Poll: How do you want p1999 to end?

[JurisDictum]

Although I'm sure the developers have no intention of going past Velious, I still would like to get some idea of how people feel about other expansions. I also added an idea I had where Daybreak would allow p1999 character transfers to one of their progression servers someday. It's all unlikely, but a man can dream.

[Tankdan]

Luclin in 3 years, PoP 2 years after that . Won't happen, but that's how Id like it.

Classic to me is launch through PoP. If I recall PoP or the first expansion after that had the highest subscriber base in EQ. Thats how most people remember Everquest, therefore classic. Most people werent even max level in this era, Velious raiding was more mainstream during Luclin and beyond.

[Voland]

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

Classic to me is launch through PoP. If I recall PoP or the first expansion after that had the highest subscriber base in EQ.

According to
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png
EQ population peaked at 550k between 2004 and 2005,
that would be between "Omens of War" and "Dragons of Norrath"
expansions.
I would bet it's not any particular expansion, but WoW/EQ2 coming out that caused the population drop.

To the person who said that many ports are still useful with PoP - most of ports listed are for Velious zones, which fell out of favor as later expansions came out.
My druid wasn't making much plat porting on a server that had PoP.

[Barrier]

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

According to
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png
EQ population peaked at 550k between 2004 and 2005,
that would be between "Omens of War" and "Dragons of Norrath"
expansions.
I would bet it's not any particular expansion, but WoW/EQ2 coming out that caused the population drop.

To the person who said that many ports are still useful with PoP - most of ports listed are for Velious zones, which fell out of favor as later expansions came out.
My druid wasn't making much plat porting on a server that had PoP.

Half my guild was gone overnight, almost. Wow sucked ass at the beginning connection-wise, so they came back for a little but the damage was done.

[Rennol]

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

Luclin in 3 years, PoP 2 years after that . Won't happen, but that's how Id like it.

Classic to me is launch through PoP. If I recall PoP or the first expansion after that had the highest subscriber base in EQ. Thats how most people remember Everquest, therefore classic. Most people werent even max level in this era, Velious raiding was more mainstream during Luclin and beyond.

Agree with you on your timeline. Only problem is that vanilla EQ becomes less and less recognizable after Luclin. By PoP it's gone completely. I'd even say stop at Luclin. But... PoP was still kind of fun, in its own way.

[Stormfists]

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

Luclin in 3 years, PoP 2 years after that . Won't happen, but that's how Id like it.

Classic to me is launch through PoP. If I recall PoP or the first expansion after that had the highest subscriber base in EQ. Thats how most people remember Everquest, therefore classic. Most people werent even max level in this era, Velious raiding was more mainstream during Luclin and beyond.

Tend to agree with most of this.

Kunark and Velious symbolised typical EQ romanticism but PoP symbolised the true height of EQ in terms of player numbers and satisfaction. All went down hill from LDoN / GoD onwards.

I expect a new server will pop up eventually but the problem is there is only what, 2500 people in the world who want EQ who don't play on Daybreak so splitting that population into 3 or 4 servers is dangerous as zones begin to get quiet - especially when you add 50 more zones into the mix.

The whole reason why I didn't like PEQ was because you logged in and had to travel for an hour before you met another player. Kinda need a high population to stimulate the classic nostalgia of competition and value in pixels.

The question is would you play on a deserted server just because it went to PoP?

NB: PoP was best expac for raiding - but IMO not overall content as books and PoK ruined a lot of shit...

[Exard3k]

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

Luclin in 3 years, PoP 2 years after that . Won't happen, but that's how Id like it.

Classic to me is launch through PoP. If I recall PoP or the first expansion after that had the highest subscriber base in EQ. Thats how most people remember Everquest, therefore classic. Most people werent even max level in this era, Velious raiding was more mainstream during Luclin and beyond.

afair EU Servers (as well as localized EQ versions) were launched shortly after PoP, so we europeans may be the cause of that.

[86753o9]

End? Only one of those options is an end to p99. Possible ways that p99 may end should include things like a court order, thermonuclear war, y2k.

Really poorly worded. Poll fail!

[Colgate]

personally i would enjoy the content of luclin without things like the nexus, the bazaar, and AAs

which basically just means any additional custom content after velious would be cool

[Kevynne]

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

personally i would enjoy the content of luclin without things like the nexus, the bazaar, and AAs

which basically just means any additional custom content after velious would be cool

/agree
tbh add in everything but the damn moon
add bazaar ZL to ec/freeport
and scarlet desert zl at invis wall in oasis
make vah shir start in kerra isle maybe?
add fungus grove somewhere on gfay

fuck the rest of that damn moon