The great merge of 2020

[suptoofs]

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

I believe there was 1380 in game post merge Sunday evening suggesting that "30% of green server was boxing" is a myth and that it has indeed been a rapid population drop.

Aye, I def remember on Sunday closing in on 1400 (It may have popped over 1400 briefly but I wasn't monitoring numbers with any intent).

[Zeboim]

There are no American tanks in Baghdad

[Pyrocat]

Many of my friends who joined to play on Teal have quit since the merge. They were excited about experiencing classic Everquest again, not waiting in line for a chance at a group in lower guk or a spot in spectres.

There's nothing to do because everything is overcamped to hell.

The amount of trolls I encounter (and not the ones from Grobb) has vastly increased since the merge.

This merge fucking sucks.

[silo32]

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

Many of my friends who joined to play on Teal have quit since the merge. They were excited about experiencing classic Everquest again, not waiting in line for a chance at a group in lower guk or a spot in spectres.

There's nothing to do because everything is overcamped to hell.

The amount of trolls I encounter (and not the ones from Grobb) has vastly increased since the merge.

This merge fucking sucks.

So can i have your stuff?

[slayith]

I think the server population wise is classic. Unlike live however they kept opening new servers opening the pressure relief valve. Lots of eq players experienced servers with non maxed out servers.

Here however if we tried that wouldn't have that critical level of players to keep all level ranges healthy. Once kunark drops 2500 pop will be perfectly fine on one server.

Downside is all 40+ content is overcrowded until kunark releases. Wait your turn for a rep, roll an alt or quit till later. Everyone I know has shelved the game till later. No point complaining about it. Dev's are doing an amazing job. The trolls are not wrong, if your not enjoying your time just quit.

[mandosound]

Yeah, the sad realization is now if I want to play I have to play it has to be a low level newb character. It is not my mid-level cleric that I have been working towards leveling. Teal had a comfortable pace. Weekends and peak times was much harder to find groups, but other times there would be good options, comfortable less-stressed environment. Now you have all overcrowded spaces, more aggressive people, and a strained environment. That just completely deflates the experience and desire to even play.

Not ALL of us have their entire playing evening or period as part of a massive LFG group. I have not been able to get a group with my main since the merger... and at 1100-1200 at that peak time... it is just not going to happen often, if at all.

They split servers original live release when they were running into this type of problem. They seen the issue that was under planned on available content capacity so they fixed it. This move has been the opposite of that was. Calling it "classic" under the fact that server populations and content balance was an oversight in the original "go-live" to the point that they had to have countermeasures implemented to combat it is just plain silly.

In the end... this is just a couch session to fall on deaf ears. I certainly appreciate the work that the team goes through to provide this to all of us long time fans of the original game, but this just does not seem like one of the finest hours in decision making.

[cd288]

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

Yeah, the sad realization is now if I want to play I have to play it has to be a low level newb character. It is not my mid-level cleric that I have been working towards leveling. Teal had a comfortable pace. Weekends and peak times was much harder to find groups, but other times there would be good options, comfortable less-stressed environment. Now you have all overcrowded spaces, more aggressive people, and a strained environment. That just completely deflates the experience and desire to even play.

Not ALL of us have their entire playing evening or period as part of a massive LFG group. I have not been able to get a group with my main since the merger... and at 1100-1200 at that peak time... it is just not going to happen often, if at all.

They split servers original live release when they were running into this type of problem. They seen the issue that was under planned on available content capacity so they fixed it. This move has been the opposite of that was. Calling it "classic" under the fact that server populations and content balance was an oversight in the original "go-live" to the point that they had to have countermeasures implemented to combat it is just plain silly.

In the end... this is just a couch session to fall on deaf ears. I certainly appreciate the work that the team goes through to provide this to all of us long time fans of the original game, but this just does not seem like one of the finest hours in decision making.

Leave the high ZEM zones and the issue goes away. If you want to XP in the most popular, high ZEM zones, then be prepared to wait

[NeoThaFive]

https://youtu.be/Q38Q7l10XH4 Bring Back Teal Please So People can Actually Get The Legacy Items before you yank them away!

[Smellybuttface]

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

https://youtu.be/Q38Q7l10XH4 Bring Back Teal Please So People can Actually Get The Legacy Items before you yank them away!

You can still get them, just be prepared to wait 60+ hours.

Why exactly did you link a YouTube video of you fighting a spider for 15 minutes?

[loramin]

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

You can still get them, just be prepared to wait 60+ hours.

I love how "just stay awake for 60+ hours" is thrown around like it's no big deal here ... as if it didn't require consuming an unhealthy amount of stimulants, or the sharing of one account between two people.

Not picking on you in particular Smelly, it's just ... the fact that this isn't like some crazy fact to everyone, that it's just no big deal in everyone's conversation ... that itself is a bit crazy to me.

P.S. I should note that making people stay awake to get precious loot has a long history on P99, going back to the earliest days of raiding:

Originally Posted by http://wiki.project1999.com/Raid_History#Initial_Raid_Ruleset

The first raid force with fifteen active players present and "camping" the target was guaranteed it ... as long as they kept 15 non-AFK campers present.

This resulted in three days straight of 15+ players sitting semi-afk at raid targets. For example, both guilds would have players sitting in Fear waiting for Draco to spawn, calling out AFK checks to ensure the other side was present.

Maybe that's why it's so blasé here?