Rotating ZEM?

[project99toons]

I remember back on Live rotating ZEM. Do you think this will ever be implemented on P99? I’m getting kind of tired of the Hole...lol

Make Sebilis the next ZEM 😎

[llgreyfoxll]

I'd love to see the ZEMs rotate from time to time. I'd rather them not be released as they were last time. Just be told that they have changed.

Leave it up to the players to figure out which zones have the current top ZEMs.

[reznor_]

Yeah, rotating ZEM would be super cool. I don't know how easy or hard it would be to implement, but it would be really fun to not know which ones changed, just to know that they did.

[DKN]

+1 on this. Hole is getting old!

[kjs86z]

100% for rotating ZEMs

[foxchris509]

I'd love to see the ZEMs rotate from time to time. I'd rather them not be released as they were last time. Just be told that they have changed.

Leave it up to the players to figure out which zones have the current top ZEMs.

Hell ya this would really be a nice feature for p99.

[Evia]

It was classic too

[fastboy21]

I remember back on Live rotating ZEM. Do you think this will ever be implemented on P99? I’m getting kind of tired of the Hole...lol

Make Sebilis the next ZEM ��

Its a good idea that's been brought up before.

The devs did change the ZEMs not long ago, but it was meant as a permanent change to be more in line with what we think they were in classic. The effect though was very positive on green...folks were willing to get off the typical path and hit up some new (to them) dungeons like CT and Runnyeye.

I believe the era of the rotating zem on live didn't start until after velious (maybe luclin or PoP)...not that it means it can't be done here, but I don't think it would be (strictly) "classic".

[m00r5tuD]

yes please it is a great idea.

[garfo]

LOLing hard at folks saying that The Hole is getting old, it's fantastic -- I see that as the best possible evidence in favor of a rotating ZEM. before the ZEM boost, The Hole was an absolute ghost town -- if you wanted to see that zone you'd have to organize and port in your own group for a dungeon crawl. People would even make posts on the forums advocating for how fun The Hole was as a zone, begging more folks to come check it out. Imagine that for Kedge, or ToFS, or even a ZEM boost in outdoor zones like Skyfire or BW!

[DKN]

The Hole is getting old, it's fantastic -- I see that as the best possible evidence in favor of a rotating ZEM.

Eh? Exactly. Rotate ZEM's......

[loramin]

Look, this is not the first ZEM rotation thread, and it won't be the last either, because it's a REALLY GREAT IDEA. At the same time, it's also very unclassic: there was literally only one "ZEM adjustment" (that I can find at least) in the entire classic timeline: https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch%20Notes?redirected_from_http=1#Zone_Experien ce. It came right after the start of Kunark ... which is to say "close enough" to when staff re-adjusted ZEMs here.

Asking for any further ZEM rotation would mean ignoring what's in the upper-left corner of the screen, so it seems clear to me that on Green at least there should be no further ZEM rotation (unless it's a "bug fix" of some sort, eg. someone finds proof that zone X should have a much higher/lower ZEM).

But ... Blue has long held out the possibility of custom content. Given this idea's popularity, and the fact that it would encourage people to see more of classic EverQuest than they otherwise would, it would seem like a shoe-in for custom content ... but then again, the fact that the devs haven't done it yet suggests that maybe they just don't like the idea as much as everyone else does.

Or maybe we all just have to wait a little longer for Blue custom content :)

[Gustoo]

Yeah. It isn't classic to cycle zone experience modifiers but it would probably be a good idea along with a few other unclassic things to make the servers work better in 2020.

Lets face it, this project now has more years of classic everquest than everquest itself did. It is its own project and its own museum game and there should be some consideration given to improving the game. Definitely for Blue.

[Muchew]

Would love rotating ZEM

[eqtrader99]

Nerfing clickies and recharges wasn't classic either...

[condap99]

+1

Great idea.

So many great dungeons are ignored. Rotate them to encourage trying new content.

[Croco]

Nerfing clickies and recharges wasn't classic either...

QFT

[Sancta]

This is a custom server. Many many changes have been made to differentiate this server from classic. ZEMs should 100% be adjusted, if not rotating then at least balance them. Difficult zones should get higher ZEM no question. Spreading the leveling population across the world is only beneficial to the server as a whole. Shouldn't have such a high variance of 170% in one zone and 85% in another equal zone.