So Crowded

[Bluecenter]

Is anything being done to address crowded questing areas? Over the last few weeks I've logged out numerous times just because every hunting/questing zone I've gone to is crazy crowded. I'm not just talking about STV/Darkshore/etc, the less popular zones have surged full of players.

Don't get me wrong, I like folks, but try getting 30 car parts in Shimmering Flats when 20+ other people are doing the same thing. :(

[Sinrek]

Nostalrius had about 7-13k ... talk about crowded.

[Nattygwillikers]

yeah, my wife and I are having the same problem. tried to do a quest this morning and everyone was dog piling the mobs as soon as we logged on... so we just logged back off lol. We don't do pvp and have several times rogues stand in front of mobs to get us to flag by accident by clicking them instead of looting. the chill "turtle vibe" is definitely gone with the influx lol

[Jongyi]

yeah, my wife and I are having the same problem. tried to do a quest this morning and everyone was dog piling the mobs as soon as we logged on... so we just logged back off lol. We don't do pvp and have several times rogues stand in front of mobs to get us to flag by accident by clicking them instead of looting. the chill "turtle vibe" is definitely gone with the influx lol

Please don't be. Most of the ppl here are chill and friendly. Of course, there are some arseholes who tried to make ppl's experience as miserable as possible. Gankers and HC headhunters (people who stalk HC characters and kill as soon as they get flagged) are worst kind of ppl in this server. But aside from these occasional arseholes, most of folks here are friendly. Most of the time, we take turns to kill the quest target. Sometimes, we group with another for quest so that we don't have to wait too long for the quest mob.

[Xudo]

Is anything being done to address crowded questing areas?

Volunteer players are filling github tickets to reduce respawn timers of various quest objects in world to help with crowded areas. I did a dozen and they were fixed super-fast.

[Matches]

yeah, my wife and I are having the same problem. tried to do a quest this morning and everyone was dog piling the mobs as soon as we logged on... so we just logged back off lol. We don't do pvp and have several times rogues stand in front of mobs to get us to flag by accident by clicking them instead of looting. the chill "turtle vibe" is definitely gone with the influx lol

Yeah. There's definitely a sociopath component in the WoW population. It kills servers - in the end, all the nice people leave and you're left with just the gankers.

How you solve this though, there's the question. Either it's manual, which will overwhelm the devs, or its automatic, and then it will have unintended consequences (and the sociopaths will do everything they can to exploit and abuse whatever mechanisms are introduced).

[Reploidrocsa]

I started leveling a new toon and with so much population i'm definitely leveling in the custom zones

[Miggs]

It's absolutely horrendous, can't progress so moving on elsewhere.

[Reddguard]

What about limiting the number of active players? Then it's less crowded and the devs can monitor more easily.

[Heine]

I've started 2 days ago a new toon and its ZERO problems to crawl little bit far from start location and get free space.
I''ve got 5 lvl grinding boars within 10 minutes while other chums were sitting crying at quest giver how location is crowded to get their 3 lvl.

Count is as natural selection

It's absolutely horrendous, can't progress so moving on elsewhere.

Bye

[Foulum1]

Worst part imo is all the hardcore players. You can't even team up with team out there, so it ends up being a s-word competition instead of meeting new friends along the way.
Sadface

[Wrathweaver]

I always invite people that camp the same quest objective if its a kill quest, find it strange that not more people just do this on auto mode.

When we are on the same quest objective and they decline group invite, i think thats just fine.
But in secret and in my dreams, i wish that their souls where slowly devoured by some type of demon that looks like a spider with only 1 eye.

[Xerilin]

I always invite people that camp the same quest objective if its a kill quest, find it strange that not more people just do this on auto mode.

When we are on the same quest objective and they decline group invite, i think thats just fine.
But in secret and in my dreams, i wish that their souls where slowly devoured by some type of demon that looks like a spider with only 1 eye.

