Hey Guise

[Rogean]

https://i.imgur.com/tFiUUb3.png

[papito]

ty daddy

[Xaeophi]

You are speaking in riddles sir!

[RyoGTO]

Oooooooh boy!!!! Was at the beginning of blue and red... Guess I have to do green

[Beocca]

This picture sure has a nice "green" tint to it!

[Darkatar]

Interesting.

[NegaStoat]

Congratulations on all you've accomplished to set this into motion.

[Randarn]

Woo!! Awesome staff!!

[demokatt]

Let's all play mages?

[mattydef]

I'm assuming this means the last part of the chardok patch aka the melee changes will be out soon?

[coolget]

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[pogs4ever]

classic p99 was the funnest shit ive ever played. cant wait!

[murray21]

Please elaborate - Inquiring minds would like to know.

[Swish2]

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[toasteroven]

is the plan still to merge green to blue at the end of velious (luclin launch)?

[Daloon]

I'm curious to see what the ruleset/timetable/merging shenanigans will be. Will end-game be just as "competitive" as Blue. Will servers merge in 2 years? Rules for discontinued item camps? Custom content for Blue? Chardok AoE? 25 mob limit? Splitting up p99 populations?

[toasteroven]

population split can kill the economy, need at least 1000 to be viable

[Erati]

How has Loramin not replied yet, Im getting concerned...

[NegaStoat]

If they stick to their old idea, Green follows the timeline of patches and expansions correctly as it was in old retail, and when it reaches the end everyone is thrown out into Blue and Green is wiped and restarted back on day one with patch 1 or whatever. Over. And over. And over.

I'm still curious about the Teams custom rules PvP server btw.

[mmmroo]

If they stick to their old idea, Green follows the timeline of patches and expansions correctly as it was in old retail, and when it reaches the end everyone is thrown out into Blue and Green is wiped and restarted back on day one with patch 1 or whatever. Over. And over. And over.

I'm still curious about the Teams custom rules PvP server btw.

So you keep your shit from green after your thrown back to blue right?

[toasteroven]

i would imagine so, going to be rough for those wanting to play their characters into an uncontested blue crew who has aow/vulak/tunare loot for 3 years

[I Felt Nostalgic]

"I told you green was real." ~ Loramin 2019

[Not_Mikeo]

Prediction: its toxic as fuck.

[mmmroo]

i would imagine so, going to be rough for those wanting to play their characters into an uncontested blue crew who has aow/vulak/tunare loot for 3 years

haha true that, man blue uncontested would be fun also...

[AenorVZ]

I doubted you guys. I lost faith. I apologize. Now spill the beans on Project Purple.

So you keep your shit from green after your thrown back to blue right?

Rogean referred to it as the "recycle rotation" server. Let the manastone farming begin!

[toasteroven]

green may be the death of this emulator project

[DiogenesThaDogg]

green may be the death of this emulator project

Honestly though, a progression server is the only way to get approximately a classic-like experience. The fact that there are players stuck in the purgatory of velious end-game with all the resources one could ever want accumulating BiS for their 15th alt seems to remove something from the experience, even for players starting afresh. (this isn't a dig at those players, because how else are they to enjoy the game? I'm just pointing out that this game was not designed to run this long)

Of course there's no such thing as a truly classic-like experience with the game as researched and solved as it currently is, but that can't be undone anyway.

[Fuzzhead93]

Honestly though, a progression server is the only way to get approximately a classic-like experience. The fact that there are players stuck in the purgatory of velious end-game with all the resources one could ever want accumulating BiS for their 15th alt seems to remove something from the experience, even for players starting afresh.

Of course there's no such thing as a truly classic-like experience with the game as researched and solved as it currently is, but that can't be undone anyway.

Delete the wiki! The knowledge only lives on in our minds...

[Keza]

GREN? Been playing on and off since pre-kunark and have been dying for this for so long. As much as I love p99 I joined in late classic and there is no substitute for a fresh start in an MMO. Whether it's because you want to be the most sweatiest nerdlord to ever hit 60 on an ench/shm before anyone else there ever was or because you want groups without twinks and PLs, it's just something you can't possibly get without a new beginning.

Cheers to all the haters who will undoubtedly try and ruin this just to prove themselves right instead of crawling out of whatever dragon's ass they have lived in for the past 6 years to enjoy the experience.

I for one am super hyped!

[Pyrrhica]

WTB Guise loot rights

[Salaryman]

pve servers are for noobs, fix erudite custom helmet.

[Dolalin]

Oh snap!

[Jauna]

Hope there will be some moderation for selling stuff cross serverwise.

I can see a white/green scale on blue going for a guise lootright on green

[Duane]

How has Loramin not replied yet, Im getting concerned...

[zarza]

keep make blue server great please! p99 forever <3

[Skur Main]

:D

[tiadashi]

So you keep your shit from green after your thrown back to blue right?

I would guess no - otherwise people would just farm items that dont drop anymore and then those items would be ported to blue - but I have no idea how it works sounds interesting

[enjchanter]

As someone who was too young to really experience classic. When it was new and also showed up to p99 super late, I'm very excited for the fresh start!

Already plotting which class to commit to!

[syztem]

Interesting. Wish you had mentioned this earlier atleast a hit, 6 months is a decent announcement for the date but until previous it was a myth that sounded like it would never come true. Will have to wait and see what rules are established and whats what, whats enforced what isn't. Otherwise I will stick to the shitty new xpac of WoW.

Regardless im glad you guys are finally getting to release it. It might be a few years late, but I am sure you had kinks to work out. Will check back on it every few weeks see if new updates and what not. Def going to give it a shot no matter my schedule.

[Smedy]

love the artwork, not so sure about the experience, does it involve mob queues and e-thot drama or some real manly pvp and middle aged men crying over lost pixels?

i know which one of these experienced i enjoy the most, please bless us papa rog

[Indecisive]

If they stick to their old idea, Green follows the timeline of patches and expansions correctly as it was in old retail, and when it reaches the end everyone is thrown out into Blue and Green is wiped and restarted back on day one with patch 1 or whatever. Over. And over. And over.

I'm still curious about the Teams custom rules PvP server btw.

Wonder what they'll do about names, if that's the case. Unless they block all the names on blue from being used on green.

[Fammaden]

Wonder what they'll do about names, if that's the case. Unless they block all the names on blue from being used on green.

Just don't merge to blue, it causes more problems. Keep green running and start another fresh green after three years, then after that one decide what to do about mergers.

[Izmael]

I wonder what items (if any) will drop on Green, if merging to Blue is a thing.

