Why do people call it Green 2.0?

[Goobles]

Isn't green 1.0 just Blue 2.0?

And following that, the new server be 3.0?

Just curious

[PabloEdvardo]

because green was the first server to execute the timeline roughly "on schedule" (the content was in development during blue's timeline, and released as-available, instead of accurately reproducing the correct era-to-era timeline durations)

blue is like the "alpha server", green is the "beta server" (or "release candidate"), and green 2.0 will be in theory the first "official release" where the entire timeline has already been played out and tested in order, and it's just a matter of it being released again

[PlsNoBan]

How sick would it be if P99 actually executed the "Recycle 99" gameplan and released new servers on time in sync with original timeline and dumped into blue and restarted as soon as end of timeline was reached each time? No more sitting at a deadend for years at a time. Constant stream of progression. No extended stale periods and allowing servers to get extremely topheavy. Would be pretty sweet imo

[loramin]

How sick would it be if P99 actually executed the "Recycle 99" gameplan

https://i.imgur.com/4SQop5v.gif

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/U4TFODQ.jpg

[Bardp1999]

fat hands, no hair

[Ravager]

How sick would it be if P99 actually executed the "Recycle 99" gameplan and released new servers on time in sync with original timeline and dumped into blue and restarted as soon as end of timeline was reached each time? No more sitting at a deadend for years at a time. Constant stream of progression. No extended stale periods and allowing servers to get extremely topheavy. Would be pretty sweet imo

That's the dream! Just hope they learned how to better smooth out the first month's surge of players.

[Coridan]

They still might? We haven't actually hit Luclin yet in the timeline (though we are super close) and at launch it was suggested it would recycle 6 months after Chardok 2.0 which would put the recycle in January, a few months after the timeline where Luclin launches.

[PlsNoBan]

That's the dream! Just hope they learned how to better smooth out the first month's surge of players.

There's no easy solution to that problem really besides just launching an overflow server then merging later like they did with Green/Teal. Which honestly is probably fine? I don't know how much work that is for them to do but if they do that every new launch it'll probably be good enough. I personally wouldn't be opposed to bumping up spawn rates on lower lvl zones temporarily so people don't have to literally camp individual spawn points and wait for repops or anything stupid like that. Is it really going to have any lasting negative impact to the server if decaying skeletons and fire beetles spawn super fast for the first few days?

[Goldknyght]

there cant be a green 2.0, only a new server in general. splitting the player base even more. seeing as the merging green and blue would be a disaster.

[cd288]

there cant be a green 2.0, only a new server in general. splitting the player base even more. seeing as the merging green and blue would be a disaster.

Someone’s gonna have a meltdown when they merge

[Goldknyght]

Someone’s gonna have a meltdown when they merge

i wont as i dont have any toons on blue. so easy transition for me. jus know gonna be a /petition nightmare.

[Goldknyght]

Someone’s gonna have a meltdown when they merge

Nilbog - 09-13-2019

Server Merge - The staff has had considerable discussion internally regarding the merging of Green into Blue at the end of the timeline. We've heard your concerns. At this time, we haven't made a final decision, but we have also decided that we will leave the door open. A lot can change in 3 years, and we may chose to leave Green running independently as we open additional servers in the future.

[Chortles Snortles]

future meltdown confirmed

[Fammaden]

Green wasn't even open yet and people were already crying so much about something four years in the future that Nilbog had to put that statement out to shut them up.

The meltdowns will be epic indeed.

[Rick Sanchez]

Goobles is harrison.

[cd288]

Nilbog - 09-13-2019

Server Merge - The staff has had considerable discussion internally regarding the merging of Green into Blue at the end of the timeline. We've heard your concerns. At this time, we haven't made a final decision, but we have also decided that we will leave the door open. A lot can change in 3 years, and we may chose to leave Green running independently as we open additional servers in the future.

Anyone who quotes this is def gonna have a meltdown when they merge haha

I'm guessing you weren't around for the context here. This was when like 2.5k people were on Green plus like 500 on Blue. So they were basically like well if we have a massive population in three years maybe we'd keep Green open and have Blue, Green, and Green 2.0. We don't have that population, the two servers are barely like 1,500 between the two at primetime (and a couple hundred of those are playing on both servers simultaneously.

The staff aint paying for three pve servers out of their own pocket when each server will have like 400 people on it lol

[Chortles Snortles]

i really loved the feel of the world when we had 1500+ players on it
/shrug

[Danth]

The staff aint paying for three pve servers out of their own pocket when each server will have like 400 people on it lol

I would guess some or all of what we see are virtual machines that aren't always physically separate. They may not be paying anything extra.

That being said, apparently P1999 servers are like communism and thirty years from now we'll be on Green 7.0 and there'll be someone insisting it's the First True Green because none of the many that came before were actually real implementations.

Danth

[Ooloo]

Merging and recycling is the only viable option that won't kill the project. Neckbeard pixel addicts have threatened to leave if they ever do that, but I think that's a big bluff considering almost all of them certainly quit live EQ at some point in the past and vowed never to play again, probably multiple times, then woops they neckbearded out on p99 as soon as it was available. A fresh green server would *guaranteed* be heavily populated, even if a handful of people have tantrums and "quit". They'll be back.

[Allishia]

Can't wait to see if new guilds form after merge etc, how the raid scene is going to change. Will be neat!

[cd288]

i really loved the feel of the world when we had 1500+ players on it
/shrug

Yup. Less than 1k for a server that goes through Velious is just too few people to really have a solid EQ experience

[Fammaden]

Plus the more people there are the more Chortles behavior can slip through the cracks due to staff being spread too thin.

[Chortles Snortles]

how dare i take elf matters into my own hands
(lol)