Poll: Reopen Teal (Digital Social Distancing)

[Guesty07]

Teal was amazing

[Cjulies]

I voted yes. A server split would give some non-neck beards a chance to come up on some perma-camped mobs. I still go to work. Every day. When I get off, everything is and has been camped all day long. I play somewhat casually, so my 2-3 hours in the evening grind session becomes a "there's a 5 person list to get in-group" and 90% of em don't have to go to work so they can sit and wait the 2 hours to get into your typical xp groups. Yes, Norrath is pretty expansive. I guess in a couple of months once armageddon is over we will see a dip in population and some availability on mobs/camps/loots. Or better yet... Make a Crimson server... Fresh Start PVP with no lists... let the savages handle their business

[magnetaress]

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

I voted yes. A server split would give some non-neck beards a chance to come up on some perma-camped mobs. I still go to work. Every day. When I get off, everything is and has been camped all day long. I play somewhat casually, so my 2-3 hours in the evening grind session becomes a "there's a 5 person list to get in-group" and 90% of em don't have to go to work so they can sit and wait the 2 hours to get into your typical xp groups. Yes, Norrath is pretty expansive. I guess in a couple of months once armageddon is over we will see a dip in population and some availability on mobs/camps/loots. Or better yet... Make a Crimson server... Fresh Start PVP with no lists... let the savages handle their business

nods

[Bigsham]

teal will never re open

[Shaunathan]

The server is only half full. This still seems silly.

[BlackBellamy]

Teal was a bad idea gone worse. First it turned into an accommodation as an instance for pixel-hunting min-maxers who would have a breakdown if they couldn't get their favorite and most popular camp under the exact circumstances they wanted. Still crying about it. Second, Teal became a manastone and guise and rare drop factory for bored Green account-sharing boxers.

Frankly I don't care if they set up x number of servers with whatever lists or rules to your hearts desire. I wouldn't care if they made a perma-Teal. Go play and stay there! But to screw up the economy and community with some splits and merges which also dilute limited staff attention and support to accommodate a bunch of coddled whiners was just a bad idea. The management was so overcome with the feeling like oh look at all these people, wow we had no idea, it's very popular, and they decided to cater to everyone. Maybe they were afraid everyone would go home and the server would die. What they should have done is cut the population off at the knees. Either set a max pop and do queues or just let it thin itself out. I think that would have been a healthier community in the long run. Smaller...maybe, but better.

I gotta have this totally non-classic economy and history of instancing staining this forever, all for people who have most likely quit already anyway because they were slightly inconvenienced in some other way. And the ones who remain make insults about neckbeards, implying that people like me who can log on one of our characters and find something interesting to do in 10 minutes are somehow defective. Eat me. And afterwards go do your part in thinning the population by making love to the delete button.

[drackgon]

Lol "non-classic economy" I cant stop lauging whenever anyone mentions they want classic EQ.. Its gone, p99 is no where near classic. Get over it. Its not devs fault its not classic. Its the players. And personally Im glad heck I wish they'd make it less classic and change spawn timers. Totally like +/- windows. Shrink raid bosses 16 hour window down to 8, or 4.

P99 hasn't and won;t ever be classic. Unless they throttled everyone's Inet down to 56.6k speed. You realize how much inet speed effected the economy back then as it does today? Travel time is nothing like it was. Meaning People can farm stuff, get to raid bosses, and whatever they want Sooooo much faster.

[magnetaress]

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

Teal was a bad idea gone worse. First it turned into an accommodation as an instance for pixel-hunting min-maxers who would have a breakdown if they couldn't get their favorite and most popular camp under the exact circumstances they wanted. Still crying about it. Second, Teal became a manastone and guise and rare drop factory for bored Green account-sharing boxers.

Frankly I don't care if they set up x number of servers with whatever lists or rules to your hearts desire. I wouldn't care if they made a perma-Teal. Go play and stay there! But to screw up the economy and community with some splits and merges which also dilute limited staff attention and support to accommodate a bunch of coddled whiners was just a bad idea. The management was so overcome with the feeling like oh look at all these people, wow we had no idea, it's very popular, and they decided to cater to everyone. Maybe they were afraid everyone would go home and the server would die. What they should have done is cut the population off at the knees. Either set a max pop and do queues or just let it thin itself out. I think that would have been a healthier community in the long run. Smaller...maybe, but better.

I gotta have this totally non-classic economy and history of instancing staining this forever, all for people who have most likely quit already anyway because they were slightly inconvenienced in some other way. And the ones who remain make insults about neckbeards, implying that people like me who can log on one of our characters and find something interesting to do in 10 minutes are somehow defective. Eat me. And afterwards go do your part in thinning the population by making love to the delete button.

I have to agree with blackbellamy on this one she's got some really clever thoughts going on here and I mean that in a good way

[cd288]

Originally Posted by phr0stbyt3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everyone seems to be unhappy about the high population.

...until they spend 6 days playing ECQuest because nobody is selling low to mid level gear or farming the mats they need anymore.

1000+ is a good thing. Embrace it. You'll miss it when it's gone and bone chips are 20pp / stack.

For real. It was kind of funny when Teal was a thing because people asked for a split and then complained that they couldn't find anyone to buy their stuff lol

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

412 YES's and counting (over 70% of respondents.)

Over 13,000 views.

Almost 200 thread replies.

I think this merits a Dev response. I'd be happy to hear their reasoning for whatever they decide to do.

The reasoning for not having the split again is that Teal was designed to be an extremely temporary measure to reduce the overcrowding in the lowbie zones at Green launch (i.e. when we had 300+ people in each lowbie zone with people sitting camping single trash mob spawns). Once people leveled up and those zones became less crowded, they merged back because Teal had served it's purpose.

Teal was never designed as another server for high level players because you don't like having to wait in line for popular camps or wait for a spot to open up in a group in your 30s/40s. That's why it won't happen.

I'm always surprised by people asking for another server. You knew what classic was. You knew that pre-Kunark things are a bit top heavy and crowded because of the amount of content before the expansions came out. Yet you show up and complain about things being overcrowded even though the game has been around for decades and you knew what it would be.