New p99 server

[Viscere]

What do you think?

[Duik]

You forgot

We are forsaken and will never see a new server in our lifetime.
Maybe Rogeans hybrid human/android great grandchild will do it with a 54 word A.I prompt.

[Reiwa]

What do you think?

Two Thursdays from now.

[Ekco]

voted never + merge

hoping Q4 2025, merge + new server under the Christmas tree.

[Viscere]

Merge would be huge

[wuanahto]

you might think you want a new server but you dont
its basically 2 weeks of feeling fresh and new but after that things start becoming streamlined. and after a month or so its basically what you have now

[shovelquest]

you might think you want a new server but you dont
its basically 2 weeks of feeling fresh and new but after that things start becoming streamlined. and after a month or so its basically what you have now

That's my favorite part of this game!

[Swish]

Merge green into red then start red2.0

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

you might think you want a new server but you dont
its basically 2 weeks of feeling fresh and new but after that things start becoming streamlined. and after a month or so its basically what you have now

Very true.

This is why allowing character transfers in some form, is the solution, not a new server or another such foolishness. Let people move around. They have three servers. If you allowed character transfers, people might even try Red.

[Prismaticshop]

Transfers would be huge, I wish they would consider this :(

But that would probably finish killing blue, so might as well merge

[cd288]

you might think you want a new server but you dont
its basically 2 weeks of feeling fresh and new but after that things start becoming streamlined. and after a month or so its basically what you have now

Oh I very much want a new server!

[joe426]

merge and new server at same time

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Pixels are pixels. Green vs Blue kill races on dual earthquakes.

Right now Blue is in a custodial state.

The only reason this idea falls apart is if there isn't enough population to fill one server and charatcter transfers would reveal that within a month.

[Deathrydar]

People that left would definitely come back for a new server! A new server isn't just "fresh feelings", it's a chance to play a class that is group oriented with others that are leveling up as well. It's a chance to see zones that you would never see today, due to everyone taking the MM>COM>KC route and there barely being enough people in those zones to fill a group.

It's about forging new relationships with other players. It's about getting to experience the game again the way it was meant to be played- In a group! There just aren't enough players on today to experience this. But players would come back for a fresh experience.

However, with the release of Monsters and Memories being imminent, I believe that the staff here missed a golden opportunity to release a new server. Even if they did release it now, the population would fall off in a couple of months when M&M releases. Whether or not you personally feel this will happen is irrelevant and you can experience this by involving yourself into one of the play-tests as you will see old friends from this server as well as meet many others that have played here for years, but fell off due to the staleness.

But do not minimize the importance of starting fresh on a new server. Yes, there are players that just come for the "newness" and then fall off, but there are many of us that would love to experience the game again with all of the low level zones bustling, and the opportunity to find a group and just grind out levels upon levels the way the genre was meant to be played.

<3

[cd288]

And when they launch a new P99 server next year, people with leave MM for it

[Deathrydar]

Maybe...

[IzHaN80]

New server, I don't see the point of asking for a merge if you want things to be fresh. We don't want people raiding at day 1, we want people to level up, group up together, make/meet new friends, etc.

[Reiwa]

Pixels are pixels. Green vs Blue kill races on dual earthquakes.

Right now Blue is in a custodial state.

The only reason this idea falls apart is if there isn't enough population to fill one server and charatcter transfers would reveal that within a month.

What if people didn't come back for a new server?

We're in cargo cult territory here.

[cd288]

New server, I don't see the point of asking for a merge if you want things to be fresh. We don't want people raiding at day 1, we want people to level up, group up together, make/meet new friends, etc.

You do both dude. They merge the servers so they don't have to pay for 4 servers instead of 3. They use their own money after all.

[Tann]

They use their own money after all.

if only THJ would've considered this, might've had a longer life expectancy.

[Sillyturtle]

Anyone saying "merge but no new server" doesn't understand that the mission statement has and still is 'Merge Green into Blue thus freeing up the server Green was on to start again as Green 2.0'.

