No patch in 5 months. Signs we're nearly at completion status?

[Tecmos Deception]

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

A new server would be great to capture the classic feel.

Something people forget is that the EQ release schedule was rapid. EQ launched in March 1999, Kunark in April 2000, Velious in December 2000, And Luclin in December 2001. The full EQ to end-of-Velious timeline was less than two years. Project 1999 was launched in 2009 and has been going on for eight years now, four times as long.

The timeline is important, because P1999 isn't really classic anymore. The original developers never planned for everyone to have the amount of gear they do now. Some casual players have multiple 60s. Fungis are everywhere. Pre-20s rogues are running around with epics, backstabbing for hundreds of damage.

A new server would recapture the old feel, at least for two years.

The next p99 will be more classic and less classic in it's own ways.

Tons of bugs and exploits existed and were used for years before being changed, account trading was a thing, timeline has been very extended, alts galore, etc. Those things will be taken away the next time around.

However, p99 has a shitload more exposure now than it did 6+ years ago. The process of the hardcore players farming manastones and guises and hitting 50 to begin getting rich (and stay that way) will be a lot different in 2 years or whatever than it was on blue. Many bugs are fixed, many classic mechanics are restored, but the mechanics that ARE here are mastered such that a new server won't have the "fresh, unexplored" feel like classic or even blue did. It'll be a blank slate, but it won't stay that way for more than a couple weeks before it resembles current blue in a lot of ways.

Fungi alts and epic level 20 rogues and etc? No. But guilds powering druids to 50 and taking turns PLing alts to re-establish their alt armies and whatnot? Yes. Every worthwhile camp on lockdown? Moreso than now, for sure, especially in the very small world of classic eq as compared to kunark+velious. Old bugs gone? Yes. But new ones will turn up. Etc.

It WILL be glorious. But it won't be some casual player utopia just because progress gets reset and the timeline is faster. People who can't fully enjoy what is here now won't fully enjoy a fresh server either.