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Well, it may or may not be. I'm unsure. The advantages Teams99 offers is:

1) Hard Coded teams meaning it isn't as easy to guild hop for a quick pixel infusion. Some of the people who jump ship right now on a team server may be forced to persevere and try to make things work if they realize they don't have an easy out other than re rolling.

2) It will attract more people, at the very least initially, and very likely many non vztz'ers, aka normal human beings, with whom it will likely be easier to build guilds around PvE competition, i.e, guilds that work and last.

3) Teams provides constant EXP Groups and what not for newbs without the fear of being griefed and what not, which will make for an easier environment to start up in. It's all about first impressions, and a team server will make a better first impression on those new to pvp than a ffa server.

There's plenty of negatives as well, such as same team griefing, but I think overall for longevity and competition purposes, teams99 offers more opportunity. Will it materialize? That's up to the staff and how they advertise this server, how this so called "merge" happens, when it's launched, what the EXP rate is [hint: make it large], how long the timelines are [hint: make it short], whether they do away with things that have no business in EQ like hybrid exp penalties, etc. But the POTENTIAL is certainly there.