> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:02:21 -0600
> From: "Jeff Illian" <jeff@...>
>Subject: RE: PoA bard quests plus a rant
>
>I'm now level 40, my wife's wood elf warrior is 38 going on 39 and my
>brother's druid is 37. Until now, we've had no problems finding places to
>hunt. Sol A kings room, Lower Guk BR, MM, CT, Perma, etc. When one is
>camped we would simply go to another. We haven't had problems finding a
>spot since we've graduated from aviaks at 23. Now that I've hit 40 and the
>non-green spots in each of these are camped, we have to go elsewhere to get
>xp. My brother is a druid, so he pulls out the spell book and we go off and
>flying looking for places to hunt. Zone into sol b and everything is camped
>but the circle room. That sucked with a whole 4 miserable spawns every 25
>or so minutes ASSUMING that someone from noble or pool didn't pull one of
>our precious few spawns first. Zone into lower guk and everything is camped
>including the live side bridge. Zone into Ogguk to find two groups already
>sharing bouncers, one with a waiting list and the other made up of two high
>40's not interested in more, spectres taken, dw gobs in oasis camped, giants
>boring, Kithicor is nap time in the day and horrible xp at night, troll
>guards camped and boring... Paw was even crowded and we don't know the zone
>well enough to find those places where a level 40 can hunt without pulling
>trains from hell and half the place cons green. Worst part is that a huge
>portion of the populous in most of these areas were level 45 to 50 trying to
>farm items or fill the xp bar for the next plane raid. If the PoF, PoH, and
>PoS are supposed to help eliviate the high level dungeon over crowding, then
>they have not accomplished their goal. Not being a college student and
>having 2 kids, I don't have the option of getting on at 2 in the afternoon
>and squawting a spot until my group logs on.
>
Just Imagine.... A Global solution to most major problems with Everquest =P
What if, just what if Verant in there ultimate wisdom (heh)decided to throw
a hardcap on all Servers of say 1500 peeps. Now this would most likely
require an initial investment on Verant's part for new servers to
accomodate the surplus of people that were left over, but, a hardcap solves
everyone's problems (well most) I think.
Camping becomes a non-issue due to the fact that people who want experience
would easily be able to find a new place to hunt that would yeild good
exp.It's safe to say that not everybody will be on at once.
Lag becomes a non-issue as well due to the reduction in the amount of peeps
on at any one time.
Link Dead's should be minimized for the above reason.
I'm sure there are other things that would be alleviated with this kind of
change, and the only thing I can think of that would detract from something
like this is if peeps wanted to bring in friends on their server. However,
this could be accomodated by allowing a character transfer of some sort
once a month to a server that wasn't at full capacity. Then the friends
could cooridinate what server to transfer to. It seems at least as far as
this last part is concerned, they are heading in the general direction. I
just don't see anything getting better by simply adding more servers. The
population is just going to max out (and then some) and the same problems
will come up again.
The bottom line is that regardless of what Verant says, there is no cap.
Initially it was 1500, then a few months ago it became 2000, and now who
really knows, I guess Fennin Ro was up over 3000 this weekend. There is no
cap at all. The game is great, but it could be that much better and IMHO
many of these problems would be taken care of with a hard cap on all
servers or better yet, hehe, how about just some servers if Verant is
worried about spending more money for all the servers I am proposing, how
about servers with a hard cap but with an increased monthly fee. I know I
would pay much more money a month to play Everquest on server with a cap.
Would you?
Just my 2 cp
Konus OenShar
The Rathe