Poll: Reopen Teal (Digital Social Distancing)

[cd288]

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

If another server is what the community wants or needs, perhaps this can be accomplished with funds.

Not sure if the devs read this thread, but I am certain if the obstacle is funding, the community here would rally to provide them. I doubt I'm only speaking for myself in that opinion.

I don't think funds are an obstacle. They opened Teal before to handle the overflowing newbie zones at Green launch. Teal was designed as a very temporary measure and they said they'd re-merge once the population in the lowbie zones evened out as people got higher level. I highly doubt they'd create another server just because higher level people don't want to wait in line for loot and/or cash camps, or don't want to wait for a group at a popular group spot. This is classic EQ; not being able to do whatever you want at the exact time you want to do it is a fact of life sometimes...this isn't WoW.

[Cjulies]

I voted yes. A server split would give some non-neck beards a chance to come up on some perma-camped mobs. I still go to work. Every day. When I get off, everything is and has been camped all day long. I play somewhat casually, so my 2-3 hours in the evening grind session becomes a "there's a 5 person list to get in-group" and 90% of em don't have to go to work so they can sit and wait the 2 hours to get into your typical xp groups. Yes, Norrath is pretty expansive. I guess in a couple of months once armageddon is over we will see a dip in population and some availability on mobs/camps/loots. Or better yet... Make a Crimson server... Fresh Start PVP with no lists... let the savages handle their business

[magnetaress]

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

I voted yes. A server split would give some non-neck beards a chance to come up on some perma-camped mobs. I still go to work. Every day. When I get off, everything is and has been camped all day long. I play somewhat casually, so my 2-3 hours in the evening grind session becomes a "there's a 5 person list to get in-group" and 90% of em don't have to go to work so they can sit and wait the 2 hours to get into your typical xp groups. Yes, Norrath is pretty expansive. I guess in a couple of months once armageddon is over we will see a dip in population and some availability on mobs/camps/loots. Or better yet... Make a Crimson server... Fresh Start PVP with no lists... let the savages handle their business

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[Bigsham]

teal will never re open

[Shaunathan]

The server is only half full. This still seems silly.

[BlackBellamy]

Teal was a bad idea gone worse. First it turned into an accommodation as an instance for pixel-hunting min-maxers who would have a breakdown if they couldn't get their favorite and most popular camp under the exact circumstances they wanted. Still crying about it. Second, Teal became a manastone and guise and rare drop factory for bored Green account-sharing boxers.

Frankly I don't care if they set up x number of servers with whatever lists or rules to your hearts desire. I wouldn't care if they made a perma-Teal. Go play and stay there! But to screw up the economy and community with some splits and merges which also dilute limited staff attention and support to accommodate a bunch of coddled whiners was just a bad idea. The management was so overcome with the feeling like oh look at all these people, wow we had no idea, it's very popular, and they decided to cater to everyone. Maybe they were afraid everyone would go home and the server would die. What they should have done is cut the population off at the knees. Either set a max pop and do queues or just let it thin itself out. I think that would have been a healthier community in the long run. Smaller...maybe, but better.

I gotta have this totally non-classic economy and history of instancing staining this forever, all for people who have most likely quit already anyway because they were slightly inconvenienced in some other way. And the ones who remain make insults about neckbeards, implying that people like me who can log on one of our characters and find something interesting to do in 10 minutes are somehow defective. Eat me. And afterwards go do your part in thinning the population by making love to the delete button.

[magnetaress]

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

Teal was a bad idea gone worse. First it turned into an accommodation as an instance for pixel-hunting min-maxers who would have a breakdown if they couldn't get their favorite and most popular camp under the exact circumstances they wanted. Still crying about it. Second, Teal became a manastone and guise and rare drop factory for bored Green account-sharing boxers.

Frankly I don't care if they set up x number of servers with whatever lists or rules to your hearts desire. I wouldn't care if they made a perma-Teal. Go play and stay there! But to screw up the economy and community with some splits and merges which also dilute limited staff attention and support to accommodate a bunch of coddled whiners was just a bad idea. The management was so overcome with the feeling like oh look at all these people, wow we had no idea, it's very popular, and they decided to cater to everyone. Maybe they were afraid everyone would go home and the server would die. What they should have done is cut the population off at the knees. Either set a max pop and do queues or just let it thin itself out. I think that would have been a healthier community in the long run. Smaller...maybe, but better.

I gotta have this totally non-classic economy and history of instancing staining this forever, all for people who have most likely quit already anyway because they were slightly inconvenienced in some other way. And the ones who remain make insults about neckbeards, implying that people like me who can log on one of our characters and find something interesting to do in 10 minutes are somehow defective. Eat me. And afterwards go do your part in thinning the population by making love to the delete button.

I have to agree with blackbellamy on this one she's got some really clever thoughts going on here and I mean that in a good way

[drackgon]

Lol "non-classic economy" I cant stop lauging whenever anyone mentions they want classic EQ.. Its gone, p99 is no where near classic. Get over it. Its not devs fault its not classic. Its the players. And personally Im glad heck I wish they'd make it less classic and change spawn timers. Totally like +/- windows. Shrink raid bosses 16 hour window down to 8, or 4.

P99 hasn't and won;t ever be classic. Unless they throttled everyone's Inet down to 56.6k speed. You realize how much inet speed effected the economy back then as it does today? Travel time is nothing like it was. Meaning People can farm stuff, get to raid bosses, and whatever they want Sooooo much faster.

[magnetaress]

Aradune will be out soon, I highly recommend everyone roll a paladin on that server and we all form up in 1 big guild.

[raptorak]

Gotta agree with others here, I found out that with my knowledge of how things work in EQ nowadays, I do indeed hate classic. I liked classic back then but it sucks now. Better option for me personally than teal is open Kunark and forget the classic time line, but that won't happen either. I wish there were no hybrid penalties because it's retarded but they won't change that either until 3 years has passed. Most likely what will happen is I may or may not come back in October, which is what I recommend everyone who is sick of the overpop do, and get on with their lives. This solves the problem of overcrowding for everyone if you think about it. This is what everquest is, only those who are hardcore enough will make it to the final pixels. There's always some neckbeard out there who can camp one hour more than you, who can reroll a halfling druid gnome mage and get to 50 in a week one more time than you, so best not to fight it.