And one specifically with the same content that was made for the competition the top guilds here claim to want...

You must realize there's two servers that have the content anywhere remotely resembling "classic", P99 & R99. So those of us here to "experience the content" play on blue. If we wanted "competition" we'd play on red. Why do you want competition and play on blue? Blue is for "experiencing the content", not "beating another player".

No, there aren't any other EMU servers that as accurately depict classic EQ raiding than Project 1999.

How to fix most raid disputes on Project 1999:

(1) Release Velious [keep up that hard work, gentlemen];

(2) Solicit donations to support another server;

(3) Convert current blue to R-Blue [no variance, enforced rotation];

(4) Make new C-Blue sever [no variance, no rotation, relaxed play nice policy];

(5) Offer a one-time, non-reversible character copy/transfers to C-Blue for those interested in "competition;" and

(6) C-blue will probably close down after a few months due to minimal population [allowing a return to original operating costs].

Some people, for whatever reason, love poopsocking and the thrill of "competition." This is a pretty small minority in the scheme of things. Most people enjoy playing a nostalgic, well-made game and focusing on having fun. This is the vast majority of players.

This is a classic proposal and will help promote classic gameplay. It will ensure that people do not get burned out from poopsocking and non-classic, strange raid mechanics that only exist here, such as 2 minute dragon kills, COTH tracking, COTH ducking, etc.

There were rotation servers on live, and there were competitive servers dominated by one guild. Give players the choice.

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Huh? Do you seriously believe there are not other emu servers where you can kill VP dragons with kunark-era gear/abilities? You can even go on live and easily institute 'kunark-era only class/gear/spells' and kill VP dragons to your heart's content.

When was the last time you were on Live? If this were true, there would be no need for this server.

Since this is approaching Alarti levels of troll, I'll use his favorite line: Prove it. Make sure you are also easily instituting kunark-era combat tables, because those matter too.

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(or maybe I will fail at image linking again)

Wow, you are really more dense then I even thought possible. I'm just trying to point out that 'just wanting to experience content' is not why you guys want to kill this stuff. It's a bullshit reason. If these mobs and what these mobs dropped were not scarce, we would not care about killing them. If we had instances, and could kill all these raid mobs as much as we wanted, we'd all be fully geared in a few months and this server would be a ghost town. These aren't 'thrilling, difficult, wow-like raid encounters', they are 'put on resist gear, CH rotation on tank, kill it in 30 seconds' raid mobs. There would be no accomplishment for killing them if it was a normal, weekly, instanced, expected thing. The accomplishment is an accomplishment because the demand is so high and so few get to kill them on a regular basis. BDA gets thrilled when they kill raid targets because 'omg we just killed this dragon that we rarely get to kill!!', not because 'omg we killed this same dragon for the 40th week in a row!' Nobody is thrilled when they kill sky bosses. It's a normal thing that we all do. There is no excitement. Why not keep some targets in high-demand to actually create excitement when they are killed? Like classic everquest?

Sorry, I just have too much fun arguing with BDA members. It's just too hilarious to see you guys and others still whining for more welfare mobs after earthquakes and the class rotations were added, giving all these class R guilds lots of monsters they'd never kill before.

Did I say it was a perfect representation? Nope. I'm aware of all the differences. A guild can still gimp their characters intentionally pretty easily to get close to emulating the experience. Just saying, that if you just want to 'see a dragon and experience slaying it', you can do that. There are progression guilds that play on Live that do exactly that. My only point is to show you that, nobody wants to kill a VP dragon on some other server.