Man its been a long time, decided to give this 14 day free trial a go. How is the population these days.

Ywain is very populated.

 

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don't transfer to Ywain1 or Ywain2, there is a shortage of housing.

And incase you didn't know, the only reason there are 10 different Ywain's is because they each have their own housing regions, and character selection screen, other than that its the same server.

 

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good to know thanks man

I'm curious to what your definition of "very populated" is.


Mine would be a MMORPG with at least 250,000 ACTIVE subs.DAoC may have 1200 active subs and w/e is left are bots.

 

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Perhaps you are confusing 'server population' with 'game population'.


A single DAoC server could not handle 250k subs because more than 25k would be online at peak times, so your argument is fallacious.


A game having a very populated server is totally different from a game having a large subscription base. Just before the first cluster, DAoC had servers that were not very populated yet the game had many tens of thousands more subs than it has today. A very populated game does not mean a very populated server and a low populated game could have a very populated server.


Today, while the game is in decline and does not have a huge subscription base, Ywain itself does have an active enough population to keep many BGs and the Frontier above critical mass and viable. So today Ywain could be considered ‘very populated’ even though the game is not ‘very populated’ when compared to its glory days.


Also, DAoC has about 20k subs of which many more than 1200 are active. Just because a sub does not log in ever hour of every day does not mean it is not active.


Six to seven months ago the graphs showed Ywain with about 3k at peak and almost no decline in the trend of the graph. Chances are, based on the graph trend, the peak population is still well over 2500.


Some subs will be active at off peak times and others active at peak times. A person playing 4 or 5 hrs a day 6 or 7 days a week could be considered active yet they are only playing for 1/6th to 1/5th of the day leaving large parts of the day to be filled with other active subs.

 

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I see vn boards is still the same pissing contest how exciting.

Nope.

Perhaps DAoC's one server has 1200-1300 active players, oh btw I was on DAoC since day 1 so yea I know all about the decline.

Good day.

 

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You shut your mouth around here!


Oh and welcome back

 

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