On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

> are some other places I have not found yet, but since I play mostly in mst
> prime-time I unfortunately have to play at the most crowded time. Guess
> what? So does everyone else who is a 2-3 hr a day, 3-4 day a week player
> like me. Also most of them are between 18-33 level or so. That means that
> the times I can play are most crowded for the level I am. A lot of times
> when I am on there is no one in Kithicor and I have seen as few as 12 in
> Lower Guk. I guess a lot of the higher level players on E'ci play later
> than I do maybe. I went into L Guk a month ago and there were 6 players at
> 7pm, but at midnite when I logged off there were 35. I don't think crowding

LGuk on Karana seems to average 60-70 during prime time at
night. I've seen it at over 100. The only time I've seen
fewer than 10 players there is when I was home sick and
playing at 8am on a weekday.

Kithicor is barren because the mobs are only there half the
time, train very easily (since anyone who gets in trouble has
a straight-line route to the zones), and the mobs are really
too tough for their con/exp/loot.

> range, any overcrowding is painful. Also it would be easier if I was
> playing a class with downtime. When I play y enchanter or druid the
> crowding seldom bothers me as I spend enough time medding that its not as
> big a deal. The group my bard plays with though has so little downtime that
> we waste a lot of time when we are fully capable of knocking something off,
> only there isn't anything available. That frustration has cost me more

Send one person off to pull *before* you finish your fight.
I did this during a 100+ players night in LGuk. We were
fighting things pretty much non-stop.

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John H. Kim
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