Blue: The economy is where its been because of total time online, /played and general age. Most items are cheaper, Best In Slot items are cheaper, but niche and truly game-changing/breaking items that are no longer dropping are extremely (in the millions of plat) expensive and scale as time goes on. A decent amount of these are readily available to buy if you have the platinum.. a few are still available if you can locate the guy that has it and are willing to broker a deal (See pre-nerf fungus staff and Scepter of Destruction.)
***For blue, its a great experience because a true new player will be treated like a rarity and showered with buffs, alts that have mains to make the exp flow faster, and general good-will. Blue is the way to go if you want to easy mode classic everquest as it was back when Luclin/PoP came out.
Green: The opposite, though now it seems green is going into a steady economy. You can expect to spend top dollar..but you can expect to sell for top dollar. All in all, if your trading items, you can retain plat value to time spent earning. However this server came out well after Project 99 blue was already very popular with people knowing the best camps and profit to seek when the server and its patches rolled out.
***For Green, It will be somewhat similar to blue, but the population will be much higher on prime-time and offpeak. There are both pros and cons to this. If you want to group, you should have an easier time here than on blue. But it also means there are more players playing an assortment of 12 classes that have mobs that drop items that you may need. Take that as you will but you will find a harder time finding a camp spot on green due to population and camp (play-nice-policy) than you will on blue.
I mention economy mainly because it seems to affect grouping, gear, etc as you level your character...Seems blue is going into what live is now; no one plays 1-40 zones grouping (If they do, its rare now to find an untwinked alt that can just duo or trio the zone.) A decent amount of people group in the upper 40's into the 50's because of mob scaling and the need for some crowd control and tank-healer-dps trifecta. I would say, the majority of every player you meet on blue are actively playing their main at end game raiding zones and ultra twinking alts to solo/duo through what was intended to be grouping content. Not that there's nothing bad with stampeding through a zone alone which was tedious and rough when you started out.. but the ones doing that got the experience of doing it classic back in the day and can revile in how hard it was and the accomplishment of doing it again, on easy mode.
IMO if your new, savor the last sliver of sunset and start on green, group up and try your darnest to get to 60 on at least one character with no alt help. Once you get there, maybe get a 2nd level 60 char (ideally an opposite so you have a caster main and/or a melee alt) then come to blue and experience end-game at a cheaper dkp-to-happines ratio.
TLDR - Green
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