p99 needs a recruitment drive.

[fishingme]

what are you guys talking about? I don't remember seeing population on p99 peak anywhere near 1000 since about a month or two after kunark was released

[Malrubius]

I've had more fun on the server over the past several weeks than ever before.

Lots of people (including me) predicted long ago that the power gamers would get bored and move on (to pvp or wherever) once they've exhausted the content.

They are leaving, and the server is better for it imho (not a flame at all - I used to be a power gamer too).

I expect they'll come back in hordes when Velious comes out, but they'll blow through that content too, and then leave again.

[druziil]

The problem is you all play too much. With the rate of development and with the style of play that predominates here people hit the ceiling quickly. Out of 700 players how many are max level? That is alot of people to support with the content we currently have. Like others have stated you can only clear posky so many times before it gets teidious, and I'll add, you can only bank so many trak bps before it gets old and you can only roll so many alts before you get fed up with exp grind. How long after epics are out before people get tired of those camps/encounters? Not to mention the fact that related fear/hate loots will give a reason for those zones to be more contested.

The last thought i will throw out there is some people also went back to school recently which i am sure affected a percentage of the players here.

[Mcbard]

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

The problem is you all play too much. With the rate of development and with the style of play that predominates here people hit the ceiling quickly. Out of 700 players how many are max level? That is alot of people to support with the content we currently have. Like others have stated you can only clear posky so many times before it gets teidious, and I'll add, you can only bank so many trak bps before it gets old and you can only roll so many alts before you get fed up with exp grind. How long after epics are out before people get tired of those camps/encounters? Not to mention the fact that related fear/hate loots will give a reason for those zones to be more contested.

The last thought i will throw out there is some people also went back to school recently which i am sure affected a percentage of the players here.

This. Also, I'm pretty sure in the last week the population went from high 700's Where it's been for 4 months to low 600's with a new server opening. The sky isn't falling.

New content would be great though!

[SyanideGas]

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

. I have tried to get a few friends involved, who are avid gamers otherwise, who didn't even bother playing once they saw the graphics/difficulty.

This is whats retarded about modern gamers they all concentrate on the graphics and not how the gameplay is. I'd prefer gameplay over graphics anyday.

[Roanoke]

Did anyone stop to think that summer is over? Take into consideration that people have lives outside of ths game (lol, I know). Many people I have played with so far are students at universities etc who are now being swamped with schoolwork. The amount of time people are able to dedicate has been drastically reduced and there is not a whole lot that can be done. The pvp server is not enough of a draw to have p99 have such a low population (in fact I have yet to see more than 250 people on red99 at any given time).

When the initial couple of weeks of school get rolling we may see an increase in population. I know that I have had less time to play recently due to this as well.

Wait for winter to fully kick in and we'll see how the trend goes.

[Shiftin]

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

Look at the state of the server the past two months and ask,why did 200 or so people stopped playing. Not opening Vp to allow the upper 100 or so end game raiders to move on, killed the raiding for the next 4 raiding guilds. Divinity , bda, taken and vd have taking hits. I would say between the 4 of us we lost over 100 or so people.

Guilds can only raid hate, fear and sky so many times before being burnt out. If tr and tmo moved on to vp, it would allow those other guilds to do new things and get older members back. Hell give it another month and Tr won't have more than 30 people online, or TMO will only have 50 man raids.

People can only do the same things for so long before being burnt out. Lack of content,epic,server politics is killing the server slowly. Go ask your friends to come back and when they ask,has anythint changed? The answer will be no. So what motivation do they have to clear hate for the 70th time for armor to rot.

I've tried to get folks to come back. Like it's been mentioned over and over, their questions are "is VP opened, has anything changed?". I can't give them the answer they want. We've now been through 4 reasons of steadily decreasing validity why there is no VP and have been waiting for 3 weeks for nilbog to have time to talk with us about it. 3 weeks which have brought tons of bug fixes and the launching of an entirely new server, so draw whatever conclusions you want from that. With the old republic and tons of other games about to drop for the holidays, the chances of getting them back here diminish by the day. It doesn't just affect the raiders, those raiders everyone loves to hate also fill in lower level groups too. I can recount the history of the excuses that have brought us to 6 months after kunark opened without it's most exciting zone if people want, but it tends to induce rage in folks.

There were 52-58 TMO sitting in VS room last night waiting for him to spawn. Without VP, the population will move to equilibrium with the current number of raid targets. Guilds will continue to fall apart and be absorbed. hey, at least the PVP folks are happy?

[Fountree]

new content please! I know that the server staff took a hit over the last few months, but we're already 6+ months after Kunark release and VP isn't out, let alone epics. I know I've been out of things to do besides raid when targets spawn, farm or PL friends for 2-3 months now...

[Talgurin]

To get new players, brand it this way:

Tired of WoW?
Tired of INSULTINGLY EASY MMOs?
Test your limits as a gamer with the original EverQuest
Join an unforgiving world with consequences and challenges and the chance to achieve real glory (as much as you can get on a computer game, that is)

EVE players would be into this, as well as Darkfall players.

[Beeber]

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

To get new players, brand it this way:

Tired of WoW?
Tired of INSULTINGLY EASY MMOs?
Test your limits as a gamer with the original EverQuest
Join an unforgiving world with consequences and challenges and the chance to achieve real glory (as much as you can get on a computer game, that is)

EVE players would be into this, as well as Darkfall players.

BTW, this may not be the best opportunity to voice this, but the perception that other MMO's aren't as difficult as EQ was is flat out paint drinking retarded. I was apart of several world first kills in EQ through PoP, and yes..many of the fights are challenging, difficult, and leave little margin for error. But if you really wanna compare attacking AoW or Burrower for 30 minutes in a corner while 10 clerics are macro healing, or zerging Coirnaiv (whatever), or Yelinak, or pushing Aayornar (whatever again) around N ToV to things like the upper end of WoW fights (LK, Vashj, etc), you're crazy.

EQ set the bar for Risk vs Reward as Aradune would have happily admitted to, but don't recollect so fondly in your P1999 hipster fashion that auto attacking stuff is hard.