Jify... read my post again... OFF PEAK... not PEAK time when there are 700 people on.
OFF PEAK, has typically 200 odd players, with a good chunk of lvl 50 AFKs camping a raid target... a completely different situation to your 700 in peak time.
Benefits of global ooc in low pop times:
- Yes for finding groups for yourself or an alt.
- LFM.. that chanter who is trading town might no have his LFG flag on but could be interested to join a Magus group if he sees it advertised.
- Buying / selling, because with 200 people on server EC isn't really exciting
- General help / questions etc... with 200 people on, you are likely to be lonely in your zone, if you are not in one of the 6 or so zones that are the most popular or SOLB / Permafrost when Naggy/Vox are being camped.
Channels would help a lot. And why not have a global channel that is disabled when the population (in a perfect world it would actually be the non afk population) of the server reaches a certain limit.
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