Good News, EQ Live New Server starts Wednesday

[rovaira]

Everyone starts at level 1, no charachter transfers, brand new server on EQ live! I'm excited, going to get into it again. Its with all expansions, but everyone starts fresh and its NOT a progression server. Good news! :)

I think its going to be called Trakanon (server).

[Seeatee]

why start a new normal server when they just got done doing server merges?

if all the expansions are in game, its not going to be a lot of fun, everyone will hit PC til 25, then head to TSS zones til 50 or 60, then do the farm in dragonshire or w/e that zone is in SoF and be 80 with 500 AAs in a few weeks.

[Serona]

Reference? I don't see any information regarding this on eqplayers site, although - Maybe my glance was too cursory.

[Serona]

./sad .. guess they decided to make a regurlar server again before the progression?

[rovaira]

why start a new normal server when they just got done doing server merges?

if all the expansions are in game, its not going to be a lot of fun, everyone will hit PC til 25, then head to TSS zones til 50 or 60, then do the farm in dragonshire or w/e that zone is in SoF and be 80 with 500 AAs in a few weeks.

The server is called Trakanon, it has ALL zones if you have the expansion (not progression), it's a normal server. They will also be adding a progression server in the future, but thats not this server.

The link is here:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=168099


New Server Launching Next Week - We will be launching a brand new server with our Game Update on Wednesday 9/8/10. Trakanon is the name chosen by you in our poll results. Character Transfers will not be permitted to Trakanon but we may allow it some day in the future.

(You can read further in the post, he states this is a new server, everyone starts at level 1, a normal server, no char transfers, all zones, etc. Yes, there is also talk about adding a progression server which will happen, but that is not this server)

[JayDee]

if all the expansions are in game, its not going to be a lot of fun, everyone will hit PC til 25, then head to TSS zones til 50 or 60, then do the farm in dragonshire or w/e that zone is in SoF and be 80 with 500 AAs in a few weeks.

I have no idea what any of this means

[Sigmastorm]

I have no idea what any of this means

I'll do some p99 translation:

If only pre kunark expansion is in game, it's not going to be alot of fun, everyone will hit guk till 35, then head to solb till 50, then do the farm in hate or w/e that zone is in planes and be poopsocking loot with +charisma in a few weeks.

[Deemo]

doesnt sound any fun, much rahter stay here! way better imo

[Omnimorph]

Well i imagine there'll be no hot zones or any rubbish like that, and depending on how popular it is, you might have a bunch of people going to different zones.

I can see what the attraction is though, a chance to be the first on a bunch of stuff, be the dominant guild, not be able to start a new character and with 500p have him in better gear than most of the players on p99.

[guineapig]

It would be nice to be on a server where nobody can be PL'd ahead of you. That being said some players don't have jobs and multibox so it will never truly be an even playing field.

Not exactly sure how mercenaries work but if they are in the game along with multiboxing well than shit can get pretty damn silly during that race to whatever the level cap is these days.

Is there even a max to how many AA's you can acquire any more? Or do they basically want you to exp grind forever?

[Japan]

Good news! Another piece of shit standard blue server that will be a ghost town or merged within 2 months!

[Tokum-6n0m3]

It's going to be a REGULAR server, meaning it WILL have hotzones/mercs/ and accelerated experience gain, even the progression servers have the accelerated experience gain......seriously if your a oldschool player that enjoyed the risk/reward offered in the classic experience, this is gonna be a big let down to you, Ive played Live recently, and tho it can be fun, EQ has gone to the same candy coating , lil-effort = big gain system that WoW perfected, If you like being lvl60 in 1 week and grouping with yourself and a merc. Have fun, ill be roughing it here on p99~


Edit= And for those who don't know what merc's are. They added NPC Cleric and Warrior (mercenaries) that you hire to walk with you and group with you so even if your not a boxer, you can group with yourself, cool concept.....but took the community right out of the game.......

