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Originally Posted by darnzen
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The problem is "end game" (relative to whatever expansion is active) is very tough and becomes trivial when you are exposed to the new items / levels in the next expansion. So "unlocking" simply by having one guild say kill Naggy / Vox / Cazic, would trivialize it for everyone else. I think it would be best to have the first kill of all the main raid targets start the clock for the expansion. So after they're all dead, Kunark is launched in 3-6 months. Something like that. Otherwise, everyone will wait until they're lvl 60 and geared up in Kunark gear to attempt PoF again after the first time. I mean, only a crazy person would go there without clerics with epics right?
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Bottom line, close the doors of the gas station and lockupt the cement rollers and put away the construction hats until MOST people have done it. A 3-6 month absolute buffer is not good enough. We'd need a vote or a script or some way of knowing who has and hasn't been a part of the biggest raids pre-kunark. Without being able to know and being able to get the opinions of the public at large, we're simply moving forward for the sake of moving forward - and this often happens at the expense of the less fortunate.
And expecting all of this to happen on the same timescales as it did in EQ is absurd. As I've already touched on, the population numbers on this server are dwarfed, DWARFED, by those seen in EQ. 1 year, are you kidding? We're noewhere near saturation. People, like raiders and those with lots of time might get saturated and tired and go on breaks and even extended vacations, and scream all the time about wanting kunark/velious, but overall, saturation is a distant reality until
most people are at this point.
If you cater to the people who play a lot and raid, and then open kunark/velious to satisfy them, you're forcing the mechanics of mudflation on the entire population!!! That should not happen without MINIMALLY a popular vote.
In summary, some people play too much. You shouldn't let their play-style rule over all others. And this is not SOE. This is not for profit. We're a community that feed this server with donations. This means we VOTE. We don't force progress down the throats of people without an open vote to determine whether that's what people really want. This is not a company. This is people.