Population Density

[Borat]

Originally Posted by GB Defiant & Rackham ok, I'm a little suprised that Blackbeard is going. After two years the fact FLS didn't find another way to fill up 4 servers with players (capacity only 2k each) is not good. Not one red name is talking about new servers for Power & Prestige so I would not be surprised if this is just short term-profit making. It's like a tidying up execise that cannot be soon reversed. This needs to be quickly put behind in time for P&P.

Well, your doomsday prophecies sure aren't helping.


The majority of the playerbase seems to support this as a beneficial, or at least neccessary circumstance. Bravo FLS.

[GB.]

Originally Posted by Borat Well, your doomsday prophecies sure aren't helping. The majority of the playerbase seems to support this as a beneficial, or at least neccessary circumstance. Bravo FLS.

doomsday prophecies?
I'm one of the few that predicts long-term growth, this server merging is good for short-term however the only real growth can be achieved when more new servers open.

[Raziel Kaine]

use your logic mate please. 2 moderate nations on bb sure, how many in the light nations??

The isssue is you dont know how close antiguas pops are to registering moderate, they could be just 2 players short on each of having 3 moderate pops or for, u just cant tell by the standard you are using, mean while bb shows 2 mod and 2 light are those lights maybe empty?

They have also gone into the health of eco, length of new players life and how many players have been playing over longer peiods of time. Pop wise remember antigua was the bigest server when invincible was closed and therefore could be close to the same just spread out more evenly then bb who's whole pop are on 2

[GB.]

Originally Posted by Rziel Kaine Pop wise remember antigua was the bigest server when invincible was closed

I'm excited about playing on better populated servers as anyone, however the real fix is staring FLS in the face, the "was" that you talk about & not now is clearly the reason populations have fallen, it's not rocket science.

[brendonoid]

Basing the Server close downs on the health of the various AHs is the smartest thing that FLS has ever done. There are very few things you cannot access on the Antigua AHs thanks to the dedicated and hard work of a lot of Socs that beleive in the open market.

This reason alone is enough to close BB instead of Antigua, IMO.

[GB.]

Originally Posted by brendonoid Basing the Server close downs on the health of the various AHs is the smartest thing that FLS has ever done. There are very few things you cannot access on the Antigua AHs thanks to the dedicated and hard work of a lot of Socs that beleive in the open market. This reason alone is enough to close BB instead of Antigua, IMO.

Actually Bren, I'm not with you on this one.
When you see that the highest populated servers have the weakest economies it is a clear sign that players are generally not eco minded.
BB was an improving server, why cut it off?

[TrevorD1776D]

Originally Posted by Charissela d'Avonle It's not that good of a name. Tediously unoriginal. Hell, just put three 5's after it if it means so much to you.

omg best post ever !!!!!!!!!!

[brendonoid]

Originally Posted by GB Actually Bren, I'm not with you on this one. When you see that the highest populated servers have the weakest economies it is a clear sign that players are generally not eco minded. BB was an improving server, why cut it off?

You sort of made my point? It's much easier to move a PvP oriented player than an Eco focused player.

PvP players aren't really inconvenienced at all, bar having to restart their Soc, whereas an eco player who uses the AH for the good of their server is potentially having to relist hundreds of items in such a move. That's a lot of work.

[GB.]

Originally Posted by brendonoid You sort of made my point? It's much easier to move a PvP oriented player than an Eco focused player. PvP players aren't really inconvenienced at all, bar having to restart their Soc, whereas an eco player who uses the AH for the good of their server is potentially having to relist hundreds of items in such a move. That's a lot of work.

Yes but I question the wisdom of closing BB at all, if FLS don't have the foresight to know that they will soon need at least 3 live servers for P&P then they obviously don't think it's going to be much.
Now if they had said on the POP Density announcement that they wanted only two current servers so that a third new one would be available when P&P is launched that would have made much more sense.

[brendonoid]

Originally Posted by GB Yes but I question the wisdom of closing BB at all, if FLS don't have the foresight to know that they will soon need at least 3 live servers for P&P then they obviously don't think it's going to be much. Now if they had said on the POP Density announcement that they wanted only two current servers so that a third new one would be available when P&P is launched that would have made much more sense.

P&P beta server may take away a lot of the vet populations? This is a possibility.