Things Still Needing Attention On This Server

[heartbrand]

Same 3 people shout down any possible positive changes to this server in every thread, while the voice of the unknown player goes unheard, because he has already passed on to newer pastures, his cries unheard and unchampioned.

[heartbrand]

Originally Posted by Tr0llb0rn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not even worth responding to the calls for YT and boxing (lol). Never going to happen, waste of breath. Horrible ideas that will never see the light of day, and if by some twist they were, I guarantee you the box would be done for. Would be about a dozen boxers left and thats it.

If we wanted to box, we'd be boxing legit on free EQmac.

so lol coming from the guy who has the vast majority of boxers in his guild including the de factor leader, fallen.

[jdklaw]

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

Same 3 people shout down any possible positive changes to this server in every thread, while the voice of the unknown player goes unheard, because he has already passed on to newer pastures, his cries unheard and unchampioned.

Any possible positive changes are not boxing. The argument for classic resists is not a good one if your only evidence during the era is "i remember it was like this."

Be a better lawyer.

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

so lol coming from the guy who has the vast majority of boxers in his guild including the de factor leader, fallen.

doing an item transfer is your argument for the de factor leader in boxing, confirming ur status as village idiot.

[heartbrand]

yes, because fallen never abused ip exempt to insta quit from world, oh wait he admitted it on forums

[jdklaw]

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

yes, because fallen never abused ip exempt to insta quit from world, oh wait he admitted it on forums

k so your complaint is him insta plugging, not boxing right?

[Sektor]

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

Listen, I think we can all agree that global ooc saved this server from having <30 pop at nights, so thank you Lord Rogean for that, even if it came very late. Having said that, there's still shit that needs to be addressed on this server. In no particular order here we go:

Resists: Player base continues to say they don't want a special custom resist system, they want classic. For a server that's built upon being classic, this one is just mind boggling to me. The evidence of what classic was has been documented all over these boards, it's not an issue of can the devs make it classic, it's an issue of they don't want it to be classic.

EXP: Still needs a boost. Day in and day out I see newbies, give them items and plat to help them, never see them again / hear them rage quit in OOC cuz of exp. There's just not enough lowbie pop to have healthy groups, so EXP boost is needed, as a temporary crutch perhaps, to assist them. Get people to the higher levels as fast as possible, 35+, create hot zones, do whatever it takes. This is probably the biggest issue right now. 50's who create alts don't care because they twink and use their guildies to powerlevel. Please address this.

Hybrid Penalty: It's still a joke that groups are penalized for being social. Please remove this penalty from group settings, and at the very least, consider removing hybrid penalties.

Faster Content Release: Classic is boring. This is supposed to be an advanced progression server. Somehow it's slower than blue now. There are tons of people on the sidelines waiting to make iksar necros / monks, etc. There's more stuff to camp, more stuff to do. We need more content desperately.

Yellow Text: Global OOC really calmed down on a lot of the forum BS, because people just do their trash talking in game now. Yellow Text will further cut down on it because what can you possibly say when ur name repeatedly ends upon the right side of the text? (lookin at you mellowyellow) It's exciting, encourages e-peen and PVP, it prevents griefing because it alerts people that pvp is taking place and makes others want to get involved, and oh by the way, every freaking poll for yellow text has had massive support 80%+.

Boxing: Time to reconsider the server policy on boxing. I get why people don't want it on blue, but we should accept the fact that red is different from blue for a variety of reasons and that the issues with boxing on blue don't apply to red. Can we please have a discussion on this?

Server Rules: Still no clear outlined server rules.


Thanks for reading, keep it civil boys.

Well thought out suggestions and I agree with most of this.

[Arillious]

The GM's that actually matter stopped caring about this server a few weeks in. Whether it was Star Wars or not being able to handle the community BS, they just stopped being active.

Sure there were a lot of issue's, but it was the lack of communication that started the drop in population. Once the pop started to drop, you started a chain effect of people quitting because others were quitting and they started to view the grind as a waste of time.

Fixing all the issue's you outlined will do little to change the server.

People will only come back if there is a population, there will only be a population if people come back. Quite the paradox.

The only realistic way to get people back is for Rogean to be a active vocal leader again and gain the perception that the population will increase.

[hijinks]

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

The only realistic way to get people back is for Rogean to be a active vocal leader again and gain the perception that the population will increase.

^x5

Listening to people defer and watching GM's on an island by themselves got old awhile ago. Couldn't have said it better myself. The #1 thing that will bring life back to this server is the creator himself being active and accessible to the community. I commend the folks who have stuck it through and continue to play on here, but nothing short of Kunark may ever spike my interest again. Little interest in farming pixels non-stop and PvPing the same 25 people.

Bottom line, R99 was an after-thought. At least that is the vibe I get, I can picture a motivated and ambitious Rogean seeking for the perfect Classic experience on blue, but we now know that motivation never moved on over to Red99. If he changed his mentality, and would seek the perfect PvP server and was open to suggestions such as the ones mentioned by Heartbrand and others countless times then this server has hope, but his intention with Red99 is nothing more than a blue afterthought with PvP flag enabled. It sucks, because it is by far and large the most stable box and proven reputation.

It's a shame, felt the server had a lot of potential but it was poorly managed and severely mishandled.

[jdklaw]

A state of the server development post on a regular basis from devs (once a month? once a week?)

Can highligh things in development, things under consideration, things in the works, things to come etc etc

[hijinks]

If you could chart Rogean's posts per day from the moment of Project1999 inception to today, it would be a drastic drop off. We can't fault the man for moving on, but my biggest complaint about that is this: If you can't dedicate the time you'd like to either because you don't want to, or can't-- then hand over the keys to somebody or a group of somebodies that DOES.

Project1999 code base and reputation in the hands of a group of ambitious people striving for a great PvP server would be a recipe for success. Unfortunately, we know that will never happen because he'll never do that.