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View Poll Results: At what point is it better to start on the blue server instead of green? | |||
Never, stay the course | 36 | 32.73% | |
When the sleeper is awake | 15 | 13.64% | |
Go to blue now for (reasons) | 37 | 33.64% | |
Try red instead | 22 | 20.00% | |
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The only "headache" it creates is people who have maximum characters on their account on Blue (which is probably relatively few people because most people use a lot of different accounts) and so their Green char can't merge in without deleting a char on Blue, and to be fair this was an issue that was flagged up front before Green launched so if you didn't listen to the staff at that time the fault is on you. The goal of P99 has always been to do classic progression servers. Blue was the beta and Green was the first true attempt. Why would they suddenly go away from that goal and just keep two PVE servers locked at the same stage of the game forever? Why would they pay for that lol | |||
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Scene is lightyears better than this one. Planes of Power is the shit; can't wait for GoD/OoW era in the fall. | |||
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If anybody here really cared about classic then they would be playing TAKP, but they're not. Have you even tried a TLP? The usual "I played (insert TLP here) for 5 minutes, saw revamped commonlands/freeport and got so upset I murdered my family while screaming NOT CLASSSSICCC and logged off" doesn't count. edit: to answer OP, I voted Try Red. If I had to pick a PvE server, I would probably say if you're brand new just roll Blue. If you have friends established on Green already and they can spot you with some starter gear/plat then go Green. | |||
Last edited by Graahle; 07-13-2021 at 03:33 PM..
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The recycle/dump system they envision is wonderful in theory, but doesn't make a lot of sense with how invested people get in their characters in EQ and would result in a final product far from any kind of classic experience they tout here except on the active recycle server. (The 'hard time of year' situation even shows that the staff understands how invested people are here) And I think you'd be surprised how many people have accounts with near the max amount of toons. I'm not one of them, but I know at least a handful of people that have stuck to one account. The allure of different accounts on live was so that one could box, and so with the no boxing rule here, what's the incentive for the majority of casual Joe's to split their toons among multiple accounts? And if you could only re-use your Blue name on the same account, what do you think happened when they started Green? You can't only look at it from the perspective of a P99 raider where people plan to share the shit out of accounts. Blue is by many in the community considered the Beta/Test and Green the official release. BAM!, P99's mission is officially accomplished after pushing out a timeline accurate classic server as was the original intent. Where they go from here is just extra icing. We also already see that at least some of the dev interest has waned in the last half a decade, so the merge solutions would have to be simple and would have to keep the player from feeling like all the work they did on Green was for nothing. You also seem to think that Blue and Green aren't two different beasts altogether, which is an incorrect assessment, so why not keep both alive as long as donations are sufficient? Blue has unclassic things that Green will never have, let alone its own unique history, so they aren't just copies of eachother. Add to that that no one really knows the limits of the Daybreak agreement, so none of us can say with any certainty what will really happen. Just because Rog said something, in reality it maybe has a 50/50 chance of actually happening that way based on precedent. Why do you think he interacts with the community so rarely? I suspect it is likely because us nerds take everything he says as gospel and when it doesn't work out the way Rog said to the letter, everyone loses their shit. When you say 'who will pay for that lol' the answer is the people playing on it because we know that otherwise all our hard work goes away. This is EQ and we are some of the hardcorest of the hardcore nerds that love this game during this era. I will probably continue to donate indefinitely because I would hate to see my characters disappear, but I'm not naive enough to believe that at some point they will most likely not poof. If Rog and Nil said they wanted to walk away today and hand off the reigns, I would 100% be in the gaggle of nerds trying to step up to keep things going. With all of that said, if you haven't donated in a while, hit the Donate button on the front page so we aren't all here talking about how cool P99 used to be, instead of how cool it is. | |||
Last edited by Synphul; 07-13-2021 at 04:03 PM..
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Again, if you ignored the warnings from the staff that were very clear at the start of Green and made more characters on your Green account than can fit on the same Blue account, that's your fault. If there's one thing we know the staff doesn't really care about, it's players who whine about something that was their fault in the first place. Quote:
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As we know from years of precedent, ideas outside of the original scope of the project grow and die at a similar rate - the original scope is the only thing that has held true for a decade. To think that they will just completely ignore the will of the playerbase entirely in regards to the future of the project is naive and disregards years of precedent as there are multiple instances of decisions being swayed by the sentiments of the playerbase. Nothing outside of this original scope is guaranteed, and as I mentioned before, just because Nil/Rog has an idea, even stated as going to happen, doesn't mean it will. How do you explain the Discord server? It even went as far as being listed on main page before being cancelled. Surely that should have happend if they 100% follow through with what they say in forum posts or roundtables. Things change, their ideas change, their lives change, and their plans change, except for this; Project 1999 started development in 2008, and was released in October of 2009. The mission of the project is to create the classic feeling that many had during the early days of Everquest during those time periods, starting with Classic content and releasing the other expansions and content on a similar timeline that was experienced on Live. The server will stop at Velious, at which point many options will be considered, including possible custom content that will maintain the spirit of the game, and/or an additional new server starting over at Pre-Kunark. Congratulations on Mission Accomplished, P99 Team! | |||
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Totally didn't start a new account before making toons on green. I'm boned. Lol
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