Fresh start or /movelog for blue rotation server?
 

Hypothetically speaking, if a new blue server with raid rotation were to happen, would you prefer a fresh start or a /movelog copy from the current server?

Fresh Day 0 with Velious with your character name already reserved from your blue or red account.

Just like a new server in late 2000/2001. No legacy items, no mass amount of overpowered clickies, no massive bank accounts, no mega twinks.

Some might call it paradise.

Yeah that would be amazing.

Some, including me, yeah. But there appear to be plenty who disagree. I'd love to see it, but I don't have any real clue as to how viable it would be. There're plenty of casual players very attached to their existing pixels and their multiple leveled up alts. There're plenty of casual raiders who only really love the raid game, witness the popularity of paying pp to stare at a wall in Chardok instead of playing the game.

Also, I'm wondering how you'd convince our glorious p99 overlords to provide it, given their avowed goal for the project.

Didn't nilbog say he planned to do a fresh start with exact timeline once velious is done and perfected?

It has been suggested by Devs as a "would like to do," just like teams99. Nothing official yet on either.

If Velious came out today though, then the earliest that scenario would happen is at least 1.5 years away.

Yeah it would be a long wait, but im sure velious will keep people pretty happy and content for years to come

Would be nice once Velious Beta is complete to wipe beta and turn it into a Velious Day 0 release server with Old World/Kunark/Velious unlocked.

Let it run for a few months and see where people choose to go. It certainly wouldn't be an issue if the population isn't there to just let people move log to red or blue with no ill effect as it won't bring in any legacy items or massive amounts of plat.

It would happen a lot faster if the staff didn't have to keep dealing with PetitionQuest and could focus on other things. For example, just because Sirken isn't coding, doesn't mean he doesn't have a hand in getting Velious out the door as soon as possible. The more time he has to spend answering raid petitions over people's bullshit, the more time he has taken away from working on actual things. Throw Rogean, Derubael, and everyone else who multitasks on staff into the mix and that puts deadlines WAY behind.