Who cried so hard for another server

[silo32]

When Green isn't even at 2k

1.6k online on a sunday afternoon.....

Opening day it was like 2.6k and even with 2.1k online I still have no problem finding shit to exp on in newb yards or find groups for stuff. Right now there are zero people in runny eye...

discuss

yea lets have like 800 people on each server or less

yall gonna kill green before it even takes off

[amnesia998]

800 people is perfectly enough for vanilla EQ, but you go on about raging on the forums all day. Maybe try going outside once in a while, couldn't hurt.

[El-Hefe]

Was a topic in both sub forums necessary? Get the fuck over it.

[silo32]

800 people is perfectly enough for vanilla EQ, but you go on about raging on the forums all day. Maybe try going outside once in a while, couldn't hurt.

all day? equates to 2 hours while I do stuff around the house?

got me

[pink grapefruit]

When Green isn't even at 2k

1.6k online on a sunday afternoon.....

Opening day it was like 2.6k and even with 2.1k online I still have no problem finding shit to exp on in newb yards or find groups for stuff. Right now there are zero people in runny eye...

discuss

yea lets have like 800 people on each server or less

yall gonna kill green before it even takes off

Why are you so mad over this. I don’t get it.

[silo32]

Was a topic in both sub forums necessary? Get the fuck over it.

Its rampant and this announcement was recent. Also not necessary. 1.5k online during a weekend does not warrant another server to split the community

[akagami]

It’s 8:30 am pacific and 11:30am EST

Literally morning still.

[AegnorP99]

Why are you so mad over this. I don’t get it.

[El-Hefe]

Its rampant and this announcement was recent. Also not necessary. 1.5k online during a weekend does not warrant another server to split the community

Yeah, but acting like a spaz isn’t going to get whatever point you’re trying to make across any better.

[pink grapefruit]

Like for real. The drama that came from the overcrowding was hilarious and I’d like to see it continue, but now there’s this brand new drama over the fix for the initial drama and I’m just so lost lol.

Why does this upset people so much??

[korzax]

I don't think anything you stated in your original post was factual.

[solleks]

When Green isn't even at 2k

1.6k online on a sunday afternoon.....

Opening day it was like 2.6k and even with 2.1k online I still have no problem finding shit to exp on in newb yards or find groups for stuff. Right now there are zero people in runny eye...

discuss

yea lets have like 800 people on each server or less

yall gonna kill green before it even takes off

Who's crying right now? You. Leave this to the big boys

[silo32]

Yeah, but acting like a spaz isn’t going to get whatever point you’re trying to make across any better.

it worked for whoever got staff to open another server to split the 1500 player base into 2

server was 2.6k and now 1.5k on a weekend, tomorrow morning you ll be lucky to have 900 online

once people realize how grindy this is they will drop off after the 1st few hell lvls or make alts or just go back to blue/red or quit entirely

[korzax]

A forecaster you are.

[El-Hefe]

it worked for whoever got staff to open another server to split the 1500 player base into 2

server was 2.6k and now 1.5k on a weekend, tomorrow morning you ll be lucky to have 900 online

once people realize how grindy this is they will drop off after the 1st few hell lvls or make alts or just go back to blue/red or quit entirely

I see 1.9k on at 8:30am PST. Even that is too much.

If the population drops they’ll merge them. There is literally no downside.

[silo32]

I see 1.9k on at 8:30am PST. Even that is too much.

If the population drops they’ll merge them. There is literally no downside.

literally you can box on teal and green

literally the market will be flooded with items and econ shit due to more rares

literally could list more but since staff is doing this anyway I will let you figure the rest out

cant connect with certain people that focused on crafting, splitting up guilds, community, your gonna lvl with people for 50 lvls then suddenly merge 1.5k people who you have never met or played with before into your realm, their will be no need for reputation when the server will be merged

overall eq is a community game splitting the server is a dead deal imho

[korzax]

just before sony stopped posting numbers on their servers login screen, the busiest would have approx. 1700-1900 during prime time weekends. the one i played on had 1200-1300. 1900 on Sunday morning is crazy high.

[saftbudet]

Like for real. The drama that came from the overcrowding was hilarious and I’d like to see it continue, but now there’s this brand new drama over the fix for the initial drama and I’m just so lost lol.

