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Kryogenic  6/05/08 1:30:32 PM

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Looking for the server that will be the most packed during eastern and central prime time... any help?


Thrift  6/06/08 12:48:02 AM

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the drinks you mix, and the friends you roll with

When I played 5 months ago before I quit Antonia Bayle use to be one of the only severs to always be on High Pop. but now it seems it wont move from medium. I can see why we got 60 days for free, Freeport use to be packed with players but the biggest group I saw was 5 people standing by the broker.

 
Wuuduu  6/06/08 2:32:34 AM

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ye, thats the reason... im one of free 60days user at Runnyeye.

Freeport docks, where lot of people did nice lag 6 months ago, this time theres max 3 chars standing at brooker, all channels are quiet (except lvl 1 - 9) - thats during week, will see at weekend.

 

 
observer  6/07/08 1:31:28 AM

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They should just merge servers again, no matter how painful it is.

 
Gemma  6/10/08 12:03:35 AM

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Antonica Bayle seems to be the only high pop one, the rest are showing as medium.

 
Vasburg  6/10/08 12:30:52 AM

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Whenever you create a character, just look which are the servers at the bottom of the list - those are the most populated servers. Lately, these have been Antonia Bayle, Crushbone, and Nagafen (PvP) - in that order.
 
Wuuduu  6/10/08 2:42:45 AM

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Originally posted by Gemma

Antonica Bayle seems to be the only high pop one, the rest are showing as medium.

We tried to count people at Runnyeye, around 300 players is medium?

 
quaiky  6/10/08 5:14:47 AM

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Originally posted by Wuuduu
Originally posted by Gemma

Antonica Bayle seems to be the only high pop one, the rest are showing as medium.

We tried to count people at Runnyeye, around 300 players is medium?

I personally think runnyeye is mostly light load these days, max reaches medium at peak times on days where multiple guilds are raiding.

but as a side note all players flagged as anyonymous don't show up in /who queries so you cannot do reliable counts anymore.

anyway rok release was in november which is now nearly 7 months ago most people have done most solo and group conetent for lvl 80s too often allready, and the big raid guilds even cleared most raidcontent too often.  many casual guilds are currently struggling to fill raids so the players from these guilds, that still have uncleared raidcontent cannot do that cause the guilds are struggling to fill raids and have to rely on easier targets most time . Desinterest in doing the same zones over and over again and the summer with nice weather outside allready lightened the population quite a lot. aoc release also pulled away some people from the community (some will return in 1-2 months, some will stay there). 

 EU population is also affected by the people watching EURO 2008 matches in the evenings, some do it at homw and still play, but some prefer to watch these in a pub.

The new RE zone in next liveupdate will hopefully give us something to do for a while,  if its fun then high level population will go up again for some time (many are just waiting to get new things to do, but loggign in less and less if there is no real reason to do that)

Same things happened last summer too and i think in the summers before too, maybe this year the effect is bigger cause RoK did not have that much longlasting content for groups/casual guilds.  Usually numbers did increase a lot again at end of summer so merging servers before that is probably a bad idea else you might get overpopulated servers. But if they don't get back up at end of summer i guess it will be time for merges.