server population

[Massive Marc]

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

It's funny I played on a PvP server on live so like many other PvPers here I didn't even know what that term meant until playing on P99. So if you played PvE and have ever waited for a mob to spawn you have done more poop socking than me. But the irony doesn't stop there, you are on a forum for an emulated server complaing about people playing a MMORPG the way they want to. Bravo sir, bravo, there is truely nothing more pathetic than a nerd trying to sit on the high horse.

GOT ME BRO. YOU TOO SMART TO ARGUE WITH. I'M A NERD ON A HIGH HORSE. YOU KNOW YOU BEAT ME WHEN I START TO USE CAPS LOCKS.

I haven't sat at a empty spawn for more then 30 minutes in ANY game. You clearly don't have a women in your life, because you have no clue what complaining is. I'm not complaining, I'm calling out the retards that get up in the middle of the night to slay pixels.

Nerd ? Please... If typing some words on a forum is more pathetic then getting up at 4am to kill 12 year old content on a emulated server, then I'll take that titled all fucking day.

[Phased]

I love it when people keep bringing up the fact that this is a 13 year old game and an emulated server. What difference does it make? If it were a game that came out today does it make the point any more relevant? Is getting up at 4am to kill your shit suddenly 'okay' then?

[Atmas]

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

GOT ME BRO. YOU TOO SMART TO ARGUE WITH. I'M A NERD ON A HIGH HORSE. YOU KNOW YOU BEAT ME WHEN I START TO USE CAPS LOCKS.

I haven't sat at a empty spawn for more then 30 minutes in ANY game.

I'm trying to think if I have ever camped a mob that had a respawn time longer than 30 minutes, if we are just talking raids you have still poop socked longer than me. Not that it really matters to me what people do with their time but it seems to be an issue to you about how less invested in this game you are.

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

You clearly don't have a women in your life, because you have no clue what complaining is.

Got it, relationship issues, explains the anger.

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

I'm not complaining, I'm calling out the retards that get up in the middle of the night to slay pixels.

So you are calling people out? Thanks for the public service. Seems like you are just using a word with a different connotation then complaining. One could just as easily said you were crying or whining about other people.

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

Nerd ? Please... If typing some words on a forum is more pathetic then getting up at 4am to kill 12 year old content on a emulated server, then I'll take that titled all fucking day.

Ok ok, we get it, you are still cool because you just spend time ranting about people playing online games.

[Deathrydar]

As someone stated, Diablo 3 is out and a lot of people are playing that.

I beta tested this server and played at launch for about 5 months. At that time, there were some issues with damage mitgation and such, and I had a couple of real life friends that left because the population was just too high in level to keep up with.

Don't run all over me with this, but at some point, they should start over and bring up a new server to allow people to start over again from level 1. I remember when this server first launched and there were like 200 people online the first night and there were constant crashes for three or four days, until the internet connection was increased. Of course there were other issues, but this server is pretty damn near classic now, so if the dev team decided to start over, send emails out to all of the registered users of the forums, I think it would defintely pick up again!

I do see the retards on the server that make it difficult to play with, but I try not to let them bring me down. They have been here since day 1 and will always be here. It is just the way things are now.

But I do not think that the rude players on this server are any of the reasons that the population has dwindled.

I think it is becuase:
-Diablo 3 release
-Kunark boredom
-Lots of new players are intimated when they start due to the population being "high level heavy" and then they lose intrest. This also forces new players to choose classes that can solo easily, which then creates too many of the same classes, and a lot of those solo classes aren't really needed in groups as it is, and because there are so many of these solo classes, it makes it hard to get a group
-As someone else mentioned, people over-hype the old "EverQuest experience" and then realize that after they play it, it is better kept as a memory. This game is frikkin hard and brutal and a lot of people cannot hack that!

I too played when there were 1k + people online and it was incredible! I will miss those days. Now I came back and there isn't alot of people around......... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Alarti0001]

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

Kunark content may open up. But anyone that thinks Velious adds so much raid content that there won't be poopsocks on every bit of it is fooling themselves. Every one of the nameds on the Velious boss list (except maybe AoW) will be handled easily by the top two guilds if they can keep their numbers in the 40+ range; it'll be the same old FTE race in a new zone.

The easier dragons in HoT and NToV will die the first week too, the tougher ones may live for a cycle or two while gear is farmed from the easier ones. But within a month it'll all have been killed, leaving "Who's going to be the asshole that wakes the Sleeper" the only new flavor of drama. ST keys are a whole lot easier to get than VP keys. It will be good times having two or more guilds in there fighting over pixels because they aren't mature enough to hold talks about sharing their toys.

Your quote is missing about 40 mobs

[Arclanz]

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

... To me, im having as much fun, as i did back then. I'd just wish that there were more people online..!

Very few players enjoy the spawn coveting on P99. Probably 100ish (since IB left). That is your steady population. Everyone else, like myself, were just visiting. No amount of server promotion is going to grow the server; you will only get new visitors. There isn't an endless supply of new visitors so either change the end game rules or enjoy being a 100 player emu.

Looking for suggestions? They've been stated before ad infinitum (years ago). Reduce the spawn timers dramatically. This is PVE not PVP; a force with the right numbers and skills should get to schedule a raid at least once a month. That is classic for the vast majority of EQ players, certainly the cool ones.

Massive Marc, QFT brother. Keep fighting the good fight!

[Deathrydar]

Maybe make another server, start from scratch, but have different rules, like the ones that are being suggested above?

If people want to stay on the "real" classic server, they can. Otherwise, people will move to this "kind of classic" server. I think people will come back once issues like the raiding and spawn times are resolved.

Times are different now then they were in 1999......a lot of us have families and can't stay online to camp spawns and be online all of the time.

I am not saying to darstically change the server, just minor tweaks that may bring players back that chased them away.......

[Massive Marc]

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

I'm trying to think if I have ever camped a mob that had a respawn time longer than 30 minutes, if we are just talking raids you have still poop socked longer than me. Not that it really matters to me what people do with their time but it seems to be an issue to you about how less invested in this game you are.

weee round and round we go... when we stop only Atmas knows..

Got it, relationship issues, explains the anger.

Got me AGAIN, you must be some internet wizard.

So you are calling people out? Thanks for the public service. Seems like you are just using a word with a different connotation then complaining. One could just as easily said you were crying or whining about other people.

Bro, you're soo right, I'm crying (the tears are pooling) about other people in a game. WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG.

Ok ok, we get it, you are still cool because you just spend time ranting about people playing online games.

I don't think you do. I am still/always cool because I didn't get up in the middle of the night to slay dragons. Just because you can spend your time how you want, doesn't mean what you do with it isn't retarded.

Please get off my dick.

[Atmas]

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

I enjoy being the personification of irony.

[Drob]

Massive Marc must be an idiot.