for the most part, money in EQ is a function how long the player has been playing. if you've been playing here a long time you are likely to have tons of money. if you are new, you are going to be poor.
the big fluxes of players haven't happened in a while...the curve, for now at least, is skewed. there are many more "rich" players with lvl 60 toons on this server than there would be on the live timeline.
you take the good with the bad. p99 is awesome, but as many people have said the timeline is just very off at this point from live.
it will get a bit better when velious comes out (new progression goals, new and returning players will increase), but keep in mind that in the end this is going to be a static server. once velious comes out and the time line patches are slowly implemented the server will not be progressing any more. so, sooner or later, this is going to be a problem that all "classic" eq servers would face. it is one of the criticisms that SOE cited as a reason to never do a classic server.
it will be curious to see how long the server can survive in such a state. personally, i didn't think kunark could last this long...but it has. folks just keep rolling alts and killing the same raid mobs year after year so far. at some point, it can't sustain itself.
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