Maybe it will just be the Guise (re: title of the topic), with no beads, stones, lockets.

Maybe we'll finally have people with Ton Po sticks?

[utenan]

WHO DREW THE PICTURE

[maximum]

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[maximum]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Green_Server

[maskedmelon]

happy to see this arrive and hope to be there. grate pals!

[Octopath]

Hope there will be some moderation for selling stuff cross serverwise.

I can see a white/green scale on blue going for a guise lootright on green

The thought of guise being permacamped with loot rights being sold is enough reason for me to just stick to blue.

[hoxa]

any day now


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[Pozzey]

WIPE IT CLEAN 2019 !!

[Sunderfury]

Guises..?



FML

[Jimjam]

Congratulations on all you've accomplished to set this into motion.

Qft.

[Valakut]

dicks out for rogean

[Xap]

Holy shit! Can't believe it!

[Pico]

a great day for elfkind

[shokar]

braknar died for this

[Kohedron]

https://media.giphy.com/media/kQnxYVljHgJnG/giphy.gif

[Amyas]

Sooooo whats the new server?

[deezy]

WHO DREW THE PICTURE

i did

[Oleris]

10 year anniversary in October. Here's to another 10 years.

https://i.imgur.com/5NuZXCf.gif

[loramin]

Congratulations Project 1999! You're about to see the realization of ten years of hard work ... thanks so much for all of it!

[Valakut]

would be cool if green was like an server for adults 18+ since originally in everquest you had to be 18

brand new eqemulator account required with updated login server accounts

1 eqemulator account per IP for lifetime

1 login server account per IP for lifetime

1 active login server account per IP per 168 hours

3 temporary bans and you're permanently banned

Valakut gets a GM belt of translocation

Valakut gets 8 full leatherfoot haversacks of bronze to be handed out in the ec tunnel to gnomes on the 7th day of the server.

If 1 leatherfoot haversack ever makes it into general population from the original 8 then the green99 server is shut down and restarted again and the people who had any bans get unbanned sort of like in dodge ball.

[baakss]

Hey guise? As in hey guise of the deceiver??

OH BOY <3 <3 <3

[ldgo86]

Erhmagherrrrd

[renegadeofunk]

Be still my beating heart

[Llandris]

Plot twist, Loramin is Rogean

[Hailto]

Shit, I dunno if I can devote myself to this again I was fully set on playing classic wow, now this. But I could get the feels of leveling a barb shaman again fresh and making that run naked to qeynos. Fug

[mumpz]

Plot twist, Loramin is Rogean

:O

[Madbad]

P sure this just refers to a SRO revamp if you look at the picture.

[Shikio]

I think if you're gonna reset green the characters need to go on a separate server not to BLUE... the toxicity and illegal plat on the blue server thru GMs etc is insane. Make a yellow server for reset toons so the previous green toons and play with other green toons not blue nerds that have fake stuff gms gave them for reacharounds.

[Moerne]

You might need two servers. Everyone who ever played on P99 will probably come back for this. Maybe three servers.

[Clazxiss]

braknar died for this

I was just thinking the same thing. His resignation, the sudden new guides, Chardok patch, and now this announcement. There were literally months between minor patches and years between Velious and Chardok 2.0. The fact all these events happen within days of Braknar's resignation are not coincidence.

Thank you, GM Braknar, for your sacrifice.

[Yian]

You assured us Green was "at least" a year off! You lied to all of us repeatedly. I'm not mad... just...

[Goobles]

But... Discord?

[Tassis]

Picture changed?

[loramin]

Plot twist, Loramin is Rogean

:D ROFL

[Faxi]

I dont understand why Green characters get moved to Blue in the end? I dont think I'll be interested in starting over if in the end, I will just end up on toxic Blue anyways.

The idea of starting fresh on Green is very appealing. But not if we just get transfered to Blue. that sours it for me. Why cant Green characters just stay there and exist on its own?

thanks

[Nibblewitz]

b/c green gets wiped at the end of its timeline?

[Optti]

this is really cool, I am super excited!

thank you

[gangsta]

So whats the eta on a red server now that you've catered to the bluebies?

[Indecisive]

I dont understand why Green characters get moved to Blue in the end?

Is that actually confirmed? I've seen people talk about it, but has there ever been an official statement that this is what's going to happen?

[Rader]

I dont understand why Green characters get moved to Blue in the end? I dont think I'll be interested in starting over if in the end, I will just end up on toxic Blue anyways.

The idea of starting fresh on Green is very appealing. But not if we just get transfered to Blue. that sours it for me. Why cant Green characters just stay there and exist on its own?

thanks

You call Blue "toxic" yet resist the transfer of characters off of Green once the classic timeline is complete. If there is no transfer, then Green will only give us a one-time chance to relive a more classic experience, as it will end up most likely in the same place that Blue is now eventually. Expecting the devs to keep creating a new server every three years ignores the cost in time and money to them, and it also would have a negative impact on the population #'s of each server.

[ZiggyTheMuss]

THANK YOU GUISE!

[putrid_plum]

Can't wait, wish it was sooner. ;)

[Octopath]

I dont understand why Green characters get moved to Blue in the end? I dont think I'll be interested in starting over if in the end, I will just end up on toxic Blue anyways.

The idea of starting fresh on Green is very appealing. But not if we just get transfered to Blue. that sours it for me. Why cant Green characters just stay there and exist on its own?

thanks

I guess I expected it to be similar to diablo with a ladder character. When the ladder(green cycle) ends your character becomes non ladder ie. Blue

[Shea]

Yes!!! THANK YOU

[immaterial]

excellent news! thanks for all of your hard work and your commitment to preservation.

[lochnar187]

WOOT!

Congratz on the big boom!

Many thanks to the team!

[eadric]

You guys rock! :D

[White_knight]

I was just thinking the same thing. His resignation, the sudden new guides, Chardok patch, and now this announcement. There were literally months between minor patches and years between Velious and Chardok 2.0. The fact all these events happen within days of Braknar's resignation are not coincidence.

Thank you, GM Braknar, for your sacrifice.

ahah Agreed. Braknar is a martyr.
He's the Jesus of P99, he died for our sins.

[Valdain]

The aliens are coming and they are bringing pancakes

[t3kn34k]

Instead of a smaller group of more skilled players holding down a more difficult end game, this will be a 500+ person line for Guises and petitions as far as the eye can see.
Beautiful.

[Jimjam]

Thank Karana for the shit sumps that will be the guise queue so us mere mortals can get on with the real vanilla experience of farming our ruined animal skins with our tarnished weapons to make some tattered armour!

