[Kergan]

I just don't see the point of doing a teams server at this point, unless you're committed to decommissioning R99. You're splitting up the population of a server already on life support with the release of any new PVP ruleset server, and while the new server smell may pull in some people from blue or retirees from R99 there is clearly nowhere near the population needed to sustain two PVP ruleset servers simultaneously.

From a strategic standpoint, you'd be committing a lot of development time and effort on a small subset of the population and adding a completely new server when you're already severely undermanned from a staff perspective.

If I were Nilbog or Rogean at this point, the time and effort I'd be willing to put towards the emu would be spent doing three things: finding new staff that hopefully work out, thinking of long term plans now that the last xpac is out and the creation of a new classic timeline progression blue server. Really, the only thing that hasn't been done in terms of EQ emu is something with near perfect source code following the classic 1999-2002 patch and xpac release schedule.

The staff here needs to be willing to admit that a PVP server will never have a sustained population to allow it to be played like a truly classic PVP server, and adjust the game accordingly (i.e. raid targets killable by 2-3 groups instead of typically double that at minimum in Velious). There ARE ways to make a 200 population PVP server fun as hell, and this just isn't it.

That is my monthly TLDR now back to trolling.