No expansion server

[Mblake81]

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

It is less time consuming to "beat" and reduces real estate but I like the pre kunark character balance better and I think it is a more complete world.

I would also play a permament classic only server that eventually adds more quests to fill out the half empty content we see throughout classic world norrath. So same real estate but more fully utilized.

I agree. Original EQ was a cohesive experience. I too would play on a server like you describe if it stayed 100% faithful to the original game but just fixed some of the bugs and finished up the quests that were missing. Someone had a list once, iirc it was a good many that didn't make it in.

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

Classic is the game they intended to make and Kunark is what they had to make to give crack addicts more to do.

Things got silly starting with Kunark.

A P99 Black Server (classic only) would be nice. Original client.

[soronil]

You do have a full year of vanilla. seems like plenty of time to do what you need to do. Do you think it should be a revolving server, like green? How long before you reboot the server? And would people really be in the mood to reboot so soon? At least by start of green 2.0 people may be more interested in jumping back in (After 2+ years since the last vanilla experience)

The timeline towards the end of green seems a bit weird though.
We have:
12 months of vanilla
7 months of kunark
18 months of velious ??

I would think at the time of the last patch (the time green reaches blue patch) you should just merge it and reboot green. Then Green is in vanilla for a higher % of each cycle. Probably more people are playing green for Vanilla than they are for "fresh velious" right?

[Zeboim]

I take issue with the class balance remark, but otherwise agree. Not that Kunark-Velious are masterpieces of class balance or anything, but Classic did melee pretty dirty.

Kunark has way too many 'Giant Open Areas packed with dozens of random level specific roamers' that screws up the leveling flow/crafted feel of the game, however.

[zodias]

Lower guk was great in classic. But now 20 years later, with the knowledge people have it's going to be a mess. I've played a couple classic servers and given right group, a single group can clear and hold dead side. It's not fun and it's going to cause some headaches.
There's going to be a line at guise, a line at mana stone and then 3 groups fighting over undead frogs.

[Nagoya]

i would love a server locked in the classic era, but with tons of custom content, extra zones, extra quests, extra items everywhere, but playing with diversity instead of power gap, basically adding stats and procs and clickies instead of upping the AC or weapon ratio. kunark could be just a single zone. that i would play to a divorce-dangerous level ^^;

http://wiki.project1999.com/Zones

i mean look at all these cool potential zones:
The Northlands,
The Frigid Plains,
Broken Skull Rock,
Winters Deep,
The Dead Hill,
Th Grand Plateau of Odus,
The Barren Coast,
The Loping Plains,
Dragonscale Hills,
etc.

INFINITE POTENTIAL

[Rooj]

I've always wanted a Classic only server. I joined P99 too late, not long before Kunark launched. Would be interesting to see what it's like to be capped at 50 lol. That said, I do love Kunark and was glad that Blue was stuck in it for so long. When Velious finally launched, I was kinda just like eh, why again did we want this? Though it does have some great QoL features like less competitive Epics and abolishment of silly pointless hybrid penalties. I feel like the outdoor Classic and Kunark zones are much better designed and have more purpose. As for raiding, I feel like Classic and Kunark raiding is a lot less time consuming and even more fun than ToV... IMO it's more fun to fight large groups of mobs like in Hate/Fear than fighting 1 large trash dragon at a time in ToV.

[Secrets]

I would love a server that continues the game design as it was in Classic, putting an emphasis on crafting and exploration instead of level cap and stat inflation.

The problem is a majority of people would (likely) find it boring.

[Jadian]

I'd play it since it's my favorite era by far, but I wouldn't expect it to maintain any sort of population

[Widan]

Get rid of red finally and make purple classic only. Velious completely ruins pvp for casters anyways.