[Nagoya]

Thank Karana for the shit sumps that will be the guise queue so us mere mortals can get on with the real vanilla experience of farming our ruined animal skins with our tarnished weapons to make some tattered armour!

That's the spirit.

Give us some food Rogean come on,
What's the rule set like?
Give us some HYPE!!
Love the annoucement btw, grats & thanks :)

[whitebandit]

Psyched for this! Thank you Devs!

[awfal]

braknar died for this

Rip

[Overweight]

Should have been March 16, 2019 but better late than never 👍

[Zade]

What the hell is green? Is this my teams server finally?

[Erati]

http://i.imgur.com/JOVlgya.gif

[evilkorn]

https://i.imgur.com/zPRBW7k.gif

[Pyrocat]

ten more years, ten more years

[Muggens]

braknar died for this

10 year anniversary in October. Here's to another 10 years.

https://i.imgur.com/5NuZXCf.gif

hugz n kizz to the staff

[Tethler]

So whats the eta on a red server now that you've catered to the bluebies?

There is already a red server. Nobody plays it.

[Illsiff]

Dicks out for Braknar

Raise your dongers

[Imago]

What if we wanted G99 toons to be transferred to R99?

[aaezil]

There is already a red server. Nobody plays it.

[slowpoke68]

Well this is just awesome. I'm speechless beyond that.

[fiveeauxfour]

Is there already a list set up for guise/manastone camp?

[Vaildez]

Is there already a list set up for guise/manastone camp?

You are number 15567 in line.

[Jeni]

Any chance of merging the abomination of a PvP server with blue and restarting a PvP server with a accurate timeline..

[rictus204]

what if they just reset blue? wouldn't that be neat?

[AenorVZ]

TheoryQuest is back.

http://i.imgur.com/XN7uEUx.jpg (https://imgur.com/XN7uEUx)

[jackie chan]

I am excited for the release of the green server. Thank you Rogean and the Project 1999 team.

[AenorVZ]

Purple is coming.

http://i.imgur.com/dIED6QU.jpg (https://imgur.com/dIED6QU)

[Axlrose]

Then again, the "green" tint opening screen might have been the "green" light Daybreak gave Rogean to charge "green" backs to run a "green" server...

What was the monthly subscription cost in Classic, Kunark, and Velious time lines?

[Flexin]

Can we get Red 2.0, sure it's dead now, but prior to Velious with the implementation of your play nice policy stuff the pop was over 500 for quite a bit. A nice restart on Red probably means a constant 500 or more pop, I know there are a ton of us hoping we get this announcement one day, maybe in another 10 years who knows.

[Mewse]

I am excited for the release of the green server. Thank you Rogean and the Project 1999 team.

[kaizersoze]

what if they just reset blue? wouldn't that be neat?

the crack addict like mentality of pixel hoarders would probably drive them to commit suicide if they logged in one day and their stash vanished over night. All the aspects of their lives they've neglected just to deprive others of content will have been for naught.

[Lemonhead]

Yah, not going to add a Red server. If you guys can 100% agree to delete your server, you can have a new one. As long as not 1 single person says no, all yours.

And how you vote: everyone who logs on for 1 month has to destroy all their equipment and platinum. If 1 single person does not, then no new server. Hardcore.

[Lowlife]

TheoryQuest is back.

http://i.imgur.com/XN7uEUx.jpg (https://imgur.com/XN7uEUx)

LOL i made that map and PMed it to Sirken YEARS ago

[Oleris]

Sorry guys, they said no PVP server planned.

[Lowlife]

Sorry guys, they said no PVP server planned.

Well, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression no new big content drops, new servers, etc was a part of some sort of legal agreement between Daybreak Games and P99 staff and has been that way for years, thus in part anyway, the pending discord server sitting untouched for several years. The new green server could indicate a change in whatever legal agreement may exist.














Therefore red99 wipe and relaunch confirmed.

Wipe it clean 2023

[AenorVZ]

LOL i made that map and PMed it to Sirken YEARS ago

You're a legend.

[Jerri]

Well, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression no new big content drops, new servers, etc was a part of some sort of legal agreement between Daybreak Games and P99 staff and has been that way for years, thus in part anyway, the pending discord server sitting untouched for several years. The new green server could indicate a change in whatever legal agreement may exist.

Maybe they are going to give us instances, like the progression servers on live.

[heartbrand]

Happy for those who wanted this, but personally no interest in another non pvp server

[AenorVZ]

Then again, the "green" tint opening screen might have been the "green" light Daybreak gave Rogean to charge "green" backs to run a "green" server...

What was the monthly subscription cost in Classic, Kunark, and Velious time lines?

Will subscribe multiple accounts if P99 devs come to a licensing arrangement with Daybreak.

[Rushmore]

Happy for those who wanted this, but personally no interest in another non pvp server

What is this exactly? Or do we not know?

Also HB wtf do you come to these forums anymore if you aren't intrested in a PVP server?

[Psionide]

Any word on if we will be able to box Blue and Green servers like you can with Red and Blue?

[Gumbo]

Green server is a decent idea but just launch it with the patches already released. Pre-ban everything that has been banned already and make all the changes when a new expansion is released.

[loramin]

Green server is a decent idea but just launch it with the patches already released. Pre-ban everything that has been banned already and make all the changes when a new expansion is released.

The staff has put a lot of effort into making it possible for the server to progress along the classic timeline (as part of their larger goal to emulate classic EQ as well as possible). I think it's rather unlikely that they would throw out all that work and only do two patches for Kunark/Velious.

[Frudrura]

This is going to be toxic.

[wilsonshaman99]

the neck beards will come in full force to perma camp everything that makes this server exciting news...

[Octopath]

I can't wait for more info!

[Larkverdin]

Stoked for more info on this. I can't see why they would add Green and not include Luclin/PoP, but we'll have to see how it plays out.

[heartbrand]

What is this exactly? Or do we not know?

Also HB wtf do you come to these forums anymore if you aren't intrested in a PVP server?

Wait what? I said I’m not interested in a non pvp server, I.e blue. I’d play a blue progression server that went through new content like Luclin or PoP, but I have no nostalgia for camping the same guise, manastone, lustrous russet, VP keys etc., al over again. With pvp it gave another dimension to the game. Not hating on those who enjoy it I’m sure the drama will be great, I just feel like once you experienced pvp you can’t go back to blue.

Happy to see new stuff coming to this project though as Everquest will always have a special place in my heart, as will this project, so cheers to Rogean and staff for this.

[crossplay]

All HAIL Green!

