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[HippoNipple]

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

Server would be the closest to classic replica ever HippoNipple.

A large percentage of current, would be, and retired eq players want a fresh solid server to enjoy and would be willing to give item loot a try if only to enjoy the classic era.

If it flops you don't have anything to lose Kergan. If it is a success, it makes a lot of people happy and produces more donations for staff. Low risk, high potential for reward. Its a no brainer and by offering a ruleset not offered by existing p99 servers it minimizes damage to their pop.

I have seen Devnoob make 3-4 servers now and I have played 3 of them I think, only 1 did I actually give a real chance. Every time they fizzle out very quickly. Every time there is something a little different about the server. The first draw to the servers is that it is a fresh start and that feeling goes away real quick.

With this thread and the many threads before it you see people express their ideas of what would be fun in their eyes (I personally take part in this as well). You get dozens of different ideas and not many completely agree with any one vision. You are saying what you want and apparently it revolves around being casual and fighting twinks capped at how good their gear is so you have a chance to get one of their good items. If you did get one of the items it would never see the light of day outside of your backpack.

So what? Time to get devs to poor countless hours and who knows how much money it costs to get this thing going?

[gobletsmashing]

Just make it a one-life to live server with full item loot

[Kergan]

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

Server would be the closest to classic replica ever HippoNipple.

A large percentage of current, would be, and retired eq players want a fresh solid server to enjoy and would be willing to give item loot a try if only to enjoy the classic era.

If it flops you don't have anything to lose Kergan. If it is a success, it makes a lot of people happy and produces more donations for staff. Low risk, high potential for reward. Its a no brainer and by offering a ruleset not offered by existing p99 servers it minimizes damage to their pop.

It's existence has inherent risk of cannibalizing an already thin population. It flopping has no bearing on that, even if nobody logs into it because it took valuable volunteer development time away from the current server.

Every few months few months some thread gets started up about how great X or Y would be as a server ruleset. Item loot. Racial based teams. Deity based teams. Guild based teams. Unlocked based progression. Time based progression. The cause you're championing here is just the PVP server idea du jour.

If every one of those got made it we'd have 15 servers with 10 people on each.

[HippoNipple]

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

Just make it a one-life to live server with full item loot

Devnoob did this last year. It was a teams server based on race. You also had the option of going FFA. If you died to another FFA all your items could be looted and your char was sent back to lvl 1 I believe.

I can't remember what the bonus was for being FFA but I think there was one.

Failed.

[Kergan]

The bonus was you could attack anyone and increased XP rates. Getting moved to level 1 was kinda not that big of a deal though as you could max out a character in a day or two easily.

[Gustoo]

Devnoib servers really don't count because they are guaranteed to fizzle.

A discord server I think would be the best 4rth server.

[Clark]

Nilbog should put his foot down and support 1 item drop. There's a reason all the other servers merged into RZ rule-set.

[Nirgon]

^ You wanna play on a no variance server? Hit me up

[Gustoo]

The current server represents that merged server. By the time the servers merged LDON augments already effectively disabled item loot, and once they merged it was disabled altogether. The simple FFA ruleset without game breaking team imbalance and a healthy 4 lvl pvp range was clearly the best though and fortunately it is what we now have.

Variance on live resulted from patch days and the new server will have classic timeline and patch days at comparable to live but non predictable intervals for server resets. With item loot it is going to be gold.

[entruil]

it only ever is and only ever will be what their vision is and i believe its grand... wrong forum... my fault