5 Great Reasons to Wipe it Clean

[Splorf22]

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

Hey man, I play in a band (keys and synth) and enjoy hitting the bar several times a week. I am good financially, live with my woman, and work hours are solid (9-2 usually), which has enabled me to keep playing p99 for several years, without a break. I play no other games besides the occasional SNES or Civ 5. I'm merely in this thread defending this great server, which in many ways has rivaled the live trilogy experience, against those who want to see it destroyed. I'm not actively seeking attention or trying to make this about me at all, I rarely post anymore.

It only took like 50 or so hours to get enough tunics at the spore king camp to buy a L60 toon, compared to the 1000 hours it would take to level your own.

[Peener]

You can have your views on how effective wiping/starting a new server would be in resolving some of the problems p1999 is experiencing, but stop spouting this bullsh*t about how certain you are that everyone will simply re-roll a new character if it were to happen.

I wouldn't, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[bled12345]

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

You can have your views on how effective wiping/starting a new server would be in resolving some of the problems p1999 is experiencing, but stop spouting this bullsh*t about how certain you are that everyone will simply re-roll a new character if it were to happen.

I wouldn't, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Ill come back and play after 2 years off and take your spot ; )

[Ezalor]

Originally Posted by bled12345 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ill come back and play after 2 years off and take your spot ; )

[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

[Rhuma7]

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

You can have your views on how effective wiping/starting a new server would be in resolving some of the problems p1999 is experiencing, but stop spouting this bullsh*t about how certain you are that everyone will simply re-roll a new character if it were to happen.

I wouldn't, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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.

[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.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by liveitup1216 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't get the whole "I've been here too long enjoying classic EQ, if you deleted everything and made it classic EQ I'd quit."

that sounds like a problem with your personal comprehension if you ask me. we don't have to justify ourselves to you. just because you don't wish to believe it doesn't make it any less valid.

Originally Posted by bled12345 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1. The server is 4 years old and still on kunark. With the original intent of the server to follow classic timeline progression, I dont think anyone expected p99 to go past 4 years without a reset, termination, or lucilin progression.

i'm not bothered by this.

Originally Posted by bled12345 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2. The server is still on kunark, a reset would not only give nilbog breathing room for velious development,it would give people something to do again instead of (cant believe im sayong this) farm epics to sell....

what? how does he get more time by having to relaunch the server? how does the second half of this even relate to the first?

Originally Posted by bled12345 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

3. You cant tell me the majority of p99rs dont browse the forum... 200+ viewing server chat as we speak. This is EQ not counterstrike, what else do you think people on here do when they are bored at work / school?

they don't. not everybody is a forumquester.

Originally Posted by bled12345 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

4. This is an emulated server... If you played here with the intention of all your "hard work" lasting through the ages you have a screw loose. The devs owe us nothing, and could have scrapped it at any point in the last 4 years.

you're right. the devs owe nothing. we expect nothing. we got nothing. when it's gone, i'm gone.

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

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...

i'm playing because there was a break in well developed games, and i started playing, so i kept playing. i'd like to see my character, my account, do well. if you take away my character and my account, i'd have no more motivation. this is open and shut, really.

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

Well, for starters it would completely destroy the market for possible RMT for a very long time, not indefinitely but a very long time.

no, it wouldn't. less supply with the same demand just means higher prices.

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

A fresh server gives the opportunity to really micro-manage the total platinum on the server and also keep track of the high end items switching hands. As it is now, it is impossible to know what is legit and what isn't after so many years of corruption and exploits.

A fresh server comes with a lot of opportunity for the staff to make changes to preemptively combat future problems.

more opportunity? more like more work for the volunteer staff who already can barely handle what we have.

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

Nobody playing p99 right now should be against a fresh start. Progression servers weren't the hottest shit to hit Live EQ in the past decade for nothing.

and they died off for a reason: content was moving too fast.

[Norrath]

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.

Boomshakalaka.

[Samoht]

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

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.

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.