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derpcake
06-29-2016, 07:16 AM
thriving :(

derpcake
06-29-2016, 07:47 AM
I'm sure there will always be some people opposing a wipe.

Non-active ones most likely.

Bazia
06-29-2016, 08:04 AM
ill delete my toons

lets set a date like 2 months ahead to delete all our shit take days off from work and fix the problem

Darksinga
06-29-2016, 08:18 AM
I'd be playing Australian prime time (like now +2-3 hr,) with my current schedule. When I look at sub 30 pop though, I realize what's the point?

derpcake
06-29-2016, 08:18 AM
yep

ofc also means no longer playing on US hours during the weekend

Trungep99
06-29-2016, 08:52 AM
Transfer the players to blue, and start a fresh server

notinmyname
06-29-2016, 09:29 AM
Transfer the players to blue, and start a fresh server

Wipe it clean

meatspin
06-29-2016, 09:36 AM
Wipe it clean

agreed

hurt
06-29-2016, 09:50 AM
I came back for a few weeks. And it was somewhat fun. Just not enough pvp to really warrant sticking it out. Most pvp I find is so one-sided it's hardly worth entertaining the fight. (1v10, 3v20 etc.)

Tempest have a very small handful of actual pvpers. If that. Stork is probably the only tempest player who fights consistently regardless of circumstance. The rest hide behind massive numbers or /camp out instantly if alone or in a small group. Yawn.

Zek is coming soon. That's at least a solution, albeit temporary.

Izmael
06-29-2016, 10:23 AM
All people who want a wipe just delete all their toons at the same moment, there, you got a wipe. Thx.

Redi
06-29-2016, 10:45 AM
All people who want a wipe just delete all their toons at the same moment, there, you got a wipe. Thx.

no

we can level alts if we wanted to play 1+ alone

the point is the boxes have been mismanaged and never got the proper attention and are filled with bandaid unclassic changes to solve "csr" problems

need a new one done right

Izmael
06-29-2016, 10:50 AM
Dunno about mismanagement, looks like a lot of people simply lost interest in Everquest PVP.

Redi
06-29-2016, 10:52 AM
if you don't know about it then don't comment about it

thanks and move along

Izmael
06-29-2016, 11:34 AM
I'll comment if I want to and you will read it.

Tassador
06-29-2016, 11:49 AM
Transfer the players to blue, and start a fresh server

If they closed red and transferred my chars to blue. Id delete them in heartbeat. Just a simple wipe would do.

hokuten99
06-29-2016, 11:49 AM
If they closed red and transferred my chars to blue. Id delete them in heartbeat. Just a simple wipe would do.

Didnt know you played on red.

Tassador
06-29-2016, 11:53 AM
Didnt know you played on red.

Yep. I am just mentally fit unlike you pops. :(

hokuten99
06-29-2016, 12:17 PM
Yep. I am just mentally fit unlike you pops. :(

nobody that posts on these boards are mentally fit, sorry pal.

Kergan
06-29-2016, 12:18 PM
It is a pretty chronic problem with emu servers that they wait way too long to take action, without a bottom line to push things along. I don't know if a wipe and/or new server would even have much of an effect at this point.

I think we're screwed bros. Staff is partially to blame with lack of CSR presence in an environment that really needs it, lack of a single dedicated resource focusing on PVP code, and content delays/extended timelines that really have a much more pronounced effect in a PVP environment. But the community didn't do itself any favors here either, lets be honest. The bitter multiyear blood feud dick measuring contests over the years either chased away any new players entirely or sucked them into one side or the other and perpetuated it.

I suppose it is worth a shot, but if you were the staff here would you be putting your time and effort into a new red server that is going to composed mostly of the degenerate malcontents you basically abandoned over the last 2 years because of how big a pain in the ass they are or a new blue server to address actual overcrowding on your flagship "product"? I think it is worth at least an attempt at doing it correctly, but I can honestly see how they might feel it is not.

iiNGloriouS
06-29-2016, 12:18 PM
Dunno about mismanagement, looks like a lot of people simply lost interest in Everquest PVP.

It's almost as if youvery played here for maybe two weeks.

Now shut the fuck up. Nobody cares about your shitty ideas.

