Since a few realms are now operating on one layer and more will follow soon, I am wondering what the current population cap on these realms is.
I see a lot of forum posts complaining about overcrowded areas, so I assume it is higher than the vanilla like ~3,5k.
Can anyone confirm what cap these one layer servers have right how?
I dont want to hear any feelings, i am interested in actual hard data.
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Players don’t know, and Blizzard won’t tell. What I know is that the queue kicks in at 15k.
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But with one layer?
Don’t know, don’t care. 15k online with one layer is OK for me. I’ve played on Nostalrius, Elysium, Lightbringer, Northdale - all of them were like that and nobody complained.
I think they constantly tweak it based on how spread the pop is. Over time as layers numbers were going gown each layer’s pop cap was increased because players were no longer in the same few zones. They probably even played with pop cap (i.e. queues size) as a tool to artificially force people to spread as evenly as possible.
Imo once layers are gone they will go with 5-6k cap. Or they will start with 7-8k cap if they expect queues (on 2 to 1 layer transitions) and then will lower it to 5-6k when less people begin to log. I.e. they will use pop cap as a tool to hide tourists exodus (Blizz are maniacal about hiding players leaving, that’s one of the main reasons for sharding/crz existence).
I did not understand layer. But what I understand the little thing is that people are constantly moved to different game zones, so the same players can no longer meet again? If so, then the whole Classic experience will be gone. 
You seem really confused.
When there are too many people online the gsme world is split up in several layers (they sre removing tjem right now). A layer is basically an instance of the whole game world. For example, if the server Shazzrah has two layers it night happen that when you log in you get into layer A. When your friend logs in later he might be in layer B. This means you sre in a different instance of the world. You dont see him when you are both in orgrimmar for example. But, you can still see him in your friendlist an chat with him. Once he invites you to a group, you will trnsfer to his layer automatically. Removing layers (which is done during a server restart) just means reducing the number of world instances. If there is only one layer left, you will always be in the same world instance as your friends when logging into the same server.
Confused? . I said I don’t know much about layers. But you confirm my point. I talked about regular people that you meet on a journey several times , and not about a friend list. It sounds like Retrail.
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