So.. What happened on 2019 server ?

[playornot]

I started with everyone else, but due to work shift changes, AO was put on hold, I was at the lvl 75 cap.
I started playing again just after B-day celebrations lvl 200 cap
And it's dead, I mean seriously it was packed, like massive orgs loads of players, now it's like a ghost town, almost matches the other broke server....

[WAusJackBauer]

It's not a ghost town, a lot of people are in Shadowlands and you also may have logged in during a bad time zone.

[playornot]

Nah, I was there and I have been traveling around SL, it is nothing like it was, I knew at least 30 people in diff orgs, none of them play anymore.

Been working from home for 2-3 weeks, and both Euro and US time ( which get real empty ).
and even with people in SL, its dead comparing it to when I was lvl 75, only Big orgs are 2 main clan and Punk.

No one does HI, Beast, Anything Pande, Mercs, even other old school raids.

When you say alot what does that mean 200-300 that's not a lot, when i left there was all ways 70+ lft and loads just chillin, every instance was packed, Now you have to use Tardenet to lft...

Just disappointed how it has gotten so empty, and it feels like I'm playing on the other server RK5...

[WAusJackBauer]

Originally posted by playornot:

Nah, I was there and I have been traveling around SL, it is nothing like it was, I knew at least 30 people in diff orgs, none of them play anymore.

Been working from home for 2-3 weeks, and both Euro and US time ( which get real empty ).
and even with people in SL, its dead comparing it to when I was lvl 75, only Big orgs are 2 main clan and Punk.

No one does HI, Beast, Anything Pande, Mercs, even other old school raids.

When you say alot what does that mean 200-300 that's not a lot, when i left there was all ways 70+ lft and loads just chillin, every instance was packed, Now you have to use Tardenet to lft...

Just disappointed how it has gotten so empty, and it feels like I'm playing on the other server RK5...

Yeah I guess you're right, the population is not what it was when the server came out. It was amazing before.

These days there's more people in the 150ish range than end game, although end game people are doing Beast, Pande and Mercs. There's already 3 or 4 Burden of Competence.

[Severian]

The achievers rush to the level caps, most people get left behind and so spread out in level there's no one left to play with. This game desperately needs for any levels to team together. There's too many levels and too few players...The first few weeks was great fun-raid groups of 30 going into the temple...Nothing against multiboxers but they can level up at an exponential rate to the solo player-saw alot of that once the cap went >100. I took a week or so off around the crypt of home level cap and was only able to get in a team there once after. Hardly anyone < 100 on LFT. All my characters are under equipped with low prospects of keeping ahead of the curve. Hard to conjure up the motivation to play even though i love the game. : (

[NovaRainns]

Damn, that's disappointing. Almost re-subbed. I was looking forward to some old school teams and raids.
Are there decent populations on any of the servers? When I left there was just 1 server (RK1 and RK2 were merged).

[Greyn]

RK19 is great, LFT takes up the entire window on the weekends. I was in a Nascense static with a group last night even.

People who say there is nobody playing don’t know what they’re talking about because they don’t actually play on the server.

[Jello]

Is what people saying above the honest to god truth regarding the new server? I am a big veteran of AO and have played pretty much since release I have multiple maxed out characters even from all my time playing. I would come back over the years and find a drastic drop in population. Hell I remember when legacy of the xan was released there was already a very significant dwindling population. Then about a few years after that it became so bad that multiboxing was needed just to do things like raids. This is because the pop was just so gone. Then I came back during a free week and it was just empty recently. I remember the golden days of running through borealis and not having an issue getting a buff to equip high symbiants, etc. The only buff that was ever troublesome was the occasional trader buff needed for weapon twinking. Can't even do that for the past half decade at the very least anymore.

Im only asking this because it interests me greatly. If the new server really is doing that great. At the moment I have a very hard time believing it when people say LFT takes up the entire window.

[playornot]

SO I will agree, the Server does get super busy at the weekends, But US times can get pretty empty.
I've been playing both Euro and US times and Euro times are by far the best to play, and yes weekends get even busier.
At this time, US central time there is 12 people lft, some floating around some afk.


For a non bias opinion When i left at lvl 75 cap it was busy as heck, a lot of zones, granted no SL
But I can whizz through zones now on my 172 agent, and most things I see done or Multibox instances like Alaapa or albatraum, or some quick Doja 's in the same instance.
For me it's not the same and playing US times it does get boring, plenty of SL quests to do for xp and rk stuff, but I will say without lying, I started with an org 30+ people when the server opened, only 3 play now the rest quit or left, or returned to RK5.
I play month to month, I will probably hang in there till AI is released, but it gets boring fast some days.
No Open raid bot, apart from tradenet with Tichu, if it;s not sold loot or org raided, which it seems Punk is the biggest, ( granted x10 MB, players helps atleast, helps alot ).