[Mynxx]

QFE; Well fucking said Tokum

[Mynxx]

I am so content and satisfied with Project 1999; I have wanted to experience a similar feeling and enjoyment I received out of pre-Luclin EQ, and I finally got it -- I'm pretty much moving all my EQ2 toons to the Bazaar and letting my Druids on EQ1 rot for another 10 years.

[Toony]

Good news! Another piece of shit standard blue server that will be a ghost town or merged within 2 months!

Exactly, couldn't figure out where the excitement was coming from.

[Seeatee]

my last post, basically, just sums up the way EQ live has been the past few years, there are 3 maybe 4 zones people hit on the way to 85 , and it is possible to get to 85 with 500 AA in a stupid short amount of time.

the farm camp in dragonscale hills completely broke AAs, if you do that camp between roughly 65 and 70 you can get 3 repeatable quests that give almost a full AA each, the quests are kill 10 scarecrows, 8 crows, and 20 beetles, and the mobs them selfs all yield good exp, my mage went from having maybe 20 AAs to having 400+ in about 2 weeks there.

also , as far as mercs being in, the first group / people to max level will probably be a 3 boxer playing a bard, a melee dps , and a caster dps , using 2 cleric mercs and a tank merc.

[Dac321]

0 interest

[Ripcord]

il be tearing this server up for shits n giggles the first few days. then ill quit. i bet you anything there will be 2-3 guilds of power gamers with no jobs competing to down the first raid bosses and flaunting it in each others faces. the other 90% of the server will laugh at them for having no lives. basically the exact same drama we have here but with different names and ugly luclin model faces.

[Rejuvenation]

It would be nice to be on a server where nobody can be PL'd ahead of you. That being said some players don't have jobs and multibox so it will never truly be an even playing field.

Not exactly sure how mercenaries work but if they are in the game along with multiboxing well than shit can get pretty damn silly during that race to whatever the level cap is these days.

Is there even a max to how many AA's you can acquire any more? Or do they basically want you to exp grind forever?

Well I quit live before DPS mercenaries were implemented, but assuming that they function similarly to the healing and tank mercs, heres the run down.

Everyone can hire a mercenary, and while your mercenary is up, it costs a certain amount of platinum every 30 minutes (As you work on your Seeds of Destruction progression, you can get stronger mercenaries) They follow you around similar to how a pet would, except the healers are clerics, and you can set how active you want them to be, there are efficient modes, passive, etc.

The tank mercs have aggressive, assist, etc...The AI is pretty damn impressive, I never really had any hitches. If you aggro too many mobs higher than you the merc will "flee" leaving you stuck alone. The tank mercs are known to be able to carry any character to 50 in essentially no time at all.

If you box with different mercenaries, you can go AFK and your mercs will kill any mobs that spawn in the area with ease. This is a bannable offense, but I witnessed it quite a bit.

The mercs are nice for people who dont have time to set up a group, or those times when you just cant find that last class. (Mercs take up a group slot, and they do count into the exp split)

Personally I think they shouldn't have them on this new server, since leveling is so easy already until 65+

[Rasterburn]

Good news! Another piece of shit standard blue server that will be a ghost town or merged within 2 months!

Exactly.

Everything from PoP onwards was horrible garbage. If I wanted to play live, then I'd be playing live. And I'd be playing on my old main, who already has hundreds of AA's and a crapload of raid gear. The whole reason that I quit back in 2003 was because SOE had turned the game into a kiddie-fest for morons. EQ live sucks rat balls.

I'll pass... but thanks for the info all the same.

[Ripcord]

nevermind. there was an estimated 120-175 online during primetime on opening day. i fucking saw a tumbleweed blow across pok. this is the biggest fail (so far) in eq history. there arent even enough people to troll general chat properly.

[Japan]

How they manage to be this inept is way fucking beyond me. I've never worked in the videogame industry in any capacity and I'd feel overqualified if SOE tried to employ me.