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Solution: Why not keep the good parts of Luclin and get rid of the bad parts?
Keep the new zones, the updated zones, the AA's, the new Beastlord class but do not implement the bazaar, the new character models.
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I mean, I don't disagree with you, but having a degree of insight into EQEmu development I tend to sympathize with the decision to just say no. Things that sound easy on paper are usually the most difficult and time-consuming to implement. A proposal such as this would easily take years of unpaid, grueling development.
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Why does everything have to be all or nothing?
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And again, it seems counterintuitive, but all or nothing is orders of magnitude easier than whittling the stock product down to what P99ers find palatable. That's why P99 is sort of a one-of-a-kind thing: no one else has had the patience to spend the inordinate amount of time or the know-how to remove and alter content to accurately represent the game as it was/the expansions as they were when originally launched.
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There is just not enough content to satisfy everyone. As time progresses, more people are reaching the level cap and competing for the same amount of content which is fixed. That's a recipe for disaster.
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It's a recipe that will necessarily create a revolving-door playerbase as new people discover the server, and as people tire of the game and move on. P99 already reached its terminal top-mass during the five years of Kunark. We've already seen "disaster", and we're still experiencing it. It's a hyper-competitive, Balkanized raid scene that required and destroyed the R/C class/rotation system while fostering absurdly unhealthy, toxic playstyles that coerce people to stare down the entirety of 16-hour windows using screenshare.
That's what bottom-up has gotten us - that's the P99 playerbase. The P99 staff already tried to intervene and do top-down bureaucracy during Kunark, and fucking morons in guilds like BDA set an ultimatum for the raid scene: solo kill Gorenaire with your guild to be a part of the R/C system, or we're going FFA. The raid scene said "fuck you", so it went FFA. And here we are. Raiding on P99 blows goblin cock, news at 11.
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Expansion are an integral part of the MMORPG experience. There is not one ongoing MMO today that is not continually expanding.
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I mean, again, this is nilbog's world - he literally gives zero fucks about pleasing a playerbase, and why should he? People keep forgetting this. Go to the server select screen and look at all the preferred and standard servers. P99 is literally just another one of those servers - it just happens to have thousands of people who play on it, because no one else has recreated classic EverQuest as well as nilbog & co. have. If P99 had a playerbase of 20,000 or 20, nilbog would be doing the exact same thing as he's doing now. He didn't create P99 with the goal: "Let's make a server that will please thousands of people! I want a big playerbase!" He simply built his Field of Dreams, and people showed up.
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I'm getting sick and tired of people who are against further expansions lecturing the rest of us to "go outside and get some sunlight". That's just a clever version of the old "if you don't like it quit" fallacy that has been used for years by Internet troll. You are better than that, so please stop using it.
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I'm not against further expansions - I'm against all-or-nothing Luclin, which is the only realistic way SoL can be implemented here without actually paying people to develop stuff. Lots of other people are against this too, because that expansion is a radioactive pile of unVisioned garbage. If you like it so much that you refuse to play on a server that doesn't want to do it, then I suggest you play something else.