[Rushmore]

Wait what? I said I’m not interested in a non pvp server, I.e blue. I’d play a blue progression server that went through new content like Luclin or PoP, but I have no nostalgia for camping the same guise, manastone, lustrous russet, VP keys etc., al over again. With pvp it gave another dimension to the game. Not hating on those who enjoy it I’m sure the drama will be great, I just feel like once you experienced pvp you can’t go back to blue.

Happy to see new stuff coming to this project though as Everquest will always have a special place in my heart, as will this project, so cheers to Rogean and staff for this.

My Bad. I can't read right. :D

Wipe Red please. Lets go again.

[Rimitto]

Please say that's in game art :rolleyes:

EDIT: Infact, I'm going to be very angry if that doesn't show up somewhere as a painting.

[Jazzy]

Wipe red pls

[derjen]

Thank you!

[Rick Sanchez]

make two servers to handle the population

[I Felt Nostalgic]

Will we have two Green servers?

One that resets every so often like a Diablo ladder season and the other Green server that stays constant and is the dumping grounds for seasonal characters so the economies on Blue and Red are not disrupted?

[loramin]

so the economies on Blue and Red are not disrupted?

While the staff hasn't confirmed anything, all discussion so far has suggested that Blue will be the "dumping ground" for Green characters.

Keep in mind that the the staff hasn't even tried to start a single new server in years, and the last attempt (the Discord server) failed. It seems ... unlikely that they would want to expend the significant extra effort (and cost) necessary to launch two new servers, just because a few players have concerns about breaking an already broken economy ...

... which leads me to my second point: Blue was in Kunark for seven years (vs. one year on live). If that fact alone hasn't already "disrupted" Blue's economy, I don't think anything else will.

[Hemlock dru]

Thank you so much staff for continuing to work on this project!

Jeni, your signature is a waste of space, as is heartbrand..

heartbrand was never a main anything in empire, he was a casual shitbeard-

https://imgur.com/a/hlcZh1h

RIP Rygrim, a real <Empire> main tank

(Empire was the best guild that ever existed in EQ history)

Looking forward to the upcoming changes! THANKS

[I Felt Nostalgic]

While the staff hasn't confirmed anything, all discussion so far has suggested that Blue will be the "dumping ground" for Green characters.

Keep in mind that the the staff hasn't even tried to start a single new server in years, and the last attempt (the Discord server) failed. It seems ... unlikely that they would want to expend the significant extra effort (and cost) necessary to launch two new servers, just because a few players have concerns about breaking an already broken economy ...

... which leads me to my second point: Blue was in Kunark for seven years (vs. one year on live). If that fact alone hasn't already "disrupted" Blue's economy, I don't think anything else will.

Fair enough. I guess it will be good there are more removed items on Blue in the end if it ends up being the dumping grounds.

[waffel]

Jeni, your signature is a waste of space



Hol up, doesn’t everyone turn off signatures on their control panel? Who wants to see retarded sigs junking up threads??

[I Felt Nostalgic]

Who wants to see retarded sigs junking up threads??

I do.

[heartbrand]

Thank you so much staff for continuing to work on this project!

Jeni, your signature is a waste of space, as is heartbrand..

heartbrand was never a main anything in empire, he was a casual shitbeard-

https://imgur.com/a/hlcZh1h

RIP Rygrim, a real <Empire> main tank

(Empire was the best guild that ever existed in EQ history)

Looking forward to the upcoming changes! THANKS

This poster is Decibel. He is a RMT'er who was banned for jeopardizing this great project. He also was a non-factor. I on the other hand tanked and looted the first Vulak on red99 where I was graced with the greatest pixels on the box by Gongshow and Aimchat.

[Rader]

Wipe red pls

Wipe your a$$ please

Seriously, why such hate for Red? PvP is actually a better way to resolve the end game isssues and permacamps versus the lawyerquesting sh-t on Blue. But if you insist on preferring PvE and don't like it that much, just don't play, tard.

[Vega]

Wipe your a$$ please

Seriously, why such hate for Red? PvP is actually a better way to resolve the end game isssues and permacamps versus the lawyerquesting sh-t on Blue. But if you insist on preferring PvE and don't like it that much, just don't play, tard.

You're replying to retired red players..

[Jimjam]

While the staff hasn't confirmed anything, all discussion so far has suggested that Blue will be the "dumping ground" for Green characters.

Keep in mind that the the staff hasn't even tried to start a single new server in years, and the last attempt (the Discord server) failed. It seems ... unlikely that they would want to expend the significant extra effort (and cost) necessary to launch two new servers, just because a few players have concerns about breaking an already broken economy ...

... which leads me to my second point: Blue was in Kunark for seven years (vs. one year on live). If that fact alone hasn't already "disrupted" Blue's economy, I don't think anything else will.

I know a lot of players were sprinting a marathon with blue, but I for one enjoyed the slower pace, it really let me explore the game deeper than the classic timeline allowed.

I hope green 2.0 doubles the wait on expansions.

[loramin]

I for one enjoyed the slower pace, it really let me explore the game deeper than the classic timeline allowed.

Amen. Anyone starting on Green will miss that ... but they can just keep doing it over and over to get to re-experience the game on that deeper level :)

[Danth]

... which leads me to my second point: Blue was in Kunark for seven years (vs. one year on live). If that fact alone hasn't already "disrupted" Blue's economy, I don't think anything else will.

P99 opened October 2009. Kunark was released in late March 2011. Velious opened August 2015.

The original game opened in March 1999, with Kunark in April 2000 and Velious in December 2000. The folks who enjoy the pre-expansion period would get over a year following those dates, but people who enjoy Kunark without Velious will be in for a shock if the new server follows the original timeline. The actual Kunark era lasted only on the order of seven and one-half months.

Of course, as of today all we have is a decade's worth of sometimes-contradictory posts and comments. We don't know for a certainty (until we do) that re-launch will follow the original timeline so closely.

Danth

[loramin]

Of course, as of today all we have is a decade's worth of sometimes-contradictory posts and comments. We don't know for a certainty (until we do) that re-launch will follow the original timeline so closely.

Of course nothing is "certain", but you can be about as certain that green will follow the actual live timeline as you can be of just about anything here. Want proof? Just look in the upper-left corner of your screen ;)

Green is the "project" that is "Project 1999", and it just would make no sense for them to depart from their classic goal with it when they've worked so hard to write all their code this whole time in a way that can progress perfectly along the classic timeline.

The only departure I could see would be to let the server live on beyond the moment Luclin would have been introduced, and even that would be "classic" in a sense (since live didn't end then either).

