Poll: How do you want p1999 to end?

[JurisDictum]

The best thing about the game ending in Velious IMO, is that there is a certain feel to the game that ended in Luclin:

1) Traveling was still pretty hard at early levels (it isn't that hard when you're higher). I don't think porting is all that important for community...business interactions aren't the key to build communities IMO. But it does make the world feel a bit more real and midevil.

2) Smaller gap between end game characters and newer characters. With AA's and Luclin loot, more established players were MUCH more powerful than anyone relatively new to the game. This is when it started to get hard to begin from scratch. By PoP, it was damn near impossible to start a warrior from scratch for example.

3) The "Cats on the moon" complaint is based in the fact that the traditional dungeons and dragons style high fantasy motif started to be eroded. Things were more "game like" as far as style goes starting in Luclin.

Besides the "feel of the game" however, the game play was simply more balanced and superrior in Luclin/PoP IMO. It is great to have the opportunity to level in Original/Kunark/Velious and slowly get some classic raid gear. But after you do this....I think it is normal to want a little more to do on your main character. This isn't a hardcore minority on this server, a lot of people are in this position.

[wts]

No Monty Python and the Holy Grail option.

[Ele]

Just turn off the server one day and leave the forums up so we can watch the reaction.

[SyanideGas]

No bush/towers option, was a little disappointed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[maestrom]

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

The best thing about the game ending in Velious IMO, is that there is a certain feel to the game that ended in Luclin:

1) Traveling was still pretty hard at early levels (it isn't that hard when you're higher). I don't think porting is all that important for community...business interactions aren't the key to build communities IMO. But it does make the world feel a bit more real and midevil.

2) Smaller gap between end game characters and newer characters. With AA's and Luclin loot, more established players were MUCH more powerful than anyone relatively new to the game. This is when it started to get hard to begin from scratch. By PoP, it was damn near impossible to start a warrior from scratch for example.

3) The "Cats on the moon" complaint is based in the fact that the traditional dungeons and dragons style high fantasy motif started to be eroded. Things were more "game like" as far as style goes starting in Luclin.

Besides the "feel of the game" however, the game play was simply more balanced and superrior in Luclin/PoP IMO. It is great to have the opportunity to level in Original/Kunark/Velious and slowly get some classic raid gear. But after you do this....I think it is normal to want a little more to do on your main character. This isn't a hardcore minority on this server, a lot of people are in this position.

I've discussed this at length elsewhere on the internet (leading up to the recent live progression server), but I think what made luclin and pop good expansions were the systems that they brought into the game, rather than the content.

By systems, I mean game mechanics such as fuck casting, class balance, new UIs, buff timers, things that affect gameplay rather than the game itself. Content is, of course, orcs and zones.

Luclin was a mixed bag. Shit content for the most part, but great systemwise. PoP was at least okay for content and just as good for systems.

I'd like to see the custom content post velious incorporate some of these system enhancements.

[Frudrura]

The way I want P99 to end is a game company makes a new MMO that doesn't suck ass and we just go play that instead.

[Swish]

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

The way I want P99 to end is a game company makes a new MMO that doesn't suck ass and we just go play that instead.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - its our best hope <3

[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.

[bktroost]

Classic is vanilla to PoP.

[jcr4990]

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

Classic is vanilla to PoP.

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