Saludeen
06-29-2016, 12:39 PM
The entire problem is a lack of interest in Everquest classic PVP. The server is fine, and a wipe would probably make more people quit after how much time they've invested in multiple characters, especially if they expect another wipe in the future.

And shut up Revy. Don't be an arrogant prick because you're helping to reduce the population. I care about what he has to say. Although EQ pvp seems like a lost cause except for the box we currently have. Unless you guys want to do some advertising, which could actually work. Imagine even 100 new players?

iiNGloriouS
06-29-2016, 12:41 PM
The entire problem is a lack of interest in Everquest classic PVP. The server is fine, and a wipe would probably make more people quit after how much time they've invested in multiple characters, especially if they expect another wipe in the future.

And shut up Revy. Don't be an arrogant prick because you're helping to reduce the population. I care about what he has to say. Although EQ pvp seems like a lost cause except for the box we currently have. Unless you guys want to do some advertising, which could actually work. Imagine even 100 new players?

You are equally as retarded as the other guy.

Kergan
06-29-2016, 12:42 PM
Yeah I am sure it is the PVP in EQ causing the server to be a ghost town. I mean, when the game was only 15 years old the PVP was still modern and exciting but now at 17 it sucks.

meatspin
06-29-2016, 12:50 PM
Wipe would bring people back, who is going to be mad? the dudes still farming seafuries?
More people who have probably already invested more time than the 27 people online aren't playing because its not fun playing on a Velious server with a pop of 27.

Wipe it clean or start a new fresh server. Lets do this

derpcake
06-29-2016, 12:54 PM
It is a pretty chronic problem with emu servers that they wait way too long to take action, without a bottom line to push things along. I don't know if a wipe and/or new server would even have much of an effect at this point.

I think we're screwed bros. Staff is partially to blame with lack of CSR presence in an environment that really needs it, lack of a single dedicated resource focusing on PVP code, and content delays/extended timelines that really have a much more pronounced effect in a PVP environment. But the community didn't do itself any favors here either, lets be honest. The bitter multiyear blood feud dick measuring contests over the years either chased away any new players entirely or sucked them into one side or the other and perpetuated it.

I suppose it is worth a shot, but if you were the staff here would you be putting your time and effort into a new red server that is going to composed mostly of the degenerate malcontents you basically abandoned over the last 2 years because of how big a pain in the ass they are or a new blue server to address actual overcrowding on your flagship "product"? I think it is worth at least an attempt at doing it correctly, but I can honestly see how they might feel it is not.

in that case they should post such, so i can abandon this place

its np really, just that there is a shred of hope left keeping me here

Stasis01
06-29-2016, 01:09 PM
I feel like I've seen it all now after Red99, VP, Trak, Vulak, Dain, Kael etc that I never got to do on live because I was too young.

I doubt I would play any new EQ EMU box that comes out at this point unless the PVP was epic.

Saludeen
06-29-2016, 02:25 PM
You are equally as retarded as the other guy.

That's ironic since all your replies are nothing but useless petty insults with no actual substance or argument. That reflects stupidity and immaturity to say the least. If you ever pass middle school you might learn the skill of having reasonable conversations with people.

Chaboo_Cleric
06-29-2016, 02:30 PM
That's ironic since all your replies are nothing but useless petty insults with no actual substance or argument. That reflects stupidity and immaturity to say the least. If you ever pass middle school you might learn the skill of having reasonable conversations with people.

]http://i.imgur.com/Hyc7cTN.jpg

Take a look at the man you are speaking too. Revvy is a box legend. So STFU

R Flair
06-29-2016, 02:40 PM
obvious solution to blue and red is to always have a server going through expansions. At the end of velious, characters are moved to the old persistent server, and new servers are launched.

Its not rocket science, but it does take someone to care enuff to do it

iiNGloriouS
06-29-2016, 03:10 PM
That's ironic since all your replies are nothing but useless petty insults with no actual substance or argument. That reflects stupidity and immaturity to say the least. If you ever pass middle school you might learn the skill of having reasonable conversations with people.

If you even assume we play Red99 solely for the PVP. I don't know what to tell ya, you're just some kind of special dumbass.

