Poll: Reopen Teal (Digital Social Distancing)

[magnetaress]

Aradune will be out soon, I highly recommend everyone roll a paladin on that server and we all form up in 1 big guild.

[Delekhan]

If another server is what the community wants or needs, perhaps this can be accomplished with funds.

Not sure if the devs read this thread, but I am certain if the obstacle is funding, the community here would rally to provide them. I doubt I'm only speaking for myself in that opinion.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Delekhan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If another server is what the community wants or needs, perhaps this can be accomplished with funds.

Not sure if the devs read this thread, but I am certain if the obstacle is funding, the community here would rally to provide them. I doubt I'm only speaking for myself in that opinion.

I don't think funds are an obstacle. They opened Teal before to handle the overflowing newbie zones at Green launch. Teal was designed as a very temporary measure and they said they'd re-merge once the population in the lowbie zones evened out as people got higher level. I highly doubt they'd create another server just because higher level people don't want to wait in line for loot and/or cash camps, or don't want to wait for a group at a popular group spot. This is classic EQ; not being able to do whatever you want at the exact time you want to do it is a fact of life sometimes...this isn't WoW.

[raptorak]

Gotta agree with others here, I found out that with my knowledge of how things work in EQ nowadays, I do indeed hate classic. I liked classic back then but it sucks now. Better option for me personally than teal is open Kunark and forget the classic time line, but that won't happen either. I wish there were no hybrid penalties because it's retarded but they won't change that either until 3 years has passed. Most likely what will happen is I may or may not come back in October, which is what I recommend everyone who is sick of the overpop do, and get on with their lives. This solves the problem of overcrowding for everyone if you think about it. This is what everquest is, only those who are hardcore enough will make it to the final pixels. There's always some neckbeard out there who can camp one hour more than you, who can reroll a halfling druid gnome mage and get to 50 in a week one more time than you, so best not to fight it.

[magnetaress]

I think if u guys want a new teal and are definately willing to pay for the hardware, rogean should hook u up with an iso

[phr0stbyt3]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Naysayers are making posts, but the vote count reflects the true sentiment of players.

418 yes - 167 no

I think I know why the naysayers are making posts.

Coming up on 600 total votes! Wow!

Wow! A whole 600 votes you say? Out of the 1600-1900 daily peaks we've been seeing? Will Ramal Modo form an electoral college to decide the outcome with such minimal representation?

A split would be extremely detrimental at this point to both servers. We can talk about "lessons learned" for the future, but what's done is done.

[magnetaress]

I think at this point we can reasonably assume people are boxing forum accounts to vote more than once.

[GnomeCaptain]

Originally Posted by phr0stbyt3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A split would be extremely detrimental at this point to both servers. We can talk about "lessons learned" for the future, but what's done is done.

Total nonsense. Teal was a great place to be and was created because Green's overcrowding was detrimental to player enjoyment.

We're beyond that level of overcrowding now, everything is camped and all the group spots are utterly saturated. I don't log in much anymore because overcrowding is so awful.

There's really no argument against opening Teal.

If the project owners need financial resources I'm certain that can be addressed.

[Zephire]

Originally Posted by phr0stbyt3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow! A whole 600 votes you say? Out of the 1600-1900 daily peaks we've been seeing? Will Ramal Modo form an electoral college to decide the outcome with such minimal representation?

A split would be extremely detrimental at this point to both servers. We can talk about "lessons learned" for the future, but what's done is done.

If you can figure out some way to get all the players to come to the forums and vote I'll be mighty impressed.

Until such a time, the current poll numbers reflect those that come to the forums (usually a small percentage of any game community) and took/take the time to vote.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by GnomeCaptain [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Total nonsense. Teal was a great place to be and was created because Green's overcrowding was detrimental to player enjoyment.

We're beyond that level of overcrowding now, everything is camped and all the group spots are utterly saturated. I don't log in much anymore because overcrowding is so awful.

There's really no argument against opening Teal.

If the project owners need financial resources I'm certain that can be addressed.

Teal was created when we had 300+ people in each newbie zone. That’s the over crowding it was designed to solve.

There’s no need for another server because you can’t believe that you could possibly have to wait for a camp instead of being able to log in and doing what you want immediately. That’s not classic EQ. If that’s such a huge issue for you, it sounds like classic EQ isn’t the game for you. Maybe try the TLPs with pick zones and instances because that is essentially what you are asking the P99 staff to implement.