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Morrolan
11-22-2016, 08:07 PM
I remember way back when Velious was announced they said that they would like to release a fresh server that would run for a year or two, catch up to Velious again, and then roll into the main server and start all over.

Is that still something they are thinking about doing or has that kinda disappeared?

Sporkotron
11-22-2016, 08:18 PM
They're still thinking about doing it, but its gonna be a long time until the main servers timeline is finished in the first place. Even once complete the new server will likely be a long way off.

Transylvania
11-23-2016, 01:39 AM
Make all items no drop! :P

Sporkotron
11-23-2016, 02:09 AM
Make all items no drop! :P

Not classic.

Dolalin
11-23-2016, 08:30 AM
Firiona Vie was classic as fuck, mate.

heartbrand
11-23-2016, 08:51 AM
Rogean

white
11-23-2016, 09:34 AM
I am not sure why they don't just release something. Let's make them wait 10 years longer then it will Be more anticipated.... Haha no one will want to play this shit when VR porn hits the market

fadetree
11-23-2016, 11:19 AM
it's a lot of work. It's not like they just flip a switch.

Evia
11-23-2016, 12:56 PM
Firiona Vie was classic as fuck, mate.

Yeah but FV did the opposite. That made 99% of no drop items droppable.

Sporkotron
11-23-2016, 01:11 PM
Yeah but FV did the opposite. That made 99% of no drop items droppable.

Plus: Roleplay server? Pffffft, get out of here with your Elf Cyb0rs.

Sporkotron
11-23-2016, 01:13 PM
I am not sure why they don't just release something. Let's make them wait 10 years longer then it will Be more anticipated.... Haha no one will want to play this shit when VR porn hits the market

Because there is a perfectly fine server already available?

The real question: Why are some people impatient twits?

Quiet
11-23-2016, 01:16 PM
Seasons server is in the works.

Release date 2024.

Bazia
11-23-2016, 02:35 PM
There will be no new servers, no new P99 servers was the largest component of the Daybreak Games agreement with P99

Jimjam
11-23-2016, 02:46 PM
I'd like a rule set where most dungeon loot is no drop and only store brought and trade skill related stuff is tradable.

Go out and earn your gear or settle for banded / leather and crafted jewellery.

maskedmelon
11-23-2016, 03:00 PM
Right, because real work is done at the slots, not in the field >.>

white
11-23-2016, 06:02 PM
Because there is a perfectly fine server already available?

The real question: Why are some people impatient twits?

Impatient? How long has blue been out you fucking mongaloid

Muggens
11-23-2016, 06:13 PM
Impatient? How long has blue been out you fucking mongaloid

We should all be grateful for the P99 we have. I hope they keep it up and whatever patches come Ill be happy to see. Incase of a new server, I pray they never release one just to spite all you crybabies who complain about a free service. Why are you even here? Its like complaining about your Kia on a Mercedes forum. Its getting tiresome.

XeroKill
11-23-2016, 06:46 PM
We should all be grateful for the P99 we have. I hope they keep it up and whatever patches come Ill be happy to see. Incase of a new server, I pray they never release one just to spite all you crybabies who complain about a free service. Why are you even here? Its like complaining about your Kia on a Mercedes forum. Its getting tiresome.

Some one doesn't understand how analogies work... it's like watching a bird with your neighbors binoculars.

Sporkotron
11-23-2016, 07:23 PM
Impatient? How long has blue been out you fucking mongaloid

Uh oh, this impatient twit is flying into a retard rage. Everyone watch out!

Not only impatient, you're also fucking dooly chinned shitty pants retarded, too.

Morrolan
11-23-2016, 07:46 PM
There will be no new servers, no new P99 servers was the largest component of the Daybreak Games agreement with P99

What's the source for this?

Bazia
11-24-2016, 12:27 AM
What's the source for this?

they dont want new p99 servers to compete with future prog servers for population

Droog007
11-24-2016, 12:39 AM
Objection: speculation. Answer the question, please.

Bubbles
11-25-2016, 05:41 AM
A fun thing that could probably never happen (and wouldn't happen here for obv. reasons) would be a classic (or classic progression, /shrug) server where all loot was randomized Diabo-style.

It would be the only way to truly re-capture life circa 1999 where we were wandering around aimlessly, no idea where to go, what dropped what, etc. A sense of wonder and bewilderment. Randomizing the map/layouts of zones would be even better (and a billion times harder to construct, i realize), but nigh impossible.

Obviously everyone would still be highly skilled and would 'solve the puzzle' of the new server fairly quickly, but wow it would be a fun ride. :)

Jimjam
11-25-2016, 07:22 AM
A fun thing that could probably never happen (and wouldn't happen here for obv. reasons) would be a classic (or classic progression, /shrug) server where all loot was randomized Diabo-style.

