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It's early and I didn't look at all of them but

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most of the results thus far are reasonable. People want a Velious start with free trade and no item requirements with faster unlocks post Planes of Power.

If we're just reheating leftovers you could do a lot worse.
 

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It's early and I didn't look at all of them but

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most of the results thus far are reasonable. People want a Velious start with free trade and no item requirements with faster unlocks post Planes of Power.

If we're just reheating leftovers you could do a lot worse.

18 weeks of Velious though.... the first option would be the best if they only had classic at 4-6 weeks instead 12. We have not had a server with 12 weeks of classic since mangler or aradune which no one wants.
 

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18 weeks of Velious though.... the first option would be the best if they only had classic at 4-6 weeks instead 12. We have not had a server with 12 weeks of classic since mangler or aradune which no one wants.
Yeah they should take another stab at this poll: https://forums.everquest.com/index....ld-be-available-when-the-server-opens.307832/

I wouldn't mind seeing two rounds, where the first poll simply has a list of all feasible expansions to start in (including TSS!), and then there is a subsequent poll for the duration of each unlock.
 

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TSS seems like it would be fun with other people starting at the same time
I went back for a bit when SoF launched on live. TSS was absolutely great to explore. Would recommend. And everything in SoF and SoD was awesome. There's that too.
 

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I am only curious what the lethar thing will be. What is personal loot to them(hopefully not just a copy of WoW).

But a TSS start and launching months later from the usual time and alone. That's at least different, so maybe the person loot thing will be something new too. Rather have them try new things then just keep repeating the same shit every other year, even if it fails.
 

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


We have been listening to your feedback and suggestions and have decided to create some polls of some of the rulesets you all have said you enjoy for our first Time-Locked Progression server of 2026!

Our first TLP, Frostreaver, will open in May and will have a ruleset voted on by you! We will be making a polling forum where we will post several polls on a select number of rules, so you all can collectively decide what you all think the best choices are for Frostreaver.

We expect all forum guidelines to be followed in these threads; attacks or insults to others for their vote will not be tolerated. We do encourage healthy debate; you never know when a point you make will draw someone to your side. To that point, we will be allowing you to change your vote until the poll closes. Each poll will remain open for one month, at which time the final votes will be a determining factor in that ruleset being chosen or not.

If incompatible server rulesets are chosen, we will have a re-polling to pit them against one another in a follow-up poll to see which is more viable. An example of incompatible rulesets would be PvP and Encounter Locking. We will add a reminder note in threads that have a chance of being incompatible with another ruleset up for polling.

Polling will begin in the forums, which can be accessed at https://everquest.com/vote, starting NOW and will continue until January 15, 2026, at 12:00 P.M. (noon) PT. You will need to have an active and valid membership to vote in these polls. Please be sure to log out and back into the forums prior to this date to ensure you can see these new forums once they go live.

Our second TLP, Lethar, will open in The Serpent’s Spine and have a new ruleset we call Personal Loot. We will have more information on this server when it gets closer to launch. This server is set to open in August.

We are excited about this collaboration with you all in determining the ruleset for our May TLP!


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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WoW style personal loot where you check a box for the kind of shit you want and sometimes you get it would be good fun in EQ and by fun I mean infinite drama. Which would also be fun.

Something that occurred to me when I was thinking about free trade Velious start was how much the boxer/RMT community could push different polls towards things that would be good for them like a Velious start free trade server.
 

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WoW style personal loot where you check a box for the kind of shit you want and sometimes you get it would be good fun in EQ and by fun I mean infinite drama. Which would also be fun.

Something that occurred to me when I was thinking about free trade Velious start was how much the boxer/RMT community could push different polls towards things that would be good for them like a Velious start free trade server.

Wouldn't shock me the majority of voters are the krono lords. Outside the regular players that care to visit their forums(and its probably a small % that do), they would be the most that care about server types and the best way to make money from it. And they have an army of accounts to do it with.
 

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Wouldn't shock me the majority of voters are the krono lords. Outside the regular players that care to visit their forums(and its probably a small % that do), they would be the most that care about server types and the best way to make money from it. And they have an army of accounts to do it with.
Its interesting because the people who make mq, redguides, mmobugs want no truebox on the next tlp server. Live is dying and tlp is the only way for them to get and keep new subscribers. As any server without truebox on it will be allowed to run macroquest on it. (its still not allowed by dpg of course though.
 

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I want to know what this personal loot is. Everything else just looks status quo.
 
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Cinge

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I want to know what this personal loot is. Everything else just looks status quo.

I want it to be something new, but honestly expectations is just what wow had for a bit. Seems odd though to start in TSS and in august, months after first one. So maybe something interesting, why else go this route.
 
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Every poll that is the format of "Should <X Thing> be <Harder / Normal / Easier>" has the polls overwhelmingly favoring easier:

Disabled Level Reqs: 82% yes
Exp Gain Speed: 70% fastest(Live exp)
Early Focus Effects: 88% yes
Free Trade: 81% yes
Resource Bonuses: 87% yes
Evolving Bonuses: 89% yes

I just can't wait for DBG to look at all this and go: "Ohhh I see, they want a standard truebox TLP with no bonuses and 12 week unlock times".
 
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We will get the most amazing ruleset ever devised with everything we could dream of, but, one either change or embellishment that ruins it. A year of pop ("we understand the mistake we made locking to luclin for a year and have fixed it") or an sod start ("so you can have mercs its the only way") or pvp, whatever. I hope I'm wrong but we'll see.
 

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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.