To all the doomsayers:

[Bazia]

25 players alive and thriving.

CUZ OF EXP NOT CONTENT RETARDS

[Dullah]

The next major content brings exp also. Major reasons its being suggested.

[Bazia]

yup keep up with the content and no exp increase troll. LoZ pop skyrocketing ty for help.

[Jabber]

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

The next major content brings exp also. Major reasons its being suggested.

blubies so dum

[Bazia]

lol LoZ so much more fun ding 18

[Dullah]

Originally Posted by fiegi 2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

we were told plane of hate patch was gonna pack the newbie grounds with new players, what happened?????????????

Why would planes bring new players? No one said that.

[Bazia]

oh yeah people said hate/sol ro would bring people back. it was ur faggot buttbuddy Rydar/Trollborn/whatever retarded handle he goes by now.

btw grats on breaking 30 pop

[Bazia]

nvm its below 30 again

[Dullah]

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

Ahemm

Never said they'd bring new players.

And yes, it did for a time bring some old players back, at times even around 100 online. Unfortunately it coincided with the release of 3 major titles.

[PhantomRogue]

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

The next major content brings exp also. Major reasons its being suggested.

Ok, this is the last time im going to try to explain this to you. I will try to spell it out in absolutes.

Assuming you are correct, in that all the 50s that left, will come back when Kunark gets released.

Population Spikes hard at Kunark Release: 120
People go apeshit, begin to level to 60.
People get tired of the grind... AGAIN. Population slowly drops. (PROVEN track record of happening, its what happened already) To roughly 80. Most won't make it to 60.
So you now have 80 people.
Which you will then say, See, I told you Kunark will bring people back! And you will gloat and gloat.

Which means you were right... right?

But when those same people quit NOW... what happens when they realize its the same people. Fact: tiger can't change his stripes. People quit once when there was "content;" they will quit again.

And the population slowly drops (as it is doing now) to the 30 people on 'peak' times.

So, since we are using historical evidence, things that are happening now, and using your 'content brings people back' argument.

I have proven that no amount of content will bring any SUSTAINED growth to this server.

Zero people will START NEW (twinks from Blue or Alts don't count as an actual new person), and the server will again, have no fresh new blood.

When there is zero water filtering into the tower, the existing water supply slowly evaporates until none is left. You need people to start playing here. Not quitting.

No one, in this day and age, that remembers original EQ, has the time required to sit through 500 hours of grinding, JUST to possibly find some PvP. People who played in 1999 were 15-25ish. Its now almost 15 years later. No 30 year old has the time to spare.

You have to evolve with the times. Which is why games today DON'T have the treadmill that EQ did. They understand that there are so many things people have to do, and can do, that in order to succeed, you have to make the game accessible. Red99 is the LEAST accessible thing on the EQEmulator family of servers, which is why its almost the lowest populated, 'legit' server.