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Originally Posted by Gimlish
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It's really unfortunate and childish what has happened here. TAK came out first. People in A&H guild were butthurt and didn't like the rule set. So, out of spite - they decided to form another server (P2002), rip off other people's hard work, fracture the EQmac community and population into two servers, instead of one. This is not good in any way, imho.
I'm still pissed about this, it should never have been allowed to happen.
Imagine P99 is in it's infancy back in 2009/2010. And I'm sure there were many players who didn't like the ruleset here, or disagreed with the staff at the time (or still do). Were they able to go off and make another server with the same source code in their likeness and rip off the P99 dev's hard work? No. Did the P99 community get fractured from the start? No.
I'm sure if this had been allowed to happen, we all wouldn't have this huge wonderful community here on P99 to enjoy for the past 5 years. But instead, several little slightly different/redundant "classic" EQ servers, competing against each other for more players. And, no I certainly don't think that would have been a better outcome.
TAK is the true EQMac emulator in my opinion, it feels like it, it has the community and support behind it from a lot of the orginal Al'Kabor veterans. Yes, it would be great if we could bring together this splintered community into one server. I honestly have friends on both, and it sucks to have to chose one.
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I disagree. I was there when the split happened. It was pretty clear at that time that TAK would only support a specific way of playing the game. If you weren't interested in a forced rotation, you were told to go make your own server with the open source code.
Thats what happened.
I would also like to point out that a large part of the people who made up ANH at that moment are still playing on TAK. The majority of people left EQEmu altogether and are now playing TLP.
P2002 started out with a core of like 10 to 15 players. There was almost no influx from TAK at that point of time. Like I said most people started playing on Ragefire and Lockjaw. TAK definitely has the higher number of former ANH players than P2002. The majority of our community is made up of former P99 players and it has been like that for a while