anyone that thinks this server is dead

[Liukang]

IS A DUMB ASS

Project 1999
Status:
Players: UP
446
.:: Server Info ::.

[Safon]

And in summertime no less, after D3 launch

[Liukang]

yes sir im very impressed with population right now regardless

[Supaskillz]

There was 25 people in hs last night. Also noticed 15 in oasis the other day. It's been pretty good

[Liukang]

i see all the Pvp losers saying red is dead blue is dying never understood what server list they r lookin at

[MrSparkle001]

Red's in critical condition.

[Dullah]

and will remain so until kunark. Which needs to come soon, or it will never recover. May already be too late.

[Slave]

The good news is that there are more players on Blue. The bad news is they are the players from Red.

[renegadeofunk]

I was in a CB group with 3 players new to the server last night. notbad.png

[Maze513]

red to be SoV beta in sept

[Galaa]

IS A DUMB ASS

Project 1999
Status:
Players: UP
446
.:: Server Info ::.

P1999 certainly isnt dying anytime soon.

But the current numbers are lesser than what it was back in Apr though.

[Norok]

And in summertime no less, after D3 launch

D3, Star Wars, and any other game is only going to have a temporary effect on the core of the server. We are here because we cannot (and probably will not) get over the nostalgia of a 13 year old game.

I see newbies all the time; sometimes people whom this is their first MMO. It's free, its up 99.99% of the time, and regardless of what forums display the vast majority are friendly and more than willing to help folks get started with gear and advice.

[SirAlvarex]

The double XP weekend awhile back brought back about 100 players. Used to see 320 online in the evening...before that it was closer to 250.

This time last year 800 in the evening was a low number. If we could make selling in EC less of a headache, I'd be fine with 400 peak pre-Velious. But right now I don't have the patience to sit there 5 hours seeing no one pop up what I want to buy, or want to buy what I'm sellin' :(

[formallydickman]

The double XP weekend awhile back brought back about 100 players. Used to see 320 online in the evening...before that it was closer to 250.

This time last year 800 in the evening was a low number. If we could make selling in EC less of a headache, I'd be fine with 400 peak pre-Velious. But right now I don't have the patience to sit there 5 hours seeing no one pop up what I want to buy, or want to buy what I'm sellin' :(

http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/

[Liukang]

Red is fine, still finding PvP every night and still hanging with friends.

I'm sorry if others aren't finding it enjoyable.

im drunk as fuck sonnen fuckin lost and this si still the sdumbest fuckisin things ive everd read

[MrSparkle001]

Red is fine, still finding PvP every night and still hanging with friends.

I'm sorry if others aren't finding it enjoyable.

It's not fine. When it struggles to get 40 players it's not fine.

Increase xp there and it might be upgraded from critical to serious condition.

[Dullah]

Exp increased twice, but need people to bring people, and people need something to achieve to come back. Hundreds of 50s didn't leave because of exp rates.

Kunark is only answer, and has been for months.

[Grahm]

whats gonna be the answer when kunark comes out? velious? you are 4real cray-Z

[MrSparkle001]

Exp increased twice, but need people to bring people, and people need something to achieve to come back. Hundreds of 50s didn't leave because of exp rates.

Kunark is only answer, and has been for months.

You're looking to bring back old players, I'm looking to bring in new players, and that's because I don't think too many old players will want to return but new players may not be aware of all the problems the server used to have.

Kunark is definitely a must. Plus something odd is going on. Right now I see 166 on p99, 353 on Hidden Forest (wtf server is that?), 260 EZ Server, 248 PEQ The Grand Creation, 240 Dragon Soul (again, wtf are these two servers?), and 21 r99.

What in the world happened to populations the past week? I've never seen them like this.

[nilbog]

You're looking to bring back old players, I'm looking to bring in new players, and that's because I don't think too many old players will want to return but new players may not be aware of all the problems the server used to have.

Kunark is definitely a must. Plus something odd is going on. Right now I see 166 on p99, 353 on Hidden Forest (wtf server is that?), 260 EZ Server, 248 PEQ The Grand Creation, 240 Dragon Soul (again, wtf are these two servers?), and 21 r99.

What in the world happened to populations the past week? I've never seen them like this.

Have you tried the pvp server since the latest exp increase? It seems a lot of people don't even realize there was an increase on top of the (100% at Level 1 to 0% at Level 50. (100 - (Level * 2))) bonus. I have dropped in the past few days to check on the pvp server and exp wasn't being discussed.

