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LuckyDucky
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I am new at this game. just logged on for the second time today. I am playing in the Camelot area and i seem to be about the only person in the game!
Seriously, I haven't seen but a handful of other players. I hired a horse and rode for along distance without seeing another player along the way. My destination was a keep or a tower that was occupied by npcs only. I left the keep on foot and explored the surrounding country looking for someone, ANYONE but all I found were npcs and mobs.
This game seems awful empty to me. I just came off of playing WoW for 6 months where the game was always well populated. I was walking around the town of Camelot and it felt like I was in a ghost town. Empty streets, taverns, and plazas, populated by lonely npcs. Nothing like walking around Ironforge, which is the only other reference I have.
Is this the way the game generally is? Is there a populated server I could join that would be a little more lively? I don't care what kind of server, PvP, classic, whatever, as long as it has a healthy population so I don't feel like I am playing this MMO all alone
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
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Well, I have to admit, that it sometimes depends on the server (are you EU or US player?) and of course since the release of the Catacombs expansion many people are not leveling in the "old" zones anymore (camelot area is the old newbie zone).
DAoC is a very localized game, so you will only find very few players at unusual times (3 am, for example), Just try the /who all command or /who [level] , to see how many people are currently online in your realm.
If you are US player, then I would recommend playing on the lamorak Server (relativley new, high population).
[quote]Originally posted by LuckyDucky
Is this the way the game generally is? Is there a populated server I could join that would be a little more lively? I don't care what kind of server, PvP, classic, whatever, as long as it has a healthy population so I don't feel like I am playing this MMO all alone[/b][/quote]
1. WoW is a huge populated game. You will not find that type of population on any other US game. You can go play some asian mmorpgs on there servers if you want that many people.
2. 3 am is a bad time to play on US servers
3. When you start it will list the population of the servers. Also you should know that even if it says 3000 people, that is divided over 3 realms. If population is a big deal for you then try the classic servers. Another reason to play the classic servers are that there will be players your level trying to level. You won't find too many people doing that on the regular servers.
Yea, I am a US player. I live on the west coast so it wasn't that late for me when i was logged on. But thanks for the heads up about trying the lamorak Server. I will give that a try next time I play. I have to delete my existing character in order to access the server list, right?
I guess i have to make some adjustments about how many people are going to be online playing. My only previous MMO was WoW so I thought that was the way all MMOs were as far as population is concerned.
< noob.
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
No actually, just use the "no than you" option for character shortcut when you log in (i.e., move the scroll bar off of your character at the screen where you typoe in your password). Gheris is also extremeley active even during the we hours.
I don't want to write this, and you don't want to read it. But now it's too late for both of us.
On the login screen just make sure it says no thank you as already mentioned. then you can select another server.
Oh yea that lamorak server is much better. Even had a player come up to me out of the blue, open their trade window and give me a good magic ax and a magic belt! Of course I said thanks.
The game is not bad. Coming off of WoW it is quite a bit different. It's more of an RPG than WoW, and that might be a good thing. I'll say one thing it has that WoW doesn't ; changing weather. While I was hanging around the starting town it started to rain. It got to raining hard and the air got misty, then it slowly cleared off and dried up. Every MMO should have dynamic weather like that. Very nice touch that is worth the extra development effort IMO.
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
Well if you are playing Albion on Lamorak my guild, Section Nine, are recruiting. Just so /who Section Nine and ask for an invite and say you have spoken to Gustavo. We're a good bunch just out to have fun and knock the crap out of Keeps with huge siege weapons hehe
As for the weather thing, I totally agree, its definately worth the effort. It adds a depth of reality to the game which helps you feel like you are actually there.
I also love the noise of fighting when you approach an area where there are a lot of enemy players. All these little things that you sometimes don't even notice help immerse you in the game atmosphere.
Cheers
Gus
Well.. I'm currently thinking about starting to play DAoC. But I'm EU..
How's the state on EU Servers? : / .. And what server should I take?
hate to tell you but this game is one of those games thats dying. when new mmorpgs come out, most people tend to leave for those because the current one is either bad or people get bored with it.
daoc has almost 8,000 people online right now (worldwide). even if you triple or quadruple that number for peak times (24,000 - 32000) thats not very many people. and spread that across several servers, yeah, the population is thin.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart2.html You're just pulling numbers out of your hat. According to that spread sheet (all of it is accurate as the guy is well known for truth and getting the information he needs) DAoC pulls in about 175,000 or so players so frankly I think you're a liar. DAoC devs have said time and time again that they will continue to support the game.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart2.html You're just pulling numbers out of your hat. According to that spread sheet (all of it is accurate as the guy is well known for truth and getting the information he needs) DAoC pulls in about 175,000 or so players so frankly I think you're a liar. DAoC devs have said time and time again that they will continue to support the game.