[Bannen]

make two servers to handle the population

I agree, or more based on number of players. If the population drops too much on any of them then merge them just like used to happen.

[derjen]

If they stick to their old idea, Green follows the timeline of patches and expansions correctly as it was in old retail, and when it reaches the end everyone is thrown out into Blue and Green is wiped and restarted back on day one with patch 1 or whatever. Over. And over. And over.

I'm still curious about the Teams custom rules PvP server btw.

I LOVE THIS IDEA!

[bordbard]

Happy to see all the progress! I look forward to returning for this.

Thank you devs for all your continued effort.

-Bord/Waffle

[YmirEQ]

make two servers to handle the population

this x100 classic everquest can't handle nor isn't supposed to handle a population as big as blue' You already know green is going to have an even bigger pop by 1.5x and be fucking crazy.

[Hemlock dru]

This poster is Decibel. He is a RMT'er who was banned for jeopardizing this great project. He also was a non-factor. I on the other hand tanked and looted the first Vulak on red99 where I was graced with the greatest pixels on the box by Gongshow and Aimchat.

First off : I was never banned on any account. EVER.
Secondly : You never tanked anything, your name isnt even on Incognito's hotkey bar (all of the tanks names were - just reference the picture I posted of the AOW server first kill)
Third : Publicly accusing people of RMT is stickied to be against the rules.

So, you were saying? I still have the characters I created 7 years ago.... You must be thinking of Tune. Who is banned on over 18 accounts and just recently got suspended on Shelz and Rnap for dual boxing (Tune is the leader of the current zerg on red)....



Look in the group, who was there?
I was there for everything, first of everything, and the end of everything. First Vulak to the Sleeper.

[Sudds412]

Doc Cottle: I find it absolutely amazing you people went to all the trouble to appear human, and didn't upgrade the plumbing.

[Voland]

Please say that's in game art :rolleyes:

EDIT: Infact, I'm going to be very angry if that doesn't show up somewhere as a painting.

Maybe it's somewhere in Karanas during the plague?

[richice]

braknar died for this

[waffel]

“A new experience begins October 2019”

The same old classic timeline doesn’t sound like a new experience to me, whatsoever.

[AenorVZ]

First off : I was never banned on any account. EVER.
Secondly : You never tanked anything, your name isnt even on Incognito's hotkey bar (all of the tanks names were - just reference the picture I posted of the AOW server first kill)
Third : Publicly accusing people of RMT is stickied to be against the rules.

So, you were saying? I still have the characters I created 7 years ago.... You must be thinking of Tune. Who is banned on over 18 accounts and just recently got suspended on Shelz and Rnap for dual boxing (Tune is the leader of the current zerg on red)....



Look in the group, who was there?
I was there for everything, first of everything, and the end of everything. First Vulak to the Sleeper.

#banhammer

[ravax]

This may sound crazy, but if people remember, there was a point when new char models were introduced. It started with the cats and then eventually horses. If ya'll remember, they had the "option" of having new mod/horse "on" or "off," but eventually (somewhere in pop I believe) they put out a patch and the option of having old chars mods was gone and only new mods were supported. Since it's been nearly two decades since the permanent change, technically anything up to the permanent change could be considered classic. Perhaps Daybreak would not allow P99 to operate in that grey zone of classic and newer content, and now a "new experience" is announced after big meeting. Perhaps they will be allowed to expand some in content while the "New Experience" green server begins it's adventure.

I don't know...just really trying to think about what the team's goals are for fun, because creative minds become restless even when real life constantly calls. /shrug Just a thought. I mean isn't Rogean and Cavedude friends and all part of the same team/project? Isn't the entire Emulator their project? Just asking cause I never knew and I know PEQ go way up to like OOW. And if they are friends working same project much of the ground work is already laid. Just thinking... Any thoughts, facts, to help? Thanks.

And please be nice--don't troll meh. I'm asking sincere questions with best my memory can do at middle age! :)

Ravax Runningwolf
Woodelf: Druid
60th Season
Tunare

[loramin]

This may sound crazy, but if people remember, there was a point when new char models were introduced. It started with the cats and then eventually horses. If ya'll remember, they had the "option" of having new mod/horse "on" or "off," but eventually (somewhere in pop I believe) they put out a patch and the option of having old chars mods was gone and only new mods were supported. Since it's been nearly two decades since the permanent change, technically anything up to the permanent change could be considered classic. Perhaps Daybreak would not allow P99 to operate in that grey zone of classic and newer content, and now a "new experience" is announced after big meeting. Perhaps they will be allowed to expand some in content while the "New Experience" green server begins it's adventure.

I don't know...just really trying to think about what the team's goals are for fun, because creative minds become restless even when real life constantly calls. /shrug Just a thought. I mean isn't Rogean and Cavedude friends and all part of the same team/project? Isn't the entire Emulator their project? Just asking cause I never knew and I know PEQ go way up to like OOW. And if they are friends working same project much of the ground work is already laid. Just thinking... Any thoughts, facts, to help? Thanks.

And please be nice--don't troll meh. I'm asking sincere questions with best my memory can do at middle age! :)

Ravax Runningwolf
Woodelf: Druid
60th Season
Tunare

Project 1999 only going up to Velious has nothing to do with Daybreak, and everything to do with the people who've invested ten years in the project not liking cats on the moon.

Throughout those ten years those people (Rogean and Nilbog) have been very, very clear: P99 will never go to Luclin or beyond. Again, not because of Daybreak, but because they don't consider that part of their definition of "classic EQ".

[Jimjam]

Ravax has been here long enough to know that P99 has always been about Velious, since way before daybreak controlled Everquest.

I think saying 'we could go past Velious if it weren't for Daybreak' is a way to put up a false barrier for Luclin, so when it gets (easily) disproved it gives the opportunity to say 'see there is no reason not to go past Velious' all the while side-stepping the real reason p1999 has been limited to Velious all along.

[VII]

Greens timing will be perfect. A clean run through a single cycle of content releases should align with Pantheon's release. I'm excited to get a 'reset' Blue at least until that point. Thanks for the hard work! Remember guys, this is a free project, always has been. That's decades of server costs, time spent updating/fixing bugs all for the players.

[Rader]

This may sound crazy, but if people remember, there was a point when new char models were introduced. It started with the cats and then eventually horses. If ya'll remember, they had the "option" of having new mod/horse "on" or "off," but eventually (somewhere in pop I believe) they put out a patch and the option of having old chars mods was gone and only new mods were supported. Since it's been nearly two decades since the permanent change, technically anything up to the permanent change could be considered classic. Perhaps Daybreak would not allow P99 to operate in that grey zone of classic and newer content, and now a "new experience" is announced after big meeting. Perhaps they will be allowed to expand some in content while the "New Experience" green server begins it's adventure.