Regarding the other servers' populations: it's the same as it has always been. Boxing 2-10 accounts will do that. If it was allowed here, there would be like 2000 people online sometimes. From what I've seen, there have been more players on p99 and r99 for the past week than I have seen in the past month. The general population for all eqemu servers should all be improving as there are really no other games to play.

[Maze513]

You can make red +1000% Xp. People just dont wanna play on red... its that simple. EQ pvp is lacking. The outcry from the pvp community was just way over blown before red came out. Forums troll cried till GMs gave in and now we have a wasted server. SoV Beta will triple server pop. Just my 2cp

[Grumble]

You can make red +1000% Xp. People just dont wanna play on red... its that simple. EQ pvp is lacking. The outcry from the pvp community was just way over blown before red came out. Forums troll cried till GMs gave in and now we have a wasted server. SoV Beta will triple server pop. Just my 2cp

Correct. Here's the thing that most PvPers just don't get. People don't like getting ganked for just running along minding their own business. For most people, this just ain't fun.

[MrSparkle001]

Have you tried the pvp server since the latest exp increase? It seems a lot of people don't even realize there was an increase on top of the (100% at Level 1 to 0% at Level 50. (100 - (Level * 2))) bonus. I have dropped in the past few days to check on the pvp server and exp wasn't being discussed.

I did notice a decent xp increase like two weeks ago, but right now I'm not noticing any increase. It feels as slow as it's ever been.

Regarding the other servers' populations: it's the same as it has always been. Boxing 2-10 accounts will do that. If it was allowed here, there would be like 2000 people online sometimes. From what I've seen, there have been more players on p99 and r99 for the past week than I have seen in the past month. The general population for all eqemu servers should all be improving as there are really no other games to play.

What I noticed was a huge population increase on servers that were never large, and I wondered what caused it. Like right now The Hidden Forest is the most populated, and that's out of nowhere (I'm always paying attention to populations on EQemu launcher for some reason). I also think I might have checked it earlier when p99 was just coming back online which explains why it was low.

What's most important is that out of the hundreds of people that play emulated EQ, only a small percentage play pvp, so as far as r99 it won't be seeing decent numbers.

(might I suggest soulbinders on r99? It's impossible to find binds with such low numbers, so a soulbinder can at least simulate a higher population where binds are available. It may not be classic, but low population and no binds available isn't classic either.)

[Tr0llb0rn]

Exp increased twice, but need people to bring people, and people need something to achieve to come back. Hundreds of 50s didn't leave because of exp rates.

Kunark is only answer, and has been for months.

+1

Content is King

[Arkanjil]

I remember when this server first came out and seeing around 100 was amazing. Seeing the numbers where they are now is impressive. :)

[Dullah]

You can make red +1000% Xp. People just dont wanna play on red... its that simple. EQ pvp is lacking. The outcry from the pvp community was just way over blown before red came out. Forums troll cried till GMs gave in and now we have a wasted server. SoV Beta will triple server pop. Just my 2cp
Classic ignorant blue player comment. EQ pve is much more imbalanced than EQ pvp, so whats your point? I guess you have to quit p99 now.

I've heard this spiel since 99, and its simply not true. All classes have their strengths and weaknesses, and any class well played can be good and a lot of fun. There are plenty of mechanics to avoid dying in pvp, for all classes. Most players aren't patient or skilled enough to learn them.

[Dullah]

You're looking to bring back old players, I'm looking to bring in new players, and that's because I don't think too many old players will want to return but new players may not be aware of all the problems the server used to have.

Kunark is definitely a must. Plus something odd is going on. Right now I see 166 on p99, 353 on Hidden Forest (wtf server is that?), 260 EZ Server, 248 PEQ The Grand Creation, 240 Dragon Soul (again, wtf are these two servers?), and 21 r99.

What in the world happened to populations the past week? I've never seen them like this.
I'm not just trying to get old players back per se, but I know if theres no action at high levels, theres less incentive for new players to play.

I came to the server to level up and fight over contested exp/item/raid mobs. If there were no guild rivalries, I doubt I'd have made it to 50.

[MrSparkle001]

Classic ignorant blue player comment. EQ pve is much more imbalanced than EQ pvp, so whats your point? I guess you have to quit p99 now.

I've heard this spiel since 99, and its simply not true. All classes have their strengths and weaknesses, and any class well played can be good and a lot of fun. There are plenty of mechanics to avoid dying in pvp, for all classes. Most players aren't patient or skilled enough to learn them.

