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01-03-2015, 09:42 PM
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12-29-2014, 04:32 AM
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Luclin and PoP were the second golden age of EQ. The original team designing it clearly had goals relating to the interaction between Sanctus Seru and Katta Castellum. However, halfway through making it, that team was dismantled and packaged to designing EQ, and much of what we can see in EQ2's version of Freeport and Qeynos can be seen reflecting what was originally planned for SS and Katta. I don't know if Shadowhaven was ever supposed to be what it ended up being.
Anyways the new team came in. Luclin was a horizontal expansion, meaning a lot of additional choices for leveling up, not just vertical progression. Unfortunately the risk/reward ratio was off and it became undesirable to level up in anything BUT Luclin zones, especially Paludal. It DID have vertical progression of course for the raiders. For some reason they put in the most mind numbing raid mechanics ever devised in mmorpgdom, huge hp high armor endurance boss fights with stupid amounts of trash that led to guilds having dozens of coth bots ready to go. I find it hard to be nostalgic for that. PoP came in as entirely vertical progression. This is why it would be desirable to a server like P1999 with a grossly overcrowded top end. There's little from Luclin worth salvaging, except perhaps Nexus to replace the worst thing that PoP added, which was PoK. PoK was a community destroyer and would be a fatal blow, slow in coming but unstoppable, to P1999. | ||
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12-29-2014, 06:05 AM
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Doubt the devs here have any intent of doing anything past Velious. After over 5 years of development (probably nearer 6 by now) they're probably sick of it. If they did, I'd much rather see a fixed Luclin than any form of Planes of Power. I think there are options out there for folks who want a Planes-era server.
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12-29-2014, 09:39 AM
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Luclin in the beginning did not have PoK books in it. And I liked Luclin a LOT better than Velious which I was really never fond of other than a few zones.
But is was a BIG change from the previous expansions I will admit. The trouble is after Velious has been out on here for like 4 years like Kunark has what then? If that would have been as far as original EQ went they would have been out of business in 5 years. Guess what, they are still going. | ||
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01-22-2015, 08:49 PM
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12-29-2014, 09:33 AM
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There really aren't any good options yet for those of us who want PoP. I'm waiting to see how the eq Mac project will turn it out.
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12-29-2014, 12:30 PM
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Tigole, author of the most entertaining front page updates I've ever read. Triton's were pretty good while zaar was doing them too.
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12-29-2014, 08:11 PM
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Bypassing Luclin would be so badass. If they added Luclin it would just spread everyone out far too much IMO, for people that are leveling. Luclins endgame is fuckin shit anyhow. Who likes to afk raid in VT?
PoP would be a fuckin gold mine, I don't think anyone can complain about that. The only downside is the books. It completely destroys ports and socialization. Not to mention Rangers would be happy. Level cap increase, AA's, more progression etc. etc. etc. It simply increases endgame (which is like 90% of the server?) while leaving classic alone. It must be done. BoT enchanter pet farming anyone?
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