Karsten I said what I said. Let's see how it plays out.
To be truthful, I think I have a more accurate idea of how things are going to develop than you do.
Edit: I just happened to think. Maybe we have the same idea of what it is going to stabilize at. Only thing is I think it is a bug, not a feature. Maybe what we want from this game is too different for us to have meaningful communication.
I believe I have logic and the weight of having seen at least one other server that had a roughly similar rule set and population. Eerily it also had a very experienced population base too. That was test server, as I have mentioned previously.
As I said I think I'm right about a prediction I'll spell out here. You are going to have a clump of people at the top end. The little low level activity there will be, will be alts of people who are maxxed level. It won't be a friendly place or even fun to level up.
I guess it will be a regular eq server, just with a low population. Which makes a lot of things harder. Basically you are going to see the same old people over and over, just with different faces.
There won't be much of an economy. Or even reason to have one for the most part. One smith could take care of the whole servers needs honestly. Or one tailor (well maybe not if cultural was in with velious).
On the up side, eventually it will probably get to the point where someone makes a shadowknight and you pass them in the bank and say "wow you are level 1? hey I have a moss in the bank, and it would be a shame to vendor it. here ya go." Then the sk will go out all by himself and bash stuff till he gets enough levels to play with everyone else. They still won't be easy levels.
And as for playing a shaman? Well I believe what I am saying of course. About how frustrating it is, and will be to play a melee (until advanced mudflation which might be a year or so down the road).
BTW, shamans are good at "dick waving" soloing. Practically mages, necros, wizzies (when they get snare at 29), enchanters and bards if charm or swarm kiting or whatever isn't broken this week, and of course druids are all better at "practical" soloing. Necros definitely have a bigger "boner" than shamans. And sometimes enchanters and bards can make a shaman look like he needs viagra of the wolf.
I picked shaman because it is group friendly and can solo. A druid would have been a better pick for me honestly, but there are just too damn many.
I would play my sk, but other than fool around with him in qeynos I'm not going to do much with him. And if there is a hybrid penalty I probably never will do much with him. (funny thing though, I got level 3 with him, human sk bertoxxulus, and it sure doesn't feel like he has an exp penalty at all)
Anyway that is all I got on this topic. Time will tell. And if I get bored, I can always just not log in. And I'm getting pretty close to being bored now.
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