It feels like RK 5 :(

[playornot]

Originally posted by Sonic Titan:

RK19 is great, LFT takes up the entire window on the weekends. I was in a Nascense static with a group last night even.

People who say there is nobody playing don’t know what they’re talking about because they don’t actually play on the server.

I'd say your either a fanboy company shill or Full of S*** log in right now it's not busy at all. i'm logged in right now and ive never seen the LFT window go above 30 max EVER!!.

LFT at this very moment as i stand outside FT in ICC, 10 lvl 154-202.
I'm in probably the second biggest onmi org, 16 people online 2-3 of which are MB..
Hell clan barley turns up for Tara these days, I think people just don't G.A.S anymore.

I do play the server and all zones often granted not everyone is LFT mainly because a lot of org's close off to new players or none org players or do not open raid.

@Jello RK5 is just ruined, bugs exploits never got fixed, still active, if you want to go from 1-220 in like a week that's the server, and gmi is just a horrid example of FC's inability to solve server problems that ruined the game.

[Jello]

So it is dead then. What a shame. Great game (at least until the so called nano rework patch anyways)

[playornot]

Originally posted by Jello:

So it is dead then. What a shame. Great game (at least until the so called nano rework patch anyways)

At the moment I have stopped playing, ( give or take maybe an hour tops ) The lag and the lag spikes (rubber banding) are just getting to annoying, it happens so random but it's there.

Not sure if this is related to some other project they have devouring the network bandwidth, all I can think of is the Dune project. or they just have issues, been talked about on the forums for few months.
Logged in today can't use my fc point or get rewards, those features broke atm......

[NIIN]

It is sad when a game or server fades away. I wish this game was new again with many people playing. I miss this game even though I never got really really high in level and mostly RP'd in it. Maybe someday they will remake it?

The release of Cyberpunk game is soon. Maybe that will increase interest in sci fi futuristic games.

[playornot]

Originally posted by NiN:

It is sad when a game or server fades away. I wish this game was new again with many people playing. I miss this game even though I never got really really high in level and mostly RP'd in it. Maybe someday they will remake it?

The release of Cyberpunk game is soon. Maybe that will increase interest in sci fi futuristic games.

indeed already pre ordered mine, and CD projekt red are on point with there games.
and for some odd reason funcom is still going with the open world survival with dune... they have had minor success with there other games mainly conan, but that market is very saturated at the moment.

I never understood why they never re-invented AO, I mean if your just going to a cash grab, easily turning it into a mulit or couch coop would have been easily hell even single player with MP content enhanced or overhaul the engine. Just those alone would bring back hardcore peeps and flow some interest in some young peeps.

But all we got was water down half baked ideas that never hit the same mark as AO did in it's time. Granted AO is very old but.. Nintendo took mario to many devices and many many games just by simple reinventing.

I was just disappointed the way the ruined the 2019 server when it had massive potential just for pure short term greed, I see both servers closing at the end of the 2019 trial period as those resources can go else where, lol not that there is alot there.

[Plush]

SL and everything after killed the original game. The changes in gameplay mechanics forces you to keep playing in SL and not go back to RK. RK is so big and when you split the population literally RK 1 | 4 SL you get a dead pop server. That's what's happening. They should remake the game from the ground up (it would do amazing on the market) and keep out SL/AI gameplay changes, expand RK

[playornot]

Originally posted by Plush:

SL and everything after killed the original game. The changes in gameplay mechanics forces you to keep playing in SL and not go back to RK. RK is so big and when you split the population literally RK 1 | 4 SL you get a dead pop server. That's what's happening. They should remake the game from the ground up (it would do amazing on the market) and keep out SL/AI gameplay changes, expand RK

Indeed, and it wouldn't take much to "touch it up", I was so hyped for 2019, but Funcom still lives in the grind fest days, and people just don't do that any more, the interest level of kids is so low, fast, shinny, quick and bling. Why most of Funcom idea's are great, but pis poor execution and future proofing the game to adapt to how people play, shame tbh, ive stopped playing again, but this will be a long one due to covid and tbh better games being released with no monthly fee's, that hold my interest a lot more.