Many if not most original servers were dramatically more heavily populated than P99 is. Couple that with the original servers being less top-heavy as mentioned above and the reason for the original game feeling more spread out becomes immediately apparent: necessity. Can't stuff 200 people into Guk and still find stuff to level off of. On Green during the initial launch rush where you had enough low-level players that folks had no choice but to go to less-used areas. Otherwise P99's leveling population is small enough that most the groupers can stick to the zones with the best experience rates leaving it mainly to solo and duo players to explore the rest of the game world.
It's not all bad. P99's population is closer to what the game was designed for. Personally, I don't particularly wax nostalgic for the days of a full group camping maybe two rooms in a dungeon with 20 min of waiting between cycles. I might also on occasion miss seeing groups in Lake of Ill Omen or similar areas but perhaps overall it's a fair trade.
Danth
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12-05-2020, 12:27 PM
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