For me there would ideally always be 3 P99 servers up.

[Wakanda]

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

The launch of P99 supports this claim

I meant to say P99 Green here. Been drinking a little bit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But yeah. I totally understand why people don't want to leave Blue and start over, which is why I proposed having 3 servers. You countered that there should only be 1 server because people don't want to start over. I'm making the argument that the success of P99 Green shows that there is a significant amount of people out there that prefer a fresh launch over a static, stagnant version of the game. (Could prob use the success of the Quarm launch as an example of how much players love this as well).

I totally understand dividing the player-base can be bad, and has been bad, but at the same time, it's impossible to get a classic EverQuest experience from playing on the current iterations of the emulators we have. I actually had a real-life friend play P99 a few months ago because he loves classic WoW and how hardcore it feels. He wanted to challenge himself by playing P99 since it's supposed to be even more hardcore.

Within a few days he was making fun of how easy the game was after some random person gave him two wu sticks and a haste item, and 99% of the time he played the game he had Druid buffs. He convinced himself that EQ was actually a super easy game and that we're all just boomers who have never played a challenging game like World of Warcraft etc.

And I had to tell him that his experience on P99 is not even close to a classic experience and that he would have to wait until a fresh launch happened to even remotely understand how challenging the game can be when no one has any gear, and you can't even find a group or tank half the time, and have no clue how to get anywhere, or where your body is after you died etc.

[Videri]

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

thats even worse
endless cycling and losing characters over time is not a good feeling
joining like 2 weeks before a reset? why even
not the first character to do something? why even after
statistically a realistic chance of never seeing an earth staff or white scale in a server life window? why bother
lets say you get everything you wanted and you are a server first idol but this is reset number 86? not an achievement in hindsight
pull an all nighter with some folks and accidentally sleep cycle yourself but you gained a few levels? probably wont do that again

star wars galaxies emu with each major patch wiped the server and every reincarnation had less and less players. i personally maxed out weapon and armor smithing alt... once. i was not doing the 6-8 hours of strait clicking again

It has never been about achievements. It has been about experiencing the game world with other players.

If you were only farming ItemX just to be the first to farm it, it wasn't really important to you anyway. You should farm it because you want to use it or sell it. etc.

[Ekco]

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

1 server at a time please
community isn't big enough

[wuanahto]

sounds good on paper but you would just gravitate to the highest pop and stay there so why give you options at all?
think you do but dont

[Wakanda]

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

sounds good on paper but you would just gravitate to the highest pop and stay there so why give you options at all?
think you do but dont

I would actually probably choose the server that is stuck in classic or kunark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm one of those weird people who started on Green when the server was relatively new and left for blue because I wanted to see Kunark really bad... since it had a lot of nostalgia for me and it was years away etc.

Even a couple of years go blue's population is higher than what greens is now, and I found it was more enjoyable because people were less hostile, and camps were a little less contested, but there was still lots of people to group with etc. Never had any desire to go back to Green where it felt like people were constantly trying to snipe my camp or steal my group's mobs etc. On Blue people were a lot nicer to me and a lot of times would actually give me a camp if they saw I was interested in it etc.

But nah, I think I would prob get pretty hype for a fresh start classic or kunark. velious not as much because i feel like people would still just be leveling in kunark zones and the raid scene is kind of stale for me personally (altho obvsly a lot of people love it).

[gokubutstronger]

I had a bad idea that would help out with the dying tunnel situation, but probably not possible to do.

Would be interesting to have EC be a shared zone between both blue and green, so people could buy/sell between both servers at the same time(when they both reach the same timeline). This would allow people to legally box their traders too, if you play on green you would just make a trader on blue to sell your stuff. Might need some advanced coding to stop players from opposite servers from buffing/healing each other though.

[WarpathEQ]

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

I had a bad idea that would help out with the dying tunnel situation, but probably not possible to do.

Would be interesting to have EC be a shared zone between both blue and green, so people could buy/sell between both servers at the same time(when they both reach the same timeline). This would allow people to legally box their traders too, if you play on green you would just make a trader on blue to sell your stuff. Might need some advanced coding to stop players from opposite servers from buffing/healing each other though.

Biggest problem is the economies of the 2 servers are way different. Blue is a much older server and was impacted by a plat duping bug meaning inflation is way worse over there, most items sell for roughly 33% less than on Green.

[cd288]

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

I had a bad idea that would help out with the dying tunnel situation, but probably not possible to do.

Would be interesting to have EC be a shared zone between both blue and green, so people could buy/sell between both servers at the same time(when they both reach the same timeline). This would allow people to legally box their traders too, if you play on green you would just make a trader on blue to sell your stuff. Might need some advanced coding to stop players from opposite servers from buffing/healing each other though.

Or they could just merge the servers now like they intend to do.

I feel like they are waiting to merge until they are fully ready to roll out Green 2.0, but it's like just merge them at this stage and let everyone have fun on one server until Green 2.0 is ready.

[tycohunden]

What’s more important? Easy access to mobs or easy access to groups?
I gotta say, a high population is way more important. Ghost town mmo’s are a dime a dozen. The population of an mmo is lightning in a bottle. EQ entropy isn’t caused by stagnation but of cycles. Only a very few likes new beginnings and those who do tend to leave. Not only was green a mistake. P99 should sueD DB for creating their own progression servers (all dead btw). Merge shit and force people to trade in north freeport.