I don't know...just really trying to think about what the team's goals are for fun, because creative minds become restless even when real life constantly calls. /shrug Just a thought. I mean isn't Rogean and Cavedude friends and all part of the same team/project? Isn't the entire Emulator their project? Just asking cause I never knew and I know PEQ go way up to like OOW. And if they are friends working same project much of the ground work is already laid. Just thinking... Any thoughts, facts, to help? Thanks.

And please be nice--don't troll meh. I'm asking sincere questions with best my memory can do at middle age! :)

Ravax Runningwolf
Woodelf: Druid
60th Season
Tunare

As has already been said many times, the p99 devs HATE the Luclin expansion with a passion, and the reason p99 will not expand past Velious has NOTHING to do with Daybreak or any other outside parties. The spires, the bazaar, AA's, the inflated gear, the lore, the new character models, horses, the whole "moon" concept... I could go on with more items. And I agree with this assessment, Luclin was a break from the original game, Kunark, and Velious.

But, that being said, is there anything about Luclin that is compatible with classic? The Vah Shir race seems ok in concept (the exact opposite of Iksars), the Beastlord (Warrior/Shaman hybrid) class seems in line with Rangers (Warrior/Druid) and Paladins (Warrior/Cleric), the zones OTHER than the Bazaar and Nexus could be fine if they were included as a separate continent on Norrath, reachable by boat, rather than the "moon."

If Green is a success (which I am sure that it will), and that becomes the pride and joy of the devs, could at some point the devs tweak Blue out of boredom with some custom content meant to be their vision of what the next expansion after Velious SHOULD HAVE BEEN, had Sony stayed true to the Classic vision? Curious if anyone has any opinions on that.

[bigjeff100]

Do the Kerran's and Vah Shir have any relation in lore?! I support Odus cats, not moon cats!!!!

[loramin]

Do the Kerran's and Vah Shir have any relation in lore?! I support Odus cats, not moon cats!!!!

I believe they originally were one race, but splintered off centuries ago when the Vah Shir went to the moon. That other Barbarian who looks suspiciously like me could probably give a Youtube video worth of details though ;)

[Brain]

Are the GMs better now than they were at the beginning of p99? I quit playing here because both my account and a friend’s account were stolen by GM’s (Amelinda & crew) and sold to other players. Would love to come back for a new server but if the staff is still corrupt there’s just no point.

[Jimjam]

There were a bunch of new hires recently so in a way it is too early to say.

[Sk00ba5t3v3]

A new experience? Like the Discord Server was a new experience?

[Sk00ba5t3v3]

green may be the death of this emulator project

Classic WoW will be

[Kika Maslyaka]

That screenshot - is that how new graphics going to look like???

[YendorLootmonkey]

That screenshot - is that how new graphics going to look like???

Depends on the quality of your shrooms.

[Castle2.0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIKGQacmU8

[btravis1990]

Question, if this is a live "reset server" does that mean that they are going to revert the Experience class penalties? So an Iksar SK would have like a 60% experience penalty?

[loramin]

Question, if this is a live "reset server" does that mean that they are going to revert the Experience class penalties? So an Iksar SK would have like a 60% experience penalty?

Yes ... up until the point in the timeline when that changes (I forget exactly when that is; somewhere in late Kunark maybe?)

Unless the staff makes a special exception for something, the general goal is to make Green as close to the live servers as possible, and since the live servers had that penalty for that period of time, Green will too.

[btravis1990]

Well shit. That is going to be a big decider on class now.. lol HALFLING ROGUE HERE I COME!! hahaha

[Hubble]

a small group of neckbeards will perma camp the guise and manastones. Just like on EQ reborn.

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Are the GMs better now than they were at the beginning of p99? I quit playing here because both my account and a friend’s account were stolen by GM’s (Amelinda & crew) and sold to other players. Would love to come back for a new server but if the staff is still corrupt there’s just no point.

And Derubael! And Ephi! Really incredible hat none of these individuals who had accounts stolen and sold ever got their characters back.

[chaco]

And Derubael! And Ephi! Really incredible hat none of these individuals who had accounts stolen and sold ever got their characters back.

[Xaeophi]

Im still missing my account from 2013. Rip. In other news whens the hybrid update coming out that came out the same time as chardok 2.0 on live?

[Rick Sanchez]

Can we get two servers for this PLEAASSEE, shutdown red for it. The population will easily be 2,000 thats way to many people for classic EQ.

[Agni]

Can we get two servers for this PLEAASSEE, shutdown red for it. The population will easily be 2,000 thats way to many people for classic EQ.

yeah imagine 200+ people in lower guk.

[Nagoya]

Well maybe it's finally time for full groups with lists and shit in Kerra Island, Gorge of King Xorbb and Rathe Mountains! Yay!

[Extract]

What am I missing? I don't get it

[deezy]

What am I missing? I don't get it

https://youtu.be/Af1OxkFOK18

[Justinian]

Question, if this is a live "reset server" does that mean that they are going to revert the Experience class penalties? So an Iksar SK would have like a 60% experience penalty?

The hell with that. Won't even consider touching one of those classes. So stupid.

Why would anyone keep this classic aspect? Verant was so dumb they thought SKs without lifetaps and Rangers were OP and needed a nerf when they were already both objectively inferior to other classes.

[romomike]

The hell with that. Won't even consider touching one of those classes. So stupid.

Why would anyone keep this classic aspect? Verant was so dumb they thought SKs without lifetaps and Rangers were OP and needed a nerf when they were already both objectively inferior to other classes.

Yeah, this is one of the aspects that really has no reason to be "classic." It was eventually removed for a reason.

[Jimjam]

The hell with that. Won't even consider touching one of those classes. So stupid.

Why would anyone keep this classic aspect? Verant was so dumb they thought SKs without lifetaps and Rangers were OP and needed a nerf when they were already both objectively inferior to other classes.

I dunno, man. I kinda feel before Kunark itemisation and skill caps hybrids were a lot better than warriors.

Don't monks have a huge XP penalty too, no one cared to exclude them on blue.

[Danth]

Class penalties are removed a couple months into Velious.

