I think it would be great to have this server stop at Velious and stay there. People would come and go and I assume the population would fall over time, but what I love most about this server, is that its a living snapshot of the greatest time I've ever had in my life playing a game and ever will. I like to think that 8 years from now it will still be here and I can come back and play EQ as it was when I loved it. Its so hard to find this in live EQ anymore.
A second server (years from now) that went up through pop and stopped, but was HEAVILY modified (as one of the server mods said earlier) to take out a lot of the things many people hated would be awesome. I personally loved Luclin (largely because of ssra temple raids and the fact that it and the end of velious were my first raiding experiences) and Planes of Power was hugely enjoyable (for me).
For the record however, EQ was still growing all the way up through mid-2004. I don't remember the exact date of the beginning of the decline, but I assume its roughly when people ran into GoD and WoW released. So, no, EQ didn't go into decline at all during Luclin and PoP. This is all beside the point however.
I think that in general, whichever expansion was your 4th or 5th is when the game started to decline for you. I started just before Luclin in 2001 so for me, the one that started to break my back was Gates of Discord. People that started at release, hated Luclin or Pop (or both).
The one unforgivable thing PoP did was make the world smaller. If we could keep planes of power without portal stones, I'd be pretty happy.
Anyways, like people said, this is YEARS away. Kunark is still probably half a year away! That gives me time to roll up another alt! Its already been stated this one almost certainly won't be wiped so no worries.
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