i got my info from the camelot herald, not some 3 month old chart that some idiot made on some shitty-ass website that hasn't been updated in months. even if they have 175,000 accounts, that doesn't mean that every single accoutnt is actively playing the game. as the site says, there are close to 8000 people playing it worlwide right now. i highly dount that number jumps a whole lot even at peak times. i'll try to remember to look at the herald tonight and see what the numbers show. of course the devs are going to say they will continue to support the game, if they don't, every one will leave, duh. they can't support a game that doesn't have people playing it either.
i just got done reading another post by someone who currently plays and he says that there are about 2500 people on each cluster during peak hours.
edit: 9:45 pm EST - hey, look at that! DAOC only has 18,088 worldwide on during peak US time. don't get me wrong, DAOC was a good game for the year and a half or so that i played it. i'm just saying the game is dying. not many people play it anymore.
yeah but daoc has been around for along time and fared allot better than most.
when a new game comes out yeah some people got o that one. they said everyone would leave when SWG came out and the same thing when WOW came out.
Wow may have a allot more people but its still more dull.
DAoC has a new expansion coming out in a couple weeks and they are going to add a new server after that. Its sill a changing game. It doesnt have the marketing of Blizzard but its imho its still more fun. I've been playing it for 3 years .. OMG and Im still not bored with it. Cant say that with WoW or SWG or shadobane or sims online etc..
DAOC world wide during peak times can get around 24,000-28,000 players world wide if you are talking about the actual world total. For the US, peak is usually 16,000-18,000. As hard as it is to believe, most of the 175,000 + accounts log into the game once a week.
DAOC total population loss is no more than any other game. All games when WoW came out took a hit of around 25-33%. So say that DAOC is dying is to fail to understand the current mmorpg conditions.
Games canabalize off each other now because most people will only play 1 mmorpg. The more games you have and the fewer new people playing mmorpgs means that games will steal more from each other in terms of population. DAOC has managed to not loose any players to other games in significant numbers until WoW.
Unless there is some big fubar I do not see DAOC going anywhere. Although I worry that they might make a move to change that. For example they are talking about a new server that would basically be the same world, but a different game - new classes, abilities, different combat, etc. If they do that then I think it might kill the game. But that would be a fubar. If they keep the way they are going thent he population should hold steady baring a new huge game. Most likely any new game that would canabalize another will end up taking most of the population from WoW, since new games tend to take from the top games and not those in the middle.
They need to do a server merger IMO.
from what i uderstand they did clustering, where people from like 3 or 4 servers could all play in 1 area but yeah, they could probably have 2 or 3 servers and that would be enough to hold the whole population.
as to the game dying, i'm sorry, but when you can go to camelot and not see 1 person, somehing is wrong. maybe i shouldn't say that the game is dead, maybe it being on life support would be a better analogy? there's no sense in playing a mmo that has very low population. the whole point is to play with other people, not by yourself.
Here is the problem with adding another server type: DAOC is not attracting people fast enough to the game to need another server. So another server type will spread the population out even further among the servers. Since population is an issue, creating a server type that is essentially DAOC 2 will end up doing far more harm to the original game than the new server would add in benefit. Look what happened to both AC and AC2 when AC2 was released.
from what i uderstand they did clustering, where people from like 3 or 4 servers could all play in 1 area but yeah, they could probably have 2 or 3 servers and that would be enough to hold the whole population.
as to the game dying, i'm sorry, but when you can go to camelot and not see 1 person, somehing is wrong. maybe i shouldn't say that the game is dead, maybe it being on life support would be a better analogy? there's no sense in playing a mmo that has very low population. the whole point is to play with other people, not by yourself.
Ashkent-- Im calling BUllshit on this one... you went into camelot and didnt see anyone? What server did you go to and at what time of the day? Theyve clustered servers--so I dont even know how thats possible.
THe classic servers are brimming with people and groups.
From what I can see playing the game on and off for three years...the numbers have gone down SOME but not so much Im ready to go and play a crappier game. I dont know where in the hell you got the idea that there is no one to play with.
Ill be playing daoc until something MUCH better comes out and even then I still might be playing daoc. The games fun, its not going anywhere as its the Flagship of Mythic.
Regarding the population of daoc-- If it was near shadowbane levels Id be worried but its not.
I play on the classic servers and there are people wherever I go. Battlegrounds are packed for every level and Im having a blast. My cable company finally fixed my connection and my 3.5mb is running strong so Ill be living in the bg's.