It would be the only way to truly re-capture life circa 1999 where we were wandering around aimlessly, no idea where to go, what dropped what, etc. A sense of wonder and bewilderment. Randomizing the map/layouts of zones would be even better (and a billion times harder to construct, i realize), but nigh impossible.

Obviously everyone would still be highly skilled and would 'solve the puzzle' of the new server fairly quickly, but wow it would be a fun ride. :)

LDoN kinda felt a little bit like a diablo/eq hybrid.

bled12345
11-26-2016, 04:50 PM
I've been patiently waiting for years now :*( Literally years...... I quit after about 2 weeks into kunark on my main "Bashndash withyourcash" ogre warrior.


I don't just want vanilla EQ in my life, I need it haha. Sigh

*goes and kicks rocks*

bled12345
11-26-2016, 04:52 PM
6 years!!! Check my join date..... It's madness!

Nilbog, please please please please!!! I'll do your laundry for a year, I'll take out your trash, I'll give you 5% of my stock portfolio!!

preeease!!

bled12345
11-26-2016, 04:56 PM
There is something magical about a group of damask and banded outfitted heroes wandering into upper guk or sol a while their warrior is brandishing polished steel short swords lol.


Or a group where the most valuable item is a fine steel.

Not a fungi equipped rogue tanking for the group with plane of fear drops while their level 60 druid friend hangs out to help the group out with buffs.

Seriously, start a new hero, go look sad and poor in EC and without even asking people will have you decked out in level 40 shit in a couple of hours. Mostly because the only thing they have left to do in EQ is help out noobs lol.



#Notmyeverquest!!!

paulgiamatti
11-26-2016, 05:53 PM
Eh, I don't really subscribe to or really even understand the whole refusal to accept help/items from higher level people, the refusal to twink characters to the teeth (which I do to an art, btw), etc.

I mean, sure, I remember joining a mid-20s/mid-30s venture to the little-explored Lower Guk back in '00, when the best geared warriors were in full Crafted and there were only a few level 50s on the entire server. We didn't make it to Lower Guk, by the way. We fought bravely, but alas, as we neared the corridor to the lower dungeons the frogloks were too many; our troll warrior brandished his two-handed axe, sacrificing himself so that we'd escape, but the swarm seemed endless.

There's always something in the game that will kick your ass, at any level, regardless of how geared you are. If the game seems too easy to you, then you're simply not challenging yourself. If the game seems too easy for your group, then your group isn't challenging itself. Most groups are coasting groups. People generally don't want to do difficult things, they just want an even-paced stream of xp and loot, which is fine - sometimes that's all I'm after too, but I also consistently try challenging things either solo or by leading groups. Sometimes it results in failure and brutalizing CRs, sometimes it results in the best adrenaline-pumping experiences you can have in an MMO, with the xp and loot to match.

It's always a question of attitude and playstyle, not of equipment. There is always something different and challenging to do, even on a top-heavy server like P99, and even at peak server populations. This also scales across the board, whether you're soloing, duoing, trioing, grouping, or raiding. Always.

Nilstoniakrath
11-26-2016, 06:27 PM
There will be no new servers, no new P99 servers was the largest component of the Daybreak Games agreement with P99

No terms of the agreement have been posted, so this, just like all the other comments on this and like threads, is just speculation. The only term made public was that p99 had to delay the Velious expansion.

Red_Messiah
11-26-2016, 07:49 PM
Still waiting at the server select for the discord server to appear.

Issar
11-27-2016, 01:49 AM
There will be no new servers, no new P99 servers was the largest component of the Daybreak Games agreement with P99

Just an FYI for anyone who isn't aware, the above statement is a trolling. Sirken recently (as of a week or two ago) mentioned that Green was still tentatively a thing. Though it wasn't as definitively stated as it had been in the past. At any rate, Green will not happen before the final Velious patch is implemented on blue.

Jimjam
11-27-2016, 10:11 AM
There is something magical about a group of damask and banded outfitted heroes wandering into upper guk or sol a while their warrior is brandishing polished steel short swords lol.


Or a group where the most valuable item is a fine steel.

Not a fungi equipped rogue tanking for the group with plane of fear drops while their level 60 druid friend hangs out to help the group out with buffs.

Seriously, start a new hero, go look sad and poor in EC and without even asking people will have you decked out in level 40 shit in a couple of hours. Mostly because the only thing they have left to do in EQ is help out noobs lol.



#Notmyeverquest!!!
You sir understand the joy of Norrath with so much more purity than the pixel hoarding dragons who infest the server now.

I'd love a server that never hits planes/kunark.

Fael
11-27-2016, 11:23 AM
wtf is green?

silo32
11-27-2016, 12:10 PM
wtf is green?

wtf is wtf

btw no new servers ever, later nerds

fastboy21
11-27-2016, 01:07 PM
You do realize that p99 is moving towards the point of being almost as old now as LiveEQ was when p99 launched...

