5 Great Reasons to Wipe it Clean

[Norrath]

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

there's a huge difference between my MMO character on a persistent world with thousand of hours invested played with thousands of other players versus my HNS character that zoomed straight to chapter 5 on hard core mode.

So because you don't want to lose your 1000+ hour character, you're campaigning to deny the creation of a new server for all of the people that do want to start over again fresh?

Makes sense.

[Peener]

Originally Posted by Rhuma7 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

At the same time, the current state of p99 keeps a lot of people from playing.

It goes both ways, you lose some, you get some. It's like when D2 resets their ladders, thousands of people come back to take part in the freshness.

That wasn't the point I was making. I don't know enough about the server population to make a cost/benefit analysis of doing a server wipe - My point is that posters dismissing people who claim they won't play anymore by saying "they'll get over it" or "there's nothing else for them to do" seems a little dickish.

[Samoht]

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

a little dickish.

a little? that one moran called us all toxic just because we don't want our stuff deleted whenever he commands.

[Rhuma7]

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

That wasn't the point I was making. I don't know enough about the server population to make a cost/benefit analysis of doing a server wipe - My point is that posters dismissing people who claim they won't play anymore by saying "they'll get over it" or "there's nothing else for them to do" seems a little dickish.

New players here actually have more benefit of a wipe than old veteran neckbeards.

A wipe means guises, manastones and rubicite drops and the entire server is able to assist you in hitting cap while meeting players that normally you would never see.

With that said... We can also just keep going down this boring road of a set-in-stone bloated server we currently have that correction: only a few people seem to be happy with.

[Splitquick]

For those of you saying you would 100% quit if there was a wipe. Regardless if you're a 6-month vet or several years. I have a question....

Aren't you playing because it's classic EQ? And not because you've now acquired lots of goodies? What if the devs came out and said "We lost all data, it's gone... we had a catastrophic failure and the backups aren't loading, we have to start over, sorry everyone..." Would you leave then? Would you leave if the game got wiped accidentally? I'm genuinely curious... because if in 2002 SoE announced my server got wiped accidentally, or intentionally because of unforseen circumstances... I most certainly wouldn't of quit playing...

I'm just wondering...

[bled12345]

Just browsed EC forum.... If the things on there for sale, and there prices arent an indication that blue is in the nursing home stage of its life and could use a rebirth, I dont know what is lol

[Splorf22]

Man there is just so much stupid in this thread.

1. A wipe will not solve RMT. The RMTers are the hard core players; they will get to 50 on the new server within a month and then you'll be even more pissed at them because the world is so much smaller and your monk has no haste item at all because an RMT necro is there 24/7.

2. Duping is not a huge problem. The OP has a post of 8 people selling an AON. Except that 4 of those threads are one guy (Tajin) spamming the forums, and two (Urban Monk and Thulak) are well-known wealthy account traders. At various times in the server there have been duping bugs, but Ephi has cracked down a lot. If there is a dupe, wiping the server will hugely increase the fraction of duped items anyway.

3. The economy is not a problem. You can buy a fucking cloak of flames in EC for 135k! You can buy a FBSS for 10k! The people bitching about the problem are retards who think they should be able to get dragon loot after 20 hours of farming Seafuries.

4. Knowing that the staff have wiped the server and will again would be a huge deterrent for anyone to put significant time (=level beyond 10) on this server again.

5. A new server would split the population in half as well as distract Nilbog from completing Velious and thereby his grand design.

95% of the people pushing for a wipe are the people who joined recently and want to take away other people's toys. It's pure jealousy. Look at the OP: hey other people have more pixels than me, therefore lets wipe the server.

As I have said before, the right time to release a new server is when 500 people come back for Velious. We'll have sufficient population for a new server, and Nilbog will be in bugfixing mode.

[purist__]

Wipe it clean

[bled12345]

He gets more time by resetting the server because he has 2 years to finish velious, not sure how that doesnt compute with you lol.

[aowen]

If you people who have such a problem with inflation or other people having to much money or whatever the hell your problem is with p99, then why don't you band together and start another EQEmu server and quit your bitching. I am against wiping this server, if you just want to start something else I don't care, I played on p99 in foreign time zones and when it was way less populous, I'll manage without you, just don't throw a bunch of my time and everyone else's down the drain by whimsically deleting the entire server and forcing patches to be progressively released all over again. Seems a bit extreme.