Classic / Kunark state of the union - Page 8

Doktoor · #71 09-03-2013, 09:46 PM

If this server can have 1K people on during primetime 7 days a week after Kunark being out this long, it'll survive twice as long with velious out due to all the faction and upper level raiding/farming that can be done then.

And the people who want to do Kunark and be casual about it will be able to do it with less competition, thus, continuing to feed the server's upper end for a long, long time.

ToV could be farmed for a really long time by a lot of people, much less the 3 big faction bosses, etc.

pharmakos · #72 09-03-2013, 09:48 PM

in the history of EQ, new servers have typically maintained lower populations than the older servers. idk if it would be true here in P99land, but back on live the servers that were there from day 1 typically had higher populations than the newer servers.

Lammy · #73 09-03-2013, 09:53 PM

Can we just consider Shadows of Lunclin part of classic? Please?

Doktoor · #74 09-03-2013, 09:54 PM

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in the history of EQ, new servers have typically maintained lower populations than the older servers. idk if it would be true here in P99land, but back on live the servers that were there from day 1 typically had higher populations than the newer servers.

True.

I can also see more casual guilds staying with the thinking that the poopsockers would move on, leaving open content.

Flamewraith · #75 09-03-2013, 09:55 PM

This is the first time I have ever seen anyone actually get mad at swift. I don't know how I feel about this.

pharmakos · #76 09-03-2013, 10:03 PM

kunark was released just a few months after i started playing everquest. i've barely had a chance to experience pure classic. i would love to have a chance to kill Vox at max level 50 wearing a full suit of Lustrous Russet.

Weekapaug · #77 09-03-2013, 10:15 PM

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This is the first time I have ever seen anyone actually get mad at swift. I don't know how I feel about this.

I'm sure he's a great guy and none of this should be taken personally, but his entire argument is absurd.

Essentially, his entire point is this: "I levelled up and got my epic and a bunch of other shit using non-classic mechanics in a non-classic environment and now I expect other players, for whom it will take longer and be harder to get those things as everything eventually gets nerfed back to classic, to hang around and entertain me now that I have what I want. And none of us should ever experience classic era with the classic developments of years of work on the part of the devs here because I don't feel like starting over."

That's basicly his entire standpoint. They will never wipe his toons. That is an official, from the horse's mouth, fact. But that's just not good enough for him. So we get this massive pity party with non-existent terms like "indirect wipe" and "shutting down the server" and all manner of melodramatic chicken little bullshit. Everyone playing HAS to stay on one inflated server, with a completely fucked up economy due to it being a years long work in progress, because that's where he has his shit and he just doesn't feel like doing it again and it just might be an inconvenience for him if people go play on another server. Nevermind the fact that, it probably won't be. We, arguably, have the pops NOW to support another server. But it just can't happen because Swish has his epic here. L. O. L.

He might as well just delete every post he has made in this thread and insert "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME."

pharmakos · #78 09-03-2013, 10:26 PM

i understand Swish's skepticism. i think he is overly worried that everyone will leave the old server for the new server, though. not gonna happen, OGBlue is still gonna have the higher population.

Tasslehofp99 · #79 09-03-2013, 10:26 PM

Aside from the raiding scene, everything is awesome on p99.

I just wish non-classic mechanics in the raiding scene were removed such as variance and training as well as enforcement of basic PNP-type rules. Feel like in the last year I've seen too many people break rules/get caught and have no actions taken against them.

Particularly training, I really think that shit needs to be fixed. You may not think of training as a big deal but as someone who most of the time logs in for 20-30 minutes at a time to kill a raid mob and log off, CR'ing for an hour after some dickhead trained a raid is not fun and very unfair to players. Perhaps we can come up with some player-enforced anti-training punishment, if the GM's don't want to enforce it.

Idk, im just tired of logging into EJ/TT zone line and having sev trained onto me...or logging into VS pit and having every mob from entrance of zone to the pit trained on me, or logging into trak's lair in a safe spot just to have trak pulled onto your unsuspecting raid. If shit like that is going to happen, logs need to be checked to find out who it is and that person needs to be banned for like 1 month for each incident.

Other than the shitheads who train, kite, killsteal, etc. I love p99.
Perhaps my live server just had nicer folks playing there, because this place seems so cutthroat compared to there.

Splorf22 · #80 09-03-2013, 10:43 PM

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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 would happen on a new server as well. Good players can handle the content with low numbers - sorry if that doesn't include you. A new server will just change which set of neckbeards are at the top.