Fewer quakes and impact on server population

[JayDee]

Originally Posted by sajbert [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't see the point of adding Luclin or custom content to a server which set out to recreate a Classic experience. Nor do I see the devs having energy to bother with it and Luclin seems especially pointless now that Quarm's doing it.

If they don't plan on releasing another fresh server I think they should just add rotating Legacy content on the original release schedule meaning players given time will have another go at Firepots, Guise, Manastone, Beads and even Warder Loot. Sure, not exactly Classic but like you say, neither is 5 years of Velious. I think it would motivate players to return and start up more alts as well.

Whilst fresh may seem enticing it's also somewhat of a pain. On green people were struggling to find free camps just to kill a single mob every 6-12 minutes on repeat. The XP is crawling, many abilities are missing and class XP penalties are brutal.

100% agree on the warder thing. Maybe after a month or two allow waking the sleeper then bring it back a year later. Would bring a lot of people back and its Classic content

[Ciderpress]

Legacy items are not legacy items if you can just get them at your leisure. The entire appeal is that they are one and done, you either get them or you don't and when they're gone they're gone. They can all be traded\bought\sold anyway, other than guises which are the only actual cool legacy item. Server pop is fine for the content imo, several hundred people play every day. It's not like if the pop was 2500 there would be lots of groups, it would just be more neckbeard raiders. It's the nature of the beast.

All that being said I too long for a fresh p99 server. The hero's whatever is a cool novelty but it might as well be a different game. It's like shards of dalaya; if you're gonna modify everquest that much why not just make a new game with new ip?

[JayDee]

Thing that makes sleeper different is

A) there is no set amount of time for when it expires. It's more when a group of people feel like being dicks and preventing others from getting items. Fair play

B) its end game content that will keep people compelled to continue playing and thus perhaps donating to the project

C) waking the sleeper marks the end of classic (in fact it wasnt killed til much later on most servers) and I dont see p99 ending anytime soon

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The entire appeal is that they are one and done, you either get them or you don't and when they're gone they're gone.

Lets not pretend stuff like elder prayer beads is just a novelty bauble. On live they also brought some of them back under different mechanisms (casino, wandering merchants) so that argument doesn't hold all that much water. P99 being P99 it probably will stay the way it is though.

That being said I wouldn't be against them opening up sleeper's tomb a bit more. That's the end of classic but that's not how the game ends. 5 years of velious is not classic either, they could get a bit more funky with the timeline but I doubt it would go beyond a perdiodic reset.

[sajbert]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Legacy items are not legacy items if you can just get them at your leisure. The entire appeal is that they are one and done, you either get them or you don't and when they're gone they're gone. They can all be traded\bought\sold anyway, other than guises which are the only actual cool legacy item. Server pop is fine for the content imo, several hundred people play every day. It's not like if the pop was 2500 there would be lots of groups, it would just be more neckbeard raiders. It's the nature of the beast.

All that being said I too long for a fresh p99 server. The hero's whatever is a cool novelty but it might as well be a different game. It's like shards of dalaya; if you're gonna modify everquest that much why not just make a new game with new ip?

Even if legacy items were to be reintroduced instead of a new fresh you'd still have to wait several years between each chance at beads or manastone. The camps would still be a pain and possibly worse than before. There'd certainly be a significant level of hardship behind acquiring one, unlike on Quarm. I guess a "classic" concern would be paineel erudites or iksars being able to get a Guise.

As for pop, honestly it's quite dead and 95% of the world is just depressing. Outside raiding and a handful of zones there is nothing going on. Outside of raiding or soloing there isn't much.

I'd consider playing again but without knowing if there'll ever be another fresh and not having the option to get guise or firepot binds on another toon I just don't feel motivate and I think I'm far from the only one.

[Salaryman]

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