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Originally Posted by azeth
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with 1 guild running things
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None of the other guilds bother putting up with the bullshit of trying to compete. The risk vs. reward just doesn't exist. Its actually nice right now to have TMO off in their own little world while the rest of us get to enjoy the game.
But I still have goals in this game and a server wipe would be counter-productive to those goals. Also, the server wipe would just replace our current "overlords" with new ones.
Longevity is the best thing for this server. EQMac has been locked in its state for years, and is a stable place that the people who play on it enjoy and they get along with each other. If the server was wiped all the time, you'd just have the hardcore players "beating" it over and over with every wipe. Without resets, the only people who still play enjoy it and have stuck through the years are the ones who play more to enjoy than conquer and the community has developed a mature atmosphere. On the other hand, you have the VZ/TZ PVP community, which has their PVP box wiped every couple months, maybe lasting a year. These guys go from one box to the next beating on each other for rights to claim "I am the best player on VZTZ_server_05". Personally, I'd take EQMac's community over the VZTZ community any day.
Your reasons for wanting a wipe: to remove the billions plat, to give bored players something to do, and to give everyone a clean slate for chances at top dog all cater to the "winners", and not the people who enjoy the journey. The billions of plat doesn't matter for players that enjoy the accomplishment of camping their own gear instead of buying it. The bored players wouldn't be bored if they enjoyed the journey instead of rushing to end-game, or if they enjoyed learning the meta-game for additional classes. And becoming top dog doesn't matter to people who just want to slay dragons, not train/grief/leapfrog/otherwise harass their competition for the same dragon. If you want to convince me of wiping the server and starting fresh, convince me its for my benefit. Until then, I'll take all the time I want to get my gear, kill my dragons, and I'll enjoy every small step along the journey.