Promoting Project 1999! - Page 2

thxer · #1 07-21-2010, 01:15 AM

I've been tempted to post this on my old guild forums to get some inactive players here with me. The guild is still raiding pretty well and have a section for the old timers who no longer play. Is it bad taste to post this on a guild forum with active players on Live? And if not, is it bad mojo to promote an emu server on the forums of a Live guild?

Rael · #2 07-21-2010, 05:18 AM

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I've been tempted to post this on my old guild forums to get some inactive players here with me. The guild is still raiding pretty well and have a section for the old timers who no longer play. Is it bad taste to post this on a guild forum with active players on Live? And if not, is it bad mojo to promote an emu server on the forums of a Live guild?

Not really. Say you raid 3 times a week, that still leaves a lot of time to play other games/servers. Plus they're already paying their subscription to SOE so there's nothing unethical about that.

Malrubius · #3 07-21-2010, 09:53 AM

I expect P1999 will hit 1k (online) soon after the summer winds down. Then Kunark will simply blow the doors off of this thing.

2k within a year would not surprise me in the least. Keep spreadin' the word.

Straif · #4 07-21-2010, 10:25 AM

I'm kind of conflicted about this.

I love P99. I've come to accept the community as it is: with tons of awesome and helpful people and even the handful of douche bags.

My first thought is, a boisterous community would improve the overall classic experience.

On the other hand, with all the end game drama, high end guild bitching, and clashes in general that typically come with all MMO's do I really want an influx of people? I'm not sure what the reaction would be if more people got word of this emulator. The comforting thought is that classic era kept alot of the kiddy bullshit you typically find in today's ez-mode MMO's at bay. But that doesn't mean everyone signing up is going to be a model player and a champion of EQ ethics.

Live had multiple servers, we have one. Double the average game population and realize there is only contested content that's usually squashed shortly after it spawns. Some servers on live (Prexus did anyway) had a community of high end guilds come together to make a rotation list for raid encounters. I highly doubt that will happen if there were more high end guilds to be built. It'll be a FCFS rage fest.

This is just a thought I had. I can't see into the future or predict what will happen but I like this server enough that I've actually begun to care about the community and the people who work hard to run it. Which never ever happened on Live. lol

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Overcast · #5 07-21-2010, 10:35 AM

But if enough were to join - and donate, perhaps another server could 'follow' this one on progression. One at Kunark halfway to Velious and another just starting 'classic' again. Who knows?

I told a friend about it yesterday and he's playing now as well. I see the population swelling everyday.

Yesterday, I told someone how to use a /corpse button to pull a corpse to them - so not all are EQ vets, for sure.

dallammarr · #6 07-21-2010, 11:26 AM

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But if enough were to join - and donate, perhaps another server could 'follow' this one on progression. One at Kunark halfway to Velious and another just starting 'classic' again. Who knows?

I don't remember which dev said it and it what thread, but I could have sworn one said that once this server hits Velious, that they would most likey start a new server starting all the way back at classic to go through the progression again. So you essentially would have to start all over again from scratch to play on the new server. Can any devs confirm this? I cant find the thread/post.

guineapig · #7 07-21-2010, 11:32 AM

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I don't remember which dev said it and it what thread, but I could have sworn one said that once this server hits Velious, that they would most likey start a new server starting all the way back at classic to go through the progression again. So you essentially would have to start all over again from scratch to play on the new server. Can any devs confirm this? I cant find the thread/post.

I'll look for it later but it wasn't a "likely" event, simply an option. One of many.
They basically can go by anything they want to and are free to change their minds at any time. So even if they did word it differently I wouldn't worry too much about something that would not happen for at least anther 2 years.

Dantes · #8 07-21-2010, 10:45 AM

2k population? Guk, Unrest, and Mistmoore are already crowded as it is. Raid mobs die almost instantly after they pop. Why does everybody think we need 2,000 people on this server? It sounds to me like more hassle (server load) and harder to find groups.

Malrubius · #9 07-21-2010, 10:50 AM

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2k population? Guk, Unrest, and Mistmoore are already crowded as it is. Raid mobs die almost instantly after they pop. Why does everybody think we need 2,000 people on this server? It sounds to me like more hassle (server load) and harder to find groups.

Kunark

shadesofjoe · #10 07-21-2010, 10:51 AM

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2k population? Guk, Unrest, and Mistmoore are already crowded as it is. Raid mobs die almost instantly after they pop. Why does everybody think we need 2,000 people on this server? It sounds to me like more hassle (server load) and harder to find groups.

That won't be the case once the new continents open up.