New Progression Server confirmed
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Antilles
Idiot Savaunt
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"Players who want a set ofcobaltarmor when they reach level 40 will have to get it made!". Err, what?
I'm sure they meant to say Crafted, which is still funny given we all know it isn't player crafted. So really... did this person ever play the damn game?
How much of a lead time do you even have to give people for that change? 1-2 months? That's not something you can spring on the population. Krono value drops so much if they limit it also.
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No way they limit boxing to one machine, or limit Krono's. That directly affects their pocket books.
And no way does the author of that article actually play EQ, are any of their writers any decent at MMOs really? lol
Ps. Also at the point now with the TLP where I would be completely ok with instancing. I don't quite wanna put in the time to be in a legitimate current raid guild, and after hitting 50 there is only so many low level alts you can gear the hell out of before the game. I know some people are against the instancing idea (and in immediate theory I was as well), but I would love to in some fashion be in a guild and hop on two days a week and kill shit.
Interested to see what happens either way.
And no way does the author of that article actually play EQ, are any of their writers any decent at MMOs really? lol
Ps. Also at the point now with the TLP where I would be completely ok with instancing. I don't quite wanna put in the time to be in a legitimate current raid guild, and after hitting 50 there is only so many low level alts you can gear the hell out of before the game. I know some people are against the instancing idea (and in immediate theory I was as well), but I would love to in some fashion be in a guild and hop on two days a week and kill shit.
Interested to see what happens either way.
There is literally zero strategy involved in any EQ Raid encounter until you hit Velious at best.
Jysin
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Just thinking about the wording of "1 per machine". There are easy work arounds for this, if it is simply a client side software implementation. The only real way to enforce this is 1 per IP. Of course, then they run into the issues with multi-player households. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out (if at all true).
Adds a lot of risk to the equation for the botter tho, its incredibly obvious and if its suddently against the rules you would see a big drop in boxing.
pharmakos
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i'm saying this for completely selfish reasons, but if they limit connections per machine they should limit it 2 instead of 1. =p people two boxing doesn't really break much (no one will be two-box soloing raid mobs in current content). i've gotten to the point where i can barely stand to play EQ unless i 2 box. i don't use boxing software though, just alt-tab like a boss. if i couldn't two box anymore i'd probably just go back to some Emu server.
It ruins the communal aspect when you box though.
Daybreak needs to make a legit P99 server with TLP. (No kronos, no boxing).
Daybreak needs to make a legit P99 server with TLP. (No kronos, no boxing).
I would be all for it. Remove krono as well. And is it just me, or does xp seem faster than it used to?
Jysin
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Flobee
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We had a fantastic response to these polls. We'd like to thank all of you for participating. It's obvious that there are a lot of you with passionate feelings on each side.
On both servers, the 6 month option got the most votes by far, meaning a very large percentage of you like things as they are and want to continue on that path. Ragefire's second choice was to unlock Kunark ASAP, but Lockjaw's second choice was to unlock Kunark after 3 months.
When combining the 3-month and ASAP option, though, a slight majority of players on both servers voted for Kunark to come sooner than it would under the original rules.
Changes Coming in the Near Future
With such a significant portion of the active players on these servers voting to keep progression slow, we will not be changing both servers. We plan to keep Lockjaw on the six month schedule that was originally voted for by the populace at large.
For the other half of players, however, we are going to decrease the wait for Ragefire to vote to unlock Kunark from 6 months to 3 months. The voting period for Kunark will thus become available on August 23rd and end on September 6th.
We realize this is a huge change, so we are investigating free transfers between Ragefire and Lockjaw for a period of time coming up soon. We're working out details for how long and when, but there will be no transfers allowed after the servers de-synchronize.
The Shape of Progression to Come
We're going to keep watching both servers once transfers end and you start forging your own paths. As time passes we trust both communities to keep us abreast of the issues you're encountering and we'll do what we can to address them.
We've made a first step in our changes to raid targets. It will take a while for you to explore the changes and we'll watch to see if they change behavior or not. If we don't like how things shake out we'll try other options in the future.
Once Ragefire is settled into Kunark we'll have to explore whether they want to return to the 6-month schedule or adjust it to a faster track. Likewise, although Lockjaw will hopefully be full of people who want to stick around in an era for a long time, we'll check to make sure that remains the case as time goes by.
Finally, we'd like to thank you all for your support. We're still delighted by the level of enthusiasm you all have and we're excited to see where these servers go in the future.
On both servers, the 6 month option got the most votes by far, meaning a very large percentage of you like things as they are and want to continue on that path. Ragefire's second choice was to unlock Kunark ASAP, but Lockjaw's second choice was to unlock Kunark after 3 months.
When combining the 3-month and ASAP option, though, a slight majority of players on both servers voted for Kunark to come sooner than it would under the original rules.
Changes Coming in the Near Future
With such a significant portion of the active players on these servers voting to keep progression slow, we will not be changing both servers. We plan to keep Lockjaw on the six month schedule that was originally voted for by the populace at large.
For the other half of players, however, we are going to decrease the wait for Ragefire to vote to unlock Kunark from 6 months to 3 months. The voting period for Kunark will thus become available on August 23rd and end on September 6th.
We realize this is a huge change, so we are investigating free transfers between Ragefire and Lockjaw for a period of time coming up soon. We're working out details for how long and when, but there will be no transfers allowed after the servers de-synchronize.
The Shape of Progression to Come
We're going to keep watching both servers once transfers end and you start forging your own paths. As time passes we trust both communities to keep us abreast of the issues you're encountering and we'll do what we can to address them.
We've made a first step in our changes to raid targets. It will take a while for you to explore the changes and we'll watch to see if they change behavior or not. If we don't like how things shake out we'll try other options in the future.
Once Ragefire is settled into Kunark we'll have to explore whether they want to return to the 6-month schedule or adjust it to a faster track. Likewise, although Lockjaw will hopefully be full of people who want to stick around in an era for a long time, we'll check to make sure that remains the case as time goes by.
Finally, we'd like to thank you all for your support. We're still delighted by the level of enthusiasm you all have and we're excited to see where these servers go in the future.