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Originally Posted by fadetree
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To reiterate :
Spread the news. Post on old EQ boards. Tweet it. Facebook it. Post on live eq boards and progression server boards. Tell your friends. Tell Granma, she might surprise you. Get drunk and tell people about it in long obnoxious conversations. Yell it when you have sex. Draw it on the sidewalk. Shave it into your bodily hair. Call Geraldo Rivera, god knows he needs something to talk about. Skywrite it. Whizz it in the snow. Explain it to puzzled foreigners who are just trying to find the subway. Dress up like a halfling and ride the butt luge down the PCH on a sunny day.
Yknow...get the word out.
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Even if we all did our very best to spread the word it wouldn't work. Not at this point. What you would get is new people trickling in a few at a time. The new guys would log in, look around at the big empty spaces, play a few days at the most, then log out forever and never come back.
The only way it could work is to have a time when a whole horde of people all start new characters at the same time. Spread the word about that, have people lined up waiting for the doors to open (metaphorically speaking), then suddenly let them all in at the same time. THEN it could work.
How do you do that? I know people have suggested a server reset or a opening a new blue server and I suppose those would work but I'm sure we can all see the problems with both of those ideas.
The only thing I can think of which avoids those rather obvious problems but creates the same effect would be something I suggested before and nobody even really was willing to discuss it. Have a remort month.
Announce a certain period of time during which characters can be dropped to level 1 in exchange for some kind of reward. Like, say, the month of august. Then lock any newly created characters from progressing beyond level 1 untill the launch of the remort month.
Ok, build it up, spread the word. This august everyone who wants to remort can do it! Get new people lined up and waiting as well. Then do it.
BAM, on the 1st of August we have a whole crowd of level 1 characters all going up through the levels again at the same time.