The mission statement of this server has always been: to provide an accurate timeline of everquest up to velious. I believe Velious will come out. However the timeline has been late at times. I mean there is like 2 guys working on the code, the timeline will be difficult to maintain.
Me personally. velious, planes and LDoN were the best things to come from Sony's creative juices. As much as i would like to see all of them I do not believe it will happen. Red server is dead, it should e terminated as such. Would much rather investment on a server to be a second blue server, starting the timeline over. It doesnt take much population to ave multiple guilds fighting over raid mobs. i would have to estemate kunark raised the average population by 75 during non peak hours and 400 during peak hours. that has changed now and peak off and peak hours are still higher population that when was straight original. I would expect this same pattern for velious, if not more. Velious was the ticket for everquest. EQ was a cult thing and Velious made it more mainstream. 3 of my friends said they wouldnt play unless velious was out and one wouldnt play unless AA was in the game.
In summary, Velious will have a population surge as expected, and should give new higher daily averages for peak and off peak hours. this should lead to a very crowded server. Red should be killed and a new progressive server DB installed.
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