The simple reality is that blue is overcrowded. No criticism of Nilbog intended, but the biggest problem we have is the slow pace of releases. Kunark has been out for 2.5 years! On live Velious would have been released, then Luclin, and we would be closing in on the Planes of Power. No one would be bitching about TMO cockblocking VP because they would be busy cockblocking FE over Luclin content.
I have been on record as suggesting simultaneous repops and I think they would be fantastic for the server. But even that won't totally open up the endgame; last repop there were 300+ people online.
Velious would open up a huge amount of additional content and would help greatly . . . except that I guarantee a whole fuckton of players who aren't playing now will come back for it.
Ultimately instances probably are the only way to inflate the content to match the players (and allow all the guilds to progress all the way through Kunark without going nuts tracking/batphoning), but that's very far from the spirit of classic eq.
Again, we just have too many players for the amount of content we have. The staff has chosen to have players compete rather than enforce rotations, and they have selected tracking/batphoning as that method. You can either accept this and play around it (see: The A-Team) or drive yourself nuts making posts on the forums (well, I've done that too).
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