XP - Population downfall again

[Ghostwalker]

you have an x4 weekend

I'd love to keep x2 XP and x1 renown forever, no x4 ever thats far too much xD

No thanks, we don't need even more weak players with low gear.

Please don't troll this thread as well Sulorie, I know you're desperate to hit 5k post but PLEASE chill ;D

[wargrimnir]

I was in the game about two weeks before the March of Madness event. The population is much higher now than it was when I started. Today there were 200-300 people in three different RvR areas. Population is not declining due to no double XP, from what I’ve seen. I do not know if you saw, this Sunday’s IC siege had so many people the servers crashed.

madness weekend peaked 3.5k+ I was there too, this xp weekend peaked 3.5k+ aswell...

Now it peaks 2.1k

That is huge decrease.

Player count :
2019/3500Up since:
2020-03-29 22:18:25

How about you quit whining on the forums and actually play the game?

Population hit 4000 this weekend.

[Ghostwalker]

I was in the game about two weeks before the March of Madness event. The population is much higher now than it was when I started. Today there were 200-300 people in three different RvR areas. Population is not declining due to no double XP, from what I’ve seen. I do not know if you saw, this Sunday’s IC siege had so many people the servers crashed.

madness weekend peaked 3.5k+ I was there too, this xp weekend peaked 3.5k+ aswell...

Now it peaks 2.1k

That is huge decrease.

Player count :
2019/3500Up since:
2020-03-29 22:18:25

How about you quit whining on the forums and actually play the game?

Population hit 4000 this weekend.

WHO is whining? Im asking constructively what people think.

I do play but jst busy working atm.

Population hit 4k because XP was turned to x2, thats a fact.

[Ruscour]

You can expect the population to draw down in general as people who were only curious about the game move on to other things. It is the nature of the beast.

No no dude, there have been multiple different XP events recently and they have both shown that population increases to 3.5k+ when XP bonus is active, when its gone the population doesn't return to 3.5k but hovers around 2k

This was my point.

You're missing the point, the population isn't spiking because 2x is the magic sweetspot perfect value, it's spiking because it's a double XP event - if the base XP rate doubles it's not going to magically keep those player numbers

[Duukar]

The answer is very simple.. Double XP and Renown up to level 39/39..

Making alts becomes fun again and there is no damage done with ranks coming too quickly at lvl 40..

a Win/Win!

[mako482]

If x2 is the standard then it's not special, you have an x4 weekend and the population will temporarily surge then go back to normal.

I really don't think the progression of the game is too slow, the thing that makes WAR cool is that you can get to the fun stuff straight away (i.e. SCs and RvR), which means there isn't anywhere near as much of a rush to max as there is in other MMOs.

Do you though? Because now here I am sitting in an empty zone running supplies for fun because there are no Order and there are no scenario pops in T1 tonight. There is no fun stuff because one side running supplies is not my idea of RvR.

[Ghostwalker]

You can expect the population to draw down in general as people who were only curious about the game move on to other things. It is the nature of the beast.

No no dude, there have been multiple different XP events recently and they have both shown that population increases to 3.5k+ when XP bonus is active, when its gone the population doesn't return to 3.5k but hovers around 2k

This was my point.

You're missing the point, the population isn't spiking because 2x is the magic sweetspot perfect value, it's spiking because it's a double XP event - if the base XP rate doubles it's not going to magically keep those player numbers

You have just confirmed what I am saying as fact, your comment 'it's spiking because it's a double XP event' .... EXACTLY.. because there is 2x XP people love it and play more when that 2x xp event is gone.. they also go too..