Why does this upset people so much??

Agree. Let rogean do whatever he want 😊👍

[cd288]

I see 1.9k on at 8:30am PST. Even that is too much.

If the population drops they’ll merge them. There is literally no downside.

Too much for people to be able to immediately get a group in a select few extremely popular zones*

FTFY

[joshd]

Is this a thing in the P99 forums? Whenever something happens everyone has to have their own personal whine thread about it? Are people here that starved for attention?

[silo32]

Is this a thing in the P99 forums? Whenever something happens everyone has to have their own personal whine thread about it? Are people here that starved for attention?

never heard of her

[krilla]

Is this a thing in the P99 forums? Whenever something happens everyone has to have their own personal whine thread about it? Are people here that starved for attention?

P1999 is a great place, been here for years, truly #blessed that such a thing exists in this day in age. That said, P1999 is also a refuge for mal-adjusted manbabies who have nothing better to do, which brings with it a bunch of unfortunate behaviors. Mix that with the staff's laid-back attitude toward forum moderation and you get the P1999 forums, where the internet's finest all have a soapbox to voice their crappy "opinions".

[silo32]

P1999 is a great place, been here for years, truly #blessed that such a thing exists in this day in age. That said, P1999 is also a refuge for mal-adjusted manbabies who have nothing better to do, which brings with it a bunch of unfortunate behaviors. Mix that with the staff's laid-back attitude toward forum moderation and you get the P1999 forums, where the internet's finest all have a soapbox to voice their crappy "opinions".

aka this is how the Teal server was birthed

[korzax]

Teal is happening. Suck it up, buttercup.

[zodium]

Like for real. The drama that came from the overcrowding was hilarious and I’d like to see it continue, but now there’s this brand new drama over the fix for the initial drama and I’m just so lost lol.

Why does this upset people so much??

people live in different timezones and thus experience different levels of content scarcity, and also are absolutely unable to apprehend this fact, causing great confusion when posts based on such different perspectives collide in infinite majesty on prooject 1999 dot com slash forums

the solution is server pop based spawn rate normalization but i'll take a server split

[Kalanmyr]

people live in different timezones and thus experience different levels of content scarcity, and also are absolutely unable to apprehend this fact, causing great confusion when posts based on such different perspectives collide in infinite majesty on prooject 1999 dot com slash forums

the solution is server pop based spawn rate normalization but i'll take a server split

Not really, the wiki has 10 years worth research and documentation of spawn timers. Normalizing spawn rates for every zone isn't the best solution IMO.

[zaneosak]

there was 1600 people online at 10AM EST (7AM PST)
there was 12 druids in EK charming with 2-3 bards Quadding. I ran to Oasis to see if maybe I could play there, there's a group killing stuff in every corner (orc highway, orc ruin, croc 1, croc 2, derv) Went down to Guk to see what was up there, 45 people in the zone. Did some /who on unrest.

I don't love the idea of teal but when I can't play at all, I can see why they are doing it. I logged on early morning to get some XP in, seems like most people had the same idea.

I mean just because a zone like permafrost is far away.... doesn't mean it should be ignored. I wish there was more incentive for people to go off the beaten path, I know Perma for only 20% extra XP seems bad risk,but there is alot of unused zones.

I thought green might force people to get off the beaten path and go to weird zones for XP but I guess it's hard to justify running thru west karana for 20% XP in a dungeon with alot of casters when you can just go get double XP in Guk or Unrest assuming you find a group.

Classic does not seem like it was made for 2000+. Kunark would add Lake of Ill Omen, WW, Overthere which all add a shit ton of level ranges viability grouping and soloing.

[cd288]

there was 1600 people online at 10AM EST (7AM PST)
there was 12 druids in EK charming with 2-3 bards Quadding. I ran to Oasis to see if maybe I could play there, there's a group killing stuff in every corner (orc highway, orc ruin, croc 1, croc 2, derv) Went down to Guk to see what was up there, 45 people in the zone. Did some /who on unrest.

I don't love the idea of teal but when I can't play at all, I can see why they are doing it. I logged on early morning to get some XP in, seems like most people had the same idea.

