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Originally Posted by konidias
In theory...
But if you slap up 4-5 classic style worlds, they will get maybe 10 players on average tops. Different servers ARE needed. You can't just make a classic world with "awesome" levels and nothing new to offer, and expect it to get 70 players on average. The current classic servers have high playercounts because they've built a community. When most people log on and look at the classic list, they go to one of the servers with the most players. That's really all there is to it.
I mentioned to Stefan a long time ago that he should set up something like either he makes it so the playerworld list is randomly shuffled, not sorted by number of players... or that he makes some sort of "graal world map" that displays all of the servers on the map as icons, all on the screen at once. Then you just click on the icon to join. It wouldn't show the playercount unless maybe when you mouse over it or something.
Basically the only way you're going to pull players away from the high playercount servers is to either make a new playerworld with lots of interesting stuff, or make it so it doesn't sort the high playercount servers to the top of the list.
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And I realize all of that, it's only that if you jump from hosted world to hosted world, you'll see that the minority happen to be the true "classic" worlds. Things have seem to swung more towards guns and level-up servers, in which less than a half-dozen playerworlds of that kind have touched the Classic list. Unholy Nation, Era, and Maloria have built a strong community, and I can understand that... well, less in UN's case, because Maloria is a level-up server and Era is a gun server. They are servers with an in-game economy. If we have 3, maybe even 2, or more playerworlds of that style, the playercount will be split and they'll ultimately lose their economy-style play and population altogether. Graal is meant to be simple, not saying that servers like Maloria and Era aren't welcome, but we shouldn't look for or create a bundle of them.
The only server that has been completely consistant in it's playercount is Unholy Nation. Maloria and Era have at time sagged behind, so it's very possible that another server could pop up and take over, classic, gun, or level-up, whatever it may be.
Though I really hope it's classic...