p99 is slowly dying
 

End of an era

P99 died when yall got the dragons rooted. Prob before that

This is news.

P99 is the largest private everquest server, It's not going anywhere.

What has not changed is bitter jaded veterans are leaving. It seems to be a cycle here.

New players come in all the time.

10 years ago peak population was ~300 =)

This makes me think of when I first tried p99 in 2010. spell sets and over powered out of era mechanics. Alchemy exploit to dupe plat, lol. It has come a long way since then.

who knew people who have played the same computer game for over 20 years would eventually get burned out. I cannot fathom how this is possible.

If forum account creation rate is any indication (I would say it's a strong one), then the answer is: no, P99 is not dying.

I wrote a little something to extract account creation dates from the user profiles on the P99 forums. I took care to spread the querying over many days as to not to add any noticeable load to the server.



Data starts on October 13, 2009 and ends on July 12, 2021 (July 13 had incomplete data so I discarded it). The data represents daily number of forum account creations.

Total profiles queried: 231878
Successfully extracted join date from: 159478
I suppose the difference comes from deleted (spammer) accounts and whatnot. Also maybe people who made their profile/join date private or something.





Here are the results:

Smaller version:


Large version:

will consist of 1 server with 124 casual neckbeards, onlhy 30 of who'm log in at any given time and buttslap eachother.

there will be a once a year opportunity to kill the dragons in vp and tov

tradeskill gear will become the norm

and there will be tradeskill kingpins who vehemently chastise and beat up anyone who doesn't role play