Feeling more nostalgic about project 1999 than classic eq

[DevGrousis]

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

A lot of complaints about the "frozen in time" crawling along feeling of the server, but the sanctuary aspect OP discusses is one positive for casual players. After all back in the day, classic, kunark, & velious eras only lasted a few months, at most a year and a half so they were quite fleeting.

The fact that those fleeting moments captured so many of us that we all find ourselves here these days, good sign of something worth preserving.

I do wonder, when the server is "perfect", what is the ideal scenario? An infinite loop? Classic > Kunark > Velious > End > Wipe? > Classic (loops)

Or do we move onto custom content?

Post appreciated.

I think I would prefer for the server to loop. If it sits at Velious it WILL die. Because it's easy to say "people should just re roll", but if you look at an entire server population, eventually the majority of it will be high end, which will create the same problem there is in EQ > heavy high end, and almost no middle and bottom to group with.

But then again, maybe it's easier for me to say that because my main is 43. I'm sure it would be hard for someone with 3 or 4 capped raid geared chars to just let them vanish. But it would create a culture of legendary characters. It could almost be seen as generations of characters. Where this sever actually moves in time, and those all characters have passed away, making room for new characters. Would be cool if the Devs could code in some homage to high achieving characters on the server. Now i'm getting carried way haha

Cheers for the great post, I feel the same way!

[Roth]

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

I think I would prefer for the server to loop. If it sits at Velious it WILL die. Because it's easy to say "people should just re roll", but if you look at an entire server population, eventually the majority of it will be high end, which will create the same problem there is in EQ > heavy high end, and almost no middle and bottom to group with.

But then again, maybe it's easier for me to say that because my main is 43. I'm sure it would be hard for someone with 3 or 4 capped raid geared chars to just let them vanish. But it would create a culture of legendary characters. It could almost be seen as generations of characters. Where this sever actually moves in time, and those all characters have passed away, making room for new characters. Would be cool if the Devs could code in some homage to high achieving characters on the server. Now i'm getting carried way haha

Cheers for the great post, I feel the same way!

I don't think this is really an issue because the server is already 4-5 years old and still popular. If 5 years were to pass with the server in this state, it wouldn't significantly change I don't think. People would play and reach max gear on their characters and then reroll and experience it again. There's no infinite carrot on a stick here that forces people to stay high end and not play low characters.

[Juhstin]

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

I think I would prefer for the server to loop. If it sits at Velious it WILL die. Because it's easy to say "people should just re roll", but if you look at an entire server population, eventually the majority of it will be high end, which will create the same problem there is in EQ > heavy high end, and almost no middle and bottom to group with.

But then again, maybe it's easier for me to say that because my main is 43. I'm sure it would be hard for someone with 3 or 4 capped raid geared chars to just let them vanish. But it would create a culture of legendary characters. It could almost be seen as generations of characters. Where this sever actually moves in time, and those all characters have passed away, making room for new characters. Would be cool if the Devs could code in some homage to high achieving characters on the server. Now i'm getting carried way haha

Cheers for the great post, I feel the same way!

If it loops and wipes, I'd love that simply because it'll be nice for fresh starts every few years. But yes P99 feels like home.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

I think I would prefer for the server to loop. If it sits at Velious it WILL die. Because it's easy to say "people should just re roll", but if you look at an entire server population, eventually the majority of it will be high end, which will create the same problem there is in EQ > heavy high end, and almost no middle and bottom to group with.

But then again, maybe it's easier for me to say that because my main is 43. I'm sure it would be hard for someone with 3 or 4 capped raid geared chars to just let them vanish. But it would create a culture of legendary characters. It could almost be seen as generations of characters. Where this sever actually moves in time, and those all characters have passed away, making room for new characters. Would be cool if the Devs could code in some homage to high achieving characters on the server. Now i'm getting carried way haha

Cheers for the great post, I feel the same way!

You say that, but yet, there's the maximum available people sitting under phara dar spamming a /tar and javelin macro with like 9 hours left in window on the mob. Some people want it more than you can possibly imagine.