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Anyone willing to hook a fellow pvp brother up? Starting brand new on the sever. Any love you can throw my way much appreciated. PM me.

Considering moving to red. Looking for honest answers to these questions: is there a board guild or a guild where board members have significant influence, for those starting fresh on the server is there leveling/gear help? Played enough EQ pvp to know that I don't want to start fresh on an...

I wonder if years from now we are going to look back and say to our kids 'I remember the days when you could just buy a game and play it out of the box without paying for anything else.' I'm really opposed to microtransactions and everything the are doing to the game industry. It may be...

This is precisely what they need to do. With server merges, it's not that hard to keep a rotation of 1 old server, 1 new server, merge, rinse, repeat. Would keep things fresh, fun, and would make content accessible to everyone (did not mean to make that rhyme).

The current server is very full and very stale now. They badly need to open another blue server. They could easily fill another, if not two other, blue servers with just the people that have quit because of stale content progression and a cockblocked raid scene. Just opening a new server...

Yes, I imagine that would be the most challenging aspect of the deal. They would need to double their cs staff and good volunteers are hard to find. Still, I hope they decide it's worth the effort to do so. I personally think it would be well worth it, but then I'm not the one doing the work...

There are so many good reasons for implementing a server like this. I can't imagine why they wouldn't. Even without an influx of people from a Velious launch, just the current numbers plus those who would come back for a fresh server would be enough to support a healthy but not overcrowded...

Hope springs eternal. The less we know about the project the more amazing (or catastrophic) it can remain in our heads.

Have they ever discussed opening a new pve server? I recently started again after having quit way back when the server first opened and man it is crowded. Not just named spawns, but lots of good exp spots too. When they open Velious I'm sure it will instantly become even more crowded. It...

If his gamedoeslook like WoW, it means he has learned nothing from the mistakes of numerous other copycat failures before this, and in that case I would be confident enough to stake money on his failure. I've said it before and I'll say it again- the next "successful" (tm) fantasy mmo needs...

In early TZ there was the same 'code'. I moved to SZ when it opened and the only code there was kill or be killed.

Anti-zerging measures should be built into the game as naturally and seamlessly as possible, as opposed to being addressed by hard mechanics such as strict time limits and raid number limits. This goes for just about every "solution" to typical mmo problems. Make itpracticallydifficult...

Can't agree more. I really can't emphasize enough how amazing EQs sounds were. Not just the music, but everything- ambient/environment (that hollow wind sound with the strange bird cries), footsteps, mob sounds, fighting sounds. One of the best was spell sounds. In EQ when you cast a spell...

any mention of pvp?

I'm convinced. Cleric it is. Thanks all for the input.

So you would go cleric or shammy over druid or pally even?

Yep, I've heard Pallys and chanters make a good duo. My friend has a 46 pally so I think the plan is to level a shammy and chanter from 1 to 46 then reassess if we want to continue with that combo or switch the shammy for the pally

Reason I ask is because my bud has a 60 druid and I'm trying to earn a little cash to buy gear to equip a chanter for myself. Going to duo the chanter with my friend up through the levels. Two follow up questions: first, any recommendations for a partner with the chanter? Druid would be my...

Anyone have any suggestions for the best way a 60 Druid can earn cash?

"Could easily have fixed" is a relative term. I can't speak for what happened after Sigil sold the IP, but prior to that the only resource management was willing (or able depending on how you want to look at it) to allocate for PVP was one programmer- part time. We only got that programmer...

Misuse how?

I'm having fun with the server at the moment. I'm still lower level, but it seems like the higher levels in my guild are frequently grouping to tackle tough content.

Ok, I was worried it would be too fast, but that's not bad. Not too long, not too fast. Is there a box limit?

Also I logged on briefly and saw several level 50's. Whats the average hour length to get to 50?

Only watched a few vids. This looks really cool. Unfortunately I have serious questions as to if this could ever create a mmo that had any significant depth. Looks better at creating junior RPGs, 3D jumpers, and side scrollers. I could be totally wrong- I'm sure I haven't seen the entire...

Don't buy it. I see where he's coming from, but if this was true, I'd be looking for turtle shells, mushrooms, and fire breathing plants in every game I played. Certainly your past experiences will color your future expectations, but most gamers have the ability to advance with the games they...

I could be wrong but I remember starting an Erudite necro in vanilla EQ and if I wasn't thrust immediately into darkness I was thrust into it pretty quick. In early EQ Erudite Necros had a trainer in the middle of Tox forest. If it was night when you generated your character, it was pretty...

I'll let someone else pull out the statistics, but I think your view is overly optimistic. We could argue about the definition of "failure" all day, I suppose. There are catastrophic failures, like 38 Studios, and then there are slow, lingering failures. I suppose if you want to set the bar...

For every thousand strikes at the leaves of evil, there is but one strike at the root. This is the root of many of the mmo industry's woes- sustainability (or lack thereof). People often cite the "leaves" of failed mmos- incomplete content, lack of polish, half-baked mechanics, and inability...

Sober up and then reread. You have mistaken him.

The competitive nature of mmo's drives vertical progression at the expense of lateral exploration; at the expense of everything really.

Whether they realize it or not, people want toearnheroic, they don't want to behandedheroic at the starting gate- otherwise, it's not heroic, it's just... standard.

Have they said if they are starting at Vanilla and opening the other expansions slowly? I might have to come out of retirement for this one.

Haven't played P1999 in some time but would be interested in a fresh P1999 pvp SZ style server. Is that what we are looking at and is there an ETA on when it will come up?

It's funny, I started in 99 on a pvp server and it was pretty standard practice to ask before inspecting. When I moved to a pve server people thought I was bizarre for asking to inspect, but it was habit by then. A lot of pve people didn't realize that randomly inspecting someone in early EQ...

Yes, I think our disagreement can be distilled down to your edit. Listen, I'm not suggesting that game devs do bizarre things that make no sense and needlessly jeopardize shareholder stake. I understand that there is a very necessary business end to this industry and you have to act...

I understand what you're saying and I really don't want to get into a protracted argument on the internet, but... I'm not arguing that players don't have "different expectations" or that certain elements of mmos haven't become "established" and I agree that the "reception to those ideas...will...

Sorry to double post, but I want to make this clear. I don't mean to deify EQs game designers. They had their faults like everyone else and they made their fair share of mistakes. But to dismiss the entire game as luck and coincidence is just foolish.

No doubt luck played a role in EQ- it plays a role in any great game. Lots of stars have to align for something like that to happen. It's also true that a fair amount of experimentation went into the game's creation. Frankly, the 'balls' I'm talking about largely have to do with the...

You've hit the nail on the head here. You've described exactly what?s wrong with the mmo genre. Things like ?genes? and ?expectations? are precisely what?s watered down the genre and what has allowed terrible design ideas to proliferate from failed game to failed game. ?Modern conveniences...