Zone overpopulation

[Waedawen]

P99 has always had a 'herding' issue where everyone just goes to the most 'popular' or easy zones and just AFK's in 6 man groups trying to get xp.

There are many, many, many extremely lucrative places to hunt that are off the beaten path. Especially for teams of 2-4 players.

[Wallicker]

^^ this made two levels 41 to 43.5 in a duo (ALS mage / ALS sham) in 5 hours also got some true silver loot that sold for hundreds of plat each to a vendor... /who all cityofmist too many players to count...

[Zuranthium]

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

How exactly do you get a thousand players, all at once, to fix their names ... to new names which also don't conflict, on a completely different server?

It's very easy - you just add a number to the end of the character name. The first Loramin on blue is Loramin. On a green server, after your Loramin there eventually gets moved over to blue, it would become Loramin II. So on and so forth.

[Jimjam]

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

It's very easy - you just add a number to the end of the character name. The first Loramin on blue is Loramin. On a green server, after your Loramin there eventually gets moved over to blue, it would become Loramin II. So on and so forth.

On live server merges they'd just add an 'x' to the end of any name that otherwise resulted in a duplicate name. You could then petition to have that name changed. So if you had a character on each server called buttse you'd end up with...never mind, you get the idea!

[Tethler]

Zone overpopulation?

Wouldn't happen on Red

[Jauna]

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

Zone overpopulation?

Can't happen on Red

Fixed

[JayDee]

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

There are many, many, many extremely lucrative places to hunt that are off the beaten path. Especially for teams of 2-4 players.

Wish it were the same at 60. Only a handful of places to go worth your time and 90% of them are over camped. I would say that is the #1 problem with classic EQ, though that probably adds to the the perceived value and status of items which is a good thing.

Just stinks having the desire to play and logging on/off 5 different characters to find nothing open

[Nixtar]

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

Wish it were the same at 60. Only a handful of places to go worth your time and 90% of them are over camped. I would say that is the #1 problem with classic EQ, though that probably adds to the the perceived value and status of items which is a good thing.

Just stinks having the desire to play and logging on/off 5 different characters to find nothing open

Let's bring foot races and FTE bullshit to leveling up as well. This way we won't just turn the classic experience of P99 into a stressful shitshow but also prepare people for the big giant shitshow of the raid scene.

Don't like it?! Well, f*** off, you dirty communist, this isn't a game, this is WAR! Anything goes!

This would at the very least solve the population issues. I believe red had a similarly wholesome approach.

[Diogene]

I dont know I have seen the Hole being quite busy last couple of weeks, almost an lfg / pickup zone. I like this ! Also Najena heating up. Havent checked Dalnir but wouldnt be surprised this being busier. 2k pop is about right for the size of the map. More peeps the better.

[Kika Maslyaka]

People should also read this - The Kunark Problem

http://www.afterlifeguild.org/Thott/kunark.php