Blue has never been better for me.

I was never a fan of the tunnel so the pop drop hasn't affected me at all in that way.

Only thing I've seen are a way higher concentration of pleasant, helpful people and a lot more open camps for the taking.

Green/Teal has been a blessing for us that are perfectly happy with Blue.

Blue's essentially EQ-MAC now. It isn't going to get back to its historic highs, but it can continue for a long time at its new normal.

Danth

Or when more of the population hits 42-45 and realize that now there’s 1000 people in line for limited xp and cash camps in the few high end zones that support that level of play.

Green/teal will be very frustrating in the final months before Kunark launch. After kunark release there will at least be enough higher end content to support the size of the playerbase without 3-4 hour lfgs to get into a group with too few mobs to be efficient.

As bad as the xp squabbles are presently ... imagine 800-1000+ people trying to eek out experience in solb and lguk at the same time.

I think the thing is many players on Green/Teal came from outside P99, only played on Blue briefly, or have long since forgotten their Blue characters and won't return.

Green has seen week over week peak population decline since early November (~1400 to ~1000), and Teal's population has been declining week over week since mid November (~1000 to ~850). Sure this isn't hordes of people leaving, but it is a few hundred drop in peak population. Blue's peak population has not seen a rise because of this, staying steady in the 500-600 range over the same time.

More likely people will get frustrated and quit p99 altogether than rejoin on Blue, except for those who have mid level or higher toons on Blue already.

Oh I know. In this era on blue I was usually in kithicor from 45-50 on my cleric using my manastone to solo undead mobs rather than fighting for a spot in group. And we had half the numbers that are on green.

That's a big reason I have zero interest in a fresh server.

I wonder how Boutik is doing. Imagine flipping pixels for years in the tunnel only to end up being a rich elf in a graveyard.

After the first server wipe I'm sure a lot of people will go back to blue. I dunno if the novelty of "fresh" will carry green over and over.

/shrug

Nobody is going back to blue.

Certainly SOME will go back to blue - they already have.

right now green has 700 teal has 600 and blue has 300

yikes