by Ivina » Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:43 am
Some people say the upper limit of population in a vanilla retail server was 2500 players. It means it was the population when you needed to wait in a queue before playing. Needless to say that the displayed status was "high" in such a case.
According to that standard, the peak population of Nostalrius, 5100 players, is more that twice the population limit of "high" density servers.
I have to mitigate this with two remarks:
- the vanilla limit of 2500 players is something I've read in a post somewhere on this forum. This is not directly from a reliable source.
- from burning crusade, it is likely the upper limit was increased. Current "high" populated server probably have a limit of 5k or more.