[Gustoo]

The focus of the EQ EMU community has allowed P99 to thrive as a gold standard server, while significantly weakening the non P99 servers. The non P99 servers don't really represent the total interest in another PVP server. The people that play a new PVP server every time are (in my mind) true pvp guys and really like to have fun. At the same time when they thought that Red 99 was going to be their sandbox and they were beat back by classic everquest blue style play (lots more people, lots more hours) it was kinda sad to see them eventually complain and leave.

I'd bet my life on 2 or 3 solid years of a new red 99 progression server which is exactly as long as the first 3 versions of the game were intended to last.

best option would be discord like they originally intended to launch, with regular resets and experimental rulesets, and permanent winners being memorialized on the p99 site somewhere. No burnout, you win or lose and you try again next time if you feel like it.