Poll: Velious or Wipe?

[Freakish]

1500 person Lguk lines.

[DarkwingDuck]

you JUST started two months ago? and opposed to a wipe, thats crazy, 5 years behind on a grind fest game hehe.

Wipe it! ill lose 15 chars.. i dont care.. lets all start over together! with velious!

Antonica+kunark+ Velious , fresh, yum

[Cecily]

Wipe it clean.

[GnashingOfTeeth]

I used to say never, but 3 years of fester with kunark, mq, etc, has me thinking a wipe would be good.

[Axlrose]

A similar proposal has been mentioned for Eve Online over the years, yet the server remains "current".

Wiping the server clean would cause (in my opinion) four groups of players.

- The hardcore, "no lifers" would know every ~exploit~, secret, and trick to position themselves at the top of the food chain. This group would most likely have the most alts to cock block other players from gaining the higher end "phat lewt" as they farm away, zerging through zones.

- The next group of players would be those following behind the above mentioned group, accepting the table scraps while looking for an edge to get into that group. This group would become the next farmers of "phat lewt" once the hardcore players moved onward to bigger and better treasures.

- The next group would be the weekend warrior types that would get to play hardcore during extended down times in real life, but very little otherwise. These players would obtain "phat lewt" from either of the two above mentioned groups, but would not have the means, much less the numbers, to obtain these pieces themselves. This group's claim to fame would be to raid mobs the above two groups farmed weeks, if not months earlier.

- The last group would be the casual of the casual players. This group has made slow, but steady progress with their own personal goals. While a server wipe would initially limit their areas of fun, over time they would find areas open. Whether players in other groups mentioned above would have alts to interact with these casual players is questionable.

Personally, I would not want to see a server wipe since I see myself in the last category. The progress I have made (which amounts to not much compared to most players here) would have felt like a waste of time. I really would have to consider signing up to start again. And while I can not speak for others, I feel other players would have similar thoughts.

Just my thoughts.

[Cecily]

Pretty much. Nothing would change in the relative order of things, besides a large number of people would quit and we'd have a blank slate for gear. Casuals would get hurt more than anyone by a wipe.

[Daldaen]

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

Pretty much. Nothing would change in the relative order of things, besides a large number of people would quit and we'd have a blank slate for gear. Casuals would get hurt more than anyone by a wipe.

This.

Those of you who think a wipe will get you a Manastone or Guise, no. You'll just see one guy camp it for 12 hours, hand off camp to a guildmate for 12 hours. And repeat. Until it's removed.

Neckbeards will neckbeard and casuals will casual.

But it would be worth it if we moved to an older client which has far more classic UI restrictions and less mod-ability.

[Tulnavara]

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

Grouped in MM today we had an epic rogue who turned into a haste snob... apparently rogue haste + bard song + augmentation isn't enough haste... clicked his aug off in disgust and demanded the alacrity/celerity line when i was low mana.

Wipe it, for god's sake wipe it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not good enough to be at haste cap, gotta be way over it.

[HalflingWarrior]

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

Just a fun thought.

If the gods gave us the choice of having Velious launch tomorrow, or for a complete server wipe and start at Vanilla day 1 and have the timeline progress naturally (no 3 year gap between Kunark and Velious), which would you choose?

3 years? Its actually four and a half years LMAO.

Nice "classic" server ya got tharr

[HalflingWarrior]

All we need is a 2nd, new, blue server. They'll NEVER do a wipe so we need to compromise here.

A NEW BLUE MEANS A NEW YOU!!!!!