Project 1999: Teal

[Issar]

I play off-peak hours due to my career and family. I'm still struggling with getting mobs and inadvertently being KS'd, during those hours. So I can only imagine what it's like at the peak hours. My guess is that the vast majority of p99 players are in the midst of their careers, many with family or other RL obligations, which is very different than what our lives looked like when we were kids in 1999. So I have to imagine the thinning out is great for the majority of us. I

'm a huge fan of this project and the staff and trust their decision making here. As was stated in the post, they will monitor and adjust accordingly. I have to imagine that boxing both green and teal would be disallowed since this effort is for population control, but trust their judgement regardless. I'm looking forward to seeing how things play out. Big thanks to the staff for managing the situation and, well all that you guys do!

[pink grapefruit]

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

Remember the servers that were race wars - had like gnomes, halflings, dwarves vs ogre troll dark elf, vs high wood half elf vs human barbarian and whatever maybe half elf was there. Anyways - that pvp was awesome.

Also god-based pvp.

this was the true classic experience for some of us xD

[Ind3]

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

Add one to the list of people that aren't going to bother to play anymore as a result of this change. To be fair I should add I was already thinking of quitting this is just an extra push into that direction.
I was really enjoying seeing people I recognized everywhere over the past week. Sometimes I'd even see them on streams, too. It truly felt like something special and I was really enjoying it. Now I can assume 50%~ of those people I met will transfer off. My first thought was "I need to log in and camp my friends list and talk to them all!" but then I just thought instead "Why bother?" The amount of relevant streamers to my gameplay will also cut in half, too. It was fun having eyes all around Norrath.
I'm not mad. Just disappointed. Reading comments from experienced EQers saying stuff like "I dont know why some of you all believe that a second server is going to fix the raid scene. It only takes, what, 20-50 people to lock down classic content." on Page 19 citing their experiences on Blue makes it extra disappointing for sure.
Is that even true?

Bye.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

I kinda wish we had instanced zones versus another server, like the progression servers on live.

We don't take kindly to your types around here.

[Onadan]

Glad for teal, 2.5k single box players on a single server is just too much. Hats off to the staff for gettin this turned around so quick!

[sentinel]

Excellent move -- thank you!

[ELance]

Although never the greatest enthusiast of Project '99 after I learned about the great GM intervention and camping policies, I was still on the fence about green, even though all four of my characters had been rendered unplayable with its launch, but this knocked me right off of it.

It would be poor form for me to express shock and amazement, since I already did once before. I had no reason to expect anything more than this, and I would only be projecting my own hopes, expectations and vision of Project 1999 onto strangers on the Internet.

It is probably unnecessary to say that, although I was momentarily surprised by the overcrowding as it were, and spent a few hours in examination of the circumstances, it did not cause me any great distress, being that there were obvious solutions to the difficulty, which was not a difficulty at all, for it was a rule of the game, and all players fell under it, namely reevaluation of my expectations, greater exploration and understanding of the world and a slightly more efficient restructuring of my methods. I see now that such things will be unnecessary.

Everquest was once called the McDonald's of MMORPGs on Usenet. I admit it would not be my first choice of MMORPG, but all the older ones are gone or changed. If we are so passionate about it, why not try to surpass this appelation? Left untouched by staff and owners it could be an interesting game. But the wisest people on Usenet did not think much of it then, and it does not seem to me that it would be much better if more changes were made in that direction. One might argue that if the drive through lane were crowded, the customer might park his car and go inside instead. But alas I am only repeating twenty year old debates.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Although never the greatest enthusiast of Project '99 after I learned about the great GM intervention and camping policies, I was still on the fence about green, even though all four of my characters had been rendered unplayable with its launch, but this knocked me right off of it.

It would be poor form for me to express shock and amazement, since I already did once before. I had no reason to expect anything more than this, and I would only be projecting my own hopes, expectations and vision of Project 1999 onto strangers on the Internet.

It is probably unnecessary to say that, although I was momentarily surprised by the overcrowding as it were, and spent a few hours in examination of the circumstances, it did not cause me any great distress, being that there were obvious solutions to the difficulty, which was not a difficulty at all, for it was a rule of the game, and all players fell under it, namely reevaluation of my expectations, greater exploration and understanding of the world and a slightly more efficient restructuring of my methods. I see now that such things will be unnecessary.

Everquest was once called the McDonald's of MMORPGs on Usenet. I admit it would not be my first choice of MMORPG, but all the older ones are gone or changed. If we are so passionate about it, why not try to surpass this appelation? Left untouched by staff and owners it could be an interesting game. But the wisest people on Usenet did not think much of it then, and it does not seem to me that it would be much better if more changes were made in that direction. One might argue that if the drive through lane were crowded, the customer might park his car and go inside instead. But alas I am only repeating twenty year old debates.

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[pink grapefruit]

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

Although never the greatest enthusiast of Project '99 after I learned about the great GM intervention and camping policies, I was still on the fence about green, even though all four of my characters had been rendered unplayable with its launch, but this knocked me right off of it.

It would be poor form for me to express shock and amazement, since I already did once before. I had no reason to expect anything more than this, and I would only be projecting my own hopes, expectations and vision of Project 1999 onto strangers on the Internet.

It is probably unnecessary to say that, although I was momentarily surprised by the overcrowding as it were, and spent a few hours in examination of the circumstances, it did not cause me any great distress, being that there were obvious solutions to the difficulty, which was not a difficulty at all, for it was a rule of the game, and all players fell under it, namely reevaluation of my expectations, greater exploration and understanding of the world and a slightly more efficient restructuring of my methods. I see now that such things will be unnecessary.

Everquest was once called the McDonald's of MMORPGs on Usenet. I admit it would not be my first choice of MMORPG, but all the older ones are gone or changed. If we are so passionate about it, why not try to surpass this appelation? Left untouched by staff and owners it could be an interesting game. But the wisest people on Usenet did not think much of it then, and it does not seem to me that it would be much better if more changes were made in that direction. One might argue that if the drive through lane were crowded, the customer might park his car and go inside instead. But alas I am only repeating twenty year old debates.

tf this post even about lol

[Nilstoniakrath]

Thank you Rogean and staff

This is an excellent response to the situation on Green atm

The only ones who could object are those who prefer bottlenecks and rate themselves compared to others' progression (in English, no life neckbeards playing in momma's basement)

This will not result in a long term population split as some have decried, once the overpopulation problems have ceased the servers will merge.

I have faith in the staff to judge this, I am sure that they have no motive to maintain multiple servers any longer than is necessary, that would just be extra work for them in the long run.