"Classic" feeling shifting?
 

Original -> Velious was extremely fun and memorable, however I had a ton of fun during PoP and LDoN as well in different ways. Now that we've had five years of classic shoved down our throats, I kind of get the same "good ol' days" feeling I had about Trilogy as I do with PoP/LDoN.

DAE?

I understand why people liked those (and other) expansions. I can see some merit in them myself. However, in other ways I think they were the absolute end of the game, which is why I quit playing when they came out. It's one of those situations where change/compromise destroys the purpose/integrity.

I'd fully support a spinoff server that expanded the game to include another expansion or two (or more), built on the existing P99 code. I would never play on it, but I'd approve of it. I wouldn't support such changes here, however, and would stop playing should they ever be implemented.

Shit is definitely Classic! lol

sounds like everyone on live when the expansions were actually launching haha

Yes, but look at how that turned out: we left live, sony stopped getting our money and the game lost our contribution, and we all came here (this many years later) to get the experience we preferred. So what we can take away from the thread is that it IS similar to it was...some want more, many don't and will leave if it happens, and devs CANNOT serve both ideologies. We're either P99, or we're Live2.0.

Luclin is my cut off point. New models, world ports, easy leveling. Not the same game anymore.

I think if you ask most people on this server they will say "I quit when Y expansion came out, so I'd like to see a server with every expansion up to X". Now since people tended to leave in waves after certain expansions (Velious, Luclin, PoP and LDoN), those are the most popular choices. In general though I don't think there's any "right" answer to when the "classic era" ended because different people left at different times and thus miss different expansions.

But, here on P99 there is exactly one right answer: Velious. Rogean/Nilbog/anyone else who has a say in the matter hates Luclin, so this server will never include anything from Luclin (nor will any other server made by them). They've been very clear about this in their postings.

The only sad part to me is that if someone did want to make a Luclin/PoP/whatever server, they'll have to start with the crappy EQ Emulator base instead of the really awesome P99 base. Someday I hope the devs will find some way to allow others to build from their progress, but since they seem very much against the idea (to prevent cheating if nothing else) I don't see it ever happening.

I never belonged on the moon

Id be happy with a pre kunark server heh. nothing beats the classic classic art.. kunark is alright but classic classic is classic.

To original poster.

No disrespect intended but their are other emulated server that have the content up to and past pop. Nothing says players who feel they want to progress beyond the set timeline of p1999 cannot move to those other emulated servers and just go through Luclin, pop, LOY or GOD.

I would honestly believe most players would leave P1999 if the devs altered their stated server end expansion. Not everyone would leave,but you would not have anywhere the same population that the server has. The server will get very crowded when Velious drops , but it will maintain a healthy population size through out its velious run.

I'd be down for the addition of the PoP raids, without the monstrosity known as the "Plane of Knowledge".