I mean just because a zone like permafrost is far away.... doesn't mean it should be ignored. I wish there was more incentive for people to go off the beaten path, I know Perma for only 20% extra XP seems bad risk,but there is alot of unused zones.

I thought green might force people to get off the beaten path and go to weird zones for XP but I guess it's hard to justify running thru west karana for 20% XP in a dungeon with alot of casters when you can just go get double XP in Guk or Unrest assuming you find a group.

Classic does not seem like it was made for 2000+. Kunark would add Lake of Ill Omen, WW, Overthere which all add a shit ton of level ranges viability grouping and soloing.

Did you happen to ask any of those groups if they had spots or if there was a list going?

[korzax]

Standing in line isn't classic

[branamil]

Imagine being 40, single, overweight, unemployed, and EXTREMELY mad when a new elf world gets created

[cd288]

Standing in line isn't classic

Lol since when

[Ind3]

They had a vote to open a second server. The majority voted no. They decided to do so anyway against the popular vote. We play these free servers at their leisure. Deal with it. It doesn’t bother me one bit. I appreciate the work they’ve done so that I can have fun with this game again. You need some perspective in life.

[Valion]

Maybe his comp isn't powerful enough to monopolize the same spawns across 3 servers? Or he needs to buy more timers.

[jacob54311]

Lol since when

Opening new servers is classic.

[Caledore]

Rogean and company have access to tons of information and data we don't - not to mention the experience of actually running these servers.

They think opening Teal is a good idea. Call me crazy, but I'm going to trust them over forum randos.

[Vyal]

Lol since when

Standing in line isn't classic though.
If you wanted a camp you could just take it and the person or group who did over 50% damage got the kill.

With all the non classic rules constricting play styles to such a linear controlled grind it makes sense to open a new server.

If it were classic 2 thousand plus people would be an absolute blast to play but... because of all the rules it's just drama city who would've guessed :confused:

[Bazia]

my server on classic had 700 people primetime

[Jibartik]

It was all the lulz and all his ks'd skellies petitions Im sure.

[Jibartik]

Standing in line is 100% classic, on rallos zek they stood inline for the jbbots, took me 25 hours, was the best time of my life.

[Deathrydar]

...

[Vyal]

Standing in line is 100% classic, on rallos zek they stood inline for the jbbots, took me 25 hours, was the best time of my life.

Dude you're so full of shit. You just make up random stuff and probably never even played classic Everquest.
There was never any rules about standing in line to get a kill on anything.
Just like there was never any mob limits or pbae limits.
Or lists, or any of the these weirdo follow the white line to the next exp distribution point rules.

People like you literally ruined classic for p99 btw.

[cd288]

Standing in line isn't classic though.
If you wanted a camp you could just take it and the person or group who did over 50% damage got the kill.

With all the non classic rules constricting play styles to such a linear controlled grind it makes sense to open a new server.

If it were classic 2 thousand plus people would be an absolute blast to play but... because of all the rules it's just drama city who would've guessed :confused:

Er no. You couldn’t. As someone who was part of the CSR team this was definitely not the case. And even less so once we officially formalized the PnP

[Vyal]

Er no. You couldn’t. As someone who was part of the CSR team this was definitely not the case. And even less so once we officially formalized the PnP

As someone who played i'm calling bs. As long as you did 50% of the damage you got the kill there was never any rules about it this is how the term kill stealing came to be.
It wasn't for a while that any actual rules came about to try and fix that.

I understand ruffly 5 out of 1 a hundred people but probably much less more like 1 in 300 people actually played EQ when it came out here. Most of the people on p99 started sometime during Kunark and have no idea what actual classic was like.
Many people like to claim they know, they lie and make up stuff to try and get rules put in to make it easier on themselves just like you.

[zodium]

in addition to timezones, people also struggle with the fact that rather than there being one uniform classic everquest experience, different servers had different populations and qualities, and were very different in important ways

[Spock2020]

I wouldn't mind if they let the role-playing people do their things on teal.Don't see any downside to that.

[Swish]

Opening new servers is classic.

[Meiva]

What is the server name going to be when Green and Teal merge? Cyan?

[NeilYo]

2200 online btw dunno where you got your numbers from

[lordpazuzu]

As someone who played i'm calling bs. As long as you did 50% of the damage you got the kill there was never any rules about it this is how the term kill stealing came to be.
It wasn't for a while that any actual rules came about to try and fix that.

