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Originally Posted by Flamewraith
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No matter how you spin it, the takp server went from having a 200 pop to a 50 max pop. You can't use the "it will get better with planes" excuse anymore. You can CLEARLY see the drop in pop happened when bans started flying left and right, and all these crazy rules went into place. My god could you fucking imagine if these same GM's had to handle p99? Bullets flew with 200 pop, that place would explode at the seams with 1400 pop.
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I'm not going to lie; you're not entirely wrong. However your numbers are exaggerated. There are three dragon killing capable guilds active right now. (or near it anyway)
The community basically split into the hardcores and the carebears on two servers. (with some exceptions) TAKP voted rotations and has a low tolerance for rudeness. Speedz and Rob want to try and recreate the EQMac atmosphere and it's their server to do so. I prefer something closer to p99-like rules, myself.
Secrets is right in that I/we never signed up for this to make a single server. My original goal was to merely document and parse the game before the opportunity was lost forever-- for the benefit of all emus. I wasn't even a dev until long after I started data collecting. They asked me to help so I did.
We want the project to get to the point where anybody can download it, use a simple installer, and have a working high-quality classic server running in minutes. The only thing that matters is that classic EQ lives on. When EQ1 shuts down for good one day, the emus are all that's left. Daybreak won't open source it and there are no EQ clones unlike the millions of WoW clones.