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Originally Posted by blondeattk
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However there is a large turnover of players on this server. .
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Not exactly. There is a higher turn over of
characters ; not players. Most of the folks you met while leveling up were playing alts...and they are now on other alts. And, they have played the game through this cycle a dozen times.
There are so many alts that the distinction between "alt" and "main" that we used on live no longer applies here. That's the difference. There is no such thing as "passing for mains" on a server that most "mains" are decked out in planar/vp gear or the player has so many "alts" that he really has no "main."
New people here don't get this because they are importing their old ideas from live to p99...years after launch and off timeline. What new players perceive as greed is usually their approach to the gameplay through the lens of standards from live that don't apply on P99.
P99 is not a cloned and resurrected live server (maybe it once was back at launch, but so few players were here then that it was hardly ever "like live" for other reasons). P99 is a different animal than the EQ you remember. Don't get me wrong, I love p99; but anyone coming here expecting play and community to be like it was on live is bound to misinterpret the culture here as greedy. In many ways, p99 succeeds because it is like live in some regards...but not when it comes to the old distinction between mains and alts.