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

[clellaen]

I agree.

The attraction to blue is the lack of boxing for me personally. That's the upside over the Live prog servers, but the team here at p1999 needs to help this community out. Do you guys want money from us to expedite the pressure relief? I'm just confused why they would put this off with such a high demand.

[Grizzler]

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

please start a crowdsourcing effort or whatever it is you need to start a fresh Blue server ASAP and angels will sing.

Is there an official statement as to why we can't open another blue server asap? It's obvious to everyone (and everyone wants to play) that blue really is hard to deal with due to the population...

I think the question is, if they put out the new re99 server, won't most of the blue population, including raiders/neckbeards/large guilds whatever you wanna call them, join it too?

It's not like suddenly the servers will split the population. It will be most likely:

1.) Log on max toon on blue
2.) check faction/gear/quest camps
3.) If camp = open or raid = on then camp/raid else
a.) Log off blue
4.) Log on re99
5.) check camps
6.)If camp = open then camp else
a.) log off re99
7.)Return to 1

Never ending circle of blue losing most population unless specific raid or camp is ongoing otherwise everyone is on re99 and same issue over time. Not to mention if they do allow being logged on both servers at the same time, doesn't even matter then. The big guilds will be dual boxing on different servers and still make the same problem.

[Cecily]

Play multiple EQ servers gets old very quickly. If I'm on red, I have no desire to play blue and vice versa.

[clellaen]

Grizzler you are correct, but there needs to be a solution. I think the solution you discredit will do MUCH more to alleviate the pressure than you think...it can only help, correct? Is there another option for us who want to play but honestly can't?

[Asher]

I think it would be cool if they added some additional rules to the new server. I haven't completely thought this through but anything to reduce poopsocking, mudflation, asshat behaviour, and anything else that makes the mods lives hell would be great.

~ only a single toon allowed from a particular IP address
~ temporary lore and/or no drop on an item for X days after it is looted
~ Forced play nice policies with mobs calling who engaged them first (I think this has already been added)
~Get caught breaking the rules you are suspended, repeat offenders are perma-banned with no possibility of coming back.

Lets make this new server what p99 should have been.

Asher - Oracle

[loramin]

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

I think the question is, if they put out the new re99 server, won't most of the blue population, including raiders/neckbeards/large guilds whatever you wanna call them, join it too?

It's not like suddenly the servers will split the population.

Well sure some "neckbeards" will play the new server, but even so it the new server absolutely will split the population. You seem to forget: the recycle server won't have Velious. People here with multiple level 60s decked out in BiS gear who have waited years for Velious are not going to want to go play a level 10 in Blackburrow when they could be killing dragons and giants and Tunare and ...

[Donruss]

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

I have dreamed of playing classic Classic eq. Lol a lot of mithril 2h swords have to hit naggy for him to die I would imagine

[clellaen]

project1999 has the power to make the server(s) as great as humanly imaginable...

Maybe they just need some extra hands. Any volunteers? Lol

[Ezalor]

p99 in its current form should be treated as an extended beta test

classic/kunark content is pretty much 100% bug free at this point

they should release velious for 1-3 years, when it's 100% perfect, completely wipe the whole server

after that start the real p99 on a CLASSIC timeline with expansion released every few months as it was on live

[Asher]

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

project1999 has the power to make the server(s) as great as humanly imaginable...

Maybe they just need some extra hands. Any volunteers? Lol

I think they are more worried about p99 server tanking, which it will in my opinion. They still need people to test the various functions of Velious so Re99 will have a good working velious in a few years. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Asher - Oracle