I understand ruffly 5 out of 1 a hundred people but probably much less more like 1 in 300 people actually played EQ when it came out here. Most of the people on p99 started sometime during Kunark and have no idea what actual classic was like.
Many people like to claim they know, they lie and make up stuff to try and get rules put in to make it easier on themselves just like you.

I'm not sure when the PNP was formalized, but it was well before RoK, so the window in which you could KS without consequence was small at best.

[brussel]

When Green isn't even at 2k

1.6k online on a sunday afternoon.....

Opening day it was like 2.6k and even with 2.1k online I still have no problem finding shit to exp on in newb yards or find groups for stuff. Right now there are zero people in runny eye...

discuss

yea lets have like 800 people on each server or less

yall gonna kill green before it even takes off

Reading this and your other posts, you come across as a guy with a strong interest in keeping items super rare.

It doesn't take a leap of logic to assume you are benefiting from that rarity in some meaningful way.

As someone playing a game, it would mean you would hold a sense of value and accomplishment in the item you 'earned'. But your anger seems to far exceed this.

I wonder what benefit you are looking to leverage in a restricted economy.

[cd288]

I'm not sure when the PNP was formalized, but it was well before RoK, so the window in which you could KS without consequence was small at best.

Correct

[Jeni]

I like everything handed to be please make more servers. I hate socializing in my mmorpgs. Any chance we can get instanced versions of Lower Guk? Even with the population split I still may have to group and interact or wait in line for for a manastone.

[Forsh]

I like everything handed to be please make more servers. I hate socializing in my mmorpgs. Any chance we can get instanced versions of Lower Guk? Even with the population split I still may have to group and interact or wait in line for for a manastone.

You just described everything wrong with retail World of Warcraft.

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Dude you're so full of shit. You just make up random stuff and probably never even played classic Everquest.
There was never any rules about standing in line to get a kill on anything.
Just like there was never any mob limits or pbae limits.
Or lists, or any of the these weirdo follow the white line to the next exp distribution point rules.

People like you literally ruined classic for p99 btw.

You're **NEVER** getting your Chardok Swarm RMT-ring back bro. Suck it up and move on.

[curtischoy]

Can you play on Teal and Green at the same time?

[Lordess]

in addition to timezones, people also struggle with the fact that rather than there being one uniform classic everquest experience, different servers had different populations and qualities, and were very different in important ways

So much this! I’m reading some of these posts and scratching my head, because I played EQ the year it came out my entire summer vacation. I remember there being rules that were player and guild enforced about stealing camps, ninja looting, training, etc. Maybe some of you played on servers that were full of a-holes, but on E’ci the experience was much more “play nice.”

[lordpazuzu]

Reading this and your other posts, you come across as a guy with a strong interest in keeping items super rare.

It doesn't take a leap of logic to assume you are benefiting from that rarity in some meaningful way.

As someone playing a game, it would mean you would hold a sense of value and accomplishment in the item you 'earned'. But your anger seems to far exceed this.

I wonder what benefit you are looking to leverage in a restricted economy.

When I logged in today it was over 2k. The split needs to take into account server loads at peak times, which are over 2200 nightly. Anything over 1200 and an EQ server started to get a bit crowded. So, logging in on a Sunday morning and seeing 1600 on is indicative of overcrowding in and of itself, since you're over optimum population in a non-peak playtime.

[cd288]

You just described everything wrong with retail World of Warcraft.

And apparently this same thing is wrong with a decent amount of this community who can't handle the most popular places being crowded enough that they might have to wait a bit to get into a group

[Baler]

everytime I log into green I'm filled with joyful emotions that I get to play a classic fresh server on project 1999.

[Lulz Sect]

there are 1914 players in Everquest (at the time of this post)

a server split is fine

[Valion]

Personally there are still mobs that are in game and items dropping for the Temple of Ro quests and many other classes to make classic like the mage/pet classes. I say make as many changes as possible
Bring Teal online then once those that want to transfer have done so, reset ALL chars to level 1 with their newb items. Call it a test run and have at with both servers racing to complete the 1st' s.

