]

Well everytime I see a Everquest post in my Facebook feed, I usually link the P99 site to people wanting a more "classic exp". Not sure if I'm a bad boy for doing that or not :\

[Amyas]

This server is amazing

[Pipip]

I went back and forth deciding whether to try for a month before I did. It was because of the necessity to get the titanium client. I eventually did it, and I've been here since.

I guarantee you there would be more people playing if you could use old install discs, steam, the latest official client, etc. anything but titanium