Fast and Slow progression serversFollow

There has been soo much talk about the new server and how guilds will burn through the content and unlock it all too fast. How about 2 servers "fast" and "slow" all the hardcore raiders can go to the fast server and burn through the content as fast as they want and the toons and the slow server can hang out and tradeskill forever :P

Problem solved... Like this:

Just set it up so that if playerA hasn't done expansion A, then he never gets to expansion B and can't use any stuff from expansion B... regardless of what playerB unlocked or wants to sell him.

100% solution, everybody's happy.

Ofcourse, SOE would never be that genius.
So a lot of the fans will go to the new server and be unhappy after a while.

Hasn't it ALWAYS been the playerA vs playerB issue that makes the playerAs unhappy?

Guilds will burn through content lightning fast. The reason is simple and has nothing to do with gear.

Knowledge.

Veterans of the game know exactly what quests to do, what mobs to kill, where NPCs are located and everything else necessary to gear up and level up quickly. And yes, I am talking about old world, pre Kunark.

Take this for example:

Runed Totem Staff

Junk you say? This staff will rip through anything On Antonica, Faydwer and Odus as it did back in 1999 and this time around, my friends and I can get level 10 and head straight for these Gnolls and farm it because we know exactly where they are and how tough they are. Back in the day, this was a hot item because most players did not know where to find it or, more importantly, they did not know how to get to where it drops without dying.

Faction? Again, we know exactly where and how to raise faction and more importantly, what race, class and Diety to start with.
Dar Elf Warriors of Innoruuk had no idea what they were in for back in 1999. Uber guilds who want to move quickly will just make all Agnostic characters now.

These examples are not ideal by far but they illustrate a point.

If SOE does not put artificial constraints on the content. (ie. Vox is unkillable for 6 months) the progression server will have prophecy of Ro opened up before the next expansion is released.





I do not mean to be offensive but these statements are completely inaccurate. Anyone in a old, top guild would agree.

My guild, Diviner, currently Vane on Ec'i/Tunare did not move slowly through Velious or Kunark for that matter. Pre Luclin, we were so fat with gear, levels and strategies that we just farmed Dain, Tormax and Skyshrine and complained that Luclin was too slow in coming out.

Frankly, too many players are so spoiled now that if they start untwinked and get beat up by a Frost Giant they think the game was "hard" before the Bazaar.

Edited, Tue May 9 22:43:04 2006 by Reyla

Knowlage won't help you kill Naggy if you haven't got the gear to do it. it wll take 2-4 months for people to get to the level where they can hunt for gear that willl allow you to take on the big 2 dragons. Then you have to farm for that gear to equip a full guild.

It certainly won't stop it taking you 3-4 months to get faction to break into Velious end game either.

It will still take you 3-4 months to get a guild factioned to get to Velious end game.

Hehe.. Progressive Oldworld Server (PoS). I would just like to note that on 12 July, Vanguard is released. If I wanted to "start new" on anything, it'd be a new game entirely.

All the content on the progression server is currently available on my server.

Nothing is stopping me from playing expansions in order.

Nothing says I can't have fun while I do it.

The only thing keeping me from using a specific expansion's gear to get thru that expansion is my integrity.

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Basically this new server has no appeal to me, but I can see the value of it's nostalgia for all you real crusty old EQ veterans out there. I sincerely hope you enjoy it, as I will surely enjoy lower populations on the regular servers!

Can you link your source? I ask because I already have my copy reserved at the local store for 12 July release.

Just because you have this content available right now doesn't mean you can use it. You can't walk into Blackburrow and shout LFG and espect to get one because the zone is nearly empty! Same for Lguk, and well almost all old world zones.

The point of the new server is to force people to play in these old zones. You can bet there will be people hunting dervish cutthroats again because they can't hit POK and be in Kurns.

Far as using the old gear goes yea you can although it is genreally more expensive then alot of the newer much better gear.

I agree Froglo and Komzur.

Much as SoE is hated, the DO listen to thier player base, probably a little too much if anything, we asked for ease of travel we got it, we asked for an easy way to 70 when it became clear that as the game got older 70 was where you needed to be so they gave us MM,s

SoE seems to get a very bad rep for a company that has managed to keep as game going (and still hugely popular) for this long.