Game Population

[Medicine Man]

I was wondering if anyone has a rough estimate on how many players a server will be able to hold. I'm just worried there will be a lot of open areas. From what I have seen most the fighting will be around the bases while the other areas will be used to seperate the fights and the spawn points. I hope server populations will be large enough to support conflicts on most of the continents at an given time. I really wanna fight people not just take over bases defended by automatic sentries.

[�io]

I haven't seen any numbers yet, many people talk about 1000s per server, dunno about that but surely a few hundred at the very least will be avaible.

As for combat i'm guessing most of it will indeed be around bases but they will probably be a fair share out on the field as well.

[afex]

you won't see many people fighting just to fight. (in the open)

its all about taking the bases. thats what gives you benefits, thats what gives you more CEP/BEP.

but....

what happens if two forces are moving to take a base and happen upon each other on the way there?

*duhn duhn duhhhhhhhnnnnnn*

SHOWDOWN!

[Hamma]

Yea I suspect there will be fighting outside bases - like near highly traveled warp gates and such.

But most will be around bases - since as afex said thats what the game is about.

As for how many peeps on a server - it wil be at least 1000 and probably higher. No solid numbers floating around yet however.

[Camping Carl]

I have heard everywhere from 3500 to 5000. I suspect tho, that the devs have not yet decided, simply because they need to see how well the server handles large numbers of people. But that's what general open beta is for, letting everybody who applied for beta in to stress-test the server.

[Molgar]

You could compare to games like Dark age of Camelot, Ultima Online, Anarchy online... (the list goes on) beacuse they are all mmorpgs with many players roaming the server at the same time, like PS will be. And when the new PvP-server for DAoC launched there were about 3500 people on the first day, a bit laggy from time to time but still very playable. So I guess about 3000 people on the PS servers. Just a wild guess though...

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Which US server do you think will be the most populated?

[Hamma]

If i was to venture a guess I would say East Coast.

Dunno tho ;p

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Yeah I was thinking east as well. I'm west so I'd like to see more people there but if that's the case I'll just play on east if there is a big number difference. :D

[�io]

Eastern coast of NA usually is the biggest population of pretty much anything. From Florida all the way to good old Quebec while stopping off in NY we just rock. :D

[Medicine Man]

I just wish someone could figure out a way to make all the online players be on one server network. Like one server per continent and try and get a really large number of players online in the same world at the same time. Now that would be truly impressive.

[�io]

Well eventually we will indeed all play on one server but that will take some time. I anxiously await the day where fiber optics is a slow connection. :p

[powdahound]

I'm still on 56k. :p