Saludeen
06-29-2016, 03:30 PM
Take a look at the man you are speaking too. Revvy is a box legend. So STFU

"I'm a legend at Yugio because it took me three years to get all these cards. Are you impressed?"

Chaboo_Cleric
06-29-2016, 04:10 PM
"I'm a legend at Yugio because it took me three years to get all these cards. Are you impressed?"

I believe it ,and no. I'm only impressed with box legends

Saludeen
06-29-2016, 04:20 PM
I believe it ,and no. I'm only impressed with box legends

Well then you're gullible for believing it was a direct quote from him even though I was only mocking. I don't know whats more sad, the fact that he wasted years on this game or that you actually look up to him for it lol.

Izmael
06-29-2016, 04:22 PM
It's almost as if youvery played here for maybe two weeks.

Now shut the fuck up. Nobody cares about your shitty ideas.

Achieved more during these two weeks than you in your whole life.

Also you're a faggot <3

Izmael
06-29-2016, 04:27 PM
]http://i.imgur.com/Hyc7cTN.jpg

Take a look at the man you are speaking too. Revvy is a box legend. So STFU

He's good looking but the yellow-toothed creepy kid on the left is spoiling the photo a little.

Chaboo_Cleric
06-29-2016, 05:21 PM
He's good looking but the yellow-toothed creepy kid on the left is spoiling the photo a little.

HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA

Redi
06-29-2016, 05:24 PM
Zek s2 for all ur pvp needs
R99 for all your solo farming pve needs
B99 for all you populated pve needs

iiNGloriouS
06-29-2016, 05:51 PM
He's good looking but the yellow-toothed creepy kid on the left is spoiling the photo a little.

God my roof dog is so fucking handsome. His puppies are good lookin too. I'll post some pics when they hit 6 weeks and are kinda grown in. They kinda look like pugs atm. 3 weeks old at the moment.

Bazia
06-29-2016, 06:26 PM
yeah alienate the 27 people currently playing by wiping

who the fuck are these new faggots

it's time to assemble the wipe committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJXGKRSSmQ

terp and smedy for GM as they both are employed and balance out by hating each other

cwall/heartbrand/salem/cyren for guides

team tripod

out

Ragnaros
06-29-2016, 06:41 PM
lets do a mass delete in protest

Bazia
06-29-2016, 06:44 PM
i got 5 on it

Farzo
06-29-2016, 07:15 PM
yeah alienate the 27 people currently playing by wiping

who the fuck are these new faggots

it's time to assemble the wipe committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJXGKRSSmQ

terp and smedy for GM as they both are employed and balance out by hating each other

cwall/heartbrand/salem/cyren for guides

team tripod

out

ahh no, server has low enough pop as it is.
we dont need some islamic swede with small dick issues trying to make shots
(plus he is a known RMTer)

could you imagine him Allah Deletaring people's toons after his pals die in PvP to them?

Bazia
06-29-2016, 07:26 PM
terp will cancel out smedys Euro-rage meanwhile smedy will be on fungi watch

Bazia
06-29-2016, 07:27 PM
ahh no, server has low enough pop as it is.
we dont need some islamic swede with small dick issues trying to make shots
(plus he is a known RMTer)

could you imagine him Allah Deletaring people's toons after his pals die in PvP to them?

your opinion is irrelevant we all know you are content with dressing up endless goblins and never pvping

YOU ARENT INVITED TO NEXT 1 UR TYPE RUINED SERVER

Farzo
06-29-2016, 07:41 PM
still backing Agatha for GM, make red great again

this is the one I would vote 4

Farzo
06-29-2016, 07:53 PM
your opinion is irrelevant we all know you are content with dressing up endless goblins and never pvping

YOU ARENT INVITED TO NEXT 1 UR TYPE RUINED SERVER

it's everquest...


not pvp arenaquest where everyone rolls TL box'd wizards.

...

..

.

Bazia
06-29-2016, 08:00 PM
http://i.imgur.com/Hme8B5V.jpg?1

Zuranthium
06-29-2016, 08:19 PM
It is the PVP in EQ causing the server to be a ghost town. I mean, when the game was new the PVP was still modern and exciting but now at 17 it sucks.

