EQ and New Player Population

[calaxa]

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

What was really attractive about the Progression servers is they allowed everyone to start fresh, although IMHO the progression went too fast for casuals/family guilds. P99 captures this as well.

I'd love to see P99 split when Kunark comes out to let the high end guilds run off and have their dramafest on the new content while anyone who wants to hang out and play the Classic content at a slower pace can now have a chance at the end game. Allow character transfers to the new server, rinse and repeat for Velious.

Regards,
Mg

I think that all future MMOs should follow this type of ruleset. If you advance at a certain speed, you should be split off onto a different server. Seperate the powergamers from the casuals. They already do this for blue vs. red. Why not for this other portion of the community instead of a sandbox. You'll segregate the high end drama and stabilize the economy of both communites. No massive mudflation and item dilution. Probably will never happen though.

[Appaullo]

Hhhmmm. I remember doing Vox and Naggy raids after Kunark came out. Thats the beauty of a growing server and expansions. When the bigger, more established guilds come out the older content is still there for the younger levels. I mean, once the current raiding guilds move on to Kunark raid content then new "classic" raiding guilds will form up. I see no need to split servers for this sort of thing (just my opinion). Also raiding is not for everyone. I was in a high end raiding guild on EQLive and let me tell you, at my age I cant go into work with 90 minutes of sleep anymore. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I wouldnt worry, I think there will be content for all levels of raiders.

[mgellan]

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

Hhhmmm. I remember doing Vox and Naggy raids after Kunark came out. Thats the beauty of a growing server and expansions. When the bigger, more established guilds come out the older content is still there for the younger levels. I mean, once the current raiding guilds move on to Kunark raid content then new "classic" raiding guilds will form up. I see no need to split servers for this sort of thing (just my opinion). Also raiding is not for everyone. I was in a high end raiding guild on EQLive and let me tell you, at my age I cant go into work with 90 minutes of sleep anymore. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I wouldnt worry, I think there will be content for all levels of raiders.

True, but the issue becomes co-existence - on one hand you have a population that moves very quickly and consumes content at a high rate, and a slow population that log on for a few hours to have fun. The raiders then create twinked alts that compete with the casuals at lower levels, and the server economy floods with plat and farmed items. To me thats a good reason to try splitting servers, so the two populations don't mix...

Regards,
Mg

[xakle]

I quit shortly before Velious came out. I raided all the time more so for the fun of it than the loot. We had generally the same group of 30 people that would do plane of sky every other weekend and plane of sky had average at best loot because this was not long after Kunark was released.

It was great because our server wasn't guild biased. You could be in any guild and get into any raid. Because of this, our server (Tunare) was the first to not only get the Fiery Avenger (Musk... with Drool giving him the glory), but the first to get the Rogue epic (Kaylum) and a number of other epics and (unconfirmed) the first to spawn the Sister of the Spire in PoS.

However, shortly before Velious, things started really tilting into being guild biased. Guilds were becoming greedy (greed will imprison us all). It also didn't help that I played a druid, and the server was loaded with druids. Then there was a server split to Drinal and most of the people I normally raided with went with it because they saw the same thing happening with the guilds.

[Mmohunter]

SoL , New Models, and AA killed EQ. Or should I say "the vision".