How to Get more New Players?

[Telados]

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?

[Telados]

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

Think:

Salvation Army of project 1999?

[Norathorr]

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!

[Seredoc]

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.

[Amazonian]

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

[Ephirith]

Originally Posted by Amazonian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

[Atmas]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

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

[Telron]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

Mine took 24 hours tops. Lol you did something wrong

[Gadwen]

Originally Posted by Telron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mine took 24 hours tops. Lol you did something wrong

I've been waiting on mine for about a week and a half now, my wife and I played before we got married and lived together but now she can never get on [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. how could it be done wrong? All they ask for is the accounts you will be using. Afaik they flag the login account itself, not your IP.

[webrunner5]

You are doing something very wrong. My son and I got one in 3 hours like a month ago.