"Recycle Server" please sooner than "months into velious"!!

[Ivory]

Can you please please add the recycle blue server before velious comes out?

You are going to advance it at a slow rate anyway.... so why wait months into velious?

Lots of us have been dying to start on a fresh server, but now knowing it is coming 4+ months away just kills any desire to play normal blue.

[wormed]

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

Can you please please add the recycle blue server before velious comes out?

You are going to advance it at a slow rate anyway.... so why wait months into velious?

Lots of us have been dying to start on a fresh server, but now knowing it is coming 4+ months away just kills any desire to play normal blue.

I'm pretty sure they said once they're very deep into Velious. 4 months, where'd you pick that up? Sounds like they'll release Velious and I wouldn't expect something like the Recycle server until next year, at least.

[cornisthebest]

there's also lots of us who dread a server wipe.

[Ivory]

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

there's also lots of us who dread a server wipe.

It isn't a server wipe. They are opening a 2nd blue server starting before velious and progressing normally. Then after velious is out a while, they merge it with the normal blue server and start it again.

[EQJubilee]

They said that they will launch another blue server deeper into Velious. I'm not sure if this is a pure blue server or they were referring to the recycle blue server they had mentioned earlier in the stream.

I think they don't want to mess with anything until Velious is launched and they are sure it's working fine. But I'm all for a second Blue server, or the recycle blue server.

The recycle server will have a lifespan of several years anyway, plenty of time to accomplish everything you want in game.

Also there won't be a server wipe, the blue toons on a recycle server will be moved over to the static blue server on a wipe....no mention of how they will handle duplicate toon names, however.

[TrendyDru]

I didn't catch the stream. Please explain the difference between a new blue server, a wiped server, and a "recycled" server?

[Malsirian]

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

I didn't catch the stream. Please explain the difference between a new blue server, a wiped server, and a "recycled" server?

First of all Nilbog (I believe. One of the devs anyway) confirmed that they will NEVER wipe the existing servers. Unless it's been specifically stated before hand that there will someday be a wipe (i.e., the Discord Server) there will not be a wipe. So, all characters on blue and red will always be there.

The recycled server they are talking about is a brand new progression server starting with original EQ, then Kunark and eventually Velious all released at similar intervals of time as they were originally. Sometime, waaaaay down the road, once Velious has been out a while, the characters on that new progression server would be transferred onto the original blue server and they would launch another fresh server again starting at original EQ. Starting the whole cycle over again. Currently the only time frame expectation they gave us for that progression server is "well into Velious" - that could mean anything. I'm not expecting it anytime soon. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Would donations specifically for a progression server help? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


FWIW, I'm all for it! I would love to start on a brand new server and work through the expansions. So, put down another vote to launch that asap.

[Rekrul]

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

I would love to start on a brand new server and work through the expansions. So, put down another vote to launch that asap.

Same here, but for red. Even if there is only 50 of us playing classic it will still be more fun and more pvp then the current red.

[Doctor Jeff]

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

I didn't catch the stream. Please explain the difference between a new blue server, a wiped server, and a "recycled" server?

Okay, you didn't watch the stream but did you read the thread you posted in?

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

It isn't a server wipe. They are opening a 2nd blue server starting before velious and progressing normally. Then after velious is out a while, they merge it with the normal blue server and start it again.

[Rec]

Can't destroy the live progression server if they launch it now