Originally Posted by azxten (Post 3345562)

My favorite classic moment was instanced servers that merged in a few months after launch allowing players to double farm items like mana stones on a /list system which was abused by guilds to keep characters online for 3+ days straight.

lol.. you're a joke

Oh and the Enchanter mez aggro thing? That is from Daldaen. Like I said I was just reposting things that are being ignored.

I'll wait for Green 2.0. I know the devs see my crying. Here is what we need...

1. Nerf Enchanter charm until start of Velious and fix the mez mem blur bug that let's them avoid the "aggro dump" upon mez break of a chain mezzed mob. This fixed the trivialization of content from charm until the same time in classic which was Velious and makes Enchanter much more likely to die in group situations.

2. Fix channeling and mana from stats. Makes lower and higher level gameplay more difficult.

3. As far as I recall ZEMs were proven to be lower than P99 is using. We should have the same lower standard ZEMs with no hot spots. This gets rid of the boring "hot spot" leveling tread mills. Alternatively at least make ZEM rotate somewhat often and randomly.

4. Don't fuck with the launch by adding servers, changing spawn rate, /list, and nerfing quest exp. EQ is supposed to be challenging and that included finding open camps. P99 never came close to live population numbers and was never over crowded.

5. Actually monitor the level distribution of the player base the same way Verant/Sony would with an eye towards ensuring players don't level too quickly. It shouldn't be possible to get to level 50 with alts to level 50 before Kunark launches without serious effort. Somehow I was able to do this just playing casually. Likely due to channeling, ZEMs, charm, instancing, and all the other bullshit above. Probably each iteration of Green should use data from the previous launch to determine how to keep fitting a model towards a certain progression timeline. In other words, the no life loser should only be able to reach 50 with 1 alt and the casual player should only reach level 30-40 or whatever. If things are moving faster or slower than this model mechanics should be adjusted. This would avoid the ridiculous stacking of everyone at raid level before the first plane is even opened.

It's that easy. I want to play P99 again once it returns to a focus on classic and challenging game play.

Originally Posted by azxten (Post 3345564)

I bet you're still playing P99

Originally Posted by SantagarBrax (Post 3345998)

Give the people what they want, Luclin then PoP in a few years!

Originally Posted by Izmael (Post 3346003)

They already have it!
https://www.takproject.net/

Originally Posted by dragosanii (Post 3346045)

Just tried Takproject above but it just doesn't tick all the boxes for me and mine.
You can't strafe left and right using keys, only hold right mouse click and you can't mousewheel zoom out for a 3rd party view of your toon - you can change cameras but it isn't the same.....And it's designed and aimed at 3xboxing toons so again, doesn't fit in with what I'm ultimately trying to find (Server like P99 with all of those options but maybe up to PoP expansion, not allowing bots - any ideas?)

Regards,

- S

Originally Posted by dk0 (Post 3346053)

"I want to pay nothing and still have all of my very specific demands met."

No, you're never going to check all the boxes.

Originally Posted by dragosanii (Post 3346062)

No worries, was just asking. I don't have any demands, just checking if anyone knew of servers that have certain characteristics. I could go play original if I really wanted.

Originally Posted by dk0 (Post 3346105)

Fair, and I probably came off snarkier than I intended. Your only two real options are P99 and TAKP, both have tradeoffs so it's a matter of deciding on which factors are most important to you.

I know the FV Project exists and bills itself as a classic server but I really don't know much about it: https://fvproject.com/index.php/Main_Page