Yep.

It's hilarious, for example, how NOBODY had Lev Cloak in 1999 and 2000, yet certain idiots here think melee "need" it. The game is broken and it was never created for PvP to begin with. Need to change the game coding significantly for a fun, successful, lasting server to happen.

Samsung
06-29-2016, 08:21 PM
Yep.

It's hilarious, for example, how NOBODY had Lev Cloak in 1999 and 2000, yet certain idiots here think melee "need" it. The game is broken and it was never created for PvP to begin with. Need to change the game coding significantly for a fun, successful, lasting server to happen.

Go make your own custom Eq server warm body.

Zuranthium
06-29-2016, 08:36 PM
Go try to grow a brain peanut head.

The basis for the server has already been created on project 1999 and obviously people don't have the time/resources to recreate that classic environment from scratch. It's up to the management team here to further shape what they already have into something that's worth playing.

georgie
06-29-2016, 08:44 PM
Go make your own custom Eq server warm body.

Hey getousha

iiNGloriouS
06-29-2016, 08:51 PM
Yep.

It's hilarious, for example, how NOBODY had Lev Cloak in 1999 and 2000, yet certain idiots here think melee "need" it. The game is broken and it was never created for PvP to begin with. Need to change the game coding significantly for a fun, successful, lasting server to happen.
It's almost as if we learned something over 17 years of playing this game. I'm amazed.

Chaboo_Cleric
06-29-2016, 10:51 PM
It's almost as if we learned something over 17 years of playing this game. I'm amazed.

This

Zuranthium
06-30-2016, 01:50 AM
It's almost as if we learned something over 17 years of playing this game. I'm amazed.

You're not making a relevant point.

Everything about the game being known and on a wiki, as opposed to how the game was played in actual classic, doesn't defend the current state of p99. This is not a good thing. This is not how the game was meant to be played.

Here is what everyone needs to realize: if Everquest over the past 17 years had remained in a "classic" state, with the developers working to improve that core game instead of simply farting out expansions, it would NOT be the game that it is here on p99. The game was never supposed to be static. You seem to be taking pride in exploiting a defunct system, acting like anyone should be impressed or amused by it.

Chaboo_Cleric
06-30-2016, 02:44 AM
Could've would've should've ... And you still a psycho

Imago
06-30-2016, 03:12 AM
peanut head.

what are we, 5? Call him an RMT piece of garbage at least.

LostCause
06-30-2016, 04:38 AM
actually on live you could attack someone high up levi it didn't matter was same with mobs too they wouldn't path werid to get to you they would just stay under you and attack.

notinmyname
06-30-2016, 09:09 AM
On live you could also meet teen girls and get pussy

Redi
06-30-2016, 09:33 AM
Lol

iiNGloriouS
06-30-2016, 12:34 PM
NOBODY SHOULD HAVE A LEV CLOAK BECAUSE IM TIRED OF MY AUTISM CAUSING ME DEATHS AGAINST ROGUES USING DUELIST ON ME

derpcake
06-30-2016, 01:51 PM
13/f/cali, u?

hi i'm belgian

skype me

ps. u do have a younger sister right?

Izmael
06-30-2016, 04:17 PM
NOBODY SHOULD HAVE A LEV CLOAK BECAUSE IM TIRED OF MY AUTISM CAUSING ME DEATHS AGAINST ROGUES USING DUELIST ON ME

Why don't you just go fuck yourself, miserable cocksucking piece of shit.

Aesop
06-30-2016, 08:51 PM
Parrots say words and don't know what they mean and how they should be used or whatever.

Anyhow autism

GreenRanger
07-01-2016, 06:29 AM
server needs to be raptured. fucking sodomites.. and classic only no fucking kunark and velious segregating the content.

fiegi 8.0
07-01-2016, 06:31 AM
ouch

Tradesonred
07-01-2016, 07:57 AM
It is a pretty chronic problem with emu servers that they wait way too long to take action, without a bottom line to push things along. I don't know if a wipe and/or new server would even have much of an effect at this point.

