Fewer quakes and impact on server population

[Salaryman]

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

Do you people actually play on the server, or just haunt the forums and offer gloomy points of view? Of course quakes bring people back to the server; they’re fun, there’s competition, and people can earn/spend their dkp. It gets people to log in, which has a cascading effect into the longer term. They then have to login to redo faction, recharge items, restock consumables. The point is that it stimulates activity and provides a focus and direction for many people who might be undecided or have other games competing for their attention

RED99

Your assumption is correct, these pve n00bs dont play. They sit in the comon tunels in full ntov with nothing to use their bis gear on and post in the forums.

The True Questers play on RED99

RED99

[TytosOfEight]

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

They're not getting money for running p99 so they don't care if you play it or not. They're also dedicated to running a mostly classic experience so they're not going to turn it in a loot piñata to attract new players.

Seems like you don't want to play classic EQ and that's alright.

So was it not classic last year when there was nearly 50% more quakes during the same time of year?

[Ghost_of_Fippy]

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

RED99

Im glad you n00bs are migrating to qarm or what ever that lame server is called

Then maybe the GMs can focus on things that really matter (PVP) instead of dealing with 2000000 elflawyer petitions about how someone stole your quilmane and you cant do anything about it because you are a coward who is afraid of PVP

RED99

You don't even have enough peeps logging into your sever during prime hours, for an Emperor Crush raid. That is why you spend all your time here on the forums trolling. No one over there to play with. ...LOL

[Goregasmic]

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

So was it not classic last year when there was nearly 50% more quakes during the same time of year?

Quakes didn't happen in classic. I think live saw a lot more server resets due to weekly maintenance, not sure how that worked on the raiding scene.

Live didn't have velious on farm status for 5 years though.

[TytosOfEight]

On my server on live, back in the day, server resets would occur weekly, sometimes twice weekly. So frequent quakes are very classic. But, you’re right about five years of Velious not being classic, and this speaks to my point. The way I see it, to keep this server active the GMs have to either:

1. Reset and release a new server, something I don’t particularly care about
2. Include some custom content like, for example, special epic-like quests that provide AAs and Luclin spells. And maybe some new zones from later expansions. This could be really fun
3. Expand the timeline and release Luclin
4. Or, include more quakes and fun events, such as limited access to legacy loot etc

I think 4 alone would do a lot for the server and would be easier to implement

[sajbert]

I don't see the point of adding Luclin or custom content to a server which set out to recreate a Classic experience. Nor do I see the devs having energy to bother with it and Luclin seems especially pointless now that Quarm's doing it.

If they don't plan on releasing another fresh server I think they should just add rotating Legacy content on the original release schedule meaning players given time will have another go at Firepots, Guise, Manastone, Beads and even Warder Loot. Sure, not exactly Classic but like you say, neither is 5 years of Velious. I think it would motivate players to return and start up more alts as well.

Whilst fresh may seem enticing it's also somewhat of a pain. On green people were struggling to find free camps just to kill a single mob every 6-12 minutes on repeat. The XP is crawling, many abilities are missing and class XP penalties are brutal.

[kissemisse]

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

I can't say I understand the lack of communication from the p1999 team. It's nothing new but it doesn't help.

I honestly just wish they'd tell is what's planned or what isn't.

This.
Just tell us.

[Duik]

DED99

Childish drivel about PVP (lulz) being important.

DED99

[Goregasmic]

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

I don't see the point of adding Luclin or custom content to a server which set out to recreate a Classic experience. Nor do I see the devs having energy to bother with it and Luclin seems especially pointless now that Quarm's doing it.

If they don't plan on releasing another fresh server I think they should just add rotating Legacy content on the original release schedule meaning players given time will have another go at Firepots, Guise, Manastone, Beads and even Warder Loot. Sure, not exactly Classic but like you say, neither is 5 years of Velious. I think it would motivate players to return and start up more alts as well.

Whilst fresh may seem enticing it's also somewhat of a pain. On green people were struggling to find free camps just to kill a single mob every 6-12 minutes on repeat. The XP is crawling, many abilities are missing and class XP penalties are brutal.

Yeah I could see them resetting sleeper's tomb every 2 years or whatever the original timeline is but that would probably be fun for like 1 day.

Cycling legacy content would be interesting, or making a quest for the more popular ones and making them no drop.

I think AAs is a bad idea (they'd never do it anyway) because it would further trivialize the actual content. Everyone is complaining about lack of grouping due to solo twinks, this will only make things worse. Honestly though, if you want non classic changes or new content I think people are just on the wrong server for that.

They made teal last time due to the overwhelming popularity of green at release, pretty sure they'd do the same this time around.

But honestly, they're already swamped with like 20 000+ petitions, I'm not sure they're ready for a new server on that front. Although 50% of those petitions are probably Salaryman asking why kelorek'dar drops 2 swords and no shield.

[Viscere]

just merge already tbh