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Originally Posted by Varsha
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I wouldn't mind the bazaar. Sitting in EC for hours sucks to sell or buy stuff.
Models? I prefer luclin models to classic. But I started playing in PoP era, could be why :P
The idea to skip luclin and go straight to PoP sounds awesome. Would love a nexus stone for nostalgic factor. Not a portal, just the stone as social spot :P
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-The bazaar took out a lot of the social aspect of the game. I remember on mith marr wheeling and dealing in NFP (we were a weird server like that - NFP was our trade zone). Back then we didn't have a tracking wiki webpage to tell us fair market value. The value of what you had to sell could change on a day to day basis. Buying low and selling high was a lot more possible then than now. For every 'buy low' I had though - I'm sure I overpaid for other items just as much. Even with wiki price tracking, EC actually keeps prices LOWER here. When someone is bartering in EC, they aren't playing ... leveling ... grinding. There is an incentive to sell your wares faster so you can get back on the trail. But yeah ... more than anything it forces players to interact with each other. The net result is you have a nice player HUB where you can easily find a taxi, buffs, or just hang out.
-I'm not just talking about player models (though I prefer classic to luclin garbage). Over the years they revamped: specs, orcs, goblins, skeletons, wolves, snakes ... the list goes on and on. Pair that with the terrible zone revamps - no bueno. I started on p99 about 3 weeks ago. You want to know what I was most looking forward to when I first fired it up? Old Freeport, East/West Commonlands, and every other abomination of a zone from classic that SoE decided to revamp. I'm cool with them putting in new NPC models/animations moving forward ... but they basically made it so that I can't get my nostalgia fix on live by returning to these old zones. It didn't feel like the game i first started playing.
As for Luclin ... it did not FIT EQ really. Planes of Power was a step in the right direction. Gates of Discord was just as "out there" as Luclin was. I can think of other expansions that have come out over the years that made a lot more lore sense. I would have preferred if the concept of UNDERFOOT has been worked earlier into the expansion cycle. The first 3 (classic/kunark/velious) are undeniably the best expansions in most people's eyes. My personal opinion is that EQ reached it's climax in Planes of Power, but I didn't enjoy luclin/PoP nearly as much. My biggest beef with luclin and PoP was that for the first time the game started to feel smaller and smaller instead of larger and more vast. Even though luxuries such as shared banking, bazaar afk trading, and instant porting around felt convenient at the time - it shrank the vastness of Norrath.
Anyways we can all dicker around about what expansion concepts were good and what were bad, but that misses the point of p99. P1999 is about a classic EQ experience through the expansions that made this game great. I am glad they decided to open it up to Velious as I firmly believe those first 3 expansions go so well together, but I hope it doesn't go any further.
If SoE live were to create a P1999 type server with all the hardships and tough love we see here - that would be good. If they did as crazy of a job as policing it with the same general rule set (no 2 boxing, zero hacking tolerance, zero RMT tolerance) I'd play it in a heartbeat and pay them for it. The one thing that SoE live can offer us that an EMU server can't is population growth potential - but to be honest p1999 and it's players can tap into that pretty easily by drawing in old retired friends and those unhappy with the status of current EQ. It'd be nice if we could see 1k base population 24/7 with prime time peaks up in the 2000-4000 range. Certain areas would feel crowded, but the net result there is you'd see more people fanning out to xp and explore less utilized areas. Places like Lguk, seb, Solb, and KC will always have steady player populations ... but there are a lot of other dungeons that even on p1999 aren't played a whole heck of a lot.