2015: State of the Server

[myriverse]

-Pointless to even talk about Teams until Velious Beta is done.
-Very pointless to talk about another Blue server.
-Extremely pointless to talk about "hiring" anyone.

-No comment on any casino, because I give no shits.
-No comment on any raid-related issue, because I give no shits.

[Ziggy]

i dont care about velious, honestly it should be released as it is right now and fixed later (like kunark was) and then reset the server once everything is in order (or don't, it doesn't matter).

if you have hardcoded race teams then human team will dominate, the end. i don't understand your logic that having only 2-3 guilds fighting for power is somehow enabled by taking away cross teaming. hardcoded teams basically would split our already low population into 4 seperate servers.

what live never really did was give incentive to stay within your team. my perfect server would be race teams pvp that allowed crossteaming, but groups with only their team got a group xp bonus or something along those lines.

[fastboy21]

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

Good luck with velious fatboy

omg. you called me fatboy! good one.

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

Nothing here is a new idea. It is tools to speed up our current system.

you said it yourself, nothing in your post is a new idea.

you are in a ftp emulator. get a grip.

[Rec]

We'll get teams99 any day now!

[Argh]

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[Lyrith]

I only have one comment to add to this as I don't care to discuss my feelings about each and every point that was made here...

Let's say I like to work on cars as a hobby and I flip them and make some money. That's great, I can continue my hobby and hopefully not have to take too many breaks saving up more money for car parts and work my full time job more.

However if more people saw what I was doing with classic cars and donated to help me do them faster or get a shop to work on them instead of my garage. I could push out more classic cars or maybe even possibly do it for a living, instead of my hobby. Doing something I love instead of a job...

End result, if I spend all my spare money and time away from my family restoring a classic corvette then I have 800 people tell me how shitty it is, or I should have done this trim, instead of that, etc... I wouldn't keep the same motivation to keep working on them.

TL;DR = I like cars, but more importantly you should donate to the server! You would be surprised what could change when people actually make money for doing what they love.

[planeofdreams]

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

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- implement that Nilbog Casino so we can get some plat sink for the economy.
This would be something fun and help reduce the plat.

-End Class R so they don't have the comfort of free mobs + FFA mobs + C mobs. Or push Class R into C if you get 3 FFA mobs in one month (or something similiar). The raid rules are shit. Example this week. Class C got 1 mob (that class R could of went for) yet Class R get 11 mobs (that class C cant even touch) . It is dumb.

A Plat Sink Casino is not a bad idea, but ironically I think the attrition of bored players, one of the points you raised, does a lot to take plat out of the economy for us. One way to observe this is to follow high end loot pricing. Over the years I've seen fungi tunics oscillate from 60k to 100K+, mostly seasonally, but while this issue looks like a gatekeeper to what I might term "the upper end of the economy", I have to wonder how many items besides epic MQs are really locked out from regular players.

The fact that twink items like this never really seem to be unattainable really says a lot to me. No drop raid loot aside, I think most items are pretty manageable for casual players who can handle waiting a little longer.

When Velious drops there will be a spike in population, and we can suggest that many in the attrition class will return to play. If many of these people are sitting on huge sums of money, what are they going to be spending it on? My guess is that they will be returning for Raiding not to level up new alts, velious is after all an expansion aimed at higher level players. I'm not a raider but I don't believe it takes hundreds of thousands of plat to mount a raid, so I do not believe much of that money will ever do anything but rot in their banks.

Glad to hear other opinions though.

A little off topic Question for the Raiders: The Class R rotation ended, didn't it? What's the difference between now Class R and Class C? Not really my concern, I'm just curious about what it looks like after this: http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=179670 (A link to the answer is all I'm curious about.)

[Laugher]

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

What makes you think a teams server won't end up with 80% of people on one (successful) team?

Something to consider.

Yeah, this makes me think back to Rolfron Zek, which was pretty awesome during its time but died quickly because with the size of pop a teams server attracts it seems like this will happen a lot:

2-3 big guilds start up

one begins to appear bigger, the other sides begin to quit or migrate to the zerg

zerg rules

pop dies

I love the idea in theory just as much as anyone and in 2013 was interested in the idea of p99 teams, but after seeing a teams pvp server that admittedly was faster paced than here and given that red gives you the option of re-teaming without having to remake your entire char there's simply little incentive imo for pvpers or those of blue to rush to the teams model of server.

[planeofdreams]

Thanks for the reply. Haha, man raid problems are so beyond me right now.

[Joyelle]

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

Because now class R gets class R mobs, FFA mobs, and Class C mobs if they want.

How is this possible? If a class R guild kills a Class C mob, do they not get moved into class C?