Zone overpopulation

[solidious77]

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

It sounds like you need to join Aud Laud Syne. Now to be clear I am not in any way affiliated with them (except that my guild raids with them sometimes), so I'm not trying to recruit you: it just sounds like the classic you want is exactly the classic they offer (ie. a classic economy).

While I certainly respect and love the idea of ALS, its just not the same as a real fresh start for many reasons, obviously. That said, ALS is a pinnacle example of why eq has such a great community; trying to do what they can with what we've got.

Pretty telling tale though when you're able to create/recruit a mass of players all interested in the same goal: a fresh start.

[solidious77]

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

Yes this is precisely how the game was intended to be played - the grind is far less monotonous when you have a chance at gear upgrades while you're also XPing. Even better when this is the case for everyone in your group and youre all getting upgrades as the evenings progress.

Looting cloth and leather in CB / UGuk, rinngmail and eventually bronze in Unrest and Mistmoore and eventually reaching 35/40+ and camping actual Magic items in SolB/LGuk.

This is why many people are interested in a "Refresh" server etc etc.

I feel like this is very well said. I 100% agree!

Cheers.

[Kika Maslyaka]

When server has been running in classic mode for 8 years - its has stopped being classic a very long time ago.
When people make an alt and give him gazillion bone chips/bat wings/orc belts to level up for 10-15 levels in 1 hour, and then twink them up with raid tier gear... Yeah, "classic spirit" my arse.

[Mblake81]

So you guys gonna keep refreshing a server every 3-6 months?

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So you guys gonna keep refreshing a server every 3-6 months?

3 years for would reasonable reset time. Or custom content.

[kaluppo]

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

When server has been running in classic mode for 8 years - its has stopped being classic a very long time ago.
When people make an alt and give him gazillion bone chips/bat wings/orc belts to level up for 10-15 levels in 1 hour, and then twink them up with raid tier gear... Yeah, "classic spirit" my arse.

I see what you're saying but it can be some what classic if you want it to be. Twinking is a choice people can make but there is no EQ law that says you have to.

I just discovered P99 about a year ago. So in 2018 I was playing classic. It was my first character, I knew no one playing and had nothing but a cloth shirt and club to start my EQ life with. It was a grind just to afford all my spells as I reached each new spell level.

Now for my second character (cleric) I choose not to twink him with the druids PP. Now that's not to say I didn't have an easier time buying spells. I did use the druid to buy and deliver all the cleric spells each new spell level. But that was it. My Cleric is now currently wearing all KC gear that he looted from his own kills or groups kills.

I have a paladin and a Ranger who don't even have gear. The ranger has a bloodstained tunic that my cleric used to wear and they both have a KC weapon I looted with my cleric and passed onto them. Nothing special though as each weapon sells for less then 100pp in the EC tunnel. No fungi tunics or 5K+ weapons. I will let them loot their own gear minus the weapons they currently have and the BS tunic.

And I always earn every level with mob kills. I did back then and I still do it now. No belt questing for me. I enjoy grinding out the early levels in EC, Sro and Oasis just like I did back in 2000.

[Jauna]

Scheduled resetting would kill the server population eventually. loss of progress/time spent is disheartening as fuck. made even worse when you know its ganna happen again.

looking at you, swgemu.

[solidious77]

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

Scheduled resetting would kill the server population eventually. loss of progress/time spent is disheartening as fuck. made even worse when you know its ganna happen again.

Scheduled resetting would give players who started late a chance to experience the early game, and also allow for experienced players to re-do it better or perhaps differently than they did the first time around.

At a decent enough life-span, I don't think it would be disheartening. We all get bored of eq eventually.. if the scheduled server resets were gauged correctly it would probably keep people playing more than kill the population. Diablo ladder resets are a good viable example of this.

Also to your point, there could be some sort of logic to the reset, like all of your toons are migrated to a different server like blue or something.

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by solidious77 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Scheduled resetting would give players who started late a chance to experience the early game, and also allow for experienced players to re-do it better or perhaps differently than they did the first time around.

At a decent enough life-span, I don't think it would be disheartening. We all get bored of eq eventually.. if the scheduled server resets were gauged correctly it would probably keep people playing more than kill the population. Diablo ladder resets are a good viable example of this.

Also to your point, there could be some sort of logic to the reset, like all of your toons are migrated to a different server like blue or something.

Scheduled resetting could be managed by running 2 server at the same time - one in late stages, another in early stages.

[Jauna]

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

Scheduled resetting could be managed by running 2 server at the same time - one in late stages, another in early stages.

Red99 and Rise of Zek would like to have a word with you