Vanilla's world most populated server

[freetime]

I say this gingerly, but with great importance. I've been playing here for a while and love the server, but this is a very obvious problem.

Just because the hardware can support 7k players, doesn't mean the game can. There are just too many people in zones. Running around camps waiting for mobs to pop is not how the game was designed to be played. Vanilla WoW was about running through a zone and seeing mobs populating the area making it feel alive.

As Nostalrius is now, the zones are stuffed full of players running around instantly tagging mobs as they spawn as they struggle to complete kill or collection quests. It is aggravating and often leads players to log off. It also appears that as population ramps up the server shrinks the mob update information around your player, which means you can't see mobs farther than a dozen yards or so in front of you. This is how the hardware accommodates so many people so it's a double edged sword. More people can play, but you see less of the game around you.

Nostalrius is a victim of its own popularity. Its AWESOME that we have so many people interested in playing here. But prime time is almost unplayable in many zones. We don't need more respawns. We don't need better hardware. What we do need is people spread out more. The vanilla game world just wasn't designed to accommodate 7k+ people.

I'm hanging in and still playing because I really love this server so far, but I am definitely restricting my play time to the non prime time hours of 2am server until about 8am server time.
I'm really hoping that the devs come up with a solution to this problem (yes, I do believe that another server is the answer, not faster dynamic respawns) and that it becomes more like the vanilla experience I remember.

[tuck3r]

If you dont like the population there are plenty of servers with very low population out there.
Its annoying seeing a select few people complain about population, when the reason most of us play on this server is because of the population.

[freetime]

If you dont like the population there are plenty of servers with very low population out there.
Its annoying seeing a select few people complain about population, when the reason most of us play on this server is because of the population.

I'm not being argumentative, but what advantage do you like about the super high population? Surely you understand that at some point, its too many players and it turns into a giant chat room.

[Arise]

If you dont like the population there are plenty of servers with very low population out there.
Its annoying seeing a select few people complain about population, when the reason most of us play on this server is because of the population.

I'm not being argumentative, but what advantage do you like about the super high population?

Lots of battlegrounds and instance runs.

[tuck3r]

If you dont like the population there are plenty of servers with very low population out there.
Its annoying seeing a select few people complain about population, when the reason most of us play on this server is because of the population.

I'm not being argumentative, but what advantage do you like about the super high population? Surely you understand that at some point, its too many players and it turns into a giant chat room.

The world being very alive 24/7 and constant wpvp.
Also super easy to find groups if you need to.

[Volo]

start was fun when there were thousands of level1 orc and trolls waiting for that boar to repop in durotar.

[Babuzze]

maybe different channels are the answer ?

[Juflex]

The problem for the crowded areas is until lvl 20, after this level if you go to another area is pretty normal with less players there.
I have seen areas as Arathi Highlands or Thousand Needles where you can find all the mobs that you want.

Areas like Durotar, The barrens or Brill is crowded with players, but not higher areas.

[DeeMarie]

Needles was ok, but Arathi had about twenty people running around after ogres. In a way it was good as it forced people to group up, say hi and thanks.

But I'll echo what's been said about the draw distance. I'm falling over mobs before I've even seen them and the casting lag is making my click finger ache.

The devs might need to consider what will happen if the pop increases yet again, whether it's a second server or more hardware.

[ritjos71]

Maybe I was just lucky but while I was leveling I didn't have that many issues finding my mobs for a quest etc. STV had some moments where grabbing the a tiger or panther was frustrating, but I think that's because of the log jam caused by all the pvp/ganking.