What is true though is that people don't want to play on red. That's why blue is so popular and r99 + LoZ combined don't come near blue's population. It may be fun for some, but it's obviously not fun for the great majority of EQ players. It's a reality we all have to accept, because otherwise we may be disappointed when our grand visions of a red server with 200+ players at all hours don't come true.

Blue is going strong at over 400 players for a good part of the day. For me personally, I don't find the desire to level up and acquire loot if there's no pvp (one of the reasons I've avoided Diablo 3), but I do still dabble on blue from time to time because it's just such a different atmosphere (and it's fun to actually have a populated server).

Again, before someone accuses me of flaming, I'm not. Believe it or not I do play on both servers, red more than blue. It's not like I'm an outsider from another server that's only here to badmouth these servers.

[Liukang]

We still have fun on red so you can "fook off" with your "wasted" server comment.

Also there is people who do enjoy it, just as in classic its just a fraction of the people who prefer the predictable and comfortable style of blue.

I for one will always prefer red servers because the additional control over your environment is addictive for me.

haha well im glad all 8 of you are having fun and its a pretty big fraction of people who prefer the predictable and comfortable style of blue.

[Lazortag]

The population is at over 500 now... is something happening?

[Grumble]

We still have fun on red so you can "fook off" with your "wasted" server comment.

Also there is people who do enjoy it, just as in classic its just a fraction of the people who prefer the predictable and comfortable style of blue.

I for one will always prefer red servers because the additional control over your environment is addictive for me.
Strange how "additional control over your environment" means ganking lower level characters. How much fun that is for Red players, they enjoy that SO much, that they actively try and impose that on everybody else whether they like it or not.

[MrSparkle001]

The population is at over 500 now... is something happening?

Yeah wow what's going on? Currently 519 on blue and 40 on red, but there's also over 400 on other servers (a lot of them might be from boxing).

[Tycko]

You can't compare red vs blue population 1:1 because you can't afk for 12 hours on red while camping some boring ass mob. Or sit in EC on a mule for 20 hours watching EC trade chat. By it's very nature red population indicates active players. Where blue can easily be a mixture.

[Arclanz]

519 isn't bad; unless you consider it was double that two years ago.

[Kraftwerk]

You mean when P99 first came out? Wow, who could've imagined that an Everquest Classic server with Legacy loot that stops dropping or gets replaced just like it did in the original first year of the game, would have a swelling population at launch, then even out as time went on?!

WHO KNEW!

Lol no, the pop averaged above 1k easily ~year ago, and above ~1.2k a year and few months ago when Kunark first came out. When P99 first came out? Well I didn't join until like March 2010 I think, and usually the population then was what it is now, before people really knew about it. I could be remembering wrong though. So the population started small, spiked on Kunark, declined and we're now seeing a dead cat bounce in pop spike which will likely decline again, then spike once more with velious, then begin the death decline.

[Danth]

"When P99 first came out?"

When P1999 was beta, there were folks suggesting that boxing would be mandatory as they insisted population would be ~50. Upon launch population was somewhat over 100 and it gradually grew from there.

Danth

[Liukang]

The level range is like 4 up to 25 6 to 42 and then its 8.

wtf are you talking about "ganking low level characters" should stick to what you know which is sitting on a camp for 3 days and telling others that they have to wait until your done or you will call a GM (lame).

your a loser bro anyone who is trying to hang on to that server and wait for more content is just retarded no matter what content or EXP bonus you add
BLUE99 > RED99 Period

[Liukang]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxytyRy-O1k&feature=player_detailpage#t=1s

[pharmakos]

your a loser

you're*

[Liukang]

my bad :P E silent anyway

[Liukang]

Project 1999
Status:
Players: UP
465
.:: Server Info ::.

Project 1999 PvP
Status:
Players: UP
40
.:: Server Info ::.

i will bro all 465 of us will

[maahes]

Nerds stop raging. I am guilty of it myself. We all love EQ. If one Nerd says he loves PvE and another Nerd says he loves PvP. We are still always Nerds. Its EQ. NerdQuest, it is the greatest fucking MMO, its the greatest fucking RPG, and it is the greatest fucking game of all time. We Nerds are going to have nerd emotions attached to this game.

blah

I'd rather be loggin

[Liukang]

Nerds stop raging. I am guilty of it myself. We all love EQ. If one Nerd says he loves PvE and another Nerd says he loves PvP. We are still always Nerds. Its EQ. NerdQuest, it is the greatest fucking MMO, its the greatest fucking RPG, and it is the greatest fucking game of all time. We Nerds are going to have nerd emotions attached to this game.

blah

I'd rather be loggin

well said my man