EQ TLP 2025 Fangbreaker Expanded Start Resource Hunter Legacy Characters Encounter Locking

yerm said:

You'll have pure shit like rf/lj unlocks winning with 22% or whatever because the majority of players who don't want that are split 8 other ways.

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Also known as "The Marine Le Pen"

Greyman said:

Lethar looks interesting to me.

TSS start I've always thought would be a good TLP to play on. I've done enough Unrest and Lower Guk to last me a lifetime, let me level in the new zones and pick up gear and augs as I go. It's also not TOO far in that people get overwhelmed by all the buttons, eg Miragul.

Personal loot sounds interesting too (pending details on implementation).

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I've been wanting a Lethar server (TSS start) for ages, just to see what it's like having a whole server level from 1 largely in TSS zones. It's the only expansion with zones from level 1 onward that has never actually had a server start in it specifically. Closest thing was probably Miragul server (HoT start) but it doesn't really count. Besides, the only people who played on that server were a guild that got run off of Phinny.

My other idea was a Kerafyrm Event Server that runs from TSS to SOF over 3 months or something and functions like the old Quarm slugfest (that server probably should have been called Mata Muram, come to think of it)

Most of the posted ideas on the live boards are pretty bad, they break up some choices into too many sub-choices, and there's some serious vote-splitting going on for reasons people have pointed out already.

Eh, at this point I'm checked out of any future TLPs anyway, I'm too beat-up and grizzled to do the rigamarole all over again.

Tuco said:

Haven't seen this announcement posted in this thread about the polls for Frostreaver:

https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-2026-tlp-polls

The bit about Lethar having Personal Loot is interesting. I'm guessing it's just a chance for loot to drop that only you can roll on or pass on, which is.... fine.

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Lethar and Frostreaver should have their release dates swapped so Lethar is up first. That one is going to be more of a curiosity for people who want to see how a TSS server goes out of the gate (for the first few weeks) and try some new leveling routes they've never done before. Not sure if it'll really last or draw a big crowd, given that anyone who wants to spend time in TSS/TBS/SOF is already on Teek doing just that.

Having Lethar be the first one up would give it a better fighting chance at drawing a bigger crowd that more of will stick around. Putting out Frostreaver first, which will likely end up being a Teek-like Uberserver, will just ensure that the normal TLP crowd rolls on there and is too busy for Lethar when it rolls around. No matter what order they're in, Frostreaver is going to upstage Lethar on population pretty hard, so Lethar going first would at least give it a shot at doing well.

Korzax Stonehammer said:

The problem they have is the later the expansion they start on, the longer the wait till the next expansion. Right now the option that is 'winning' the poll is velious start with 18 weeks till luclin and then another 18 weeks till pop.

Did they learn nothing?

It's basically 4 terrible options, and you get to choose.

They keep forgetting the 5th option: We don't play.

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It's idiotic and I'm not sure why they're doing it like that. So basically, PoP has to end exactly a year after the server launch no matter what, so the unlocks have to be adjusted to make sure that happens? Kinda confirms the "planned obsolescence" conspiracy theories about the PoP die-off being engineered (via dragging it out so much) just in time for the next TLP every year.

Velious launch makes the most sense (Frostreaver's a good name for it too) but WTF's with the unlocks?

And all the cadence votes are only for AFTER PoP. As I was afraid of. No adjustments to that first year. It's etched in stone, damnit! You'll take your extra month of LDON and like it! And then the fraction of the population that doesn't jump to the next TLP can have whatever cadence they want after that, whatever.

Edit: How is there no poll option to consolidate PoP and LDON? They're really preserving the sanctity of that die-off.

Arbitrary said:

I get that the results are tied to the options presented but who the fuck wants to do ToV and AoW from the end of May in to October? Finish that up and it's 18 months of Luclin? Do their internals tell them that every TLP must be right around Gates of Discord the following May to encourage maximum recycling?

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It appears to be exactly that, yes.

DoDH and PoR finally being combined is good (except for people who have to beat both in one launch). It's possible that a better solution might be to have the OOW/DON and DODH/POR consolidations be one week later instead of simultaneous unlocks. This would go for TSS/TBS doubly so (not that it's up for vote) since Solteris is such a blow to TSS's raids.

A big-brain play would be combining LoY with Luclin, or even earlier.

Korzax Stonehammer said:

The problem they have is the later the expansion they start on, the longer the wait till the next expansion. Right now the option that is 'winning' the poll is velious start with 18 weeks till luclin and then another 18 weeks till pop.

Did they learn nothing?

It's basically 4 terrible options, and you get to choose.

They keep forgetting the 5th option: We don't play.

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I just got off the phone with JChan, she said that Zaide came up with all the poll options for https://forums.everquest.com/index....ld-be-available-when-the-server-opens.307832/