Current state of blue vs. green?

[Jimjam]

on live you could just scroll through characters after the first eight just by pressing up and down at the character select.

[JayDee]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can always make identical names with an X at the end. You could literally do that on the server right now lol. What an odd comment. Your first example is just confusing, as those are not duplicate names and therefore not relevant to your questions on a server merge.

They're not erasing the characters. They said that if you had more than 8 characters across Blue and Green on one account, then you (the player) would have to delete characters to access some of yours further down the list. The character still exists upon merge, but the Titanium client can't display it (characters are listed in alphabetical order - so you'd have to delete some further up the list to get the ones outside the 8 character limit to show up). You don't have to delete anything, and the staff aren't deleting anything either. But if you have more than 8 chars and you're trying to access one further down the list, you'll have some personal decisions to make.

They were VERY clear about this at launch. The warning is still there. They were very clear that there's nothing they can do about this issue so it's on you if you read the warning and for some inexplicable reason still choose to create more than 8 characters on one account across Blue and Green. To be honest, based on your comment it sounds like you may have made this mistake...sorry, but the staff made clear this was a totally at your own risk type of thing.

What if I create your character names with an x at the end right now. How much clearer can I be

And I dont see them making people delete characters in the event they have more than 8 on one account. Also the inactive people who have that setup will return to random character removed? Ain't gonna happen buddy

[Danth]

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

Also the inactive people who have that setup will return to random character removed? Ain't gonna happen buddy

That's not how it would work. Server-side nothing gets deleted, all the characters still exist post-merge. You see 8, but the others are still present in the database, just can't display at character select. As you delete characters, others become visible. This is only a problem for players who created more than 8 "keeper" characters between both servers.

For example, I have 7 total characters on my account on blue, and 3 more on green, for 10 total. In the event of a server merge, some of them would not display. However, of those ten, only three of them (all on blue) are characters I actually care about and wouldn't accept deleting. I could delete enough of the others to pare it down to 8 or fewer and all display, in the event of a server merge.

It's been so long since the admins said *anything* with respect to their future plans for P99 that we don't really know whether or not a server merge is still planned. My philosophy is play the game normally and deal with a merge if it happens.

[cd288]

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

What if I create your character names with an x at the end right now. How much clearer can I be

And I dont see them making people delete characters in the event they have more than 8 on one account. Also the inactive people who have that setup will return to random character removed? Ain't gonna happen buddy

Ok...so if you create my character name with an X at the end then the staff would add an extra X or maybe a Y at the end of mine when they merge. This literally happened on live. You're acting like this is some huge hurdle lmao.

With respect to your second point, it's so weird that you're arguing about something that the staff literally said they would do/have no choice on due to client limitations.

Staff: "Hey, just a heads up everyone this is a Titanium UI limitation and when we eventually merge you won't be able to see more than 8 chars and would have to delete some up the list to get the lower ones to appear. So if you want more than 8 chars, create multiple accounts."
You: "The staff would never merge if this was what would happen, even though they expressly said that they would."

lol...

[Videri]

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

I haven't logged into P99 in a long time. If the pop counter is correct it looks like green has twice the active pop of blue? Is that accurate? I logged into blue and ran around a bit (between swamp and EC) and felt pretty dead but don't even remember how busy it was when I last played years ago so can't really tell how much more dead it might be (if at all).

Hey there. I've been leveling a rogue, a notoriously group-dependent class, and I've found groups maybe 3/4 times I log on. It's a different set of challenges from the first year or so, but I believe there's still fun to be had!

[Bardp1999]

The above poster is the guild leader of the largest guild on the server and has literally unlimited resources for twinking

<3

[Teddie1056]

Fuse needs to be broken up, or bag limits need to be put in to discourage cowardice like merging the two top guilds.

[kjs86z2]

Originally Posted by Teddie1056 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fuse needs to be broken up, or bag limits need to be put in to discourage cowardice like merging the two top guilds.

haha fuse being put on bag limits would be hilarious

years ago Riot was getting their shit pushed in week in week out and sucked enough GM dick to get bag limits put in place so they could go on life support

[Ennewi]

Originally Posted by Teddie1056 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fuse needs to be broken up, or bag limits need to be put in to discourage cowardice like merging the two top guilds.

How is it tantamount to cowardice? Before both guilds merged, things were agreeable enough between leadership to where there weren't eleventy petitions for CSR to comb through. The main difference between quakes was simply that one guild got kt and the other got doze, one guild got vulak and the other tunare. Occasionally there would be a dain or yeli lost/gained here or there but, even so, this was all more in line with classic.

Even during Luclin, raid guilds claimed NTOV by killing Aary. That was the gatekeeper. 24-48 hours to kill everything else. From reading, this was true on multiple servers. Hardly what could be described as competitive, especially when guilds weren't mario karting each other to get Aary.

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

haha fuse being put on bag limits would be hilarious

years ago Riot was getting their shit pushed in week in week out and sucked enough GM dick to get bag limits put in place so they could go on life support

The wording here underscores why "competitive" EQ failed despite numerous efforts to keep it going on p99. For whatever reason, there's this need to always push the envelope, seeing what can be gotten away with, even on the forums. If that had been toned down, decent chance the raid scene wouldn't be what it is today.

[kjs86z2]

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

The wording here underscores why "competitive" EQ failed despite numerous efforts to keep it going on p99. For whatever reason, there's this need to always push the envelope, seeing what can be gotten away with, even on the forums. If that had been toned down, decent chance the raid scene wouldn't be what it is today.

to quote the great Dannyl: P99 isn't about loot. Its about denying your enemies their pixels.

its always been about dunking on people outside your own tribe, a theme as old as humanity itself