How Many Players?

[Akrasia]

I'm thinking of buying NWN Diamond from GOG so I can give EFU: Mistlocke a go, but the server doesn't look like it's that busy.

Obviously there's peaks and troughs at certain times of day, but how many players are usually around on average?

Thanks.

[RagingPurpleGiant]

This week has been unusually slow for some odd reason, I can't speak for which times zones are the busiest or really what the server's numbers are typically at these days, but this last week to two weeks has been unusually inactive. I'd expect to see a good deal more people online if you decide to stick around.

[Oskar Maxon]

Yes, the last few days have definately been slow, so you shouldn't judge on this alone! Welcome! :)

[RuinedDesires]

Its the start of august and tbh this week is normally slow, Im assuming its because people book holidays for around this time.

[Aethereal]

Without citing comprehensive statistics via the EFUSL database, but based upon observations. I'd say the average number of players you would expect online at any given point to be about 10 players. Now, if you play during peak server time, expect that figure to be at least doubled or tripled (full server on occasion), and halved or less during server dead zone (Very early GMT).

The server is definitely active.

[Evaenir]

My opinion of Mistlocke.

Hello Akrasia,

I've been playing for two weeks on Mistlocke now, and I can tell you that it is a great server. Maybe there aren't as many players as the other servers who usually have at least 20-30 players online everytime, however the way Escape from Undeath is made encourages and brings people together.

The survival theme encourages players to work together, meaning you rarely play alone (except if this is what you want, but you'll have a hard time...you're not in one of Bruce Willis' movies where your character just kicks the butt of every living being that crosses his path...you try to survive, and being alone against a legion of undead servants...good luck!)

The fact that the attention is focused on one town (Mistlocke) by both players and DMs means they won't split themselves throughout the gameworld : to me, a server with 40 players split on eight towns (10 players rp'ing in your city) and each of them made of 10 areas (almost nobody rp'ing with you at the moment because almost nobody's there) isn't as fun as focusing on one town.

Levels differences. You may be only level 4 and the other guy level 9, you can still play together. It isn't as if you couldn't play with the others because they are 15-20 levels higher than you. Lower levels means you can play with almost anybody as long as you behave cautiously. Also, there aren't OOC closed circles of friends, people are open-minded, so you won't see 10 players playing together and ignoring you.

However, it is hard to survive in Mistlocke. You may die many times if you act reckelessly (or not, shit happens too!) but you won't be alone in this. It is not an online game where everybody plays alone, people play together. Of course in your case, you have to buy the game to give Mistlocke a try...however, the universe and its story here are so well-crafted that it is as good as any well-done single-player campaign (and more, because others people aren't scripted events...they're real people...!) so for ten bucks...I'd say it's worth to give it a shot.


Now maybe this speech may look dithyrambic (ooo, big words even though I do not master my english!), but after playing on several rp servers, I can assure you this one is a very good one. Here, quality wins over quantity. A damn lot!

[Divine Intervention]

The above comment is actually a pretty good assessment of the server, however as others have said the population is rather low at the minute for various reasons, holidays etc.  In general outside of the summer period anytime from about 5-6pm GMT onwards you'll see player numbers 20 and upwards.

[IxTheSpeedy]

I've been playing here for about four years.  I think that is a statement in and of itself.  It definitely does ebb and flow.  It's ebbing right now...

Honestly, Howland (the main man that started this thing) is back recently after a break and that usually is the harbinger of good things.  I'd expect things to pick up soon, they always do.  Get in here, I've never experienced storytelling in a game world like this before.  You seriously can't go deep enough, it's amazing.  The playerbase is very helpful as well if they find out that you're new.  We're always wanting new folks to add some variety to things.

Edit: - The busiest time on average is evenings EST.  Most of the playerbase is on the East coast of the US I believe.

[putrid_plum]

The server has been low population for some time now.  It ebbs and flows this is true, mostly when DMs get busy it will have more player.  In general the server population is low and it wont ever be super high unless the DM team every single day runs events and does interesting things like walk around with prominent PCs to make the game environment more real.  Sadly, this doesn't happen and wont happen.  Still, for an old game it has a good amount of followers still.

[Daemonic Daz]

Hello Akrasia,

Thanks for popping by and visiting our little piece of the internet, theres very little I can add here because our wonderful players have already pretty much said what I would say.

DM side we have ALOT planned for the next few months which will pretty much be one of the most defining moments on our server, when we run these kinds of plots/events we usually have to increase the player limit on the server because we have so many players trying to experience the rich, player driven to a large degree story-lines we have to offer.

NWN is 10 years now so you won't be getting high quality graphics, but the Aurora Engine that NWN is built upon is being pushed to the very limits by our team and the community that still builds on top of NWN to provide an immersive roleplaying experience for all.

Hope I've persuaded you to at least try us out, feel free to private message me if you want to talk some more or post here.