For me there would ideally always be 3 P99 servers up.

[Wakanda]

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

The launch of P99 supports this claim

I meant to say P99 Green here. Been drinking a little bit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But yeah. I totally understand why people don't want to leave Blue and start over, which is why I proposed having 3 servers. You countered that there should only be 1 server because people don't want to start over. I'm making the argument that the success of P99 Green shows that there is a significant amount of people out there that prefer a fresh launch over a static, stagnant version of the game. (Could prob use the success of the Quarm launch as an example of how much players love this as well).

I totally understand dividing the player-base can be bad, and has been bad, but at the same time, it's impossible to get a classic EverQuest experience from playing on the current iterations of the emulators we have. I actually had a real-life friend play P99 a few months ago because he loves classic WoW and how hardcore it feels. He wanted to challenge himself by playing P99 since it's supposed to be even more hardcore.

Within a few days he was making fun of how easy the game was after some random person gave him two wu sticks and a haste item, and 99% of the time he played the game he had Druid buffs. He convinced himself that EQ was actually a super easy game and that we're all just boomers who have never played a challenging game like World of Warcraft etc.

And I had to tell him that his experience on P99 is not even close to a classic experience and that he would have to wait until a fresh launch happened to even remotely understand how challenging the game can be when no one has any gear, and you can't even find a group or tank half the time, and have no clue how to get anywhere, or where your body is after you died etc.