Solving The "Blue" Issue.

[Ekco]

yeah, a thousand still playing green, 2 thousand peak playing THJ before PoE2 launched yesterday and whatever Quarm still has.

and anyone even remotely into elf sim pvp is playing ashes of creation.


people give a shit about everquest pve, and people give a shit about pvp.

only 6 people on the planet give a shit about pvp in everquest.

[Ciderpress]

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

only 6 people on the planet give a shit about pvp in everquest.

This is very true, the only puzzling thing is that people definitely used to give a shit about it. The classic PVP servers had very healthy pops back then

[Eisai]

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

This is very true, the only puzzling thing is that people definitely used to give a shit about it. The classic PVP servers had very healthy pops back then

Maybe those people have healthy successful lives? Or that form of everquest might be far less addictive...

[Old_PVP]

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

This is very true, the only puzzling thing is that people definitely used to give a shit about it. The classic PVP servers had very healthy pops back then

Everyone always forgets about relativity. The classic PVP servers had a healthy pop at the time when EverQuest had a healthy subscription base of 500k players. You have to remember that EQ had like 40 live servers... and only 4 of those were PVP. Which means roughly 10% of the population enjoyed PVP enough to play on them.

Compare that to P99 statistics. Roughly 1000 people, maybe 100 active on Red? 10% of the total and decreasing due to neglect.

Compare new server launches - maybe 3000 people, PVP would have significantly less but would maybe settle around 300 range.

There has always only been 10% interest in EQ PVP.

[Duik]

Aint no fixin anyfing.
Play p1999 for what it is. A museum piece that the devs try (despite players' attempts to add luclin/custom/etc) to true to history.
Sure, changes were made cuz players found ways to trivialize/exploit the 25 yr old code.

People bitching about the current condition of the server pop is prolly around second last on the list of dev priorities.

Play. Be happy. If <exploit guild> keeps poopsocking the same old content for their 50th (BIS) alt take it as a failing on their part and let the baby have its bottle.

I know this will not help.

[Duik]

Feel free to make your own server.
Exactly how you envision it.
Or shut the hell up and play this one, as is. Or not. But just please choose one.

[Duik]

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

Whoops my bad. I forgot that because I didn't code it myself and because I don't run the project I'm not allowed to question or criticize all the decisions and changes that run completely against the stated point of the project. Won't happen again.

You are soooo close.

[Naethyn]

Things are fine.

[shovelquest]

p99 Mischief server when

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[Wakanda]

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

p99 Mischief server when

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I think this style of server would be closer to original EQ than what we have now. Because in original EQ we didn't know where every single item in the game dropped, or how to get to most camps even if we did know where items we wanted dropped.

P99 doesn't emulate classic in the sense that we all have every thing down to a science, which is not how classic EQ played at all.

I think also someone just copy/pasting the original EQ but with modern graphics, mechanics, and new names of zones/items would be fairly successful. A lot of the early MMOs that came out trying to compete with WoW were actually good games, but because they got rushed out so fast, they tended to be severely lacking in content.

If they had just copy/pasted EQ they would have had plenty of content. Most modern players would never even know that they copied EQ since they never played it. It's why I'm still shaking my head at Pantheon. 10+ years... for what they've released so far. It shouldn't have been that complicated.