Super low population?

[Alex113]

So far Ive been kinda disappointed with the pop...
I registered a couple of weeks ago and Merridian was relatively busy, however since they removed the shard from the recommended list it seems to have stopped low level growth a little bit.
They need to seriously pump up the pop on this shard somehow because otherwise, even tho i have another 80 days subscription, I won't be renewing.
I'll proly stick to 30s and PVP-warfronts without leveling up any more since there seems to be a severe lack of players to do those mid 30s-low 40s areas.

And dont even get me started on the rift/daily evens (appart from the ones in the first 2 areas of the game). They always fail before you even know it since they are simply too hard for individuals and a couple of (if youre lucky that is) opportunistic parties to deal with. It just removes all the fun of having to go through this game the first month that you have the game, and this is reason for the average user not continue with Rift.

[N1XY]

I have been playing for over a week and have seen 11 other players. The majority of them are in my guild.
Maidenfalls is not really an MMORPG server, it's just a MORPG... sometimes it feels like an RPG.

It also feels like quest areas are designed for lots more people (does mob population scale?), I have to cut through sways of trash just to complete a basic "kill x of x" quest.

Needless to say, the community Maidenfalls has is ace - even if it's only small.

[bue]

I have been playing for over a week and have seen 11 other players. The majority of them are in my guild.
Maidenfalls is not really an MMORPG server, it's just a MORPG... sometimes it feels like an RPG.

It also feels like quest areas are designed for lots more people (does mob population scale?), I have to cut through sways of trash just to complete a basic "kill x of x" quest.

Needless to say, the community Maidenfalls has is ace - even if it's only small.

Been playing for over a month now it was hard but the community is what keeping me in this shard but in the last few weeks many left for other populated shard so my friend list is gray most of the time it is hard to find a group to do dungeons or to finish some quest and if there is an event in the area of your quest just move to another. Though noticed an increase in the guardian's population in this shard and defiant keep dwindling.
I hope there will be an option to move from this shard I hate to start over in another one !

What make me wonder is that in the peak time there is a medium population in this shard but most are in the capital standing around !?

[N1XY]

Been playing for over a month now it was hard but the community is what keeping me in this shard but in the last few weeks many left for other populated shard so my friend list is gray most of the time it is hard to find a group to do dungeons or to finish some quest and if there is an event in the area of your quest just move to another. Though noticed an increase in the guardian's population in this shard and defiant keep dwindling.
I hope there will be an option to move from this shard I hate to start over in another one !

What make me wonder is that in the peak time there is a medium population in this shard but most are in the capital standing around !?

I don't think we will get the option to move because then the server would become entirely dead while also causing the already over populated servers to get REALLY over populated.

I see high pop servers being able to transfer to a set of low pop servers.

[Alex113]

I don't think we will get the option to move because then the server would become entirely dead while also causing the already over populated servers to get REALLY over populated.

I see high pop servers being able to transfer to a set of low pop servers.

Fair point, but do you see them as capable of undermining their only 2(in EU) good servers?
Being part of one of the bottom 2 I'd have to say not likely. There should probably be 1 less server if anything.

[N1XY]

Fair point, but do you see them as capable of undermining their only 2(in EU) good servers?
Being part of one of the bottom 2 I'd have to say not likely. There should probably be 1 less server if anything.

Agreed.

In my opinion they need to merge:

Heatherfield
Imperium
Maidenfalls
Mordant

All of us have topics complaining about population, surely merging them would solve everyone's problem?
Or at least merge two & two if not all four together.

Yesterday we had an invasion in Gloamwood, we simply didn't have enough people online to even come close to winning.
This low population business is starting to ruin one of the MAIN selling points of this game... Invasions & RIFTs...

[bue]

Agreed.

In my opinion they need to merge:

Heatherfield
Imperium
Maidenfalls
Mordant

All of us have topics complaining about population, surely merging them would solve everyone's problem?
Or at least merge two & two if not all four together.

Yesterday we had an invasion in Gloamwood, we simply didn't have enough people online to even come close to winning.
This low population business is starting to ruin one of the MAIN selling points of this game... Invasions & RIFTs...

If they do merge these shard as you said it will solve the problem .they started with too many shard in the time were few was more than enough and now TRION will not merge fearing that this action may be seen as a dead game sign but if the situation continues like this the game will be dead any way.
There is an event in shimmersand going on for days now and nobody can go near that area , the funny thing is (this event is way beyond the population of this shard !?)

[Alex113]

Agreed.

In my opinion they need to merge:

Heatherfield
Imperium
Maidenfalls
Mordant

All of us have topics complaining about population, surely merging them would solve everyone's problem?
Or at least merge two & two if not all four together.

Yesterday we had an invasion in Gloamwood, we simply didn't have enough people online to even come close to winning.
This low population business is starting to ruin one of the MAIN selling points of this game... Invasions & RIFTs...

Yeah, its actually the same in stonefield, and defiants are actually supposed to be the "high" populated ones. It's both lack of interest for those evens and low pop not getting the businesses done. Also the fact that events dont seem to offer anything to lvl50s if a factor (all they do is sit around wait for warfronts -favor to get gear, im almost there (50) btw) maybe they should offer some completion bonus to them like favor or an alternative that will benefit them in the same way favor would for that same amount of time spent doing the event.

The population actually seems to improve (tho nowhere near as much as it did 2-3 weeks ago when the shard was listed as recommended), tho that isn't exactly hard, how low can it stay really?