Your hopes for green

[Jibartik]

^^A completely great goal.

Im gonna say something controversal but Im really hoping for Blue dumps after a server cycle ends. I think it'd be nice to toss a character like a woodelf ranger with a guise onto it, to presumably play 3 or 5 years from now, just gearing up for fun.

Knowing I could always have the "long term goals" server, while also having a wide variety of green/purples/golds/russets/idkwhatever servers to play on (or not maybe Ill skip one that Im not a fan of and Ill put in some time working on my little darkelf ranger.) Seems like a really cool future for p99 to me.

idk, those are my hopes for green+ But I'm perfectly happy with whatever too.

[Frudrura]

Do my best to have fun until Velious. I am guessing when Velious comes, I will have fun no longer because I feel I have mostly done the things that I wanted to do at this point and I really don't care to try it all over again. I am interested though in the Vanilla experience and I have always liked Kunark.

[karekiz]

Easy.

When sleeper awakes, then server shuts down and resets next day.

Your characters life is now in the hands of raid guilds. They can either let him sleep and keep the current server alive, or wake him and kill everyone's character and reboot back to Classic for another go. For added fun Sleepers becomes PvP enabled zone.

[Nisrak]

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

Easy.

When sleeper awakes, then server shuts down and resets next day.

Your characters life is now in the hands of raid guilds. They can either let him sleep and keep the current server alive, or wake him and kill everyone's character and reboot back to Classic for another go. For added fun Sleepers becomes PvP enabled zone.

This is a great idea! Also fits with the storyline where the Sleeper just kills everyone and destroys the world.

[Lammy]

It would be neat to get some ZEM in some of the less popular exping zones.

[Halfcell]

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

Easy.

When sleeper awakes, then server shuts down and resets next day.

Your characters life is now in the hands of raid guilds. They can either let him sleep and keep the current server alive, or wake him and kill everyone's character and reboot back to Classic for another go. For added fun Sleepers becomes PvP enabled zone.

This is a terrible idea. Top guilds will just race the be the ones who kill the server. It's not like Velious is new, or like the players who will kill in ST to start with will be new to the zones and looking forward to killing their first warders. It would just turn Velious into a race to burn the server down for bragging rights.

[Jimjam]

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

This is a great idea! Also fits with the storyline where the Sleeper just kills everyone and destroys the world.

But not if we can escape his wrath by hiding on, say, the moon!

[StocktonRZ]

To answer a whole lot of posts that did not include any questions:

EQ PvP worked reasonably well on Live servers before the merge of the Zeks, and for a while afterward.

There were always lots of balance issues, and the merging of the servers killed the distinct engagement rules each server had, leading to a more Quake-arena type of environment, definitely not good for server population in the long term.

But every class was either viable in SOME solo PvP situations and/or SOME group PvP situations, and as long as there were good guilds to join, people had teams of a sort to side with.

OoW/DoDH/PoR was probably the last era when PvP encounters had reasonable durations. TSS/TBS was probably the last era when they were remotely enjoyable. After that, too many classes could be too easily one-rounded by too many other classes. The increasing proliferation of pre-compiled hack programs was a serious nail in the coffin, too.

It's not clear to me that Red99 ever had a non-antisocial phase. We are talking about a server where the best guild was banned for a very stupid troll gesture.

[Tenderizer]

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

Easy.

When sleeper awakes, then server shuts down and resets next day.

Your characters life is now in the hands of raid guilds. They can either let him sleep and keep the current server alive, or wake him and kill everyone's character and reboot back to Classic for another go. For added fun Sleepers becomes PvP enabled zone.

this would spice things up. to wipe or not to wipe its all in the hands of the players..

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

This is a great idea! Also fits with the storyline where the Sleeper just kills everyone and destroys the world.

maybe some guilds would defend the sleeper?

[Warling]

Something more then just a reboot of blue would be cool. If not it might as well not exist because, well, I already did it.