In Response, How many would start on a new blue server?

[skipdog]

Originally Posted by LittleSorcerer7 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if there is 1 millionaire for any reason other than normal gameplay, that is too many. Sorry that we do not agree about cheating and exploits.

Huh? You think 1 person having 1 million plat is 'too many'? For what reasons?

Posts like yours confuse the heck out of me. The few who are that rich have literally poured their life into this game for years. Your assertion that 'cheating and exploits' is the only way to obtain such a fortune is laughable.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by LittleSorcerer7 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if there is 1 millionaire for any reason other than normal gameplay, that is too many. Sorry that we do not agree about cheating and exploits.

You should probably play single player games then. No mmo will ever be rid of cheats/bugs/exploits.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. What if a new blue would have come out 1 year ago? The tmo dudes who were exploiting on blue until their recent bans would have been on the new server too. And then the appeal of a new server for all of you guys, a virgin economy and none of the previously-discovered bugs from blue and all that, would have been entirely ruined in just months. And if a new server started today? Yep. A few months from now it would already have duped plat and people who leveled with exploits and a stratified economy and level 1 rogue alts with ragebringers.

Give it up and just try to enjoy the best emu around.

[baalzy]

I'm perfectly happy with the server the way it is. But I would also be happy getting a new blue. I'm also happy knowing theres a possibility of a new blue being brought online at some point after Velious lands on this server.

However there would definitely be major differences in the progression of a new blue server because of things that are known now about classic that wasn't necessairly known/implemented when the server launched in 2009.

The end-state may still be the same eventually but that would take several more years to reach again. Ultimately most people come to this server to experience things the way they were and having a restarted blue appeals to them because it starts that over again.

[HippoNipple]

Why do you want more players on blue, isn't it already crowded?

[Tecmos Deception]

I can't help but think, everytime I see people complaining that they want a new server because of all the things that were/are wrong with the current one, that they're just saying "this server isn't good enough and/or I want a better relative situation for myself by erasing everything the people who have been here longer than I have have accomplished."

"LOL THE GUY WHO IS RICH DOESN'T WANT A NEW SERVER GO FIGURE." Yeah. No fucking shit I don't want my characters wiped. No fucking shit I don't want a bunch of the blue players wandering off to a new server just as we are getting up near the same peak population the SMALLEST live servers had during Kunark. If you guys would accept blue as the amazing emu it is, flaws and all, and play the damn game instead of trolling forums and trying to blackmail the staff with "well i'd play p99 for sure if we had a new blue server!" and shit, you'd feel the same way.

Am I mad for saying everyone asking for a new server/wipe is dumb? Yeah. But am I madder than the people who have the audacity to make those requests instead of just enjoying the best damn emu around and being glad it is here at all? Nope.

You act as if it isn't an enormous part of "the classic experience" for there to be dupers and cheaters and exploiters and powergamers and quirky mechanics. No, I'm not saying these are good things, but I AM saying that trying to demand a volunteer staff shit out a fresh server every time some random player puts up a poll asking for one just because he doesn't like how chanters could level with whirl a few years ago but now he has to play his chanter legit today... I'm saying that's retarded. And it would be a cycle like that. Cause as soon as a new blue is out, SOMETHING would be wrong with it and players would be starting polls about how "should we re-release blue2 now before the damage gets worse? vote yes if you love eq, and vote no if you're a duper/exploiter/cheater lololol"

[Solb]

Well, I enjoy this server immensely, and did not start from the beginning. I also would enjoy a new server to start up.

I think that Rogean and every dev who does work on it really do more than they get credit for. We the players forget the work so many people put into it who get no credit. It's very easy to forget this, and to get unappreciative. It's also easy to develop a sense of entitlement.

I just feel like saying thanks to those people who give us the opportunity to be angry, or happy regardless over such discussions as this one. in the big picture, just be thankful.

[LittleSorcerer7]

Of course.

[Nirgon]

Tecmo there will not be a new blue server no matter how many polls are created.

Calm your beard.

Your pixels are safe.

Pras,
The Doc

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Tecmo there will not be a new blue server no matter how many polls are created.

Calm your beard.

Your pixels are safe.

Pras,
The Doc

My wife didn't like my beard (and it was itchy), so I got rid of it. It was legit too. No neckbeard at all! Not at all like last hunting season when I just didn't shave for 2 months.

[Jimjam]

I always enjoy new servers.

Yes, grouping in unrest with a couple of fungi/epic twinks with a 60 cleric camped nearby is its own kind of churn and burn fun.

New servers are different, equipment is used in the content it was 'designed' for. You're lucky if the group's rogue has a dragoon dirk and bracers of battle in unrest, and the challenge of the entire group using limited equipment is its own kind of fun.

The problem with new servers is once the economy gets rolling and the level spread widens this novelty wears off and people retire to their twinked out characters on older servers.

TLDR: grouping with people that have crap equipment is fun, but only if there aren't people with better stuff to hang out with [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].