Naeeldar,
I dont think that anyone disagrees.. Crowding is a problem for higher level
players like yourself, but that does not make it less of a problem for us mid
level players. Part of the problem is maybe also that when you hit 50 like I
belive you have mentioned there is only so much you can do today. I can imagine
that after a while you get the feeling that you have "won" the game? If thats
the case then overcrowding is not the main problem, but rather Lack of 46+
things to do. As it is today and nomatter how you turn and twist it I still
think that the wast marjority of the players are -40 Esp after the slew of new
players that entered after christmas. Verant are working on helping you guys. We
can argue about how well they are doing (As far as I remember all new zones
except Temple of Ro have been 46+ zones), further more changes in spawns have
also been targeted at the rising average level of players (Paw, Kithior, Solusek
Ro quests).
I can only imagnine how it would be if I played when there is 2000+ players on
Bertox.. I think the 900-1000 players(was 500-600 before christmas) that is
normally online during my playing hours (I live in EU) is very nice. Places like
Unrest is rather crowded, but when I move to places like Cazic, Rathe mountains,
Perma, MM. There is plenty of room. I did however try Rathe mountains this
weekend and it was awfull. Like 3 groups camping (ouch I hate that word) Giant
skellies and clops's.
What it all boils down to in my oppinion:
At 46-50th level Crowding is a problem because there is few places to hunt and
the number of high level players online is more "constant" than when it comes to
lower level players.
At midlevels (me 29th level) Crowding is also a big problem during peek hours,
not so much because there is few zones to hunt in, but rather because of the
sheer number of people online.
I think that Verant needs to do something about both problems.
More servers, maybe serversplits to help on the crowding during peek hours and
maybe new zones to spread people out some more.
Quests and other things geared towards 46+ players to keep those players from
getting the feeling of "winnning" the game (I bet the expansion will have a lot
of nice things for 46+ players to do).
Well that was my 2cp.
Musiker Silverdrum, Woodelf bard of the 29th song, Bertoxoullus.
Message: 7
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:39:08 -0500
From: "Naeeldar" <
jackal@...>
Subject: Re: PoA bard quests plus a rant
Heh only 200 50. The diffrence is these 50's are not the average player we
are all huge addicts and play a good 10 hours a day usually. So maybe you
should rethink that. Ok how many 49's? About 200 again. How many 48's about
300. How many 47's ? About 300 and so and so on. How many 46+ zones ? The
planes and I guess lower guk and sol b but they have level 30's in them and
it's crowded in with the high levels. You also have kedge keep but the
spawns in there is like 4-6 hours on most mobs so 2 good groups can go in
and clear the spawns and leave. So you got sol b, lower guk, and the 3
planes. Now even when we did all the planes that's about 30-40 in each
plane. That's not even 10% of the 46+ people online. The dragons are a long
spawn so they get done quickly and fire giants are a 8 hour spawn to. So you
got all these 46+ people who play a good 10 hours at the least usually 5
hours a day. So why do you think were ocmplaining now?
Naeeldar