It was written well - appreciated the use of hyphenated clauses to sentences.
And whether you intended it or not, the multiple comments about a clear lack of clarity or detail on what the image provided by Rogean means, was deafening.
Everyone is assuming this is going to be the Green server they've been asking for years. a.k.a. The launch of the 'real' classic server as it was meant to be.
And yet they forget that :
- There's no name for it
- There are no details
- The staff said with absolute certainty there would be no additional server after Blue that aims at a classic experience to the extend Blue did. Rather there may potentially be a server with custom content - when and if they could achieve it or there was demand
- It suddenly appears on the radar with less than five months till it's launch and conveniently comes around the time of Classic Warcraft launch
You are correct when you say that the power gamers will dominate hte server, and frankly it's due to three things.
1. Some twisted desire to screw others over by taking things from them
2. Items
3. Being first at something
Rogean and Nilbog and the CSR talk a big game about really disliking the top 5% of the server, and then went on to make accommodations for them and their play style allowing it to affect the other 95%.
They hid behind this "it's classic" defense, when so much of the server is nowhere near classic on various levels.
About the best we can hope for, is that Green is a custom content server, influenced by Classic EverQuest, but not limited by, where they decide to change things to avoid what happened to Blue.
They'll have the opportunity to do something about it, such as change the items and way items work(so as to not create an environment for the pixels before people crowd).
We'd all be fine if every controversial item is either not in the game at the start, or never gets removed. That cuts out such a significant amount of the item chasing by the nerds and keeps them on Blue where they belong, stroking their Manastone or Elder Beads and muttering "my precious."