Are things really that much better on Blue?

[WokeCat]

This isn't really a rant or a flame, but I just want to have a conversation I guess?

When I swapped to Blue, Kunark hadn't even came out on Green yet, and Blue felt like a paradise for solo players. But I think as Green has matured, a lot of people moved back to Blue, and it's like... no one on Blue seems to ever want to group, which wouldn't be a big deal, but it's like, every camp that you would normally want to solo seems over-farmed?

I'm not entirely sure that Blue is a better experience than Green in 2022? Don't quote me on this though, since I don't play on Green anymore. Perhaps people don't group that often over there anymore either? But on Blue it for sure feels impossible to get a group, and really hard to find an open solo camp unless you're playing at like 3AM on a week night.

I haven't had any hostile situations on Blue though. Most of the time I give my camp up to other people because they are so friendly and I feel bad for hogging it :o Especially when I was doing Treants because they were green to me, and it felt like I was just being super greedy lol.

35 shaman / 44 cleric lfg btw on blue

[Cecily]

Uh both servers are beyond geriatric at this point in the game. EQ is a game with a 2 year shelf life. Blue is like 12 years old and Green is getting up there, too. You missed the rush to 60 and you're gonna have a harder time leveling with either population. Blue seems remarkably dead, going by the visible EC tunnel pop any time I log on. Green has some life in it still.

[Stonewallx39]

I’ve played on both green and blue extensively. Both offer tons of fun and player interaction.

Your best bet grouping on Blue is to stick to more travelled zones of your level and take the initiative to pull groups together. Blue is full of players of all different personalities and expectations. I’m regularly in groups and if some asks to join but it would be a sub-optimal make up usually people will say “sure” or “the more the merrier”.

Green is also good, but your more travelled zones have even more and people seem to be a little more resource conscious. Having more people in zones means more groups, but it also means more competition. I think there is a hold over in culture on green from classic launch and population challenges where there was a lot of toxic selfishness and racing and other weirdness that isn’t classic but has become the meta. The being said 9 out of 10 people on green are great and there’s and awesome community.

[Ananka]

For the younger levels I get tells for groups quite often on Green but Cecily is right that the server has started to age. Having played on both servers recently I would say the grouping scene is more active on Green right now but I'm referring to sub level 20 groups.

Having said that, the two servers need to be merged in my opinion. There are people on Blue who are Blue or die and it would really help to have some new characters added to mix with them. Soon enough we'll get the new Green and most of the population on current Green will move on and it will resemble Blue but maybe even with less population then current Blue. Ok, I'll put away my crystal ball now...

[Jimjam]

I'm hankering after that new server smell again.

Caught wait to be left in the dust by levellers while I try make myself a full set of studded armour.

It's gonna be amazing!

[Chortles Snortles]

imagine rolling a new char to play with "i am a blue main since 2009" brainlets
(lol)

[WokeCat]

Uh both servers are beyond geriatric at this point in the game. EQ is a game with a 2 year shelf life. Blue is like 12 years old and Green is getting up there, too. You missed the rush to 60 and you're gonna have a harder time leveling with either population. Blue seems remarkably dead, going by the visible EC tunnel pop any time I log on. Green has some life in it still.

TBH I've never played extensively, but I feel like EQ is the other way around.. like my Cleric is over 2 years old and only level 44. The thought of hitting level 60 and getting BIS gear seems like something that would take years for a player like me.

[magnetaress]

Welcome to EQ. The way to get things done is make friends over decades and become an elf yourself.

G-d bless.

[mycoolrausch]

TBH I've never played extensively, but I feel like EQ is the other way around.. like my Cleric is over 2 years old and only level 44. The thought of hitting level 60 and getting BIS gear seems like something that would take years for a player like me.

It does take years. At the pace the average player plays at, and the retention rate of them, blue was a player rich, zone rich, level range rich, server until late 2018 or so. After that, more players had all the level 60 alts they wanted than new players trying to get level 60, and the dynamic of the server really changed.

So Blue lasted a solid 10 years before it transitioned to an end of life top heavy exclusive server.

[Twochain]

Uh both servers are beyond geriatric at this point in the game. EQ is a game with a 2 year shelf life. Blue is like 12 years old and Green is getting up there, too. You missed the rush to 60 and you're gonna have a harder time leveling with either population. Blue seems remarkably dead, going by the visible EC tunnel pop any time I log on. Green has some life in it still.

Trading has all but moved to discord

There's still 300+ people in tov on quakes etc

[Jayzeus]

Uh both servers are beyond geriatric at this point in the game. EQ is a game with a 2 year shelf life. Blue is like 12 years old and Green is getting up there, too. You missed the rush to 60 and you're gonna have a harder time leveling with either population. Blue seems remarkably dead, going by the visible EC tunnel pop any time I log on. Green has some life in it still.


Between discord and forums I don't think EC is the best barometer, but I'm not disagreeing necessarily either.

[Jayzeus]

.... apparently mr twochains more or less said that already. shows me for replying to someone before finishing rest of thread!

[Tongpow]

idk.. was 98 fucking nerds in ec yesterday on blue. that's pretty fucking good for a 23 yr old game

wish i had 98 nerds to play tribes 1 with

[Andyman1022]

Just got a Green Dragon Scale as a casual on blue without buying it. Hope that helps

[Valakut]

blue has devolved into vanquish farming greens in every zone worth anything to sustain their pixel lust.

green has a bunch of kiddie touchers running around playing lawyerquest.

the days of open fear and hate crawls on project 1999 are long gone. the joy of 100+ randoms experiencing content that is gate kept by the jobless is outweighed by the fear of being DQ'd because a mini spawns or a quaco draco pops.

just keep your sleep apnea machine clean and your batphone on max volume. otherwise this community isn't for you anymore.

