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I don't think anyone expects there to be an EC-like zone on a red server.
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Why not? RZ, VZ, TZ all had auction zones that were well populated. It's only not expected because the population is so low it's not even worth auctioning your stuff to the 5 people who might show up. Might as well just go get whatever you want yourself.
Also, show me 20,000 people complaining about exp being too slow and you'll have a valid point. Like I said, 3,000 people a DAY search for "free MMORPG" and that doesn't even include terms like "free mmo, best free mmorpg" etc. There is likely somewhere around 50,000 people every single day looking for a free MMORPG to play and you're telling me the solution is increasing population is changing the exp rate, not making the server more accessible and advertising more?
It would be incredibly easy to get this server up to an average of 1,000 players on at a time if proper promotion was being done. This project has zero, zip, nada, none or at least it sure as hell seems that way.
The most effective way to increase population would be to start a community based promotion donation pool for paying for advertising, building a custom client that makes playing easily, and writing guides about "how to advertise project 1999" for volunteers that covers popular places to go discuss and promote project 1999 that anyone could do with 5 minutes of time.
Imagine if instead of everyone crying here about low population people were posting to those free MMORPG sites promoting the server and doing it in an organized manner where a thread is created and then a dozen people respond to it saying, "FUCK YEAH BROS! P99 IS WHERE IT IS AT! OMG!"
I would do it but I'm too lazy. Someone should get on this though.