So many classic purists should embrace the challenge.

[zaneosak]

Would be funny if Green was beta this whole time and now Teal is the real deal. Suckers.

[zodium]

Would be funny if Green was beta this whole time and now Teal is the real deal. Suckers.

what if everything is the beta and it's never going to be an exact replica

[Vormotus]

Would be funny if Green was beta this whole time and now Teal is the real deal. Suckers.

What if Reality itself is the beta and what comes after we die is the real deal? :p

[wildstar]

inb4 yellow server

[reznor_]

Teal ftw. Just got back from travel (missed Green opening) and it's nice to see this. OP just gg'd too hard.

[Vormotus]

inb4 yellow server

This is the official Colours list for future servers in P99:

Green -> Teal -> Cyan -> Magenta -> Fuchsia ->Amboge -> Feldgrau -> Caput Mortuum -> Saruman


Once Saruman opens new servers will begin using a new Colour scale:

Once Saruman inevitably splits into Gandalf and goes back to White new colours for servers will be measured directly in nanometers and THz.

Once this Scale is expended we will go full Lovecraftian.

Thank you for reading

[Krone90]

Imagine being 40, single, overweight, unemployed, and EXTREMELY mad when a new elf world gets created
lmao i'm in tears:D

[slowpoke68]

I'd be curious to know what class the OP is playing.

[solidious77]

When Green isn't even at 2k

1.6k online on a sunday afternoon.....

Opening day it was like 2.6k and even with 2.1k online I still have no problem finding shit to exp on in newb yards or find groups for stuff. Right now there are zero people in runny eye...

discuss

yea lets have like 800 people on each server or less

yall gonna kill green before it even takes off

Lets discuss, rationally..

Even if it is 800 people per server, in classic why is that so bad? There will still be plenty of people to group with AND mobs to kill.

Nothing about a second server makes the game any easier or more difficult; so maybe you should respect your time (and others) more. There is just no need to be running around an overpopulated server when there is enough players to divide into two halves without sacrificing much of anything at all.

If the second server split the population so bad that that one was hurting and you couldn't find groups, that is a separate argument. The simple fact is that currently we can functionally split the population, so why don't you want to is really a better question; Why are you so adamant to keep the status quo? What are the pros and cons you are so concerned about? You've listed one - the population will be too divided. Well, they already addressed that advising they could be merged if needed down the line.

Really the only down-fall I can come up with: is that there will be more classic items in the overall server should they be merged. Is that really such a bad thing though; that people play and actually achieve something without literally sacrificing their health trying to stick it out on a /list like a pixelated game of survivor? haha.

End-game grouping and raiding will probably still be a cluster fuck even with 800 people each; Plus you can still go to runny eye if you want to! I don't think it will be camped much either way ;)

[Bazia]

feels pretty good to be a teal chad rn

[wildstar]

feels pretty good to be a teal chad rn

15 ppl in nektulos, now i can exp in peace

[solleks]

Wish I was home right now I'd be jamming out on Teal

[Gallus]

I personally like the move to open a 2nd server. No one wants to sit around LFG for 3 hours. This should help make raiding less toxic too.

[Sonark]

Like for real. The drama that came from the overcrowding was hilarious and I’d like to see it continue, but now there’s this brand new drama over the fix for the initial drama and I’m just so lost lol.

Why does this upset people so much??This is a post that can be freely seen in most threads on this forum, on a variety of subjects.

[Swish]

I personally like the move to open a 2nd server. No one wants to sit around LFG for 3 hours. This should help make raiding less toxic too.

I was in Green Crushbone for a long time yesterday. I think I had about 8-9 people waiting to get on the list to join the TR group, and nobody wanted to leave because the XP was so good.

That as an example, this is why teal is a good idea. People end up solo camping a minotaur in steamfont chugging along at about 10% of what they could be doing in terms of XP.

[kozmik]

Only people upset about Teal are poop-socker economy movers mad that they can't hold the entire population hostage with their poop-socker royalty status.

[Bazia]

remember guys dont wait more than 2 weeks to /move or your gonna regret it when your in a 60 person line for kobold royals

[zaneosak]

feels pretty good to be a teal chad rn

Pretty obvious you're a green + teal chad by your recent posts in favor of the boxing :)