Was Having Two Servers More Fun Than One?

[Natewest1987]

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

if people didnt petition each other ever 5 minutes; than the merger prob wouldnt have happened

this makes no sense. the biggest rnf issues seemed to come from green. Why would they put even more people in that sandbox if they wanted to deal with less petitions?

[gnomishfirework]

Other than HGs, I haven’t seen anything become overly packed during my play hours.

Not nearly as bad as I expected. Manastone camp little rough now but whatever. I only need 5 more.

[Smellybuttface]

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

Manastone camp little rough now but whatever. I only need 5 more.

I hope to god this is a joke....

[PabloEdvardo]

100% more fun pre-merge. It felt more like actual Live classic, with multiple servers with different communities. (Edit: Also, what classic server with 2000 people had the number of tryhards at lvl50 we have?)

Granted, off hours it's still hard finding people for groups, but anything even resembling normal hours is packed, and it slaughtered the momentum for many of us that were grinding happily every day.

[Gustoo]

We have 3 servers now. Blue Green and Red

[Silverfalcon]

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

We have 3 servers now. Blue Green and Red

What's the point of red? It has less than 50 players a vast majority of the time I see it. Why not drop it and keep teal? Blue still seems fairly active but geeze....Green and Teal were far more active than Red is.

[astuce999]

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

What's the point of red? It has less than 50 players a vast majority of the time I see it. Why not drop it and keep teal? Blue still seems fairly active but geeze....Green and Teal were far more active than Red is.

Red was a great place to quarantine the toxic players for a while, but after a million "consider red" posts they moved on to lobby for teal&green to be combined so that it could create that toxic recipe they love so much, and they've been having a ton of fun burning the place down since the merge.

They hope that once green is mostly dead Rogean will do Red 2.0 so that they can burn that one down as well.

Boxing was classic, and high populations on vanilla content was classic; neither should be true on a 2020 emulation server for it to prosper, for pretty much the same reasons.

cheers,

Astuce

[Asteria]

Originally Posted by astuce999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Red was a great place to quarantine the toxic players for a while, but after a million "consider red" posts they moved on to lobby for teal&green to be combined so that it could create that toxic recipe they love so much, and they've been having a ton of fun burning the place down since the merge.

They hope that once green is mostly dead Rogean will do Red 2.0 so that they can burn that one down as well.

Boxing was classic, and high populations on vanilla content was classic; neither should be true on a 2020 emulation server for it to prosper, for pretty much the same reasons.

cheers,

Astuce

Can you please explain how they are immolating servers down? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[cd288]

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

Can you please explain how they are immolating servers down? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What’s really interesting to me is how they won’t explain this. Probably because their issues are wanting to farm valuable items and only EXP in high ZEM zones...and they know the minute they admit that then they lose all legitimacy.

[astuce999]

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

Can you please explain how they are immolating servers down? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They create an atmosphere and context where only the min-maxing/neckbeard mentality can thrive. Anyone who dares to propose an alternate approach to playing EQ is flamed/trolled/rules-lawyered.

They see EQ as a King-of-the-Hill game; it's only fun if they're on top and keeping other people down.

We like to play EQ for the content, and we feel that p99's classic EQ is an amazing recreation of that content, unmatched anywhere. We feel that classic EQ was already time-consuming enough in the way it was designed, and on a fresh server with no twinks it was actually a lot of fun to tackle on that level-appropriate content on Teal.

Most of the trolls on this thread (and threads like this) who keep talking about going off the beaten path and creating your own groups and how they went to so-and-so zone and had no issue are all hypocrites who already have at least 1 minmax toon guised/manastoned/fullrubied.

On Teal's last night, it was a Saturday night and I was in a full group in the CY in Mistmoore. There were other groups camping CE, GY and the pond. 2-3 people were at the zone in with the lfg tag up. It was close to 30 people in zone total (or completely dead and in dire need of a merge according to the forum trolls).

Over the course of almost 3 hours (I was lucky the wife was out of town and had a lot of time to play), we were killing and having conversations and laughing, we also had a ranger so lots of ranger jokes, and we were able to get lucky and get some of the nameds. We killed Dhamph 2-3 times, Lasna once, Xicotl once (single pulled with a charmed garg taking the HT, it was beautiful), and Garton once too. An HBC and a diamondine earring dropped. The ranger got the earring, and one of the druids won the cloak. I walked away with less than a yellow of xp (lvl 40 hell and bard) and zero loot.

It was probably the most fun I had on EQ in years, and I remember telling the group how much I loved Teal and how perfect it was and how much that group was fun and how they were all on my friend list now and how I couldn't wait to play again.

So the next day Teal was gone. When I logged into MM, there were only a dozen people in zone. There was a trio at pond, a duo at GY, a lvl 50 mage camping dhamp, a lvl 50 chanter camping lasna/xicotl, a lvl 49 necro camping princess, and 2-3 other people /anon not responding to CC's or /tells.

I logged off and haven't logged back in since that day. I keep lurking the forums and I see the steady decline in population since the merge... like a fire slowly but surely consuming itself and becoming less and less bright.

I know it's going to be near-impossible for a min-maxer to understand how someone can have fun without winning any pixels, and then will jump at the chance to point out that when the pixels were no longer available to win I didn't want to play anymore so it must have been only about the pixels...

(this is already too long, sorry)

cheers,

Astuce