This poll should have had a 3rd option:
"Yes, if and when the population is higher (ex: 1000)."
That was what the last poll did and it was more representative. I haven't even voted in this one.
Nilbog made a post that when it was 200, people wanted 500, and now that it's 700, people still want more. He implied we'll always want more. Well, servers during live had 1500-2500, maybe 1000+ average. That's an absolute. My thinking is 1000 would be a good number to shoot for because these days it's easier to use forums, network, we have item links and people have more knowledge of the game that they can share with others. So I don't think we need 2000+ max or 1000+ average to have a sufficient population. Furthermore, a lot of people playing at project1999 came here explicitly because this is classic, this is THE game! Global auctioning is not their top priority. In other words, the loss of it would not be a huge gamble or huge loss.
Like someone else here said, global chat is to conversation as pok books are to travel. They trivialize elements of classic eq that helped to make it unique, despite how controversial the elements are in other games. We have a tremendous advantage compared to 1999 because of global chat and auctioning. I tried to find a middle ground by making a thread about filtering global chat (while allowing people to still use global chat) to remedy this in the meantime until we have sufficient population to approximate the conditions of that era.
Have to also give attention to the spam in /ooc and /auction (when everyone on the server is using them, it fills up the window fast) and the auctions that are on the other side of the world (people don't say where they're most of the time and you might not be able to travel that far). A filtering mechanism would address this.
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