Idea for custom content: Classic Spirit server
Now that the "beta" Blue server has run its course and the fresh Green/Teal servers have launched, many players have turned their eyes to the possibility of the long-awaited "custom content" Rogean, Nilbog & Co. have talked about for years. There are obviously numerous possibilities for what exactly "custom content" could look like, with varying degrees of difficulty involved in creating it. For example, would the custom content be entirely new? Or perhaps just carefully selected portions of Luclin and PoP? Those are the most commonly bandied about ideas, at least.
I have another proposal for "custom content": a server that makes small balance changes to the game in an effort to more accurately reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of classic EverQuest. Following the launch of Green and Teal, it became obvious to many players that scrupulously recreating the content and mechanics of classic EQ is paradoxically not the best way to recreate the feel of classic EQ. This is because 20 years of game knowledge and experience has fundamentally altered the way that people play the game. That being the case, the only way to more accurately emulate the actual gameplay of classic EQ is to make minor changes to the game that discourage powergaming and cheese tactics. At the same time, we can use this opportunity to make minor changes to class balance. These changes are made with the benefit of 20 years of hindsight and are conceived with the effort of promoting maximum balance between classes with minimal modification to the game. All that being said, the Classic Spirit server I'm proposing would have the following custom changes:
tl;dr a server with no item recharging, no MQs, no legacy items, reduced twinking, penalized soloing, discouraged powergaming/poopsocking and minor class balance changes to nerf Enchanters/Shamans/Monks and buff hybrids/Wizards. Would you player on this server? What other changes would you propose for a Classic Spirit server? |
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I would not. But thanks for coming out!
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Jboots arent legacy items? They just get moved to a quest.
Your server vision seems extremely targeted and the beauty of Classic EQ is its free flowing. |
I would support that! :)
One cave-at: Everquest back then was developed as a continuous project under the assumption that there would always be a "next patch", rather than a content freeze at a specific cut-off point. Meaning, there were serveral fixes to classes and balancing issues, that were delayed untill luclin(for practical reasons), but still addressed issues in the original trilogy, those should be included as well. Adding spellcrit for wizards(as you mention) is one of them, but im sure there are many more later fixes aswell (familiars for wizards!!!) , that would make it a much more polished game. :) They could even add extra zones that would fit well with the original trilogy. A "re-itemized" veksar for example. or (if you are feeling creative, something new, like an orc fortress next to orc highway in oasis, there was probably supposed to be "something" there?). Or maybe fix those quests that were never finished back then...(Daybreak actually did fix some kunark-era quests with the latest progression sever iirc. :) ) p.s. I think Sony kept jboots in the game on purpose, otherwise they wouldn't have added Tboots later. But yeah, I think having such a needed item drop from a single npc was poor design(and even Sony fixed that). |
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I like everything you listed. Would definitely give the classic spirit imho. I might even add to mix up loot tables. It would be awesome to kill a named again and have NO IDEA what's going to drop!
Or having the community Come together at kunark launch to figure out where the fungi tunic drops now. Stuff like that! |
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These are all large n part fleeting gimmicks of entertainment bc many of us know everything but theres so many noobs who dont know everything that the game is how u describe to them. |
Good write up, this is a really good summary of what I think a lot of P99 players (myself included) actually want from P99. Maybe we'll get this with Green 2.0!
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