Server Spring Cleaning

[Trosh]

So my brother and I were putting our heads together to try to see if there could be a way to make the server fun and deflate the market etc for newer players, when we came up with two ideas:

1: once a year remove all platinum from game. (or remove like 50% or something, but people could get around that by buying gems or something)
2: once a year make every single item currently in the game (current items, not new items from mobs) No Drop. Meaning items on your character (or bank or w/e) would become no drop, but new items you loot would be normal.

I'm not saying that it is necessary at all, but the original release of the game, the expansions came out quickly-ish and people didn't know what they were doing as far as questing and farming half the time, so I was just idly brainstorming and came up with these ideas on how to clear out some of the extra stuff or get the game back to basics.

I figure that if the server never goes past Velious eventually this will be a big issue if it isn't already, and while the fix would surely be super unpopular, it may become necessary.

It seems that there are like waaaaaay too many uber lvl characters and people just farming the heck out of things, so it isn't as much fun. I just started perhaps a month ago, but making enough money just to get spells is quite difficult, let alone if I ever wanted something like a fungi tunic or whatever. When lots of players are rolling in hundreds of thousands of plat and have bank characters full of nice gear, It just got me thinking: If you made everything no drop, then people wouldn't be too effected by it, because they would still have all of their items, but then all of the prices would change to reflect the supply evaporating overnight, which would allow the newer or lower level characters a chance to farm some stuff and make money.

Not a perfect fix, or even really close to one.. But besides a flat-out server wipe of everything, which would really stink, I figured this seemed like an interesting idea..

What do you think?
Do you even think there is a problem?
Do you have another solution that could work?

Also other things could be done once a year like removing defunct guilds or a big character name sweep, or even some of those cool GM events I remember from way back. Or let loose all the gods in different zones to run around murdering people. In my guild on live servers I tried to remove all players that hadn't logged in in over 2 or 3 years from guild to just keep it a bit neater once and a while, for example.

[Raavak]

*yawn*

[jaybone]

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

*yawn*

Go outside and stop living your life in an elf simulator.

[Blade]

Thank goodness you and your brother are on the case and striving to make this server more fun. It's about time someone stepped up and took the reigns.

I'd like to throw in my suggestion:

/kill everything without a tail once a year.

[justin2090]

I didn't read it all but sounds like you want a ladder server like in D2.

[Trosh]

Originally Posted by justin2090 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't read it all but sounds like you want a ladder server like in D2.

Don't know what that is.. but it's just a matter of time before the game gets bloated, especially if the expansion list is going to stop with Velious. Theoretically everyone will eventually be max level with max gear and leave because there's nothing left to do.

And yeah, you can always delete all your stuff on purpose or w/e, but not the same as a server reset of some kind. Maybe not even once a year, but that's generally how long was in-between expansions if memory serves.

[justin2090]

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

Don't know what that is.. but it's just a matter of time before the game gets bloated, especially if the expansion list is going to stop with Velious. Theoretically everyone will eventually be max level with max gear and leave because there's nothing left to do.

And yeah, you can always delete all your stuff on purpose or w/e, but not the same as a server reset of some kind. Maybe not even once a year, but that's generally how long was in-between expansions if memory serves.

In a ladder system everyone would start fresh on a separate server and after 6-12 months the server gets wiped. The accounts connected to that server are then kicked back to the original p99 server. This way the people that play on the current server loose nothing.

The only problem is it takes most of us a year to get to max lvl lol.

[Danth]

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

Theoretically everyone will eventually be max level with max gear and leave because there's nothing left to do.

Why is this a problem? I don't expect one game to last forever.

Server's still growing after three years of Kunark. Velious will provide some additional years. By the time Velious winds down and the population dwindles P1999 will be pushing probably a decade if not more. That's plenty long enough. When that time comes the remaining population can decide what they want to do. Worrying about it now strikes me as premature at best, even assuming honest motives on the part of the original poster.


Danth

[Ahldagor]

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

Why is this a problem? I don't expect one game to last forever.

Server's still growing after three years of Kunark. Velious will provide some additional years. By the time Velious winds down and the population dwindles P1999 will be pushing probably a decade if not more. That's plenty long enough. When that time comes the remaining population can decide what they want to do. Worrying about it now strikes me as premature at best, even assuming honest motives on the part of the original poster.


Danth

decade would be incredible for the project.

part of it seems to be people wanting to have their inputs/voices heard/pandered to on the server cause they proly grew up getting ribbons and trophies for getting shut out by 20 like i did as a youngling, but then git gud happened and all was right in the world.

[Danth]

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

decade would be incredible for the project.

We're half way there come October. Time flies.

Danth