New server announced yet?

[thufir]

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

I can't wait for a new server to launch. I wish it would launch soon.

The process of leveling and gearing, working in groups to go through content and to progress your character, are the aspects that draw me to the game. It's less fun in a context where everyone is simply racing to 60 because they want to hit raid level. It's less difficult when everyone has a pocket buffer to buff xp groups, and it's less fun when xp groups always hit the same zones. When you start a new server, there's such a rush of people in their 20s that groups choose to go other places than MM and Unrest because they can get more mobs, or there are better drops, etc.

Further, when you start a new server, you make new friends. Not everyone from Blue99 or Red99 will go to a new server. Some will stay behind, and some new people will join the Green99 server. Guilds from Blue may move over, but they'll take in new blood, and you get to know people more from leveling than from sitting in a raid channel, trying to keep quiet so guild leaders can issue instructions.

So yes, pras Green99 - may it come soon!

Nothing you have said prevents you, or anyone else, from doing this on blue 99 as it stands. Nor will it prevent anyone doing exactly what they do right now when they release green99.

I would like to see a green99 just because I never went through the pure classic, no-xpac era, and I would like to experience that. But I don't have any delusions that a fresh start will change the minds of the playerbase. Once you hit Kunark everyone will pile into Karnor's and that's that. It's the way the game is designed, for good or ill.

The route to 60 will still run through the exact same zones that it runs through now on a completely fresh server - unless *you* change what you do. And if you do, you will find that there are other people to group with that also want to change. And this is true on a green99 or a blue99 or any other server.

This is what I did. Out of all my characters, I've only ever had one of my five go to MM, or Crushbone, or Unrest - and in all cases, one or two trips was enough. I've never even been to CoM, except to kill Lord Rak Ash'iir. And I never had a pocket buffer, either. Groups formed around me wherever I went and I saw a lot of things I had never seen on Live. Still do, occasionally, even at those lower levels.

Wiping it clean won't change any of this. It's just like Zander says, there will still be hardcore players who want to race to the end, they have a specific progression model they follow, and they will all still do this on a new server. If you want to play how you describe, you need to start doing it.