Is P99 today a better game of than EQ live in 2001 ?

[Ivory]

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

and imo, a green server will be the end and destruction of p99. some ppl will switch. some wont. Servers will have 500ppl max on them and the poopsockers of blue will be the poopsockers of green and all the prenerf rare items will still be in the same peoples hands

Most people are going to switch. It will revitalize the game for most people who never got to experience anything but a stale server where all those "pre nerf items" weren't even dropping anymore anyway.

The big problem will be when to release expansions....I think JUST being original game for a year before Kunark might be a little much? Things will get pretty crowded fast like that.....

I would prefer a server will all of the expansions, but then you run into timeline problems and classic item problems.

But either way, things would be so fun on a new server!

[botrainer]

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

Most people are going to switch. It will revitalize the game for most people who never got to experience anything but a stale server where all those "pre nerf items" weren't even dropping anymore anyway.

The big problem will be when to release expansions....I think JUST being original game for a year before Kunark might be a little much? Things will get pretty crowded fast like that.....

I would prefer a server will all of the expansions, but then you run into timeline problems and classic item problems.

But either way, things would be so fun on a new server!

Its a fun idea, but you'll have hardcore folks camping both servers at once...already have people playing blue and red...would need to IP block them if they are on 1 server to not allow them on both servers at once.

[botrainer]

the raiding on this server blows. Far from classic by a long shot.

[Thulack]

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

the raiding on this server blows. Far from classic by a long shot.

[Lojik]

1-59 is pretty fun on this server, the prevalence of items floating around makes xping a lot less tedious. On live you had whole groups single camping one or two spawns in a dungeon, here if more than one group is in a zone people think it's "packed." High end raiding is bad but I never really did it on live, there is no mystery here really though. I'd say it's a tossup

[Baler]

One reason that is fact why live was better back in the day.

There was far less min/maxing and 99.9% accurate information available on the internet.

Things felt more magical.

[Kevris]

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

One reason that is fact why live was better back in the day.

There was far less min/maxing and 99.9% accurate information available on the internet.

Things felt more magical.

This.

It's not a game about elves anymore. It's Moneyball.

[Lune]

I had a much better time on P99 than I ever did on live.

I was also a little younger during live than many others here. I mostly played Luclin.

[Tankdan]

That's a clown question, bro.

[Daywolf]

live was rushed and buggy while expansions flew out of the machine. Party members always getting dropped, waiting for them to relog. Zones crashing around you. Broken boats dropping you into the middle of nowhere. Popular spots just way overcrowded. In comparison, UO was doing way better at the time, though had it's own issues. Getting off work, sometimes couldn't even play EQ, but UO was always there. EQ improved over time... well to a point of course.

The difference is just that the emu has had the time to work out problems. I was logging into PEQ over 10yrs ago when there were maybe a dozen people on the only server running in the list, and it was just to log in as there was hardly a game.

I thought discord was suppose to be green, but if there is another blue, here is to hoping it goes at half the release pace which will pretty much resolve all...most of the original problems on live.