Can we talk about the future of P99?

[shovelquest]

It was in the same thread as the one CD heard about velious.

[cd288]

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

It was in the same thread as the one CD heard about velious.

Ah got it. So I think we can confirm that this guy is obviously just trolling now lol.

But at any rate, for anyone who comes across this thread later, here is part of the Green announcement from Nilbog confirming the plan is for future fresh servers 9which is consistent with what the staff have said for like 10 years now): "The green server will, at a time yet to be decided, eventually merge into blue and start over again. This merge will not happen until at least 6 months after the last patch in velious (No earlier than January 2023)."

[shovelquest]

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

Source?

[Naethyn]

Green is the new red and it is vitally important to the sanity of blue.

[zelld52]

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

I think its perfect just the way it is, but it would be cool to get a fresh server since I came to P99 after green was already in Velious. Would be fun to just start EQ on day 1 with everyone else and progress to where green/blue are now.

you say this.. but each iteration of a new server gets sweatier and sweatier.

[Hisamori]

I ain’t reading all that but happy for you tho or sorry that happened

[cd288]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

you say this.. but each iteration of a new server gets sweatier and sweatier.

If you're not dead set on grabbing things like legacy items etc. then the sweatiness won't hit you as much.

[Wiltan]

I really don't get the whole "the server is dead" mentality. A couple of days ago there were two quakes in one day on Blue and still everything got dead within a few hours of each quake.

Is it just that you can't find an XP group in a leveling spot? Join a guild or make some friends, and bring your own group.

Merging Green back into Blue would just invite more toxicity and scarcity into a healthy raid scene.

[loramin]

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

I really don't get the whole "the server is dead" mentality. A couple of days ago there were two quakes in one day on Blue and still everything got dead within a few hours of each quake.

Is it just that you can't find an XP group in a leveling spot? Join a guild or make some friends, and bring your own group.

Merging Green back into Blue would just invite more toxicity and scarcity into a healthy raid scene.

I'm not saying the server is dead, but if you think "raid targets are cleared" = "healthy server", you need to put whatever you're smoking down.

P99 is extremely top-heavy. When there are only 200 active players left, the raid targets will still be getting cleared, because that's what most people will stick around to do.

But, most people would not consider 200 players healthy, as there's a whole lot more to this game (and the servers' health) than whether ToV is cleared on a regular basis.

[Wiltan]

It's the middle of the workday on a Tuesday and there are 262 people on Blue and 472 people on Green right now.

Maybe 200 "active players" would be bad, but I posit that the number of active players is much higher than that, considering that even during what should be a fairly low-population time of day/week, there are more on than what you're using as a low-water mark.

At any rate, merging servers won't make things any less top-heavy.

The thing that would bring in (or back) leveling players would be new content, which isn't going to happen for a number of reasons, not the least being a lack of dev availability. Beyond that, all I see are knee-jerk "doing something is better than doing nothing" suggestions. More quakes, sure, but that's for the raid scene, and doesn't do anything to draw in more lowbies. A change in meta, same thing. Nothing wrong with doing those things, but if it's a dead server because it's top-heavy, feeding the top won't make it less dead.

There are plenty of folks who still love P99 and are enjoying things the way they are. There are players in my guild and in our larger alliance dinging 60 for the first time ever; getting their first epic ever; seeing raid zones for the first time ever. Would it be nice to just show up at Highkeep and get added to a goblin group waitlist like olden times? I suppose. But as I said earlier, one can make friends or join a guild and bring their own group for that.