I think we're screwed bros. Staff is partially to blame with lack of CSR presence in an environment that really needs it, lack of a single dedicated resource focusing on PVP code, and content delays/extended timelines that really have a much more pronounced effect in a PVP environment. But the community didn't do itself any favors here either, lets be honest. The bitter multiyear blood feud dick measuring contests over the years either chased away any new players entirely or sucked them into one side or the other and perpetuated it.

I suppose it is worth a shot, but if you were the staff here would you be putting your time and effort into a new red server that is going to composed mostly of the degenerate malcontents you basically abandoned over the last 2 years because of how big a pain in the ass they are or a new blue server to address actual overcrowding on your flagship "product"? I think it is worth at least an attempt at doing it correctly, but I can honestly see how they might feel it is not.

So much this, a new server would be handicapped from multiple flanks. What staff would be interested in throwing in work for such a shitty community? What sane person would invest hundreds of hours in the server and gambling of not having to watch them fuck up a fragile population again with ill-advised "pops gotta go down before its gonna go up" xp nerf nonsense. It would be a titanic-esque sized failboat.

Bardalicious
07-01-2016, 09:01 AM
Someone donate me some server hardware or give me access to hosting so that I can put up a PoP-era PVP server.

I've always been jaded about the fact that I wanted classic PVP because I played on RZ back in '99 and had a fucking blast, but that's because the community was much better, interactions with other players was nicer, and the game was still fresh in that the average player wasn't a min/maxer. It was fun back then. It's not any more.

At least PoP-era had tons of content to work on for raiding guilds to keep the hardcore players interested, as well as AA's to keep everyone down to the lowly casuals grouping and soloing to continually better themselves after hitting max level. And I don't give a fuck what you have to say about the Plane of Knowledge. Having the PoK books around the world gave everyone much easier access to finding pvp.

*shrug* I think it'd be a blast.

maerilith
07-01-2016, 09:03 AM
Wipe it clean

Izmael
07-01-2016, 09:54 AM
Someone donate me some server hardware or give me access to hosting so that I can put up a PoP-era PVP server.


Nowadays you can get a VPS sufficient to run an EQEmu server for about 100 concurrent players for something like $20 / month.

Matter of fact if you know what you are doing, signing up for a VPS, tweaking it a little, installing and configuring EQEmu, populating the database and doing some basic tuning and have the server running could take you .. oh, maybe 4 hours.

You can start working on it right now.

Tassador
07-01-2016, 09:59 AM
So much this, a new server would be handicapped from multiple flanks. What staff would be interested in throwing in work for such a shitty community? What sane person would invest hundreds of hours in the server and gambling of not having to watch them fuck up a fragile population again with ill-advised "pops gotta go down before its gonna go up" xp nerf nonsense. It would be a titanic-esque sized failboat.

U quit and had a mental breakdown on the forums. 3 years later still going on jeez louise

Stasis01
07-01-2016, 11:38 AM
Boxing, teams and possibly variance if it ever got bad enough like Kunark era. A raid boss zone in window would be gr8 for PVP.

We have a gigantic empty box where no one can travel anywhere and then the end game has been stagnant one guild PVE(because why would you join #2) going on 4 years or whatever the box has been alive.

The box overlords don't care though, Rogean actually dislikes Red so ya know carry on low pop shit box full of nerds who think they're the best gamer ever by pressing auto attack and shit.

Ragnaros
07-01-2016, 12:31 PM
yea variance in kunark woulda been the tits and more mass pvp woulda happend. would not work in velious tho for obvious reasons

Nirgon
07-01-2016, 12:52 PM
so you want variance on the Kunark mobs?

Chronoburn
07-01-2016, 01:07 PM
The eq mystique is gone. It's time to move on unless you enjoy running around a 30 pop server pvping people with 4 clickies, raid buffed, and perma-TL boxed.

Redi
07-01-2016, 01:25 PM
40 in game we on the rise

Stasis01
07-01-2016, 01:28 PM
so you want variance on the Kunark mobs?

It would have to be based on population/how stagnant end game would be with a population.

It would change nothing atm but would help if one guild cockblocked a large amount of players.