[shovelquest]

Anyone saying "merge but no new server" doesn't understand that the mission statement has and still is 'Merge Green into Blue thus freeing up the server Green was on to start again as Green 2.0'.

https://i.imgur.com/RoLzK2h.png

[Ekco]

https://i.imgur.com/rMxw5WH.png

any day now.

[ShampooChicken]

you might think you want a new server but you dont
its basically 2 weeks of feeling fresh and new but after that things start becoming streamlined. and after a month or so its basically what you have now

I want a server that wipes completely every 3 to 6 months. And with all the experience penalties and slow leveling put back.

[Sillyturtle]

https://i.imgur.com/RoLzK2h.png

Sure, it's been a long time.

Though it has been proven on multiple occasions that time doesn't really matter when you're considering Nilbog and Rogean. They still keep creating fixes and patching things that have happened earlier in the timeline. If they had no intention of merging the servers and launching a new one, those changes would be completely irrelevant.

The only logical conclusion is, since we have had no word whatsoever that their mission statement and goals have changed, that they're proceeding with the plan and eventually they will be merging Green into Blue and launching 'Green 2.0' (I expect it to have a different color as the name).

[Dollar]

I want a server that wipes completely every 3 to 6 months. And with all the experience penalties and slow leveling put back.

Every 3-6 months would be crazy, considering people want to avoid wipes after multiple years.. Every two years would be fantastic.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I want a server that wipes completely every 3 to 6 months. And with all the experience penalties and slow leveling put back.

What you want, is Logan's P99

https://i.imgur.com/CrHgjws.jpeg

[loramin]

Every 3-6 months would be crazy, considering people want to avoid wipes after multiple years.. Every two years would be fantastic.

Two years wouldn't even get us through the full timeline (https://wiki.project1999.com/Timeline) (it would take us from March '99 to March '01 ... but P99 goes up to October '01). Plus, even stopping in October would be too soon, because no one would have time to play the character they leveled in Stonebrunt, to win the goblin rolls for a SWC, or to farm the revamped Chardok.

Really, something like three years is the perfect server length, and such a length would also be classic: on live it's not like people just stopped doing classic/Kunark/Velious content the moment Luclin dropped. Classic content was enjoyed long after Luclin dropped.

BTW, the people making P99 have a similar opinion (emphasis added):

The green server will, at a time yet to be decided, eventually merge into blue and start over again. This merge will not happen until at least 6 months after the last patch in velious (No earlier than January 2023)

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.

[red_demonman]

Just bring back Teal and distribute all of us ancient players back to our original choice. Would be fun to watch all the guilds get half separated.

[WarpathEQ]

The most logical time to commit to the end of the server in the progression timeline would be the release date of the next expansion. Looks like from original day 1 release of EQ until shadows of luclin dropped was roughly 2.75 years.

[cd288]

I do wish they would do a new one sometime soon. I've never played a Shaman extensively, so I want to main one on the new server.

[Jimjam]

The most logical time to commit to the end of the server in the progression timeline would be the release date of the next expansion. Looks like from original day 1 release of EQ until shadows of luclin dropped was roughly 2.75 years.

It felt so much longer! And I didn’t even have my own account until kunark.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I barely played Velious. Burned out. Left my account with my guild. Came back to a stripped account at end of Velious to play Luclin. I was a rich motherfucker within a few weeks again. Back then, simply playing a lot not only made you rich enough, it also got you in the premiere guilds. Being online = being valuable.

Back when time online meant something completely different from today? I think so.

[onmove_broke]

I would not mind seeing a Vile type pvp server like Crucify. Something where you can pop in for 30 min and get some good pvp, hone your skills etc, with minimal time sink.

[Gustoo]

Yeah less people were glued to screens back then. Being a 12hr a day person meant a lot.

[Finarfin]

No merge ever