I have to agree. This isn't about bragging how you had to walk to school, in the snow, uphill, both ways. We all will benefit by having more players on the server. The fact that the EQMac folks have no recourse at all makes this a true opportunity for P1999. Because of the way the EQMac server was setup, you could never transfer characters to, or from it, so when it shuts down, these folks lose everything with no recourse. So why not pull out the welcome wagon, roll out the red carpet, and make them feel welcome? Post a nice letter inviting all the EQMac folks to come join P1999 with a good tutorial on playing EQ on a Mac, followed by a week long exp bonus (a nice reasonable amount) for the whole server, and I think we'd not only get a lot of those players trying P1999, but a lot of them staying on P1999. If Rogean doesn't want to ramp up exp for everyone, just up the ZEM's for the starting zones so the new players get the bonus. Zones catering to L1-15 or 20 sounds about right.
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