tl;dr A Server Type which has TLP that starts in Classic releasing every 2 months, while allowing the utility zones and stuff from later content that would have been good to have in the game to begin with, an ability to create an exped with strict lockouts to prevent blocking, non-True Box, and Free Trade. This isn't meant to be an As It Was server, but a progression server that walks the old expansions, while allowing the utility zones and items from the later expansions. Call it The Grey :>. Cause it exists in a gray area between What Was and What Is. ---- I've been considering if there is a third type of server. Currently we have TLP on one end where you can play things As It Was, and Live, where you can play the Current Game. But what about a server ruleset that is a combination of the two? A Hybrid TLP Server Type. What Form would that take? Well... its still TLP, so expansions open as they would on a traditional TLP Server. I'd put the time at a flat 2 months per with rollups like LDoN and LoY into PoP. Some utility zones would be available from the start of the server. Plane of Knowledge Guild Lobby Guild Hall Bazaar Neighborhoods They would need to have their exits to future expansion zones locked to a branch check against the current expansion. I.e. if you try to take the Nexus Stone, it would see you're on Classic and you can't use that until Luclin, and send you a big bag of NOPE. There would be certain things in those utility zones also available along with some out-of-expansion stuff. * Mercs up to Journeyman Tier 1 as you would on Live. Obviously you don't get past that until you can get the quests for that done in SoD. * Housing. * Guild Halls. Ports to an expansion you don't have via the TL guy would need to be locked in some fashion. * Corpse Summoning. * Loyalty Vendor. * Mounts. * /claim. Basically, you're taking some of that later expansion utility stuff and shifting it to the start of the game. The point isn't to play it As It Was, but to do so with more modern utilities that probably should have been in the game to begin with. Server would be Free Trade. Use this server to determine if private Exped's are viable. Let people spawn one with an 18 hour lockout both on the trigger, 6 hour max up-time, and you also get a lockout when you enter one. You can use one or more of the following means: * Item from the store for 500SC only on this server-type. Can also add one where you combine X amount of a common drop to make one. * AA ability only on this server -type. * From A Slash Command only on this server -type. Basically the point here is to make sure nothing can be blocked... and in turn, the server will be like Live, and not be True Box.
