Introducing Project 1999: Green

[Lojik]

Pretty damn awesome. Well done devs, guides, and also playerbase for being a very willing beta testing crew.

[Whyt]

do you get to keep all your items, such as guise of deceiver or manastone when server merges? sorry if this has been answered already... i searched with no luck.

[Mewse]

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

do you get to keep all your items, such as guise of deceiver or manastone when server merges? sorry if this has been answered already... i searched with no luck.

I can't even imagine a world where they wouldn't.

[Zeboim]

Had to log into this account to post for the first time since forever to say that the List feature rekindled my interest in Green. Great idea.

[Delfofthebla]

What happens if, after green ends, I have full characters on both blue and green? Where do all the extra characters go?

[1asdfasdf1]

YAAAAAAAAAAS

[thedonkdonk]

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

Green Lifetime
The green server will, at a time yet to be decided, eventually merge into blue and start over again.

So at some point I am going to have 20 characters on the blue server characters select screen?

[1asdfasdf1]

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

Lists
We would like players to have their fair shot at obtaining limited time items, and to that end we are devising a system for a server-kept 'list' of players in line to loot said item. Upon entering a zone or camp area, you will be able to enter a command to add yourself to the list for this item. While your name is on that list you must remain in the zone or camp vicinity until your name reaches the top (You'll have a limited time to re-enter the zone or area in case of disconnection). Once your name is up, and the item drops, you will automatically be granted exclusive permission to loot that item from the corpse. We hope this system will prevent the practice of passing camps and/or items to friends, corpsing additional items, and so on. We believe this should closely mimic how the majority of camps were handled in classic Everquest, and is the best solution to mechanically enforce it. More details about this system will be announced prior to launch.

DUDE. Great solution! Seriously did not see something like this coming.

[gprater]

Originally Posted by 1asdfasdf1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DUDE. Great solution! Seriously did not see something like this coming.

I agree, I love this idea, but i also like my circa 2005 secondary hot bar which apparently is too far away from classic to allow. When did lists enter the game? I didnt get to play classic and stopped playing live more than 10 expacks ago.

Not trolling, just wondering which is farther away from classic.

thanks for any replies

[loramin]

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

When did lists enter the game? I didnt get to play classic and stopped playing live more than 10 expacks ago.

They both were never in the game, and at the same time have always been there [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's the thing: live had paid GMs, ie. salaried employees whose only job it was to serve EverQuest players. They had at least one per server, plus on top of that they had a bunch more "guides", ie. players who volunteered to do customer service work in exchange for free playtime.

By definition, P99 can't have either of those, because they're not allowed to charge players to play here. This means that what we have instead is a very few, very kind, 100% volunteers, who generously give some of their free time to help players who fall through the world or get in fights with each other.

Speaking of fights, back in the day on live those paid CS people used to resolve fights by ... you guessed it: lists. Don't believe me? Read the instruction manual Verant gave their GMs/Guides back in the day: http://wiki.project1999.com/Kunark_E...ice_Guidelines

So while /list is a 100% P99 mechanism, and only exists because we don't have paid staff, what it does is 100% classic (and honestly Verant probably would have done the same thing if they thought of it: remember they didn't even realize they needed a Play Nice Policy until Kunkark, so they clearly didn't anticipate player fights over camps being as common).