Official Green Server Thread - October 2019

[Ketchi]

I may have missed this, but will Green mean that Blue is shutting down? I would hate to start playing now just to have to start over again in a few months

[Evia]

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

I may have missed this, but will Green mean that Blue is shutting down? I would hate to start playing now just to have to start over again in a few months

No blue wont shut down because of green.

[Ketchi]

Thank you

[Khaleesi]

Ten years(plus pre release development and conceptual time) of a project in the making, casually informed that it's releasing in several months via an unprofessionally titled thread by Rogean that contains a teaser graphic and no actual details?
Where is the official release thread that the advertisement on the Project 1999 home page should be pointing to?

The thread would contains answer to such things as :


What is the actual plan, purpose and vision of the server?
Will there be any mechanics changes? Including a server wipe - if so, what exactly?
Different restrictions/less restrictions?
Expecting to follow the timeline to the exact dates?
Lessons learned from Blue?

Testing?
Velious(an expansion) had plenty of months of testing and yet Green(an entire server) is announced quite suddenly with no mention of whether it's being tested, was tested.
Is it still needing testing, how do people sign up?
Assuming we have roughly two thousand people elbowing each other to get in simultaneously, you'd want to make sure things work first. Which leads onto ..

Will there be early access or a staggered rollout?
If yes to the above, what dates, times and how is it deployed - whom gets in first?

Are there character creation limits to slow down the name reserving, Alt creation and general character spam that affects login servers and newbie areas?
One character creation per hour would solve the above

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

.....The launch of blue was incredible, and honestly the people that were playing were (for the most part) awesome people. Everyone was pretty good at letting people experience things and get loot.

You're about to witness an event more wanton than Walmart at 6am on the day after Christmas in Baltimore.

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

...in the frenzy that will be Green?

Oh "frenzy" is putting it mildly.

[Khaleesi]

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

Ten years(plus pre release development and conceptual time) of a project in the making, casually informed that it's releasing in several months via an unprofessionally titled thread by Rogean that contains a teaser graphic and no actual details?
Where is the official release thread that the advertisement on the Project 1999 home page should be pointing to?

The thread would contains answer to such things as :


What is the actual plan, purpose and vision of the server?
Will there be any mechanics changes? Including a server wipe - if so, what exactly?
Different restrictions/less restrictions?
Expecting to follow the timeline to the exact dates?
Lessons learned from Blue?

Testing?
Velious(an expansion) had plenty of months of testing and yet Green(an entire server) is announced quite suddenly with no mention of whether it's being tested, was tested.
Is it still needing testing, how do people sign up?
Assuming we have roughly two thousand people elbowing each other to get in simultaneously, you'd want to make sure things work first. Which leads onto ..

Will there be early access or a staggered rollout?
If yes to the above, what dates, times and how is it deployed - whom gets in first?

Are there character creation limits to slow down the name reserving, Alt creation and general character spam that affects login servers and newbie areas?
One character creation per hour would solve the above






You're about to witness an event more wanton than Walmart at 6am on the day after Christmas in Baltimore.



Oh "frenzy" is putting it mildly.

Let's quote myself and add :


What in the world is happening with Raid rules?
Complete FFA
Rotation
PVP enabled in certain zones
FTE

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Will people still not be allowed to be in zone with a contested mob past an invisible line?
How many trackers allowed? When, where?

And most importantly above all else.. is someone going to finally give Wedar his due and actually make sure the Hole zone is done properly this time?

[loramin]

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

Testing?
Velious(an expansion) had plenty of months of testing and yet Green(an entire server) is announced quite suddenly with no mention of whether it's being tested, was tested.
Is it still needing testing, how do people sign up?
Assuming we have roughly two thousand people elbowing each other to get in simultaneously, you'd want to make sure things work first. Which leads onto ..

Green has been tested, heavily, for about a decade: it's called Blue (aka the "Beta Green" server) ... or at least its content has.

The "hoops" that Rogean has to jump through to release a new server have also been tested (eg. in addition to Blue and Red he brought up a whole separate Velious test server before Velious was released), so really I doubt there's much need for testing on any level.

Basically, for ten years everything the P99 team has been doing has pretty much been just building towards Green.

[Khaleesi]

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

Green has been tested, or at least its content has.

Content only aside, it's been tested on Blue, not Green.
If you're suggesting they'll merely copy across the server, they can't because it's not pre Kunark.
And if you then think they can fire up only a pre Kunark era version of Blue, wrong again because it's mechanics are different.

It's not like they can simply 'turn off' the expansions and call it a day.

What are the odds they just happen to have a Classic era build waiting in the wings that's all fixed and ready to roll that they said nothing about until five months before it's meant to launch?
And outside of content, there's far more to it than that.

Anyways, that's the one of the lesser concerns. The other aspects are glaring and not addressed, especially about Rygarr.

[Llandris]

From what sir nilbog has told me, content is preset to "switch on" so to say once we reach that point in the timeline. Every single patch is ready to go and will be available once that expansion or timeline related content is reached. Vanilla will truly be vanilla with no QoL options available as it was in 2009. NPCs will be as they were (or as close as possible) to what it was in 1999. What do you think they have been doing for 10 years? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Edit - Oh, and I'm sure there will be more detailed information once we get closer and Rogean feels its ready. It's a teaser, and clearly it teased you

[Nuggie]

It did. Need Green forums, mate. The amount of green on blue is big.

[Jibartik]

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

From what sir nilbog has told me, content is preset to "switch on" so to say once we reach that point in the timeline. Every single patch is ready to go and will be available once that expansion or timeline related content is reached. Vanilla will truly be vanilla with no QoL options available as it was in 2009. NPCs will be as they were (or as close as possible) to what it was in 1999. What do you think they have been doing for 10 years? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Edit - Oh, and I'm sure there will be more detailed information once we get closer and Rogean feels its ready. It's a teaser, and clearly it teased you

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