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Maelin feels empty? Oh geez! How about Luclin and AB? I was thinking of moving a toon to AB.

One thing I have suggested to them numerous times is a pay-one-price per account to shuffle as many toons around for a month. Or server choice based on time of day.

I have accounts I won't renew because I can't clear their title enough to move them to another account. But then, that's not going to help bring people back, is it?

Leerah/Clearlee of Quellious

I don't want a challenge. I want people!

Stromm has people eh? Nice. Quellious is lucky to have 100 in the lobby. Ask the guides. They know.


Leerah of Quellious

All the kids are playing WOW. Who wants to be interviewed for an article about EQ in AARP magazine?






Lee from Quellious

I am current in Quellious - started back in 04 in Rodcet - I belong to Couch Potatoes and we seem to always have people on. Average ove about 10-15 a night and more on the weekends. Still hard to find people before you're 70 or so but fine afterwards. And getting to 70 today is nothing hard to accomplish.

Bridil Bloodlust
75/169 Ranger of Couch Potatoes

As far as all the posts so far on this thread....looks alot of you are on dying servers....sorry, but when I first strated playing (wayyyy back when...) there were 46ish servers 3 Zeks....and you could actually see the pop. of each server.

Ever since botting has become a dominant feature in EQ1....ppl started to leave...because actual RL pop. dropped from lack of grouping, guild #'s, or interest.

As a "casual player" meaning non-raid oriented; i could carealess about merging with another server. The less players there are, the more content i can experience for myself in no-raid zones.

If people are that unhappy with their own server population, then transfer to one that does have more. If you don't want to transfer or shell out the extra $ to transfer....you have (2) choices....either quit or start anew on a diff server.

My point to this is: no matter what SOE does to compensate server pop's now or a year from now...they will inevitably fall to current levels; they'll just be less servers to go around.

I know i'll get bashed for my views...but /bash away....opinions are only good when others know about them.

Mayong brought 3 of us back from the dead! Its nice to be able to play on a server with a healthy population again.

it might just be me but i think SoE made a good hit by making Mayong... i was able to see some of my old friends restarted playing at mayong and they were asking me to join em... i kinda love my SK right now at Quellious hehehe... EQ may be getting slow but it will still last a bit longer than alot expected.

I've been playing from 1999 and have been off and on for several years now. I remember the days of the bazaar being the tunnels in West Commonlands or GFaymart. The game was new and fresh back then, the level cap was 50 and there was no such thing as AAs and the only focus effects were on the very few items such as the Rubicite BP and the magician summoning items. EQ was unstable then because of the server loads and SoE could barely keep up with the hardware requirements to support the ever growing population.

I was still playing at its peak, before the launch of WoW, and during its early decline after WoW went live. When my guild leader and good friend Wyztyz of Dragons Fist found out she was with child and started phasing out of playing, along with many of my other friends of not a few years, and guild progression stagnating due to lack of instancing (among other reasons) I myself kinda dropped out.

I remember coming back one year finding out Rodcet Nife had gotten merged to Quellious along with half the other servers. It hit me then that EQ was in its decline. WoW I believe, had taken a good chunk of the MMO player base and did a fairly good job of keeping it. I thought that merging the servers then was a good idea, I had been boxing toons for many years then, simply because I couldn't find groups and it was frustrating to play (though to be honest it was probably more my lack of skill at soloing with my necro) and was a fairly solitary player. I still am, though I do enjoy grouping with people, as I am lazy and just like casting spells and not having to go chase mobs or whatever.

Merging the servers now wouldn't hurt I think. There seems to be several now that have an extremely low population, I hear Sony won't release such information so I have to believe what I read. So maybe just the servers with low population could be merged? Bring them on par with the ones with highest populations perhaps.

Either way it won't really affect me a whole lot, I don't level my toons over 65 (except one) because I haven't experienced all the old world content that I want to yet. I three or four box with mercs because I want to, thought I don't really have to, like I said I'm lazy, I go pull something to my group and sit back and push my social macros and throw heals. Merging Quellious with another server might make it harder for me to find a spot all to myself, but then it will prolly make it easier for me to find groups. Its a glass half full half empty issue for me really. Also to be honest I don't think I've ever seen anyone LFG in any zones I've been in, so I think mercs are doing their job, but then again I don't go to high end zones so I dunno what things are like there...

In the end if my GL is wanting a server merge I'm all for it, I live in HST so server peak time has always been before I ever get home from work...

edited for clarity

Edited, Aug 25th 2009 3:45pm by Tnias

I voted yes to merges... but it is not the answer to the population problem.

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My hardest core gamer son said to me about 3 yrs ago, "I'd like to come back to EQ but there's nobody there!".. quoted from above.
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People want to try EQ, or return, but there is not alot of lower level players to play with .... all the servers are top heavy. Merge's will not help this.

If you take two top heavy servers and merge them you get an over crowded top end population but still an empty lower level population. Still nobody for them to play with.

Mayong is proof that people will start EQ, if they have others to play with when they start. Alot of people heard about mercs and heard about the new server and came back, even came for the first time from games like WoW.

Mayong has done more for the game than any server merges would IMO.

Have to disagree. The leveling is so fast now it would only take about 3 days to get from 0 to 51. Thats with about 12 hours play time.
It won't make a difference.
Problem is the game is old. Its a lot of the same old actions over and over. If it wasn't for the few folks i do talk to in game I would have left 3 months ago. As it is I dropped one account.

I wouldn't be surprised if they opened a another new server, and sure let it be progression. Mayong was a success, why not do it again?

It might even propmt them to do a few server merges.. to free up some servers to make new ones. Mayong isnt a fresh server, it's an old server that was merged last time.. forget the server name, think maybe it the old Combine server.

4 days casual play last time Iceclad was a hotzone (spent so many levels killing cats at the gnomes is why I recall that particular zone) and my rogue was level 40ish with combat and defensive skills at or near cap (aside from backstab since I was soloing and seldom got to use it). I was mostly in gloomingdeep gear too (@40). This was not with a powerleveling-me-babysitter or help outside of potions and the buffs if available (which they werent most of the 25-40 grind in Iceclad since I didn't leave the zone). So in my opinion levelling with adequate skills is not hard, nor time consuming overall.

Casters are more work (i.e., mindless spell spamming in a guild hall) but nothing insurmountable... for a single character its not a big deal to lose a week or two of casual play to get to the late 50s where the spread of the casual playerbase population starts to be noticeable.

The beauty of Mayong (for my friends and I) is we can dabble in alts all we want and not have to do this work to catch up over and over again, nor spend thousands of plat gearing up to make that 1-50 levelling more efficient.