Well, to me the cool thing about Project 1999 is that after Velious is complete the staff have suggested custom content. Which means they are no longer bound by Verant's constant idiocy. What if the staff cherry-picked some of the better dungeons and raid encounters from future expansions (wouldn't even have to be Luclin/POP, they could go to Depths of Darkhallow or whatever other expansion). Retune them to a classic level of difficulty, but keep the bosses with multiple special abilities so it's not just tank and spank. Give them some sort of anti zerging code. Retune the gear to be just slightly better than classic (absolutely no more than 125 HP/slot, and that very rare). Keep a few pieces of gear with focus effects so that casters don't feel quite so fucked relative to melee candyland. Could be pretty awesome IMO, and much easier than the current zones because they wouldn't have to worry about slavishly copying every single thing.
But the other possibility is that Nilbog and Rogean and co are just tired are their tremendous exertions and after Velious finishes (so close! another 4-5 more patches) and everything is 100% fixed up they let the beta server (blue) and the sociopath server (red) die and launch Recycle99 which runs for a few years and then they just open source everything and walk off into the sunset!
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05-24-2016, 12:03 AM
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