XP = SLOW....

[SamwiseRed]

bronze jesus has spoken

[Heywood]

Pras the baby bearded bronze jesus.

[Bhubbles]

Sirken I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you on the bonuses part. We are just concerned for the health of the server.

Losing the exp bonus does not affect me personally. I look at the the server as a whole and where it has come in the last few months, we started going in the right direction and now we are messing with a good thing.

Let the server thrive for a few months before making drastic changes like this. It's rogeans server and he can do what he wants but to make good things great you listen to the people who put the time in everyday.

[Swish]

Well the rich just got richer, no incentive for new players. Is this a Sundawg conspiracy to get red shut down and team pvp to replace it?

I'd argue the population is still too low to find a group until about level 30, so people will either roll a solo class to get to 30...or they won't roll at all. Even then, if the population is going to devolve back to 50 people - would you want to put any time into the server as a new player?

Good luck R99, if you're one of those Nihilum members with a well geared low level rogue alt its probably not in your interest long term to grief anyone off the server - every player counts.

[Smokey012]

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

Consistency... That's what it's all about. Keep it the way it was, no extra, no less.

Well I'm a new player starting out on this server. I've played other Eqemu servers, but thought this had potential as it's classic. That was until I saw how long it takes to level on here... Killing 30 white con mobs to ding level 2, taking a good solid hour + wasn't particularly fun. The classic experience of EQ - to me, was in how the game mechanics were and the lore and advancement of the characters, not in how SoE made it as time consuming as possible to keep the money flowing in.
It seems it was good enough to have a higher rate before, but not now?. Not really fair on the new player base. If anything I would've thought it been a lower rate at first, then a higher rate later, because surely you would've wanted as close to classic at the start as possible.
It's just going to put a lot of players off this server, considering that on other legit servers like PEQ ( which also has got a large player base) You can ding level 2 on the first mob in Glooming deep mines. I personally want a server where you can't box though, so this one seems really ideal, but I don't want to have to spend a good part of this year getting myself up to a decent level, not when it has been quicker for everyone and now dropped. Just doesn't seem fair to me, and it's also putting people off, even though I never PvPed on EQ in two years of play time.
No disrespect intended, I really appreciate people running these servers and the effort that's gone into it, but it's just not fun at this rate, and just far to daunting for new players.

[Pudge]

it takes awhile for pop to snowball.. exp bonus helped get and retain new players A LOT. we don't have the population or influx of ppl to keep everyone spread out under 50 and still playing.

also if you brought back the bonus with some kind of incentive to group as well, that be even better. 10% flat rate bonus, +8% per group member, sounds good to me (it is currently set to 2%, yes? think it could use a bump). This would mean a full group gets +50% exp, whereas a full group with the old +75% flat rate would get +85% exp. So we have less of an exp bonus overall, and at the same time support grouping instead of soloing.

on sullon, where there was exp loss on pvp death, there was a 20% permanent exp bonus to help compensate. and p99 exp is already slower than live was.

if we had no exp loss on pvp death, then maybe no bonus could be tolerable, but right now i am afraid to pvp on my SK and lose.. now i don't even know what it would be.. 4 hours worth of grind?

[Tumdumm]

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

if we had no exp loss on pvp death, then maybe no bonus could be tolerable, but right now i am afraid to pvp on my SK and lose.. now i don't even know what it would be.. 4 hours worth of grind?

more like 4 weeks bro

just dont die imo

[Tumdumm]

byeeee

[SamwiseRed]

unhappiness detected

[Infectious]

Your gona go back to blue where the exp is the same as here... If your mid 30s and cant find a group, join a guild. This is eq. If your melee find somone your level that can snare, then watch exp come in