What do you guys think the server split will be when Green goes live? - Page 3

Quinas · #1 06-25-2019, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Osprey39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I haven't decided whether to make a character on green or not but I can tell you that if I did decide to, I would never want it moved to blue.

One of the main reasons I would be tempted to play on green is to have a fresh start away from all the bloated wallets of people that have been playing for 10 years that drive prices up. I've only just started playing on blue about 3 months ago maybe. My highest character is level 40 and I haven't gotten to the point where I can really start amassing a good deal of plat. Most things for sale in EC are more than I can afford or priced at silly prices due to the amount of virtual money in circulation (ie: Shralok Pack for 125 plat.)

Starting over on green would allow me and people like me that were late to the game to be on a level playing field with everyone else, at least at the beginning. Why on earth would you want that level playing field to go away at the end of 3 years? You wouldn't, or at least I wouldn't and I would think most people wouldn't. If it's going to go away at the end of 3 years, what's the point of even playing on green? I may as well just stay on blue with the characters I've already sunk time into.

The un-level playing field actually helps you to buy almost every single item except epic MQs, pre-nerf items, and high end Velious loot. The level playing field on Green will make every item that drops more valuable, and even if the number of platinum pieces is lower, the overall value of those platinum pieces will be higher.

Jimjam · #2 06-25-2019, 06:36 AM

There are lots of great reasons for green but "my level 40 can't afford to have a teenage Orc killed" is probably not one of them.

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Originally Posted by Osprey39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I haven't decided whether to make a character on green or not but I can tell you that if I did decide to, I would never want it moved to blue.

One of the main reasons I would be tempted to play on green is to have a fresh start away from all the bloated wallets of people that have been playing for 10 years that drive prices up. I've only just started playing on blue about 3 months ago maybe. My highest character is level 40 and I haven't gotten to the point where I can really start amassing a good deal of plat. Most things for sale in EC are more than I can afford or priced at silly prices due to the amount of virtual money in circulation (ie: Shralok Pack for 125 plat.)

Starting over on green would allow me and people like me that were late to the game to be on a level playing field with everyone else, at least at the beginning. Why on earth would you want that level playing field to go away at the end of 3 years? You wouldn't, or at least I wouldn't and I would think most people wouldn't. If it's going to go away at the end of 3 years, what's the point of even playing on green? I may as well just stay on blue with the characters I've already sunk time into.

honeybee12874 · #3 06-25-2019, 08:59 AM

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Out of curiosity, what are reasons people would not want green merged onto blue in 3 years?

Okay, so getting back to my comment, I have a completely different reason for not wanting the two servers to merge. Unfortunately I'm not sure I can articulate it very well, but it just feels wrong to me to merge two separate populations. P99 is very much a community-oriented game, and having a bunch of characters merged in from another community all at once feels wrong... dang, I wish I was better at explaining things. It just feels like a community of people playing together should all have been on the same server the entire time for continuity.

Osprey39 · #4 06-25-2019, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by honeybee12874 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Okay, so getting back to my comment, I have a completely different reason for not wanting the two servers to merge. Unfortunately I'm not sure I can articulate it very well, but it just feels wrong to me to merge two separate populations. P99 is very much a community-oriented game, and having a bunch of characters merged in from another community all at once feels wrong... dang, I wish I was better at explaining things. It just feels like a community of people playing together should all have been on the same server the entire time for continuity.

You explained it fine and it makes sense. Having your server community assimilated into another is usually not fun in my experiences.

I wouldn't worry about it too much though until you see an admin say green is going to get rolled into blue. Until then, it's just a bunch of players engaging in speculation. If you think about it, there are a lot of issues with merging servers that they would have to address. A couple I can think of immediately:

Duplicate names which are 100% certain to occur
People not having enough empty character slots to accommodate a merge

With the first one, it won't always be the same person having the name on both servers. Someone will lose their name and they are going to be hacked off about it. It is a certainty.

With the second one, since we can only have one account for p99, you can't just make a 2nd one to play on green which means if you have 4 characters on green, you would need 4 empty slots on blue to be able to move them. I don't know about you, but I have zero empty slots on blue and I really don't want to delete any of my characters, much less several of them.

Finally there is the technical issues associated with merging the two servers. I'm sure there is no magic "merge servers" button they can push to do it and I doubt it's just a simple matter of copy/pasting database entries. I'm not a programmer but I know there is some work involved in doing that. I'm sure these admins could do it but I question whether they would want to.

SanityRevoked · #5 06-25-2019, 10:14 AM

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

Out of curiosity, what are reasons people would not want green merged onto blue in 3 years?

Blue has had many non classic things that were originally on the server and later removed or corrected. Items and mechanics that shouldn't have existed were in the game for extended periods of time. Blue has been a work in progress.

It doesn't make sense to merge the two servers/dump green onto blue, unless it's an issue due to resources, manpower, lack of interest/population, or daybreak agreement.

Also, cheating via ShowEQ and MacroQuest was rampant pre-Kunark and for a bit after Kunark's release.

Blue is a test/beta/steroid/asterisk server. Green is the original vision, what they originally wanted to launch, something as close to the classic experience as possible.