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Old 01-24-2021, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Fammaden [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Its certainly not classic in spirit, even if the ZEM is era accurate. People 50+ in Kunark leveled in KC and Seb for pickup grouping, and then after Velious on my server at least Velks became another hugely popular pick up group XP zone. There most certainly were not 30 to 50+ people in xp groups and looking for group in the Hole like, ever. I can't imagine other servers during Kunark/early Velious were much different.

The Hole was already good ZEM on blue back before this change when it was bring your own group and there were never more than ten people there at the time. The extra ZEM has proven to be overkill IMO. It didn't bother me much on blue when they first raised the ZEM. The Hole is a great zone and its fun at first getting more people to go there and xp in more parts of it than just docks. But as time wears on and now we see the effect it had on the green "Kunark" experience, its hard to see this as a good path for the spirit of the green server.
You’re right about the hole, but zems also got rotated back in the day. I don’t mind seeing a ton of people in there if they were planning to eventually rotate the ZEM again. I also think it would be cool if they didn’t disclose the specific ZEM changes; just told us they’d been changed and left it up to the players to go out and find which zones had a boost