Penalties are as such: Paladin/Shadow Knight/Ranger/Bard 40%, Monk 20%, Enchanter/Necromancer/Wizard/Magician 10%. Warrior has a 10% bonus, Rogue has a 9.5% bonus. These modifiers stack with the racial modifiers (10+ for Barbarian, 15 for Ogre, 20 for Troll and Iksar) in a multiplicative sense, so a Troll Shadow Knight has a total 68% penalty, and an Iksar Monk has a 44% penalty.

The other part that people commonly forget is that experience is divided across the group based on the various players' experience totals, not class or level. Hence inviting a lower-level Ranger or Paladin will "suck up" less experience from the rest of his group than a higher-level Warrior might. In practice this is too complicated for the average player to bother learning, so hybrids in general (and Rangers especially) simply end up discriminated against while the other factors are largely ignored.

Danth

[Jettison]

Can we get two servers for this PLEAASSEE, shutdown red for it. The population will easily be 2,000 thats way to many people for classic EQ.

Red is the only good box on P99... No thanks to the shutdown.

[Extract]

https://youtu.be/Af1OxkFOK18

So you cant get credit unless you have credit? And you cant have credit unless you get credit?

[dallasdirty]

Can't wait!
Hot cup of coffee on a cool October day & P99 Green on the screen
Thanks for all the work!

[Devildawg]

Green just means recreational marijuana is legal on that server. Rent is about to double in Kelethin and Rivervale.

[Rick Sanchez]

Green just means recreational marijuana is legal on that server. Rent is about to double in Kelethin and Rivervale.

lmao, real estate in west karana is going to sky rocket.

[loramin]

lmao, real estate in west karana is going to sky rocket.

The Millers are going to start changing their crop.
http://wiki.project1999.com/images/thumb/Npc_tiny_miller.png/250px-Npc_tiny_miller.png

Could a new custom content version of the Gathering Grain quest (http://wiki.project1999.com/Gathering_Grain) be inc?

[impact]

I think they should wipe Blue starting with Green. And I think that is keeping with the spirit of this server. I have no doubt a ton of people would start right the fuck over if they wiped blue w/ start of green.

[btravis1990]

So, question. I have my account and I play a toon on green, then they force that char over to blue when all is said and done, but I have max toons already on blue?

Does this mean we are going to have to create a separate account for Green?

[loramin]

So, question. I have my account and I play a toon on green, then they force that char over to blue when all is said and done, but I have max toons already on blue?

Does this mean we are going to have to create a separate account for Green?

A) No one knows if they even will put Green characters on Blue when Green ends (it's just one possibility, and the devs have never confirmed or denied that it will happen)

B) If it does happen, it will almost certainly be on an entire account basis; for precisely the issue you mentioned ... for instance, if your login account is Foo, then at the end of Green they could make your Green characters available on a new Foo_1 account.

Alternatively the staff would have to build some sort of "migration webpage" where you login, select Green characters, and choose which Blue account to move them to ... but that seems like a whole lot more work for them.

[Tethler]

Maybe they'll just give green a single runthrough then shut both servers down so we can all move on with our lives.

[overpower]

Please don't allow 2boxing between Blue & Green or Red & Green servers.

Respectfully,
- All non-24/7 players.

[Zephys]

Working on a thing.

LAUNCH
DO JBOOTS FIRST, THEY GET PATCHED INTO A QUEST REALLY FAST
Jboots from Drelzna in Najena, level 25

Rubicite, Jboots, Guise of the Deciever, Manastone
Rubicite drops in Cazic Thule, level range 19-45
Manastone from Evil Eye in Lower Guk 30-36
Guise of the Deciever from A ghoul assassin in Lower Guk as well, level 35

TEMPLE OF SOL RO (6 months from launch in live, to 10 months p99, so ~April-August)

"Solusek Temple is now available to players. The appropriate timeline item nerfs (Manastone, Jboots, Rubicite, Guise of Deceiver) will be happening within a week or two, get em while ya can."

What am I missing as far as major drops and nerfs go?

[Keza]

What am I missing as far as major drops and nerfs go?

Idk about other stuff like Jboots. That's the only thing I've ever heard of that was shifted from a drop to a quest.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Removed_Items for everything else.

[radbeard]

I hope hybrids don't start with an xp penalty :(

[Zephys]

Idk about other stuff like Jboots. That's the only thing I've ever heard of that was shifted from a drop to a quest.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Removed_Items for everything else.

That's the page I was looking for. Thanks.

[sergan]

Working on a thing.



What am I missing as far as major drops and nerfs go?


Thex Dagger

[Videri]

For a brief period of time, the Eru/Hum Cleric-only Terror Forged Mask (http://wiki.project1999.com/Terror_Forged_Mask) will have clickable Call of Bones until it is nerfed to Fear. If I play, I'll roll an Erudite cleric and try to get one. :)

[sergan]

Ring of the dead (https://wiki.project1999.com/Ring_of_the_Dead).

[Zippit]

wondering who gets the name Groundhog Days first on green.....

[Nagoya]

first day is probably gonna be "dey tuk ma naaaaaaaame!" drama day indeed xD

[Halfcell]

So excited for this announcement. The war going on in my head over what class to start and where to go is going to be raging for months now.

I mean, Shaman, Bard, or Chanter?

Shaman are going to be fucking everywhere, but for good reason, they are OP forever. Bards are going to be a cancer, but if you can't beat em, join em. And Chanters are always a great choice, but once raiding starts it's time to make an alt rather than be a clarity/haste whore for hours on end....

Tough choice.

[Cyph]

Might as well just get divorced now, again, and save us the lead up.

[1asdfasdf1]

Ring of the dead (https://wiki.project1999.com/Ring_of_the_Dead).

Can you or someone else explain why melee binding themselves somewhere is OP?

[AenorVZ]

Can we get two servers for this PLEAASSEE, shutdown red for it. The population will easily be 2,000 thats way to many people for classic EQ.

Do you even classic? 2000 WAS the common peak population of Everquest servers in the classic era.

[Halfcell]

Do you even classic? 2000 WAS the common peak population of Everquest servers in the classic era.

True, though to be fair, not at launch, and there wasn't the same kind of race for levels. On Green it will definitely be really tough to find space to level for the first few months.

[Nagoya]

Can you or someone else explain why melee binding themselves somewhere is OP?

It is not overpowered. It is game-altering. The game was designed so that each classes need each other for something, some more than others. Ring of the Dead was one step in the other direction, and they didn't want to go that way.

Needless to say, they changed their mind around Luclin... ;)

[Xaeophi]

So.. Whens the hybrid update coming in? Chardok 2.0 was months ago

[Jimjam]

Never.

[Foggon]

Can you or someone else explain why melee binding themselves somewhere is OP?

