Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

[ashentco]

is anyone going to group with (let me leech exp) my rogue in classic while I have no gear and no weapons just so I can wait 6 months for Kunark

[rhold]

I guess I am not as nostalgic as most to go thru all of the phases as I wasn't at the tip of the curve ever. The vast, vast majority of players have never had Legacy items on Live or P99.

I would think that just releasing it at the end of it's incarnation to start with would draw the most people.

9 months wait from release to be an Iksar. 27 month wait to be a Vah Shir or a Beastlord.

I don't understand the purpose of holding content back just to hold it back.

[ashentco]

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

I guess I am not as nostalgic as most to go thru all of the phases as I wasn't at the tip of the curve ever. The vast, vast majority of players have never had Legacy items on Live or P99.

I would think that just releasing it at the end of it's incarnation to start with would draw the most people.

9 months wait from release to be an Iksar. 27 month wait to be a Vah Shir or a Beastlord.

I don't understand the purpose of holding content back just to hold it back.

It isn't just to hold back content.. it's just that the eras are followed on a progression project like this. You want Vah Shir to be coded to start in Qeynos or something? Iksar to pop out of Grobb just because?

I personally don't think that would bother me that much, but it is completely silly. I do know that Maze made a project a few years ago where Kunark was going to come out in 3 months or whatever, so no one wanted to reroll immediately so he allowed Iksar to come out of Grobb and it worked out fine, I don't think anyone minded that much. But it's just part of classic eq, these races didn't exist yet.

It's even more complicated talking about Beastlords. There's no spell vendors or anything set up for that, not to mention balance. They come out in Luclin, you gotta wait.

[rhold]

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

It isn't just to hold back content.. it's just that the eras are followed on a progression project like this.

I understand the progression concept. P99 blue finished it's progression 8 and a half years ago. I would wager that a large portion of those playing now started playing after the progression had already ended.

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

You want Vah Shir to be coded to start in Qeynos or something? Iksar to pop out of Grobb just because?

No. It's not about what I want. It was a discussion on releasing all content at once instead of waiting until 2026 for the release of PoP.

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

I personally don't think that would bother me that much, but it is completely silly. I do know that Maze made a project a few years ago where Kunark was going to come out in 3 months or whatever, so no one wanted to reroll immediately so he allowed Iksar to come out of Grobb and it worked out fine, I don't think anyone minded that much. But it's just part of classic eq, these races didn't exist yet.

I wasn't advocating for changing any of the content.

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

It's even more complicated talking about Beastlords. There's no spell vendors or anything set up for that, not to mention balance. They come out in Luclin, you gotta wait.

Right. And my question basically was: What is gained by arbitrarily holding back content vs just releasing it all?