P99 Green: The way I see it.
It's been stated by the staff that once the team has finished making updates and the game has reached the patch version they've targeted that it has always been their plan to provide an accurate journey for us from Classic and progressing through Kunark and back up to Velious with proper timing.
There's been some speculation on how they'll do this and the two most popular theories are that they'll either A) Wipe Blue 99 and start fresh or B) make Green 99, a new server that will progress independently of Blue 99 and once 'finished' will fold the characters and economy into Blue 99 before starting over. Here's my take on things:
Both have their pro's and cons as far as I can see it. I've asked my guild what they'd do if Blue 99 was wiped and started from scratch and surprisingly most of them replied that they'd probably quit. Whether they'd really quit or just grumble about it before reluctantly starting again is anyones guess, but they seemed pretty serious.
I'm totally in favor of a fresh economy, where the enormous glut of plat is gone and everyone is on equal standing and we can enjoy EQ as it was meant to be, right from the beginning. Apparently not everyone feels this way. So it's for that reason that I think option A is probably not the best idea.
Equally though, my concern for option B) Green 99 is that will we have enough population to withstand it? I think the answer is yes, as I honestly feel we'd steal people from current live servers like Phinigel. The reason I quit Phinigel is because I feel 2 months is simply too short of a turnover for each expansion launch and I know others feel the same. So we'd get people from there. I also feel that some of the people who proclaimed they'd quit if Blue 99 was reset would make new characters and play also, secure in the knowledge that they still have all their achievements over on Blue 99 intact.
All in all, I hope that's the option that Rogean takes once everything is all said and done. I know this is a hotbutton topic so I'd really like everyone who posts to keep it friendly.
I'd like to know what you think. Do you disagree with me? Do you perhaps see another alternative that I haven't mentioned?
Post away, friends.
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