Server players limit?
 

The server should have a cap of players because most players are really annoying and there would be more stuff available to do.

artificial player cap would just make it harder for the decent folks to get on, and so the proportion of "really annoying" players would go up

filed under bad idea

bush knocked down the towers??

Limit it to 1 so it can be like red

No offense, but this is a terrible idea. This population is as classic as it gets.

Pretty sure the live servers ended up splitting into secondary servers to deal with population around late 2000, early 2001 (suspiciously, the time frame we are locked to).

http://www.zlizeq.com/Game_Informati...s_and_Versions

Splitting servers is classic. A "limit" is not, but splitting servers is, absolutely.

~2000 nerds on a server was a difficult population to deal with in the year 2000 when no one knew anything. Over 2000 nerds on a server in 2019 where everyone knows everything? And everyone has farmed up an army of alts, and has no new content to move to?

In realness tho, the same couple hundred neck beards that clog up this server would figure ways to simultaneous ruin both servers, if they were available.

Right now we are sitting right about where the more popular servers were in classic EQ. I think if we ever see a massive spike with close to 3K at primetime, then something might be worth considering. I think a reasonable chunk will split off when WoW classic comes out.

You're not wrong, but those splits didn't happen until kunark. The biggest difference is the amount of 60s and alts 60s. 2000 pop is healthy and normal even after a server split. On the rathe everything was camped just like it is today after the split. Limiting players only discourages people joining the community AND your assuming that this high pop will endure, it likely will not.