How to Get more New Players?
 

One of the things that discouraged me from starting on P99 was that with such a low lvl population lvling was a pain without gear.

Do you think that if there were some way to legitimately identify unique new players and hand them trash gear in ec - that owuld help get new player faces?

i'm not talking about giving out jade maces - but a suit of say cured silk - would go a long way.

what do you think?

The problen is ofcourse figuring out who is a genuine new player - an impossible task to do? too much ability to con any system?

not from the GMs either - i'm talking about server donations.

Think:

Salvation Army of project 1999?

When I arrived here I had some help from people to get on my feet. I did not know anyone here, so the community seems pretty helpful in general. I think its a really good server to start out on. Certainly I have had alot more help than I did when I started out all those years ago on live!

Best luck I had happened on both my toons. On my halfie I was leveling in the thicket and people were killing guards, I walked by and looted one of the + cha rings off a rotting corpse and dude handed me almost 600 gold. On my ogre the same exact thing happened when a druid was kiting all the guards in the zone and handed me all his gold/silver/copper so he could keep running lol

Personally if half the people I ask for ports/buffs didn't demand 2k or they'd report me would make life a touch easier. It's not like it takes a ton of pp for you to toss someone a SoW when you already have it on your bar or y'know, take a reasonable amt of pp for a port.

A lot of people want to play with spouses or roommates but have to wait in the endless black hole of waiting for an ip exemption. Speeding those up would increase player populations... I've been waiting since the 16th of Feb. and in the meantime I've leveled 1-52 on a live server out of boredom.. I find myself losing interest in p99.. /sadface

I put in for an IP exemption on the 19th and it was resolved within 6 hours-- you may have done something wrong.

Support on p99 is excellent in my experience... there are some legitimate complaints about the server but I do not believe this is one of them, especially considering they do it for free.

But you're right, speedy exemptions probably help the pop a bit.

They are generally done in batches, so you probably lucked out with the timing for how quickly yours was handled.

Mine only took 3 days because I had to post mine and my bro's logins. Make sure to follow up on your req, if they asked something give the right info, afaik you're not told if your exemption is declined, not sure though

I make cured silk sets for free if people ask me heehee