I enjoy reading about other's ideas. I think it is fun to see what people think would improve the game. I hope one day we get to see how Nilbog and Rogean think Everquest should have been after Velious has been out a while.
I believe that they wouldn't do anything over the top, I for one trust them because they love EQ classic like us. Maybe we will get a new server starting at classic that isn't customized while this server goes goes on to be Nilbog's vision.
I would too encourage grouping in someway over solo if I was to customize the server, I would increase the group xp bonus to the more you have in party the more xp you recieve.
I would also find a way to remove currency from the game in a way to prevent saturation. The rarer the gear you are wearing, the more costly to repair or possibly a tax to use city utilities such as banks and vendors. I would add a option to pay an existing NPC in the city to allow you to interact with the NPCs granted faction allows. The tax increases as you level and it must be paid after a number of game time days continously.
After doing both of these things, I would tweak all classes to give them a unique way to solo outdoor regular mobs (all outdoor mobs would have their strength lowered and dungeons would have mob strength increased).
Though grouping would provide the most experience points, while you are looking for a group you would be able to kill and gain xp. By the time a character could solo in a dungeon they mobs would con green and not provide any xp.
Named mobs would still drop the same nice items but I would also add quest to existing NPCs that would be epic in length that would allow other avenues of obtaining the same items.
Lastly I would provide a way for all guilds to have a chance to raid. Most all raid zones would be instanced and have the gear drop rate reduced by an extreme amount. Some may not like this but I think it would add to the game. Also after entering an instance, you will be locked to that instance for two weeks.
My main goal would be to not make any of my changes visible in game changing the asthetics of EQ. No blinking you NPCs named "Pay taxes here" or moving zones around, etc. I hate that about some of these custom EQemu servers. Shards of Dalaya is the worst offendor. I also hate all these EQemu servers that start you in some random zone with npcs in lines handing out gear and buffs etc.
It's no longer a world. Even the instances I speak of wouldn't be visible.
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