[Foxplay]

(Warning Long Rant)

This post does not apply to the scope and vision of Project 1999. People need to stop and think about their personal desires and aspirations in the game and remember that Project 1999 is trying to create a playable time capsule. Its not out to correct the mistakes of the past, it set out to simply recreate the past so that players can experience and enjoy it in that state, because it simply put is almost an entirely different game that is not available on Live servers.

Raid monopolies and end-game or raid content congestion was a very real problem back in the day - simply put Its Classic. Now then a post from a LoS member from back in the day is looking at the game as a "Raid focused" perception, and thus he makes an insightful post to VI for suggestion for looking into the future in order to alleviate or fix what he percieves as problems or complications with the games "end-game" or simply put, congestion at raid content.

However Project 1999 is not about looking into the future. Its all about looking into the past. So his post really does not apply to Project 1999. Granted there are plenty of Not Classic changes on P99 many of which I do not agree with, and it will never be "perfectly classic" but in order to achieve as close to classic as they can recreate, it will defiantly not be "perfect" for everyone, especially people who don't want raid congestion.

Personally I hate the P99 raid scene for several reasons, yet I still love this server and would never trade its unique experience and vision for a True Classic Server for a server that was Classic but constantly looked to "Correct the past" because eventually it would no longer be an accurate representation of the past as it constantly looks to fix things as it would eventually get to a point where it was no longer Classic. It takes away from the integrity of its "Classic" experience.

There are several things Not Classic on Project 1999, many of which I do not agree with especially at the raid-scene (Variable Spawn windows - Tactics that take away from the "Fun" or "Experience"). And there are many game elements I do not agree with in Classic Everquest as well "Time locking and gear throttling players with 7day re-spawns is defiantly one of them!" Yet you don't see me on Agnarr enjoying raid instances, why is that? Because I value the challenge and experience of classic more than I value being able to raid at my leisure and get yummy yummy "Top end pixels". And if you are going to play on P99 for a long time you will have to come to terms with that, I had to and it was pretty painful...or get a batphone, brush up on your CoTH Quest, Rules Lawyering skill (255)!, buy a few more pairs of socks to deposit poop, and enjoy the character select screen for your "Raid Windows". Or go play TLP servers and enjoy the "True box" mage armies, Krono Farmers, P2Win Cash shop, and Daybreak.

There need not be a "Solution" for Project 1999 [Blue]. Green server will help for those more concerned with raid congestion but the same problems on blue will happen on green and this time around on the merry-go-round I assure you some of them will be even worse. With a "True Timeline" on green that will follow Lives patch releases Pre-nerf items and raid content will come at an accelerated rate than on [Blue99] Making competition higher and most likely worse, Sure it will divide up the player base as not all of Blue neck-beards will jump over to Green but plenty of new players that stay away from Blue for reasons such as: Not in progression, Raid content congestion, Don't like the Community. These players who don't give blue a chance will jump on Green for the chance to experience that "New Server" hype wave.

As for the players that want raid content yet want Non-Classic changes to remove "end-game" congestion the solution may be out of Project 1999's hands. I am confident if P99 staff released another server that had raid instances or Raid content that was farm able (Super fast re-spawns - No gear throttling) as well as other "Modern upgrades" It would be a very popular server probably more so than Live and TLP servers. In my opinion they do a wonderful job and have recreated Classic everquest very well, but that option may simply not be on the table for them for multiple reasons: Funding, Hosting Bandwidth, Limited Staff, Legal agreement with Daybreak.