Question for p99 vets

[Seducio]

I'm more thinking about toward the future. The public facing p99 website and public facing p99 forum might need to become more welcoming overall if the p99 team wants to compete going forward. This includes forum moderation that isn't currently happening. P99 is no longer the only game in town.

If these forums focused more on EQ community, P1999 community, and Gaming topic only type spaces to communicate with other folks interested in p99 I would enjoy it better then it's current setup. The 10 people you mentioned might disagree with me about that though and that's ok. Some appear to use this site as a therapist or friend as best as I can tell and that is ok I guess it doesn't cost them anything. There are only a few trained medical professionals on this site though, mostly unknown because of privacy, so the exchange is more peer to peer than anything that could be described as therapeutic in a clinical sense.

Many gaming companies/orgs decide to keep their forums relatively on topic to avoid drama that can distract from the games community that is being built. P99 forums instead has a community with RnF and a percentage of Off Topic which is essentially RnF that appears wholly disconnected from the game Everquest. These forums have survived many bouts of drama and political acrimony which have turned off everyone except for the 10 people Lune mentioned. RnF doesn't seem needed anymore in the era of Social Media. Social media is designed for RnF in ways this forum could never be without major programming changes to the forums code and design.

Updating the rules and enforcing them in a transparent manner in an environment with new competitive EQ Emu servers entering the scene would encourage more people to play P1999 and feel welcome here. Currently with the competition that is now out there the marketing of this server and how it differentiates itself might matter in the future more than it appears to matter now.

With all respect to many of those here, I am more interested learning about different and cool ways to play EQ from folks/vets that have been playing it for over two decades than I am interested in debating politics with other EQ players.

I can find more appropriate venues to do that.