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The most vocal way to express your displeasure about this Fippy Darkpaw server and the voting would be, get this, to sway the vote each time it pops up. Eventually, the devs will realize what the community wants, and will disable the vote entirely. The only reason they did not release a classic server is because they have no legitimate way of judging if that's what people actually want.

With Project 1999 and an ever-growing nostalgic potential playerbase, it is no wonder that if there is a demand for it, they will supply it.

If you have an active live account, I advise you to sway the vote as yes on Kunark, and no on Velious. Besides P1999, it's the only way you are going to get an official 'classic' experience. Maybe someone, someday will solve the glowing black stone quest mystery, and we can implement it here. There's a ton of content left undiscovered in EverQuest according to Sony, and honestly none of it is going to be discovered unless some sort of classic server is made by them. (who would be in kael, qeynos hills, etc, at 90?)

I dream that one day P1999 and SOE could collaborate to bring back those zones they removed, the exact formulas for how things are spawned, basically being the most perfect thing. In fact I am surprised that SOE did not even send us an email (not a C&D of course :P) asking to collaborate with P1999 data and compare it versus theirs and provide an unmatched classic experience. P1999 has the potential, if it were an official SOE product, to outsell any new EQ expansion pack that is coming out by sheer subscription fees alone. There's 600 players on P1999 on peak hours eastern time, around the same in the mornings & afternoons, so multiply that 600 by 3.

That's 1600 * 15 per month plus the extra people that could be coming in because it's officially supported by Sony and refuse to play P1999 for legal reasons. Sony could potentially be making a lot of cash with little effort by their part. With house of thule selling anywhere from 25k-144k copies (estimated by the amount of people logged into general chat at peak hours), and the amount of development time it takes for each expansion plus costs for those developers, it would basically be a new cash cow bigger than the SC marketplace for them. Some of us already play SOE games, so that would increase their station access subs a lot too.

About the marketplace on fippy... Personally I wouldn't mind the marketplace. Sure, it will not be classic but it will fill in the gap for the "ebay" part of the classic era. I mean, we trade items for favors here, there's no reason why RMT for items shouldn't be allowed (plus Sony would likely be upset if their games didn't have a marketplace. though there is none in DCUO, so maybe... dunno.)

All in all I am really excited to see the community input for Fippy. Not so much the gameplay, I never liked classic but the people that do... they love it.