[EQ]New Server Poll Up!

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Wonder what RoI is going to do now

You haven't been following the EQMac thread. A few of the cooler more laid back guys have formed a new guild on Al'Kabor - as for the ADD members who knows, and frankly who cares?

[Gwen Rockpounder]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Had 2 subbed to wait it out for progression, canceling both now.

Can I haz ur stuff?!!1

If I can get my 2nd pc up and running with hackintosh I'll be on eqmac eventually, my main pc has a couple of bits in it that just plain don't work so I'm currently playing on FV in regular EQ. I made a rogue 19 days ago it's now at 70/365, starting at just 51/50 is indeed bonkers in a game that now comes with mercs. I can't see it being anything other than a playground server for some people to roll an alt of a class they havent done before.

Kreugen has to be right surely, once they have coded in the 51/50 (if nothing else its banking 50 instead of 30!) they have to roll it out to all. More likely they will add it in as an expansion "feature" for all other servers though

[Pharazon]

Not surprised by the results really. Bottom line is the people that were voting really didn't care about the result, because the chances they'll spend any significant amount of time on the new server are slim to none. Yet they were the only ones even given a chance to vote and actually forced to do so. They thought "Oh, this 51/51 thing sounds cool" and the majority probably haven't given the poll a second thought since. They still play the game because they are attached to their servers and their mains, and never wanted to spend time on another server regardless of the ruleset.

[Ham n Cheese]

You aren't the first one to use that reasoning of subbed players votes, which I just don't understand. Why do you think they think the 51/50 server (note: server, not option on their current server) is more appealing to them than a progression? If they're attached to their mains why would they give a shit about a server where they can be level 51, big whoop. If you're going to roll an alt you don't care about, wouldn't you think most people are attracted to the old EQ? I know there's a lot of non-subscriber rage out there for not getting to vote, but I seriously haven't met anyone -in game- who thought 51/50 was the way to go.

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

You aren't the first one to use that reasoning of subbed players votes, which I just don't understand. Why do you think they think the 51/50 server (note: server, not option on their current server) is more appealing to them than a progression? If they're attached to their mains why would they give a shit about a server where they can be level 51, big whoop. If you're going to roll an alt you don't care about, wouldn't you think most people are attracted to the old EQ? I know there's a lot of non-subscriber rage out there for not getting to vote, but I seriously haven't met anyone -in game- who thought 51/50 was the way to go.

Posting on eqmac forums - one guy (slaani) postulated that existing players voted for 51/50 precisely because it was a bad option as they didn't want to see an exodus of people from their server to a new progression server.

[Araxen]

Well when you have guilds almost immediately opening up shit on Progression it sort of ruins the point of the server. It's fun for 2 months and then people quit when SoL opens. They might as well please the people that are paying them now than the bandwagoners that pay them for 2 months and leave. There are alot of people who want to start a fresh server non-progression not that I'm one of them. I'm perfectly fine playing on my current server for the time being. The only thing I wish SoE would do is try to play a more active role on squashing gold/plvl spam. Blizz has a hard a time doing it, but they doing a pretty good job at surpressing it. SoE has let it get totally out of control on their servers.

[Vishnu]

jebus.. thank god for al'kabor.. the server, not the lore dude!

[Zhaun's_Shade]

The idea of making it to 50 untwinked in around 10-hours of playtime in EQ doesn't seem remotely believeable to me I guess.

Most potions weren't too valuable in leveling (SoW potion ftw) and there were no mercenaries when I quit either, so I can accept times have changed.

But you guys are really saying if I logged on right now, at level 1, untwinked, solo, I can make 50 by the weekend?

[Needless]

if you have a mercenary, i wouldn't doubt that at all

[IruleYcauseImSweet]

They also put the xp rates on exponential curves. So it takes less xp to ding and a LOT less xp for you first 500 AA's. They also made spells do more damage which means mobs die faster. Plus you have merc ez mode~

[Zhaun's_Shade]

Originally Posted by Needless

if you have a mercenary, i wouldn't doubt that at all

Does your class matter? Can I roll a cleric and not be forced to group anymore?

[Mr Element]

Originally Posted by Zhaun's_Shade

Does your class matter? Can I roll a cleric and not be forced to group anymore?

Seriously, get a warrior merc and go to hot-zones and slaughter. You'll barely need to heal your merc. You can probably just sit back and practice spell skills or something.

[Arbitrary]

Do skills still not go up nearly fast enough? The last time I played I had to set up overnight macros for basically all of my spell skills. It took way longer than it should have.

[ruination]

Should raid naggy + vox as soon as the server opens~

[Dr.Knockers]

I recently re-subbed in hopes of progression winning. Friend of mine decided to come back too, but he sold his old account. He went from 1-60 100ish AA in 19 hours played WITHOUT MERCS, he also stopped to do mage epic 1.0. :\

EQ is stupid easy now.