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Anyone else annoyed by crowded planets?

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Anyone else annoyed by crowded planets?

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NSStember
12.17.2012 , 09:12 AM | #41
I can remember a time when starting up on Typhon or Korriban was like "you and five or six others"....good luck trying to do the heroics. I think full populated worlds is a great thing

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Keypek
12.17.2012 , 09:26 AM | #42
While I do wish this game had less clickie things to compete for (see Guild Wars 2 on how to do this the right way) I have not had any really big issues regarding this and have enjoyed leveling a new character since there's actually people there again. Am actually able to do the lower flashpoints and heroics also with people. If there was one area particularly bad I'd move instances and usually is better.
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jason_ralph
12.17.2012 , 09:29 AM | #43
Let's just be frank here; and please forgive me if your name is Frank and you feel like I'm picking on you....


It's a non issue by the time you complete Act 1. The majority of the people leveling do not make it that far, and it becomes a lot easier; as a lot stopped playing to not liking the AC and/or are not subscribers and it has become to difficult to level. This is based on comparing the population that's on Korriban to Hoth. The most I've seen is 22 on Hoth, versus 117 on Korriban.
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Alavastre
12.17.2012 , 09:45 AM | #44
I was kind of annoyed yes. But that was after playing GW2, and there is no problems with clickies. It does seem that they increased the refresh rate, so it's not that big of a problem, 10-20 seconds and it was back.
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_gideon
12.17.2012 , 09:49 AM | #45
After playing on a server in the bottom three for population before the merge I will never complain about overcrowding ever again.

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Ivomec
12.17.2012 , 09:56 AM | #46
First we complained that the worlds were to empty, now are people seriously starting to complain the worlds are to crowded? I don't get it..........

Can some of you people find a happy place and at least enjoy that without complaining?
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Mazikeen
12.17.2012 , 10:01 AM | #47
Quote: Originally Posted by Ivomec View Post
Can some of you people find a happy place and at least enjoy that without complaining?
Generally, no. Some of us can, but the majority cannot. American society is based on 'more, better, faster' and people who are happy with what they have are considered lazy, fanbois or blind. This goes for more than just video games. People are actually encouraged to pick things apart and find ways to improve them, get more with less, etc. The problem is, many people these days also lack basic common sense, courtesy and the education needed to make viable complaints.

Remember when people complained about the phase system and it was blatantly obvious most of them had no idea how the system worked? Yeah, that's one example of what I mean.
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A_nonymous
12.17.2012 , 10:14 AM | #48
Quote: Originally Posted by jason_ralph View Post
Let's just be frank here; and please forgive me if your name is Frank and you feel like I'm picking on you....


It's a non issue by the time you complete Act 1. The majority of the people leveling do not make it that far, and it becomes a lot easier; as a lot stopped playing to not liking the AC and/or are not subscribers and it has become to difficult to level. This is based on comparing the population that's on Korriban to Hoth. The most I've seen is 22 on Hoth, versus 117 on Korriban.
I agree that it's a complete non-issue after chapter 1. I think the major reason for that is the leveling. I've seen people leaving one of the starter planets at level 8 or 9 and this is after doing all the side missions and heroics. That seriously handicaps you going forward and with XP limited on F2P I can only imagine that gets worse as you level. I decided to roll a Jedi just for fun and there were 200 people on Tython. When I switched back to my level 37 trooper on Hoth there were 60 people in instance 1 and like 10-12 in instance 2. And there were no fights about politics and religion in the chat either which was a huge plus.
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Urael
12.17.2012 , 10:16 AM | #49
Quote: Originally Posted by Blarpped View Post
Wow...Okay. Okay.... okay. Let me break down why you man-children will never be pleased with anything in an MMO ever.

At launch there's queues and full servers. Constant whining.
Few months later, there's a lot less people. The whining for merges begins.
Another few months pass. Total whinefest about low population.
F2P launches. People now whine about full planets; not even server queues, but just having full planets is enough to whine about.

The circle is now complete.
You didn't illuminate anything at all. You just ranted about what is known and engaged in the same behavior you decry by ranting. Ironic?

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Urael
12.17.2012 , 10:18 AM | #50
Quote: Originally Posted by Cathest View Post
I kinda enjoyed the low pop experience but gosh now there's like 3 zones on the lower level planets and totally fr00bed up. Just made a new shadow and really hate this "competing for clickies" experience. Would be cool if subbers could get a separate zone.
This can be mitigated by increasing the spawn rate of mobs and objects.