So do I, but can't do it between hc/non-hc.

[Mathix]

It's absolutely horrendous, can't progress so moving on elsewhere.

How are you unable to progress? This is wow we are talking about, leveling is easy, go do another quest or kill some monsters for a bit.

[Redmagejoe]

There is no such thing as being unable to play because of other people. Literally go do a different quest. In the extreme circumstance that you can't do ANY quests in your zone (which I doubt) you can go to one of the other 2-3 zones of that level and quest there instead.

You are arbitrarily choosing to obsess over a particular quest and gatekeep yourself. There are near 3000 quests in this game now.

[Element19090]

It's definitely obnoxious. I really wish I would have leveled my alts before the massive boom. :/

[Mavbyte]

It's not like just one are is crowded, but almost all of'em. especially low level zones like Elwynn, Teldrassil, Westfall etc.
i know: unpopular opinion, but maybe a 2nd realm would be an option.

[Element19090]

It's not like just one are is crowded, but almost all of'em. especially low level zones like Elwynn, Teldrassil, Westfall etc.
i know: unpopular opinion, but maybe a 2nd realm would be an option.

IF we just gave HC their own realm it would solve quite a bit of the population problem. They have a nice chunk of the player base and really are not able to have any meaningful interaction with regular players at all besides fighting over mob tags. It's needlessly obnoxious.

[Mavbyte]

It's not like just one are is crowded, but almost all of'em. especially low level zones like Elwynn, Teldrassil, Westfall etc.
i know: unpopular opinion, but maybe a 2nd realm would be an option.

IF we just gave HC their own realm it would solve quite a bit of the population problem. They have a nice chunk of the player base and really are not able to have any meaningful interaction with regular players at all besides fighting over mob tags. It's needlessly obnoxious.

I've been a HC player, but I'd see myself as a Roleplayer. And imo the "PvE Attitude" overall on the realm's overwhelming by now. I don't like the argument of people that "Rp-PvE" means that it's first and foremost a PvE-Realm "with the option to roleplay". By that argument we wouldn't need any Rp-Realm at all since we could do Roleplay on every realm.
When i started on Turtle almost a year ago, RP was way more present. I've been approached in Roleplay out in the open, even in normal dungeon-groupplay. You don't find this anymore.
Now i know, that there are RP Events and Guilds, but i'm not the one for planned, but spontaneous Roleplay. And this is being drowned by the current community. :/ So I, as a roleplayer, would like to seperate myself from this mass of "normal" PvE-Players as well.

[Element19090]

It's not like just one are is crowded, but almost all of'em. especially low level zones like Elwynn, Teldrassil, Westfall etc.
i know: unpopular opinion, but maybe a 2nd realm would be an option.

IF we just gave HC their own realm it would solve quite a bit of the population problem. They have a nice chunk of the player base and really are not able to have any meaningful interaction with regular players at all besides fighting over mob tags. It's needlessly obnoxious.

I've been a HC player, but I'd see myself as a Roleplayer. And imo the "PvE Attitude" overall on the realm's overwhelming by now. I don't like the argument of people that "Rp-PvE" means that it's first and foremost a PvE-Realm "with the option to roleplay". By that argument we wouldn't need any Rp-Realm at all since we could do Roleplay on every realm.
When i started on Turtle almost a year ago, RP was way more present. I've been approached in Roleplay out in the open, even in normal dungeon-groupplay. You don't find this anymore.
Now i know, that there are RP Events and Guilds, but i'm not the one for planned, but spontaneous Roleplay. And this is being drowned by the current community. :/ So I, as a roleplayer, would like to seperate myself from this mass of "normal" PvE-Players as well.

RP has always been niche and as server population grows RP elements will naturally be drowned out and limited to guild hosted events in secluded places. I think making the argument that "We can't do.................because this is an RP-PvE server" is stupid because it's clearly just a factionless PVE server with a warmode option.