I'm kind of conflicted about this.
I love P99. I've come to accept the community as it is: with tons of awesome and helpful people and even the handful of douche bags.
My first thought is, a boisterous community would improve the overall classic experience.
On the other hand, with all the end game drama, high end guild bitching, and clashes in general that typically come with all MMO's do I really want an influx of people? I'm not sure what the reaction would be if more people got word of this emulator. The comforting thought is that classic era kept alot of the kiddy bullshit you typically find in today's ez-mode MMO's at bay. But that doesn't mean everyone signing up is going to be a model player and a champion of EQ ethics.
Live had multiple servers, we have one. Double the average game population and realize there is only contested content that's usually squashed shortly after it spawns. Some servers on live (Prexus did anyway) had a community of high end guilds come together to make a rotation list for raid encounters. I highly doubt that will happen if there were more high end guilds to be built. It'll be a FCFS rage fest.
This is just a thought I had. I can't see into the future or predict what will happen but I like this server enough that I've actually begun to care about the community and the people who work hard to run it. Which never ever happened on Live. lol
Change scares me
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