My wife and I recently started playing again and are at lvl 9 or so. We put in some time for the Beta, just not having played a high level character for so many years, we were absolutely horrible skill wise and we just died and died. You learn playing a class while levelling up.
Motivating people at higher levels might be the way to go and incentives are not unthinkable.
Unless the type of rewards cause players only to group with others who received that award also, I do not see a problem (which does not mean that there is not one).
Maybe even structure it more as in an appointed group goes to a certain location and tries to reach specific goals.
To me, logging on in the midst of horrible spam and seeing character names which tell me I am the only adult in the zone made me want to log out again right away.
For instance, seeing a female troll named "On the rag" is just disturbing. And does not give me hope on enjoying any interaction with people like that.
It was also hard to find malachite for a pet. I found one vendor in Thurgadina finally.
Maybe this was clear to players who have more recent experience playing EQ, but for "newbies" such as myself, it took me a long time.
Ending with saying that the people hosting EQ *ROCK* for offering a place to enjoy old times and making new times to remember.
Thanks!
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