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Thats been discussed on the Eq2 forums, but the conclusion was that it didnt happen.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
The switch between ligh and medium is somewhere between 450 and 750 players. The switch between medium and heavy is between 750 and 1.8k. Full is believed to be 2.5k. Before the movelogs and offline selling, there was more then 5k players online at some servers. The clusters where designed to take 2.5k, but some time after launch a dev said they performed better then expected.
im extremely happy with the paladin, especially after the combat revamp.
i was level 50 before the combat revamp so i cant give you a for-sure about lower levels, but i know after level 50 at the least we are extremely good tanks. better than we used to be, and most deffinitely able to be MT for any group.
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Ummm... I find this very difficult to swallow. I know for a fact that EQ1 servers handled upwards of 4,000 players on at once. I find it hard to believe that the devs thought EQ2 would handle FEWER players per server than the ancient engine that was EQ1.
I'd need to see some links to buy this post.
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Can't be true. The night I took the population on AB, there were 1081 players and the server was on "light".
BZZT. Incorrect.
That's because not all of those people were real. See, the devs, in an attempt to keep the players from realizing there were only 15 people left playing the game, created a race of not so intelligent bots to play the game, and also to post on the forums. That's why you saw 1k people in your search, but the server was listed as light, because at most, only 15 of them were real people.
Maybe they set AB to light just so noone create more alts on it
Conspiracy rocks 
Blah you naive fools! I'm the only one left playing EQ2! I have 550 thousand active accounts, but they are all mindless bots I bought from ebay to farm gold in Lineage! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
If you'll excuse me, I have to get to my 9th job. Them accounts are spensive.
Lmao, I loved this part of the post. The truth must hurt so much, well you know how kiddies are these days.
Lmao, I loved this part of the post. The truth must hurt so much, well you know how kiddies are these days.
EQ2 is only the 3rd highest north american subscribership!!!!11!!11ONEONE1 Not as many as WoW It must suukkxxorrs!!1!1!
Blatant lie. If 1500 players show the server as "full" then i fail to see how 1081 players show it as light.
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The reason i say its 1500 is because altough AB has heavy load most night, it never seems to exceed 1500 players.
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The reason i say its 1500 is because altough AB has heavy load most night, it never seems to exceed 1500 players.
Please post your proof of this Pirrg. And don't say that you only see 100 people on in a given class. That's the hard-cap you can't see more than 100 players in ANY search. If you see '100' that means there are too many for the search to return all of them.
You are full of crap and you know it.
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The reason i say its 1500 is because altough AB has heavy load most night, it never seems to exceed 1500 players.
Please post your proof of this Pirrg. And don't say that you only see 100 people on in a given class. That's the hard-cap you can't see more than 100 players in ANY search. If you see '100' that means there are too many for the search to return all of them.
You are full of crap and you know it.
Seems you are in a trollish mood today elnator. The proof you can find yourself by searching for every 1-2 levels then taking notes, if you dare that is. I warn you though, it might shatter your rose tinted glasses and quite possibly break your fragile little heart in the process.
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Ok here it is. More screens of the usual medium and heavy server loads. Taken at 7pm pacific, 10pm eastern. That's prime time pretty much for north america. Also checked the population for Antonia Bayle at heavy. First for the populations!
AB server population 7pm pac., October 25th
levels Number levels Number
1-5 47 36-37 68
6-7 69 38-40 90
8-10 92 41-43 93
11-13 85 44-46 96
14-16 84 47-49 63
17-19 85 50 65
20-21 76 51 54
22-24 95 52 79
25-26 95 53 70
27-28 73 54 64
29-30 67 55-56 62
31-32 70 57-59 53
33-35 81 60 68
So by my calculations, correct me if I'm wrong, that is 1934 people playing on Antonia Bayle. So about 2000 players at full. I love the smell of being right in the morning....smells like...victory.
Here's the screenshots of the server loads just for fun.
You call a mere 2000 players during prime time and heavy load a... victory? Most interesting.
Edit: One detail i find highly amusing is the fact that we were both off with about 500 players in both directions.
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Yup
It also doesn't take into account the number of players running anonymous or in /roleplay because a /who level won't show anyone who's in /roleplay mode because it won't display or retrieve them based on level. Considering that AB is a roleplay server and well over half the population is using /role (remember folks, I play there, as does Anarchy and several other folks who can attest to this) that means that it's probably more like 3800 (and likely somewhere in the 4500 range) people online when Anarchy did this search.
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We were both off by about 500 players anarchyart, i think we can leave it at that shall we? I have a feeling discussions like these are frowned upon.
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Heres an interesting article i came across:
http://www.mmogchart.com/Analysis.html
It deals with mmorpg subscriptions and their growth or decline. Pretty much covers most of the main mmorpgs we know.
If the numbers over att mmogchart are correct, which i believe they are, i somehow doubt eq2 managed to gain 250k subscribers during a 4 month period.
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