Nirgon
07-01-2016, 01:40 PM
well pretty sure VS can be sniped off

draco too, golems..

not sure non classic features good for classic server... but no classic server (item loot which also solves AoN etc clickies in general slot non ffa classicness)

imo just a whine/bitch tool of whoever is on the bottom to make raiding miserable for whoever is on top and there aint no way its happening

recruit and contest or enjoy the world pvp

Redi
07-01-2016, 01:47 PM
8X

heartbrand
07-01-2016, 01:51 PM
The eq mystique is gone. It's time to move on unless you enjoy running around a 30 pop server pvping people with 4 clickies, raid buffed, and perma-TL boxed.

This x1000

derpcake
07-01-2016, 02:07 PM
56 players ingame

dat xp bonus really doing big things

Bazia
07-01-2016, 02:58 PM
nah eq is fine this server just needs a wipe no idea why people are getting philosophical about it

Macdeth
07-01-2016, 03:39 PM
Damn I was going to come back but it looks like it's already gone.

derpcake
07-01-2016, 03:50 PM
bonus xp is on man!

discord around the corner!

heh

Farzo
07-01-2016, 05:03 PM
There were 21 online lastnight (that included me)

It is time to allow offpeak boxing

derpcake
07-01-2016, 05:54 PM
its time to stop logging in cuz this shit is going nowhere

MaSQue
07-01-2016, 06:32 PM
I'm sure there will always be some people opposing a wipe.

Non-active ones most likely.

Why in the hell would anyone oppose a wipe? Is it that they enjoy playing with a primetime pop of 50? I mean seriously, lets be serious about this, why has a wipe NOT came yet? Noone is playing Red anyways so whats it hurting?

Everyone would come back and more.

Videri
07-01-2016, 06:39 PM
I think the issue is the devs promised not to wipe, and that is why many players prefer P99/R99. To wipe would mean breaking their promise and alienating those players.

Just trying to help people calm down over the way things are. People are pretty incredulous sometimes, but Project 1999 happens thanks to voluntary, unpaid time. It shouldn't really be a surprise at this point. I'd love to see a fresh server, myself. Hopefully there will be one someday.

MaSQue
07-01-2016, 06:43 PM
I think the issue is the devs promised not to wipe, and that is why many players prefer P99/R99. To wipe would mean breaking their promise and alienating those players.

Just trying to help people calm down over the way things are. People are pretty incredulous sometimes, but Project 1999 happens thanks to voluntary, unpaid time. It shouldn't really be a surprise at this point. I'd love to see a fresh server, myself. Hopefully there will be one someday.

But keeping this dead99 server running must be costing them money just to maintain it with noone playing on it. I know they swore never to wipe but come on (GMs) lets be realistic here, this server is dead, it's NEVER coming back as it currently is. Promises were made but there are times when things have to be done for the greater good and being the boss, rule#1 is you are never making everyone happy and sometimes you must do things people disagree with it but the masses think a wipe is needed and I think deep down inside so do the admins. Why keep a dead server running? Why not wipe? it makes sense to wipe. Thats why myself and my friends I played with left, we got tired of playing on a dead server that was never going to get better.

Baler
07-01-2016, 06:45 PM
But keeping this dead99 server running must be costing them money just to maintain it with noone playing on it.

Probably just the electric bill. I think rogean hosts the servers. so everything else is probably pretty minimal.
Add blue server into the formula and red is probably nothing more then a tiny cost bump in the grand scheme.

Game doesn't use that much bandwidth compared to modern games, servers. So with fewer people logging into red it's probably not even worth considering shutting down.
Wiping it would just cause a spike in useage of the rack. heh

MaSQue
07-01-2016, 06:49 PM
Probably just the electric bill. I think rogean hosts the servers. so everything else is probably pretty minimal.
Add blue server into the formula and red is probably nothing more then a tiny cost bump in the grand scheme.

Game doesn't use that much bandwidth compared to modern games, servers.

ahh well, always have memories :(

Farzo
07-01-2016, 07:13 PM
Why in the hell would anyone oppose a wipe? Is it that they enjoy playing with a primetime pop of 50? I mean seriously, lets be serious about this, why has a wipe NOT came yet? Noone is playing Red anyways so whats it hurting?

Everyone would come back and more.

