Can we talk about the future of P99?

[cd288]

yeah idk where the 200 number is coming from. The pop tracker shows that Blue has hovered between 450-550 or so on average for the last few months. Now, I wouldn't call that a healthy pop but it's far and above 200 people just logging in to raid.

Not that this is recent, but there were also days in Q1 where Blue hit in the 700s. There are some rare days now where it gets into the 600s.

Servers should definitely be merged but they're not dead.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah idk where the 200 number is coming from.

200 was an arbitrary number I pulled out because we could all agree 200 = dead server.

My point was, we'd still have raid targets getting downed even at 200 pop (so using "raid targets getting killed" wasn't a good metric of server health).

[Toxigen]

merge em to make raiding competitive again

or until the guild that wins most absorbs the rest of the server because rooted dragons and no fte lockouts has made for the worst fucking meta ever

[Jimjam]

When will we get xp/dps group decides what to do with loot meta?

Can imagine all the shenanigans- obviously there would be sniper crews, and that will impact the meta: a rogue snipe team is doing too much dps so the tank’s guild decides to stop chain and let the mob eat through the dps and kill the snipers before picking up aggro and resuming chan / rezzing their own dps.

[Wiltan]

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

merge em to make raiding competitive again

Merge 'em to make Blue toxic again, you mean? Best thing that happened to Blue was when most of the neckbeards left for Green.

[kylok]

Merge, or don't merge, I don't care. Personally I think the best thing for this project is a server that follows the exact timeline of classic through velious and then resets to classic. Call it a Yellow server for all I care - that could keep things fresh. Maybe do another server with a similar timeline and then reset idea, but with slightly different rules - like Diablo has done. If cost is an issue than let us know. I'd be hugely surprised if as a community we could not tackle the cost of those proposed ideas.

All in all, I'm super happy with what the P99 team has accomplished and all of the above is purely gravy for my simple wants and needs.

[Wiltan]

The whole "reset" thing devalues all the efforts folks have put into advancing their characters though.

[kylok]

That's why you do it on it's own server. If people know it's going to happen ahead of time they can make an informed decision. Sometimes it's about the fun we have along the way and less about having a toon we can stare at on char select for 15 years knowing they've got best in slot.

[Duik]

If we did timeline accurate expansion release there would just be peeps (like me) who would never get any good loot. To me that would replicate my live experience waaay better.

Who knows, im old and have spare time now so maybe i could "neckbeard like its 1999" no wait, 50hrs for a manastone. I dont think so!

Its a museum folks, meander around if you like. Even look at things you had no previous interest in.
I never did the gnoll slayer or solvedi scimitar (what a fucken waste of a WR bag!) quests for example.
Vampire teeth quest while difficult (at level i mean) would yield a fine weapon. 7/21 pre yaks (and lvl 35?) would rock.

Or shit filled sweatpants it and do what we are doing now.
Dealers choice.

[cd288]

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

The whole "reset" thing devalues all the efforts folks have put into advancing their characters though.

So don't reset. Just merge it into Blue, which has been the plan of the project the entire time