Imagine* a PoP locked server w/ Mischief loot rules. (can't edit the thread title) Wouldn't that be fun? we'd get to experience a lot of various chars with an end of the grind in sight at what a lot of people consider the most convenient expansion that removed a lot of the unnecessary time sink. Lots of end game raid targets.. I personally think this would be very fun, refreshing and give long term hardcore and casual subscribers a non-burnout path to play. It would welcome late players by being able to twink up in the Bazaar, it would take that hurtful solo experience down a notch.
An expansion locked server only works for a small casual crowd that has a limited playtime and even then once they max their mains out and alts, they get bored and move onto the next server. These TLP servers have a short shelf life regardless of what ruleset it has. New and shiny servers release and people start over. This is the death cycle of TLP servers. The population drops, all grouping is done at the high end of levels and there is no low level game anymore. Eventually the server becomes guild centric and PUG grouping becomes extinct, grouping is done within guilds. Once the population drops enough, guilds start merging until the family guilds dig in and refuse to merge with other guilds which kills the guild and the rest of the server long term. Is it a game design problem? Yes and no. I could write a damn book on this subject.
It seems pretty obvious that for the most part, for Everquest at least, servers locked at a particular expansion are not well received.
This would be a good idea for a pvp server. Give everyone something to do once your toons are maxxed out.
No more pop locked server ever IMO, unless they explicitly said that it will 100% merge into Agnarr. If anything it would help agnarr in the long run, but hurt them in the short run.
Agnarr will always welcome you. Any content outside PoTime and some parts of PoP are usually up and fair game, also AoCs, so no need for a FV ruleset when there isn't competition and you can strole up to whatever content you desire for the loot you want.
What would be the point of mischief loot rules on a locked server? Once you buy all your Time gear, what do you do?
Agnarr is enough. I am wondering if transfers off Agnarr to Mischief are going to be a thing come GoD though. I would not mind snatching a character to move beyond PoP with the Mischief server. No more time locked in a specific era forever though.
I doubt it, you have not been able to transfer off Agnarr to any server in GoD yet. If anything I could see them opening transfers to Mangler as they are far enough away from PoP that the gear/AA/plat etc would be less impactful to the destination server and even that is doubtful.
yea i would have liked to take my agnarr boys to mangler in gates or omens etc but it never happened that said its probably easier/faster to start fresh and get caught up on a server than you think, even easier on mischief/thornblade ruleset
What makes Agnarr work is precisely the lack of Free Trade. I can work on a character (goofing around when I have time to play) with no pressure to keep up with anyone or anything. When that character is finally able to raid and gets pretty well decked out? I can make another and try a different class/role. This is what keeps Agnarr going. If Free Trade was allowed, Elemental and Time gear would eventually flood the market, making the raiding itself pointless. Then your server dies.
Be cool if they cycled a TLP server from classic to PoP and it would reset everyone to Level 1 at the end of PoP but any character that has a quarm kill that cycle would have stats/dmg increased by a small % each time