Because a wipe would send most of the remaining pop packing and only fair weather players would start playing again and the end result would be an even deader server a year later.

Zekpvp is a wipe server; it died near the end of s1 (i think its been setup for s2 now?) A few more cycles of that and thay server will be dead.

What they should do is an enable a 1 time red>blue or blue>red xfer per account and toon has to be 60.

Pretty sure you'd lose a bunch of redders but a bunch of bluers would bounce outta that +/-8 hr bs they gotta put up with.

Baler
07-01-2016, 07:19 PM
They cant allow server transfers people would make way too much money.

Farzo
07-01-2016, 07:21 PM
They cant allow server transfers people would make way too much money.

They'll never stop that side of this game. People are gunna do that regardless.

MaSQue
07-01-2016, 07:23 PM
Because a wipe would send most of the remaining pop packing

all 56 of em :(

Kergan
07-01-2016, 07:50 PM
Probably just the electric bill. I think rogean hosts the servers. so everything else is probably pretty minimal.
Add blue server into the formula and red is probably nothing more then a tiny cost bump in the grand scheme.

Game doesn't use that much bandwidth compared to modern games, servers. So with fewer people logging into red it's probably not even worth considering shutting down.
Wiping it would just cause a spike in useage of the rack. heh

He posted pics a while back of where it is hosted, some datacenter out east. You're typically billed for the space and electric circuits (maybe) but not usage. We're talking like 4-5 pieces of equipment here for both blue and red in a single rack, including the networking gear. Cost is not a factor in shutting the server down, at least while blue is still going.

iiNGloriouS
07-01-2016, 08:00 PM
Because a wipe would send most of the remaining pop packing and only fair weather players would start playing again and the end result would be an even deader server a year later.

Zekpvp is a wipe server; it died near the end of s1 (i think its been setup for s2 now?) A few more cycles of that and thay server will be dead.

What they should do is an enable a 1 time red>blue or blue>red xfer per account and toon has to be 60.

Pretty sure you'd lose a bunch of redders but a bunch of bluers would bounce outta that +/-8 hr bs they gotta put up with.
I like how people talk bout devnoob boxes like they know their true purpose.

Kinda like roo brain here

Zek server is doing what it was exactly designed to do

Bazia
07-01-2016, 08:13 PM
"a wipe will be deader than 21 online" - Fagzo

Nirgon
07-01-2016, 08:27 PM
Masque with a large dunk

Please remake with item loot

MaSQue
07-01-2016, 08:28 PM
Masque with a large dunk

pffft :/

Mleh
07-02-2016, 07:22 AM
Force a purge on blue server, losers of mass PvP tournaments will be force transferred to red.

Win.

derpcake
07-02-2016, 07:30 AM
I had a lot of fun pvping the TDs in Sol B a few hours ago.

While I did get t-staffed and gangbanged by a wiz, monk, war and clr, they had the grace to revive me after my valiant stand (plugging is for nerds), and let me LNS.

Thunderdome, protector of the realm, a force to be reckoned with in the future, I am sure.

Stasis01
07-02-2016, 08:32 AM
Levelling is ghost town / sucks.
No clerics for guilds.
No ports.
No PVP due to nothing being camped and everyone being a melee.
Nothing being farmed.

Keep boxing off though. Wipe wouldn't help, or if so would be temporary, and the idea of reoccurring wipes is ridiculous.

Topdog
07-02-2016, 09:33 AM
Keep boxing off though. Wipe wouldn't help, or if so would be temporary, and the idea of reoccurring wipes is ridiculous.

way to come off like a true red99 psycho there stasis... if wiping would help but only temporary isn't that exactly what were looking for?

hate to break it to you but your pixels are not permanent also they are only imaginary, literally a row in the sql database....

wipe it clean, lets have some "temporary fun" and then wipe ít again and have more temporary fun?????????????

derpcake
07-02-2016, 09:44 AM
would take chaboo opinion over stasis

he's trying, but full retard trying is still full retard

Tassador
07-02-2016, 10:17 AM
Yes wipe would be temporary fix, but it's eq 2016 it's not a rest of your life commitment. It's let's have a fresh time fun for the summer kid.

phacemeltar
07-02-2016, 01:39 PM
one day all time will be american time

Stasis01
07-02-2016, 05:40 PM
way to come off like a true red99 psycho there stasis... if wiping would help but only temporary isn't that exactly what were looking for?

hate to break it to you but your pixels are not permanent also they are only imaginary, literally a row in the sql database....

wipe it clean, lets have some "temporary fun" and then wipe ít again and have more temporary fun?????????????

