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Originally Posted by Grizzled
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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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I think it would be cool if after this server reaches velious, they start turning it into Everquest classic trilogy revisioned. Customize the classes with custom AAs, tweak their abilities. (ex. modify warriors where tanking with a shield is possible, bash builds hate give warriors the ability to 5 second stun with kick, bash dispells 1 effect etc) Increase XP rates, mana and hp regen out of battle is much greater. Maybe custom raid mobs and named mobs though the world, long custom quest with custom items. Spawn raid mobs with long repeatable quest and what ever else the developers can dream up while keeping the classic feel and look to the game.
At this point the current red server would be wiped and the progression of classic unaltered Everquest restarts.