Sony trying to lure us?

[Calabee]

''Welcome back to EverQuest! To help celebrate the launch of our upcoming Time Locked Progression Server, we would like to invite all former players (as of January 15th) to play EverQuest for free from Thursday, February 10th, 2011 to Monday, February 21st, 2011!''

[Henini]

yes, they try!

They know lots fo their player base left cuz of their shitty expacs

[Omnimorph]

They're hoping a lot of players will play the progression server for the free time they're given, and then resubscribe. But what i think you'll see is a lot of people play for 6 days, and then just leave it :p

[Rogean]

I find it funny... they're competing with their own product.

I mean... Who said that?

[Versus]

Reading that thread on what is actually being offered by them on the "Classic" server is a joke.

No corpse runs? 26/24 Monk fists? lol.

[Humerox]

fuck sony. mine went straight to the spam folder.

[Zexa]

Reading that thread on what is actually being offered by them on the "Classic" server is a joke.

No corpse runs? 26/24 Monk fists? lol.

You are mistaken, friend. It is a promoted as a progression server, no where will you find an SoE employee call it a classic server. Also, level 50 monk fists are 20/26 and corpse runs may be implemented.

I think they are giving us just enough free time to lure us in, but cutting us off before doing damage. I doubt six days is long enough for most people wanting to play to be turned off by imba monks, realizing their ranger should be using his fists instead of fine steel long sword, or how little you will need to rely on the community now vs the year 1999 to progress your character.

Anymore than 6 days of free play and a lot of people may realize they aren't going to want to stick around for more than a full month.

[Seaweedpimp]

Make a gnome necro and get him to about 30, then go to the highkeep nobles pot and get 50 in 6 days. loloollll

I didnt even get suspended for gaining like 20 levels that way in maybe 2 days.

I think they fixed that after they found me.

[Shannacore]

I don't even know how they got my e-mail address

[Seaweedpimp]

PS dont try that here or yo ass is banned.

I dont even think it works here but im not gonna find out. I propably shouldnt of said that, rog you can detelte that if its a problem, and i appoligize.
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[Neach]

Well I hope some of us on p99 take the free time they are giving us to recruit people from Sony and spread the word about p99. We could use alot of fresh meat.



Nast Neach from iPhone

[LazyFuj]

I got the same email...

[Throb]

PS dont try that here or yo ass is banned.

I dont even think it works here but im not gonna find out. I propably shouldnt of said that, rog you can detelte that if its a problem, and i appoligize.
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Uh, banned for what.. exping? You're retarded if you think that's some big secret.

[Seaweedpimp]

Uh, banned for what.. exping? You're retarded if you think that's some big secret.

Im not going into more details because you oviously have no idea what im talking about.

[Throb]

High Keep Nobles? Durr... Allow me to let you in on a little secret.. this game is almost 12 years old. You aren't some revolutionary trailblazer finding super sekret spots nobody knows about. It's all known and documented.

[Harrison]

Im not going into more details because you oviously have no idea what im talking about.

[Hoggen]

I changed my PW to something I'd never remember, and I'm too lazy to tell Sony I forgot my PW. Guess I won't be playing.

[Ronas]

Quote:

Dev-Ngreth:

Time of server release: ROUGH estimate, 10am PST on the 15th.

Revamp zones: Revamped zones will be in their current form.

Some zones had "Alternate Data" these zone will have the original data if available, and switch to the "new data" at the approximate expansion time it was done on live.

Expansion classes: The classes will not be available until the expansion they were introduced.

Racial penalties and bonuses: The bonuses will stay, the penalties will NOT be re-instated.

Alchemy and JC: It was a change in plans. While we could have made further restrictions, since the data and drops for old jewelry, alchemy and poison making are readily available, we decided to make it the even more original way. So it will be the old way until an appropriate expansion where it will swap.

This was not feasible with what was done with spell research. It will continue to be the "new" way, just with a restricted recipe availability.

Spells: It will be the current method of spell acquisition.

Exp gain: exp has been scaled back. At this point I don't plan to give an exact number, though that may change.

Hell levels are not back. We did not restore the original curves, instead we just slowed down experience gain overall. It will use the current "curves" but exp gain has been slowed.

Boats: translocators will still be available because boats are still unreliable. Unfortunately they are still buggy and we have not been able to spend the time needed to nail it down.

Progression vote griefing: We are working on a new poling systems. You will even see a new button on the EQ button in the February patch, but the system is not done yet, and will not be complete until the March patch, which is still plenty of time for progression since the absolute minimum will be 90 days before a vote is needed, though we can hope for more!

We will be able to restrict the poll to just the progression server, AND we plan to even level limit it so people can't be scabs and just create a level 1 character to vote... they have to get to a certain level, I.E be a player on the server. The voting will be account based, not character based, so each account gets 1 vote.

Though unlike Sleeper server, we do have an EXP slowdown going which will affect the rate of level gain this time.

I don't doubt there will be some people that spend very long hours, and optimize everything possible in a way that was not possible in 1999 and do it quickly, but it will not be as easy as the last time we did the progression server.

While we cannot stop this 100%, we hope the level limit we plan to apply will help reduce that because it will increase the time investment needed for them to grief the server.

We have not nailed down exactly what level we plan to do this, but there *IS* reduced exp on the server, as I mentioned before, so the time investment will be longer than it would be on a normal server.

Server stopping at Velious:: That is actually something that interest us here. We are curious if people really DO want that "Classic" server that is stuck at Velious, or if they will finally get bored enough to unlock Luclin.

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wow, i think they been watching p99 server and have some prevention placed in to refine around griefing. Wonder if they variance the bosses, if not, would be interesting to bring some of the p99 raid poopsocking/camp setup goodness to grief some of the players on there.:eek:

[inyane]

I was slightly interested, until I heard that they are leaving monks with their current fists delay/damage, which is something crazy overpowered. Same with mage and necro pets. Oh, and sk DT's will be what they are now, which I hear will be pretty overpowered. Plus soulbinders, and no corpse runs. meh

at level 50, fists are going to be 20/26. crazy!

[inyane]

ooops, didn't see the thread in off topic

[fastboy21]

one of the things that actually IS interesting is that the devs have said they are looking forward to seeing how the "votes" go, because they want to actually see if folks really do only want to play classic...

[Scrooge]

They allow boxing...'nuff said.

[Thetruth]

They allow boxing...'nuff said.

The truth is,

Asians will dominate.

[zianlo1]

Its not that people WANT to stay at Velious. Its that every exspasion after SoL (with a few peices of SoL itself) just flat out sucked so bad it wasnt worth playing. If they would have come out with SoL minus the bazaar and nexus spires, it woulda been awesome imo. If PoP had come without the insta porting across the world, it woulda been awesome imo. LDoN just needs to be smited from existance though.

[vincin]

I think Flip is going to be a good server and it is a good idea for Sony to finally bring it out. I just think it was a smarter idea for the creation of P99 that Sony regrets. If they just would have done a classic-time-lock (whatever server) in the first place they wouldnt have to worry about people leaving. People leave because their expansions are becoming really stupid and ALL 20 servers are the same. P99 GMs should apply to Sony and show them whos boss. lol

[DetroitVelvetSmooth]

If this server had any kind of team spirit we'd form a 50 strong goon squad for those 6 free days and straight up freak out the squares over there.