I would love to see more GM events instead of hard coded content zones (perhaps a bunch of GM events that are scripted out and triggerable at different times?).
Why add a new zone when you can just trigger a gnomish machine invasion in freeport or commons? Throw in the ability for devs to play around and make "legendary items" (nothing overpowered, could even take existing weapons and just tack on a new name to award to people for doing various things).
Then, add in some epic tasks that people can do to unlock something interesting.
For example, being able to sacrifice a level 50 character to be reborn as an impossible race / class combo ((excluding game breaking combos, like ogre monks)). Instead, ranger gnomes? Paladin halflings?
Basically, instead of just creating a few new zones....I would love to see the devs have a bit of fun and play around in the servers.
Part of the original EQ (back in the first couple of years), the GMs were EXTREMELY active. Heck, you had to even be visited by a gm to get your last name. GM events would happen a lot more frequently and it could be anything (adding a sense of magic to the game).
One time in qeynos, a GM spawned as some insane gnoll (along with an npc army) and just ran around killing newbies :P He was using all his powers too, so if you got him near death...he would super speed away (cheating! lol). But he also awarded some neat items, and everyone had a lot of fun.
Everquest wasn't always simply about end game raiding and trying to get the best pixels :P There was also an element of exploration and discovery of new things. It was a time when anything could (and did) happen.
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