Yet Another Green Question to Ponder: ZEMs

[loramin]

P99 has long had unclassic ZEMs (Zone Experience Modifiers), apparently with the logic that most people didn't know exact ZEMs on live (only cheaters who used ShowEQ ... which is how we know today what the classic ZEMs were), so the devs changed them here to be more mysterious.

But with Green being a return to the true classic experience, do you think we'll get classic (or at least more classic) ZEMs, the exact same unclassic Blue ones, or something new (so that we really don't know what they are this time)?

My vote is to bring back the classic ZEMs: the original decision was made long ago, and it doesn't seem to fit the rest of P99. If we have unclassic recharging, OT hammers, 24/7 guise camps, etc. because "that's how it worked on live (even though 99.9% of the server didn't know about those things at the time)", then doesn't the same logic apply to ZEMs?

99.9% didn't know then, but a similar percentage do now (and yet even so, Green emulates what classic was, not how people remembered it)?

My opinion is, why not make Green have classic ZEMs just as it has classic everything else? But regardless of my opinion, what do you think the devs will do?

[soronil]

I would be cool to have dynamic ZEM. if a zone isn't really being utilized, ZEM goes up. Really popular zones have ZEM go down. But the numbers still aren't revealed.

I think having publically known ZEM is just going to cause everyone to crowed the same few dungeons even more than they do now.

Speaking of which, is there ANY data, or theories, about blue server ZEMs? I am new here and havent seen anything

[Legidias]

ZEM's are the most highly kept secret in P99, like the actual coke recipe inr eal life. I bet rogean and nilbog can't fly on the same flight together in case it crashes and no one else will ever know the ZEM's.

Rotating zem is, you guess it, not classic (though personally it would be great if ZEMs were rotated to unknown zones every week and people needed to figure out which zone was the hot one of the week by XPing in different places till its found).

[loramin]

So, classic ZEMs on Green, unclassic ("custom") rotating ZEMs on Blue, and everyone wins? ;)

[Chortles Snort|eS]

not classiC

[Jibartik]

I hope all the high ZEM zones are also great to AoE kite in, so we can see some good RnF :)

[Bardp1999]

Mistmoore/Highkeep/CoM/Seb/HS should have 0% ZEM

Kedge/BlackBurrow/Runnyeye/Dalnir/Nurga should have 200% ZEM

[foxchris509]

I wish they would rotate ZEMs on blue. Would get people grouping in a lot of different zones and experience more content that classic-velious has to offer instead of the usual xp routes that we have now like unrest,com,seb,kc etc.