[Encroaching Death]

This is anecdotal, but it seems all the new players to P99 are going to Green.

Green will probably be the best in terms of a natural grouping experience.

Both servers are old enough to have a maturing player base, but Blue is even more so.

If you see a level 12 character on Blue, there's a good chance he already has a few level 60 alts.

I started playing P99 again a few months ago after a long break and I don't think I have even grouped once on Blue. It has been 100% solo. Granted, I've been playing Necro, Druid, and Shaman...but still.

If anyone is grouped up, they certainly aren't PUGs.

Which is a problem, because MMOs need a constant flow of newbies. To feed the in-game economy and overall health of the server.

[Argh]

Try red

[Chortles Snortles]

argh

[spoil]

green has a bunch of kiddie touchers running around playing lawyerquest.


I hate lawyerquesters.

But seriously I personally don't have any issues with the community on blue because I don't care about the "end game." I have nothing against sweaty no-life raiders but this 20 year-old game isn't the one for it IMO. I just want to have fun with some elf friends and maybe do some cool solo stuff on my chanter and I can accomplish that on blue.

[Swish]

Try red

https://i.imgur.com/4pWZJX2.png

https://i.imgur.com/QUJlAae.png

[Whyt]

idk.. was 98 fucking nerds in ec yesterday on blue. that's pretty fucking good for a 23 yr old game

wish i had 98 nerds to play tribes 1 with

omfg i would totally play Tribes 1 with you. I miss the living hell outta that game. I used to play that on dial up also!

[Tongpow]

omfg i would totally play Tribes 1 with you. I miss the living hell outta that game. I used to play that on dial up also!

mother fuckers need to know..

https://youtu.be/HOAaixGw27o

https://playt1.com/

[Chortles Snortles]

always saw the younger teenagers (than us at the time) mostly playing Tribes in the LAN cafe section of this gaming store called Neutral Ground
we'd eventually take over to play Half Life multiplayer (not CS) while taking a break from MTG

[magnetaress]

Serious post reeks of envy (lol)

Half life was the the better game tho. U dodged a bullet (Serious)

[Aluri]

Try red. We get refugees from green. No one is really starved for pixels (on the winning side anyway) so if you want to get an epic or a BIS character, you can do it. You also get the satisfaction of accomplishing endgame P99 content including rooted dragons with cutting edge strategies and bare minimum numbers. We can do Dain and Vulak with less than 30. We also have scheduled raids and don't have to wake up at 3am to secure targets :)

[Ennewi]

Green's voice channel for open kael was borderline red/4chan. Blue's was mostly just playful ribbing. Given server histories, would think it would be the other way around.

[Fammaden]

Cause all this shit about green being the more civil community is total nonsense. They just had a history of settling out of court more often, and the GM's like that. Green is a super toxic, selfish community overall. The whole place has been shaped by the races for legacy items from day one.

[wagorf]

Cause all this shit about green being the more civil community is total nonsense. They just had a history of settling out of court more often, and the GM's like that. Green is a super toxic, selfish community overall. The whole place has been shaped by the races for legacy items from day one.

finally someone spitting out some ugly truth?

[Skarne]

tribes 1 and 2 were dope. peak gaming era.

[bobjonesp99]

Cause all this shit about green being the more civil community is total nonsense. They just had a history of settling out of court more often, and the GM's like that. Green is a super toxic, selfish community overall. The whole place has been shaped by the races for legacy items from day one.

im not gonna argue its the friendliest place in the world, but the GMs themselves mention how much less toxic green is than blue all the time. i feel like they might have a decent idea.

[Encroaching Death]

Green's voice channel for open kael was borderline red/4chan.

Man...

I KNEW I chose the wrong server when I decided to stay on Blue...

Keep the Internet Toxic™

[Skarne]

I've played and raided on both. Green is better.

[Skarne]

(in terms of toxicity) but both are equally sad.

[Encroaching Death]

(in terms of toxicity) but both are equally sad.

https://en.meming.world/images/en/thumb/d/df/There_Is_Another.jpg/300px-There_Is_Another.jpg

[Jimjam]

Try red. We get refugees from green. No one is really starved for pixels (on the winning side anyway) so if you want to get an epic or a BIS character, you can do it. You also get the satisfaction of accomplishing endgame P99 content including rooted dragons with cutting edge strategies and bare minimum numbers. We can do Dain and Vulak with less than 30. We also have scheduled raids and don't have to wake up at 3am to secure targets :)

Scheduled raiding… don’t tempt me Frodo.

Sol B group on Tuesday?

[Smoofers]

unironically using the word toxic

who's your wife dating nowadays?

[unsunghero]

Green’s where all the cool people are at. But don’t get the wrong idea and come over either

I would say Blue is where Green chars go to die (never be played again) but the server merge will never happen so no worries

[WokeCat]

Try red

I played there for about 20 levels. Felt like a ghost town. I remember there being a server-wide OOC where people spread Alex Jones talking points constantly. Never actually saw another player in-game. Started to realize that I was kind of wasting my time by playing there.

[Encroaching Death]

Holy shit, I need to play on Red

[WokeCat]

^It ain't as cool as it sounds. All the high $$$ camps were open, but it didn't matter when you realized there ain't nothing to buy because there's no real economy, lol. The exp was supposed to be faster, but I couldn't really tell. Low levels all feel like hell levels.