Classic / Kunark state of the union

[Droog007]

I think there ought to be a new "timeline" server when Velious is perfected. Run it up to Luclin launch day and allow people to move one character to the existing server if they choose to, with platinum stripped and all items flagged NO DROP.

This is where you want hardcore UI's, spellbook meditation, etc... Leave the existing server alone - and even start to bring back the compasses and whatnot.

Rinse and repeat.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Droog007 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think there ought to be a new "timeline" server when Velious is perfected. Run it up to Luclin launch day and allow people to move one character to the existing server if they choose to, with platinum stripped and all items flagged NO DROP.

Rinse and repeat.

Could work, but to some that's not 'pure' enough...and what if your only main is an iksar?

[zanderklocke]

Heh...maybe a new blue server would make the raid scene more open on the old server.

I wouldn't play the new server, but I'm sure a lot of other people would enjoy it. The grind to gear and 60 once is enough for me.

[wrxBRAH]

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

Heh...maybe a new blue server would make the raid scene more open on the old server.

I wouldn't play the new server, but I'm sure a lot of other people would enjoy it. The grind to gear and 60 once is enough for me.

I'm going to call that bluff.

[big league chew]

modern UIs ruin the classic experience
just like maps + compass did

[Weekapaug]

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

Wake up. New server will shut down the old one...who'd start on the old server when the value of their plat on the new one goes a lot further?

You couldn't merge the old server into the new one, as there'd be massive inflation etc etc.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Think McFly, think...

Well, then you and the other 100 people left who took full advantage of every non-classic feature and mechanic, sold accounts, boxed, etc, who don't want to start over can sit around and masturbate each other with your dozen funghi tunics and epiced level 15 alts.

This server is inflated as fuck for two primary reasons....Non classic features and mechanics being available for so long, primarily during classic, along with account selling being allowed for so long, and kunark being out for so long. I started here a year before kunark came out and once the nostalgia wore off I quit. Not because I wasn't having fun, but because it wasn't anything remotely like classic EQ. Once you got past level 25 there was barely a zone you could go into without having to deal with teams of perma charming farmers cherry picking everything that can drop loot. It was lame as shit. Sorry that you decided to invest all of your time and energy into something that was clearly a project in ongoing development.

If you view this server as anything other than a beta for the real server that will eventually come, then I don't know what to say. I realized that the first day I played here. And I could give two shits about your toons or your epic that you got using non classic mechanics in non classic conditions. Your argument, essentially, is "never open a new server because I have want I want here and need other people, who will have to work harder and longer for the same things, to entertain me." I love my toons here. We all do. I play too much as it is, and will continue to. I still carry the PKT that I scored on my druid during classic and consider it one of my great EQ scores, for the time period, and doing that again on a new server will be TONS harder with track being nerfed back to classic. Bigger fish to fry. I'll be on the new server day one with bells on. And, probably, the new pvp server before that too. And I can't wait for both. And I'm far from alone.

Sorry, but I and a lot of other people play this game for the experience of playing EQ, not having more shit than other people.

[Swish]

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

Once you got past level 25 there was barely a zone you could go into without having to deal with teams of perma charming farmers cherry picking everything that can drop loot. It was lame as shit. Sorry that you decided to invest all of your time and energy into something that was clearly a project in ongoing development.

That's not going to happen on the new server then? You're extremely delusional. If anything this server will have trained 100s more on the art of how to make plat, be 'rich' (although you need to be a hardcore player to stay among the richest), and you'll see a lot of the same stuff you hate so much all over again.

[zanderklocke]

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

I'm going to call that bluff.

For real. I don't have time or the desire to do it all again. I play no alts and if I ever fully geared my character, I'd be done. Never got past level 24 on Live, so I came to P99 with a desire to hit 60, and I did. Once is good enough.

You may hate me for saying this, but I can get a much higher entertainment value in a shorter amount of time from a lot of other games due to the lack of grind in other games. I just have a nostalgic liking to EQ, and part of that nostalgic liking comes with the desire to fully gear out one character.

[Weekapaug]

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

That's not going to happen on the new server then? You're extremely delusional. If anything this server will have trained 100s more on the art of how to make plat, be 'rich' (although you need to be a hardcore player to stay among the richest), and you'll see a lot of the same stuff you hate so much all over again.

It's not about farming, you moron. It's that it was done with non classic mechanics in a non classic environment. With a nonclassic timeline.

Which is fine here on the beta server. It's a work in progress and they are doing a fantastic job.

I'll just wait and invest the majority of my time and energy on the actual classic server. Or servers. Sorry you didn't.

[Droog007]

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

Could work, but to some that's not 'pure' enough...and what if your only main is an iksar?

You must have me backwards ... the timeline server is where we enshrine all things classic for better or worse. THIS (currently existing) server is where we relax on the terrible UI's, and generally "pick and choose" as it were. Timeline runners would get movelogged here once every 2.5 years (or whatever it was) and the server is reset.