Reset classic server

[DevGrousis]

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

I am a die hard and even I think the server has become to stagnate. Many different factors etc have made people leave or move on. A fresh start would re invigorate the server and I think most people would agree with me on that. The power gamers will always be on top either way. It's not like them having uber Kunark loot vs uber classic loot really matters. Many classic EQers will agree, it is the journey not the destination that matters. Re set the server to classic only and watch the population double.

I completely 100% agree with this. The top enders wont want to lose all of their stuff, but being that this server is about being classic, I feel it only makes sense at this point of stagnation that the servers should have a fresh restart. Would be nice for all of us in the middle class as well! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Numbers would surely swell and I can imagine seeing us back under around 1k again like we were before, if not more.

[Splorf22]

The problem is not that our server has too few people. In fact the high end raiding scene is actually very crowded: we have 3 guilds that can take any target in Kunark (TR,TMO, and VD could handle VP if they had keys) plus Divinity, BDA, Taken and so on. If Rogean snapped and deleted the characters of TMO and TR, there would still be enough players to race for every Kunark dragon.

The problem is that the leveling zones are empty. When I was leveling up in February/March, all of the low level zones were packed: Mistmoore usually had entrance, GY, and CE/Pit groups, while Guktop had King, Undead ZL, scryer, and so on. After Kunark came out, Sebilis would never drop below 25 people, and Karnor's hit 70+ (what a trainwreck). I remember being in Hate and TR sent a group up there for XP because it was so crowded in Kunark! But now the high end zones are empty because most people are 60. Meanwhile the influx of new players is tapering off a bit (after all P1999 has been out for 2 years now or something, most people have heard of it), and what new players there are level really fast because they have access to Kunark gear, either directly for the cheaper items or by grouping with twinks. If I had to guess, I would say maybe 1/3 of the population is 55+ and playing their mains, 1/3 is 55+ and playing on their twinks, and 1/3 is actual new players.

I think the population solution has to be Velious and epics, which open up a ton of raiding content for our top-heavy player base. Of course our devs, not being full time paid employees, are releasing content a lot more slowly than Verant. Remember, Kunark came out maybe 9 months ago. If we are on the real timeline, we should have had Veeshan's Peak for months, Epics for a bit, and Velious should be happening right around now.

I've considered a wipe but I think it would do exactly the opposite of what we want: all the powergamers (especially the ones who came later) would clap and all the casuals would quit in disgust, and in 6 months we would have an even more top-heavy server. Yendor would probably commit suicide at the thought of trying to level up another ranger [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[rigi]

new people come to this game and run into dungeons that they would exp at and get a few nice items and they find all the rooms camped by level 60's that already have pimpin loots and are just item whores. then just eventually give up/quit.

i came back to play classic i dont log in every day and sometimes only once a week or more and came to the conclusion that there is to many hardcore farmers here. its hard to believe how much time somepeople put into becoming uber on this server considoring all the items in game now most people had before on live. i never played WoW but it makes me appreciate it when you dont log in often and every time you do the thing you wanna kill for a few hours is perma camped you wish you could just zone into an instance or whatever they call it and have it to yourself

[Seaweedpimp]

If people are soloing mobs for items they dont have uber items

[Timarian]

I think he means farming items to sell for plat?

[rafaone]

/agree 100%, a fresh start will give this server a new life and opportunity, many ppl here does not have anything to do. Just wipe it clean, for 1 year or so, until Velious.

[Messianic]

Eh....I think more people would quit than would restart because they just had their efforts wiped.

The only possible solution to me is a new classic server after Velious gets boring - but that's even more splitting of the population.

I also think the server would get absolutely flooded with irreplaceable classic items, i.e. a massive line for getting a guise, a billion manastones, a billion thex daggers, etc...

[eqravenprince]

The good probably outweighs the bad on a server reset. It would be nice if existing characters were not lost however, allowed to play them at a date in the future.

[nalkin]

and this is what happens when you poopsock

[usedtobejubaloftorv]

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

Eh....I think more people would quit than would restart because they just had their efforts wiped.

The only possible solution to me is a new classic server after Velious gets boring - but that's even more splitting of the population.

I also think the server would get absolutely flooded with irreplaceable classic items, i.e. a massive line for getting a guise, a billion manastones, a billion thex daggers, etc...

wouldn't it ever... had I found this server when it opened instead of a few months ago, I'd have a huge stockpile of the things ready to cash in on the inevitable nerfing