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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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There are several reasons SoL is a departure from Classic Everquest:
1. Setting - the game changes from adventures in slaying dragons and orcs to battling aliens in outer space.
2. Community - introduction of the nexus/bazaar was the beginning of unraveling of the Classic Everquest community. The world expansion also furthers dilution of the player population.
3. Mechanics - the alternate advancement system was a radical departure from original EQ game design. While it has it's merits, it would ultimate trivialize a vast amount of content on a locked server like this one.
SoL was not classic Everquest. It was a departure from it. Some people do not consider Velious or Kunark classic for their roles (albeit to a much lesser extent) in some of the above (expanded world, changed mechanics, etc.), but most just view the tweaks in those expansions as a fleshing out of the original design.
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My one question would then be, how is custom content considered classic then? I understand in the stream they said, "It would have to stay in the realm of classic EQ" but that statement is completely subjective. I enjoy the current servers as they are and am fine with velious but as the devil's advocate, I'm not sure how you can say custom content is more classic EQ than SoL.