Final Beta Push

[Teneran]

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

Okay, since you've hit the negatives of a wipe I'll toss in some positives

All RMT plat will be wiped
Due to your join date on the forums I'm going to assume that you werent around for people legally selling their accounts for plat, so, People won't have 10+ accounts with cleric rez sticks and whatever, yes, you probably don't have 10 accounts with a 60 on each but a lot of people from the older guilds do not just because of bought accounts but because when people quit, they give theirs away.
People won't have millions of platinum
I'd imagine at least some of the hardcore players will be casual instead of hardcore
not every one of the people with multiple 60s leveled at the same rate they've just been here longer (server has been up for 5+ years)
No duped platinum, technically blue server is beta
We will be a much better ruleset put in place instead of one that's just been added to that is not classic
Items like pre-nerf fungi staff and manastone will be back in the game to be camped by a new playerbase instead of the 200-250 people we had camping them back at server's beginning.

Now to what you've said

Yeah, gfay will be a sh*t storm, but I think you forget that there's more places to level than just Gfay/CB, For instance qeynos, qeynos hills, Nro, blackburrow, Butcherblock(remember chessboard?), West karana, North karana, everfrost, permafrost, Runnyeye. Those are just some of the alternatives for 1-20.

Serious hardcores, okay, so what they seriously hardcored once before on blue 99 who cares.
If you can't achieve 1-60 in 4-6months, don't whine about others that can, the point of a wipe isn't necessarily to fix raiding. You want another rotation then do another rotation and you'll get your dragon mobs.

But the original reason why I suggested a wipe was because launching a new server has been brought up but people (mostly tmo/bda) didn't like the idea, along with some of the normal player base because they're afraid that too many casuals would change servers which at that point they would essentially lose their years of slaving themselves to a video game to become wealthy inside of it. Reality of the situation is that P99 was most fun to play when the player base was between 300-600 players. With a new wipe or server, you would even seen less duo's/trios because no twink gear for a duo/trio means sitting down for 5-10minutes after every 2-3 kills. What would be okay is at a certain point into the wipe's life say 4 months down the line, that there is a group bonus like red, but not as significant as red's to promote grouping instead of duos/trios.

All good points, there are certainly positives to the negatives. But even if the population does explore every newbie area in the game the first week of a wipe is going to suck. But it's just a week or so, so be it. And if the server gets wiped I'll probably just start over (or not), I won't have any nerd rage over it.

And correct, i just started in December and have a main of level 34 (and one account). I'm a professional engineer and have a few hours a few nights a week to play and a bit more on weekends. I'll never have an impressively geared character or much plat, just here to have fun. I am not even that interested in buying gear with plat i earn in game, I'm enjoying looting gear and questing it myself but I may buy a few peices here and there someday.

I do disagree with you about the inability to play here untwinked, mainly because I have done it. Sure, I'm wearing a raw silk robe right now but so what? i can still participate and do ok. it is harder with a pure melee class though, I get that. But as a caster or priest class it's very doable. I'd rather have an undergeared cleric who knows what he's doing and paying attention in my group than someone who is twinked who is afk have the time and surfing the internet the other half, and for the record I have definitely encountered the later.

Oh, and i certainly wasn't whining about what people can acheieve, I was responding to the person who suggested a wipe in order to fix the broken raid scene. personally i doubt i will ever raid and certainly am not in competition to achieve what someone else can in a 16 year old computer game.