I'd rather they just turn off the box instead of relevelling characters over and over personally.

Any temperorary pop boost would soon be gone if the core issues aren't changed.

Like FFA/No boxing.

Stasis01
07-02-2016, 05:42 PM
Sirken gets it in some ways but he has given up rightfully so most of the people that play here are big time losers.

Tradesonred
07-02-2016, 07:13 PM
yeah alienate the 27 people currently playing by wiping

who the fuck are these new faggots

it's time to assemble the wipe committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJXGKRSSmQ

terp and smedy for GM as they both are employed and balance out by hating each other

cwall/heartbrand/salem/cyren for guides

team tripod

out

2 people here reached my top 1s playing this server (this is playing MMOs since 2001):

#1 brown-nosing weasel: Sektor

#1 Tantrum-throwing Power-hungry control-freak bully man-child: Terp

Terp would be one of the last id trust with keys to a server

Dulu
07-05-2016, 08:10 AM
I'd rather they just turn off the box instead of relevelling characters over and over personally.

Any temperorary pop boost would soon be gone if the core issues aren't changed.

Like FFA/No boxing.

You're delusional if you think "No Boxing" is an "Issue".

It's by far the biggest rule that kept this server alive. While all of those TLP and that p2002 server die, p1999 is strong.

TLP "Phinigel" tried to be more like p99, with a no boxing rule, and it was their only moderately successful TLP to date. Shocking, I know.

I'm down for a new server, but if it ever allowed boxing, I'd quit p99 for good.

Bazia
07-05-2016, 08:41 AM
server's been taken hostage by 20 or so goblin dress hoarders

let us swing our massive cocks as is tradition and pray for their downfall

Stasis01
07-05-2016, 11:58 AM
You're delusional if you think "No Boxing" is an "Issue".

It's by far the biggest rule that kept this server alive. While all of those TLP and that p2002 server die, p1999 is strong.

TLP "Phinigel" tried to be more like p99, with a no boxing rule, and it was their only moderately successful TLP to date. Shocking, I know.

I'm down for a new server, but if it ever allowed boxing, I'd quit p99 for good.

Oh you're talking about a blue server with a population? K I don't know never really played blue servers it's probably better for the community not to have it.

maerilith
07-05-2016, 12:16 PM
The main thing they could do is add boxing so guilds can actually have clerics to raid with, and support classes to play with.

EQ without a population makes it unplayable, and no one wants to play those classes on PVP.

All other ideas are a waste of time and just preference tweaks.

this stasis guy is a really stupid faggot.

Why the devs won't release a fresh box now that all the coding and timeline are correct is beyond me.

Like you did all the hard work now just hit the reset button and watch it flourish.

Wipe isn't necessary just make a new box on classic timeline and merge them a year into velious.

I would pay server costs for a year for that without hesitation.

problem here is

ur idea is a waste of time and just a preference tweak

syztem
07-05-2016, 12:53 PM
They could give source out, but they won't. Could do a new server on progression with current changes but they wouldn't. Leave everything alone stop thinking they will wipe either server. Only chance there is would be free blue to red xfers for all with limited plat or droppables per person maybe not even.

maerilith
07-05-2016, 01:33 PM
They could give source out, but they won't. Could do a new server on progression with current changes but they wouldn't. Leave everything alone stop thinking they will wipe either server. Only chance there is would be free blue to red xfers for all with limited plat or droppables per person maybe not even.

there's not much source that needs to be released resist code (which is not classic and needs redone anyway) + classic UI + classic database that's already out there. leaked like 3x (quests, mobs, spawns). not to mention almost all the classic pre-kunark data is easily mined off wiki

like most of the melee dmg dodge ac stuff is still not right and backported anyway into the main emusource, prob just needs to be toggled with a cvar