Can we talk about population caps?

One of the biggest changes to gameplay was implemented with the launch of Classic:

This inflated population has single handily impacted the game in a way never seen back in 04-06.

So why didn’t we change a few core features of the game to support this? Guards on boats, Gryphons attacking those who camp people landing at an FP etc.

Yes rerolling as the dominant faction on a PvP server will fix this issue, as one can have their PvE experience whilst being on the winning side of a 5:1 ratio. However I’m hopeful that the release of BGs fix the issue.

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chanting noises

#nochanges

Nobody listens to that group anymore. Theyve already shown theyll continue playing whether there are changes or not.

No Changes.

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Whoever they are listening to I hope its the people who are speaking with reason.

That only applies to layered realms. Of course a realm with multiple layers will have a higher population than a realm from 04-06

The #nochanges crowd needs to realize that nochanges was dead on arrival. Massive servers have changed the economy, WPvP, world bosses, etc. there are just too many people per server.

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To accommodate people who rolled on PVP servers but want PVE features?

#SayNoToWarmode

Layers don’t change the population of a realm.

For example, say a realm has a population of 10000 players. If there are two layers then there are 5000 players split between each layer. If there’s 0 layers then there’s 10000 on the same layer.

Irrespective of how many layers a realm has, the population stays the same. It’s just divided by the amount of layers presented.

Who are you quoting? It’s probably a player, not Blizzard. I think this is false. Blizzard stated that “each layer” would have a cap the size of the 2006 realm cap. I have seen nothing to disprove that. So as a player you never saw more players than that.

Most of the 35 realms never had more than 4 layers, and shrank down to 1 layer within the first 8 weeks. So most realms have no more than the 2006 “full” cap now that Honor is live (week 13).

When layers disappeared, a few realms got queues again. Any realm with a queue is limited to the 2006 max number of players. That is the whole purpose of a queue.

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