People forget the context to this was like 2k something people being on Green at the time. They made this statement in the context of let’s see if in three years we still have this type of population in which case we could support three pve servers. We don’t have that population anymore.

Dont want to sound contrarian, but merging green and blue wont make the pop magically stay high forever.

Personally, having certain guilds and people on diff servers is actually healthier for people at endgame than forcing the toxicity of certain type of players in a single one.

I am not alone thinking that keeping some people apart is the best outcome for the two servers, but then again, we wont have an official answer until after Jan 2023 anyway as explained by the devs themselves.

I would love a new fresh Teal server but dont know if it will ever happen, but if nothing would ever happen Id rather things stay as they are now until pops are so low merging the two servers would be the best for the community and much more cost effective as well for people keeping the servers up and running.

In my own experience I am server hopping at the moment, trying new things and classes that will never exist in P99 or even live (Gnome Beastlords are the best, also Troll Druids!!!, man that rocks so much haha) and I will probably return fully to P99 after the devs say something explicit around Jan or March 2023 if at all.

Fresh starts are amazing for people like me, and several others, hence why Daybreak still launches TLPs and pseudo classic servers. After a certain point all you can do in a velious time locked server is to strive for the top 1% gear in a crowded endgame with people whose attitudes can or can not mix well with yours, and life is too short to shoehorn youself into that pixel delusion if they dont.

For me EQ has always been about the journey, both solo and in groups, and once you rreach a certain point , and with no real horizontal progression it feels stale ... to me anyway.

What I believe P99 has above other servers beside the enforced no botting rule is that amazing sense of disregard for your own time and the ability to spend literal hours just doing something as inane or complex as you want . A perfectly frozen memento of something that is not possible anymore.

It reminds me a bit of the Neo-80s phenomenon, as we are literally reimagining an 80s decade that is even more shiny and neon lighted than the original one. P99 is simply a Neo-99 and it is simply superb in that regard.

A fresh server would simply rekindle that brief moment in time where everything was new, despite the power gamers and level rushers, the core pop will always slowly climb that threadmill with you, helping you climb it and recreate a Neo99 experience that never happened but is real at the same time.

That alone makes this server amazing, and for those times when you need that shiny extra bright neon and feeling of reading Neuromancer like the first time , P99 not only suffices but excels.

So yes, in short, I would love so much a new server, to relive for a few months that time that never happened when I was young, but now that I am old I can recreate in as much possible detail as I can to reminisce as if it happened back in the day and fill for a brief moment that gaping hole that all of us bear within our souls, which for a very small moment, as it passes between us we can feel connected to something that is no more, a Virtual Hiraeth that makes us cry a bit inside as we look into that pixelated sky in Norrath.

Love to everyone as usual my friends.

Big hug to all ! :)

Merging Blue and Green wont magically spawn loads of level 1 characters in the noobie areas begging to group with your wziard, it will just create one even more top heavy server, with even more issues in the end game raiding scene.

You're right. Merge green and blue with red 1.0 and launch red 2.0

I think IF a merge does happen. Everyone from green will probably stick around on Blue 2.0 because they " Got theirs " and invested so much time into chars. It will not feel like a museum so much and the population would stay relatively higher and stable.

Green 2.0 (or teal) would then, from creation, have the mindset of " This is going to be a merge " or maybe they will announce that the Green will merge, and the new one will ne static, since they figured out all the list systems.

I am excited for a new server, when and if it happens, and plan to try and get the experience (maybe some guises)

Never saw the list in action, but I assume you had to be a certain level and not just in the zone? As in the latter I would just do enough death runs to make it to guk, ect)

Wipe both clean.

First server to kill warders makes the other server lose warders and wake sleeper.

Imagine thinking they will merge two servers when they can't even patch a Druid spell that's been broken for a year.

Blue 2.0
Green 2.0
You can talk to the POD and teleport to Red 2.0 to have PVP battles and teleport back.
Red 1.0 is burned for fuel

the same people play blue and green and red if they merged population would dip 0% ppl would just have 2 less characters to play, both nilbog and rogean know this.