hansi wrote:
I for one am a bit tired of the games anymore its all solo and easy mode. A person can reach max lvl and never grouped with anyone. I'm not even real sure I would care for the corpse runs and all the stuff from way back when, I just would like a game where at least you need to group some to progress. If the server doesn't last then that's the way it goes, things come and go.
Yeah, I'm not saying I disagree. Most MMOs these days do cater to solo mode; but of course, the solo mode caters to *us* - the people who played MMOs from the start, but now have careers, families, kids, and various other responsibilities. Many of us no longer have 12+ hrs a day to commit to the old-school slow, torturous grinds. In fact, some of us (myself included) are lucky if we can spare more than an hour or 2 a day.
But it's a catch 22. It's the long, torturous grinds that built that community. So I don't know what to tell you.
That said, I had a look at the precedents for EQ's time locked progression (TLP) servers. The two on the go right now (Fippy and Vulak) are *NOT* what we consider classic. Sometime in the last few years, changes were made to pets, SK's HT, Monk fists, and a few other things, and apparently they can't unchange them for a TLP server without cocking up the live servers. As a result, pets are insane. Groups of Mages and Necros can easily lockdown spawn areas and tackle anything and everything that spawns. Monks are walking around at level 50 with 20/26 fists, and at 60 with 22/24 fists. And 3 or more SKs in a group can insta-kill Naggy or Vox using HTs once the dragon falls to 30% or less.
Add on to that the corpse runs are no longer around, even on TLP servers - you respawn with your gear (which isn't necessarily a bad thing); hell levels are gone; people box like crazy (in some cases, boxing an entire group and sitting in popular camps 24/7), and various other changes too long to list....this is not our classic EQ we knew and love(d).
Now, despite all this, would I make a character and log on every now and then to say hi to folks and maybe do some low-level grouping? Maybe. I suppose it depends on whether or not it's FTP or requires a membership. We'll see.