The thought of playing in the revamped zones makes me cringe.

I actually use the term "devamped" to refer to those zones.

Most likely it will be very similar if not exactly like the previous progression server. I'm not sure if you'd even have the old world 'original drops such as the Mana Stone or Guise of the Deceiver. At least I don't recall the previous progression having it.

I do remember that within two to three weeks people had already managed to make Misty Thicket Picnic Baskets and Qeynos Afternoon Tea. The Stats on both of these items rival anything that would drop even from the Planes and or Kunark (they were being sold for as little as 1sp per item or 2gold a stack).

Personally I'm not in any hurry to start again. P99 has what most of the old school players are really looking for. In the mean time I'll keep an eye on Everquest Next.

The new EQ Expansion and EQII F2P are coming out so they don't want to turn people's attention away from that just yet.

We've had this thread before. I don't know why people confuse "progression" and "classic;" they're too completely different types of servers.

Progression in the original incarnation was like a "raider challenge" server - the entire ruleset was designed for competition among raiding guilds. The pace of the server in ways made raiding more fun than it was when the content was current. After a year Phinigel's not a blip on anyone's radar, but when you have 30 days to get your epic Phinny pieces before epics are released, some really crazy shit occurs in Kedge. And that's just one example. The chaos that occurs when you condense the expansions so much is very entertaining.

And as it ended up, the raiders loved prog (since this news my AIM has been blowing up with people trying to reconnect for this server), the casuals usually ended up bitching and talking about how the server was such a "failure" after playing for 6 months and dropping $90 on it.

There was a lot of shit that sucked about prog like the revamped zones, zones that were released too early, out of era loot, etc. Again, this affected the casuals more than the raiders as it was really easy to get awesome loot ie. worn haste from Greigs, but if you had raid gear this stuff wasn't very important (besides stuff like the required level 60 ranged item that I used from Kunark and never upgraded until GoD and that was more like a sidegrade). There was a thread started by a dev to collect a list of everything that shouldn't have been in prog and that was pretty complete. The only thing that could really ruin this server is if defiant armor is kept in; that stuff really can't be upgraded until Qvic+.

Some people will like it, others will hate it, thousands will play it. But to say "Progression sucks because it's not classic" is like saying EQ sucks because you don't like its PVP. Totally irrelevant.

This right here.

SoE will not do it right. The mobs, the drops the non-classic quests. Just watch, they will all be in there.

For the most part they will just lock zones. Don't think for a second they have a development team re-coding the entire game for this niche server.

Not even a year, the last time they did progression servers I resubbed and it was only a month or two before they took the time lock off.

I got the first phinny killshot on combine and as a monk no less! Even with all the messed up shit that shouldn't be there, all the guilds had the same uneven playground. It was fun for a while to see who could accomplish stuff first using anything and everything available. It was felt like a comic book cross over where aliens with laserguns invade king arthurs castle but batman appears and saves the day. Good for a few week side project but I'm not gonna leave p99 over it.

I personally think it sounds great.

I was in vegas for 7 days overlapping fanfaire and poked in there a few times. Through some connections I got to meet smedley face to face. Hes not interested in trying to do anything to us, as long as we don't charge / profit.

Notice I said trying.. because even if they did decide to, we really don't do anything illegal to begin with (Intellectual Property is only illegal to profit from).