On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Daniel P. Sniderman wrote:

> Now - no one can argue that the servers aren't overcrowded. The
> crowding problem affects people of ALL levels. For us 46- this is a
> problem. For the 46+ it's a problem. I supposed the only positive might be
> people starting new characters in zones like West and East Commons and
> probably don't have to worry about getting attacked by Griffens and Giants
> like I did when I started my character; but I wouldn't be surprised if the

Actually, they nerfed the spawn of these guys. Last night
Karana rebooted and I was the first player in Oasis (the
server selection screen said "Karana 0"). I ran around the
zone and was only able to find 4 giants, 2 near the SRo zone.
If you were playing in Oasis back around May/June, you'll
recall times when there were as many as 8 giants on your
screen at once.

In the patch messages, their rationale for nerfing the spawn
was complaints about too many giants/griffins crashing folks
killing orcs and gators. It happened shortly after the
fanfare about the first player to reach level 50 though. So I
have to wonder if this wasn't typical Verant double speak, and
their real intent was to give the higher level folks fewer
things to hunt to slow down their leveling.

> I hear they are splitting Fennin Ro up. Good for Fennin - but that
> doesn't help me. I can see that opening a can of worms. If they do that to
> my server - I'd hate to find out a lot of my good friends end up on another
> server.

I suspect Fennin Ro will be a test case. If it goes well,
expect them to split the other servers, starting with the most
crowded first.

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John H. Kim
kim@...