At some point, they are going to relaunch a new server (green) on a real time line with all the appropriate fixes that took years of play testing to correct. P99 will someday (hopefully soon) be nothing more than a glorious beta test of new EQ server.

We all have differing points when we would get more enjoyment from playing a new server than continuing to play p99. Some of us were there three years ago. Some of us are getting there now. Some of us will be there in a year. IMO, the community is ready within the next year to sunset the current blue p99 server as the primary p99 experience in favor the "green" server.

It doesn't mean having to destroy the current iteration of blue p99; blue and green can coexist. AFAIK, server staff has made clear that if/when green launches they have no plans to delete blue.

All of it, of course, is limited the desire/ability of the staff to launch a new server. Even if blue were fully patched to the end (which it isn't yet) and they wanted to start a new server it doesn't necessarily mean that they would. Frankly, I've always been so impressed (and thankful!) that Rogean and Nilbog have stuck with this project through all the ups and downs over years and years. It wouldn't surprise me (and I wouldn't fault them) if they needed a well deserved break for their own sanity before jumping into another 8 years of commitment.

Lhancelot
11-27-2016, 01:32 PM
It wouldn't surprise me (and I wouldn't fault them) if they needed a well deserved break for their own sanity before jumping into another 8 years of commitment.

Yeah I wonder what drives them to keep going tbh.

Issar
11-27-2016, 04:00 PM
Yeah I wonder what drives them to keep going tbh.

My guess is that that this is a hobby for them and that they share our love for classic EQ. But yeah Lance, there are times when I have to wonder what keeps them going. At least there are a couple thousand of us that are incredibly thankful that they do.

Lhancelot
11-27-2016, 04:37 PM
My guess is that that this is a hobby for them and that they share our love for classic EQ. But yeah Lance, there are times when I have to wonder what keeps them going. At least there are a couple thousand of us that are incredibly thankful that they do.

Yeah. When people complain about the shortcomings of the server, I honestly don't think they even consider the effort and energy it takes to run it and manage it.

Even I forget that it's free, and that I have to do nothing to contribute to it's well-being. I guess it's good to remind myself of that when i am frustrated with the game.

Honestly I don't find fault with the server or game so much as I do with the players who play here. Really only the players have made bad experiences here, not the faults of the game or the GMs etc.

Blitzers
11-29-2016, 12:46 PM
Yeah I wonder what drives them to keep going tbh.

Platlord? J/K

Red_Messiah
11-29-2016, 10:24 PM
nice name drop, you on commission?

kaev
11-30-2016, 04:12 AM
Still waiting at the server select for the discord server to appear.

Why? Planning to move-hack/rapidfire-hack your way to success just like on live?

Discord may have been the stupidest thing Verant/SOE did with EQ, tho that's a tough competition and there are other decisions rank down there at the bottom of the cesspit close to it.

...

Green99 sounds like it could be great fun, hope to see it!

Trelaboon
12-01-2016, 03:32 AM
Firiona Vie was classic as fuck, mate.

I was from FV! I would do such naughty things to have a p99 replica. No idea how they could enforce a 1 character policy though, that was the best part

Ikon
12-01-2016, 08:35 AM
Firiona Vie was classic as fuck, mate.
Yeah trivial loot code was awesome to trade for almost everything being tradable. Manage to buy my ranger two primals and a bunch of other stuff which I'd never have been able to get otherwise.

Besides farming greens is boring and if you like boring and really wanted to do it you could always level an alt to farm an item so it didnt' trivial. So its not removing content its adding content and making it a little more challenging than just 1 shotting a green con.

I was from FV! I would do such naughty things to have a p99 replica. No idea how they could enforce a 1 character policy though, that was the best part
Me too :) 0/ pity they fekked it up completely with their legends garbage

Red_Messiah
12-01-2016, 10:26 AM
Why? Planning to move-hack/rapidfire-hack your way to success just like on live?

Nope, the tears and the forum threads will be worth it in itself when someone dies at 30-35 and gets dunked to level 1.

Mistle
12-01-2016, 11:30 PM
Yeah trivial loot code was awesome to trade for almost everything being tradable. Manage to buy my ranger two primals and a bunch of other stuff which I'd never have been able to get otherwise.

It also did caused more RMT than all the other servers combined.

Ikon
12-02-2016, 02:00 AM
It also did caused more RMT than all the other servers combined.
That must have been after LDON when I left. I played on FV from launch as an enchanter till after LDON and was in one of the top 3 raiding guilds on the server. I knew most of the people in those top 3 guilds and while there was certainly a lot of drama over spawns I only ever heard of one RMT'r on that server (Shazza or Shannara or something).