A hard cap would be worse than it is now. When I log on I want to be able to
log on with my friends. If there are 1500 people on then I can't log on? BS
it'll never happen. It'd be worse than it is now.
>From: Douglas Drew <Douglas.A.Drew@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Digest Number 685
>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:52:13 -0500
>
> > 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
>
>
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