Nope they still take a long time to run.
I’m still waiting for any real proof from blizzard, not your inaccurrate add on.
If you used the addon, you’d know they now take a few minutes to run.
You evidently haven’t used any census addon. 
What a coincidence! So am I. Would you like to provide some?
So you are just lying now, got it.
Yep here you go again.
Newman: How big is a single layer? What’s the end target you’re shooting for, for each server?
Hazzikostas: Each layer is effectively going to be what a healthy server was at launch in 2004 in terms of the number of people it holds.
You will log in, in a layered world, and it’s going to be very, very crowded. People will fan out, and you will be teeming with players all over the place, and those who get a head start and make it into the Barrens or make it into Westfall initially will have a little bit of breathing room. But it’s going to feel very populous.
We’re looking to preserve the traditional experience. I think you can view it as effectively, just us running multiple classic launch servers, 2006-era, in parallel, with the intent of collapsing them down into a single one over the course of a few weeks.
Says the person claiming to use an addon they evidently never used.
Where is the proof? You just linked the same pre-release comment you did last time.
Do you have any proof of your assertion that population caps are now at vanilla levels?
Just tried it on incendius, 5 minutes in and it wasn’t even through 2 classes worth of 60’s. So no it doesn’t run in just a few minutes.
Yep because that is the last official comment that I can find about the end size of classic realms, that they’re roughly the size of vanilla realms.
I’ve asked you for proof they were increased but you have so far been unable to provide anything from blizzard.
I’ve done it on herod. It churned through thousands of characters in a few minutes.
Maybe you should actually make a classic character, install the addon and try it yourself.
The comment is a statement of intent. It doesn’t say that they’ve done what they’ve planned or promised. In fact, we know for sure that they haven’t followed their intended plans.
I’ve asked you for proof the population caps are at vanilla levels, but you have so far been unable to provide anything from blizzard.
/shrug Just did, maybe if you’d tried it recently you’d know blizzard capped the /who API and it can’t churn through things nearly as fast.
And that’s fine as soon as you provide any proof from blizzard they didn’t follow through on that I’ll be happy to see it.
It can go through things just as fast as it could before. It’s just not automated in the same way.
If you used the addon, you’d know this.
Well I’m glad you’ve recognized that your quote wasn’t proof.
Don’t worry. I’m not holding my breath waiting for you to believe the data.
So you don’t know because you haven’t use the addon recently.
Actually it is proof, each layer is the size of a vanilla realm, we now have one layer per classic realm. Hence classic realms are the same size as vanilla realms.
But sure as soon as you can provide proof otherwise great.
Or I do know because I HAVE used the addon throughout it’s life, and I know exactly what blizzard changed to “break” it.
Sorry, where was this proof again? I must have missed it.
Then I’m sure you can explain how to get it to run in a minute or two.
I know I’ll post it again since you have trouble reading.
Newman: How big is a single layer? What’s the end target you’re shooting for, for each server?
Hazzikostas: Each layer is effectively going to be what a healthy server was at launch in 2004 in terms of the number of people it holds.
You will log in, in a layered world, and it’s going to be very, very crowded. People will fan out, and you will be teeming with players all over the place, and those who get a head start and make it into the Barrens or make it into Westfall initially will have a little bit of breathing room. But it’s going to feel very populous.
We’re looking to preserve the traditional experience. I think you can view it as effectively, just us running multiple classic launch servers, 2006-era, in parallel, with the intent of collapsing them down into a single one over the course of a few weeks.
You should start by downloading it and logging into a classic server.
So where in this post does it say that they’ve already reduced the population cap?
There’s one lay per server now because they removed layers. Not because there are similar populations to what there was back in Vanilla.
The full and really populated servers right now are massively overpopulated compared to Vanilla and the world/consumable design at that time was for that population.
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Honestly, I wouldn’t bother. This guy won’t even believe data from blizzard’s own API.
So you can’t because you don’t know how
Just tried it again, 7 minutes and it was only through 1 and a half race’s worth of 60’s. So you few minutes is really more like 25-30 minutes of spamming.
Where does it say they reduced any population caps? They reduced the number of layers, exactly as decribed.
I believe their API, the way your addon collects is however not accurate.
With literally everyone buying runs, where you can make 40g in minutes carrying someone through Mara, prices very possibly might jump up a lot because it’s just THAT easy to cycle money around through players.
Wow… I didn’t think you’d get confused during the character creation process.
Do you know what addons are?
Nowhere that I can see… which makes sense, since the population caps are still bigger than vanilla servers.
All I see is a statement of intent, much like their statements of intent about when phases would release and what would be available in those phases.
So… do you actually have proof, or are you relying on the vague statements made by blizzard before classic was released… while ignoring the data in front of you.
Evidently not, since you’ve rejected the data provided by that API.
They just need to make it a random spawn on any high level herb node, the way they did in TBC with Fel Lotus. Would end the spawn camping, lower prices, and completely screw over the gold farmers and hoarding opportunists. I’m cool with all that. #changethis
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Its not really a shortage on black lotus except on the mega-pop servers.
Its a matter of people hording them.
Any decently populated server should have picked around 16,000 black lotus since launch.
This is enough to sustain 32 hardcore raid guilds
32 raid guilds = 1600 pop.
Therefor the ideal server pop is around 6000.