I think because you can bind at the fire pots in timerous deep

[Christina.]

SWEET!

[Christina.]

Green should be a server where it refreshes after so many years.

[kwk2k7]

New red server please! I will definitely start with my irl friends on green, but red is played out and after starting on Rallos originally im not sure ill ever stick with a non pvp server for more than 20 levels. Still, i AM excited.

Bendyni 60 Enchanter -- Red

[Swish2]

New red server please!

[Moriel72]

What the 2 guys said above me.

[Nisei]

I read on an old forum somewhere that Erudite Shadow Knights were added to the game with the addition of Paineel (10 months after launch). Anyone care to drop some knowledge?

[Jimjam]

I remember a friend telling me originally necromancers started in a hut in tox and paineel was a later addition to the game (added some time before kunark?).

[Xer0]

yeah let's expend a bunch of effort to make sure 20 or so people get what they waant lol

[notspaz]

I feel like the people who want to experience classic Everquest but who don't care about Rubi armor, manastones, guise and the like should have a way to opt out of the chaos.

What if there was a quest that you had to complete by level 10. You talk to the Priest of Discord and he gives you a book. The book is no drop, no bank, no destroy and soulbound. In order to get the book you are acknowledging that at the end of the 3 year content cycle your character will be permanently and forever deleted.

The thing is the book is the key to instanced content where all of those legacy items don't drop in addition to reduced drop rates of others.

The hardcore players and the casual players each with their own sets of goals can coexist in the same world and be part of the same economy.

[Byel]

Can we somehow add code in that the no lifes cant simultaneously ruin both blue and green for the majority of the population on both servers? A week long timeout between server log ins, hell it might even help red see 100 active again

[TunaTheTroll]

Has anyone seen anything that unequivocally rules out that Green will enable Luclin?

[loramin]

Has anyone seen anything that unequivocally rules out that Green will enable Luclin?

Only everything the project's founders have repeated, over, and over, and over again, for the past decade.

But other than that, nothing: Luclin could totally happen tomorrow :rolleyes:

[deezy]

i wouldn't mind seeing a p99-ified version of luclin that uses the luclin art assets and little else.

[Lowlife]

While I'd love a Teams99 server, I'd settle for red99 to possibly have the same opportunity for a recycle server as blue, with characters on the Red-Green99 server dumping into red following the patch and expansion cycle. It probably won't happen, but here's to hoping.

[pink grapefruit]

Just combine red and blue into one server with red's ruleset. Then once green is released as the teams server everyone is hoping it will be, everyone will finally be happy with the way things are in eq emu world.

And every x many years as green players are transferred to red 2.0, green could make ruleset changes. Maybe the teams change from softcoded to hard from one cycle to another, or something. Item loot? No and then yes. etc.

[abdominal]

Sir Froaksalot will be pleased.

[GreenRanger]

its happeneing

[LoricL1222]

it will ruin the new server

[sounion]

Cool! Thanks rogean

[Asher]

Threeish months left. Any idea when we might get more information so we can start planning vacation time? :D

[philanthropy]

CYA GUYS IN OCTOBER LADS

[GCN]

reading all this is kind of making me sad... i just discovered that P99 exists. I played 99-2004 and would have come to p99 in the beginning if I knew about it. I've just updated my computer and procured Titanium discs so i can play. 2 1/2 mo from Green coming out, what am i doing creating a character on Blue? why wait for green? Are Green and Blue really going to merge, or is Green going to be independent killing Blue/Red population? If i recreate my Ogre Shaman on Blue, while i wait and then again on Green, what happens if they do merge? Are there hold outs that are not going to play Green? Will those people be bullies or desparte for community?

As someone who has not yet returned to Everquest, on the outside, this looks like an Emulator Killer. & bums me out.

i might just have to read a book.

[loramin]

reading all this is kind of making me sad... i just discovered that P99 exists. I played 99-2004 and would have come to p99 in the beginning if I knew about it. I've just updated my computer and procured Titanium discs so i can play. 2 1/2 mo from Green coming out, what am i doing creating a character on Blue? why wait for green? Are Green and Blue really going to merge, or is Green going to be independent killing Blue/Red population? If i recreate my Ogre Shaman on Blue, while i wait and then again on Green, what happens if they do merge? Are there hold outs that are not going to play Green? Will those people be bullies or desparte for community?

As someone who has not yet returned to Everquest, on the outside, this looks like an Emulator Killer. & bums me out.

i might just have to read a book.

No one except the staff knows for sure whether the two servers will ever merge. However, whether you pick Blue or Green or both, there will be plenty of people (and not just "bullies" ;)) to play with on both servers.

[aaezil]

You probably wont get whatever camp you remember being bullied out of on green or blue either unless you quit your job and grow a little hair on your neck

[Tethler]

reading all this is kind of making me sad... i just discovered that P99 exists. I played 99-2004 and would have come to p99 in the beginning if I knew about it. I've just updated my computer and procured Titanium discs so i can play. 2 1/2 mo from Green coming out, what am i doing creating a character on Blue? why wait for green? Are Green and Blue really going to merge, or is Green going to be independent killing Blue/Red population? If i recreate my Ogre Shaman on Blue, while i wait and then again on Green, what happens if they do merge? Are there hold outs that are not going to play Green? Will those people be bullies or desparte for community?

As someone who has not yet returned to Everquest, on the outside, this looks like an Emulator Killer. & bums me out.

i might just have to read a book.

Blue isn't gonna die until either they shut the server down or everyone playing literally dies. People have too much time invested in blue. Even if they play green, they'll play blue when they want their Kunark/Velious fix. With no expansions, the world is gonna feel pretty small.

[caveslug]

or is Green going to be independent killing Blue/Red population?

Not sure you could kill Red, as it died years ago.

And I would argue Green will help Blue by lowering the population some, would be nice not seeing all the camps being poop socked.

After a week of Green I'm sure a lot of people will come back to Blue, because Green will be so crowded and ever lone mob being called a camp.

[Dru]

Wait what? I said I’m not interested in a non pvp server, I.e blue. I’d play a blue progression server that went through new content like Luclin or PoP, but I have no nostalgia for camping the same guise, manastone, lustrous russet, VP keys etc., al over again. With pvp it gave another dimension to the game. Not hating on those who enjoy it I’m sure the drama will be great, I just feel like once you experienced pvp you can’t go back to blue.

Happy to see new stuff coming to this project though as Everquest will always have a special place in my heart, as will this project, so cheers to Rogean and staff for this.

I second this. Mostly the.. trying to go back to blue part.