All of the ideas for progression servers have been used up and are worn out

could just put generic class trainers in the commons tunnel, kind of similar to the trainers in the tent in Crescents Reach, that would solve the problem of revamping each town.

Good idea. A little mini-town starting option for outcast oddballs. Might have to add spell vendors?

Would be OP origin

They would need to put them in more places as it isn't good to force people into a single zone for that.

Maybe, but its a start, and it wouldn't be crowded for all that long.

I didn't say that for crowding issues rather the time and effort needed to travel to that one zone especially in the early era when it takes a lot longer.

Could make it their starting point & give them a one time token to change starting city once their class trainers are available from their racial city.

Or just have any race that has a town start there - other races maybe start in EC with a trainer for each class there.

I also liked the concept of an informational dialogue that gives a disclaimer about possible impact since the class isn't in Era.

As far as additional traveling and additional challenge - on these TLPs, some might actually appreciate that anyway.

Random spawn locations is the next big thing imo. Would be funny to see that big red devil in Paw roaming near zoneline.

This is the most popular idea they haven't tried yet. Something like it, along with a reasonable selection of other rules, is the only feasible idea folks have put out there that would motivate me to play in next year's TLP. All they'd need to do is put a respawn multiplier on zones (which might already exist...) and set it ~3x for most zones in original EQ. As long as they were willing to tweak that multiplier per zone as the server progressed, it'd work great.

Anymore when I read any race/any class it translates directly to cheesy min/max exploiter to me. Would you be as enthusiastic if they devs said, "Hey, after we stripped the final unique racial traits from all the races we might consider it"?

Truthfully, yes. I have zero interest in a server full of nothing but Ogres and Iksars. But I wouldn't mind creating a Dark Elf Paladin, Vah Shir Ranger, Gnome Shammy, etc.

In lieu of racial traits, would be fun to have Birthsigns. Pick one during character creation, or perhaps not until level 20. Then have a quest to re-spec later. Could use those to acquire the frontal-stun immunity, regen or AC boosts, sneak/hide, safe-falls, etc. Make them entirely independent of class or race choice.

put another one in Eruds crossing, would at least make the zone useful for something!

It gives more opportunity for people to try and pick 'the rare thing,' though. Erudite monk ftw.

When I first started playing in '99 I created an Erudite Paladin. That was awful and not fun at all. Nothing at all wrong with Erudites but there was no way to create a viable Paladin that could get the gear he needed to make up for the deficiencies.

I'm afraid all I'll ask for is "technically impossible", like disabling the revamps and bringing back the old zones, at least temporarily...

But I keep dreaming some day, something will be figured out that will turn the impossible, possible

Get rid of recommended and required level on items. Could probably just do that for all servers, now that I think about it.

The whole FTE thing is just laughable when you add in the new perks you can buy to not unding. I see like one or two guys binding themselves near bosses, pull them, and then just dot and die and dot and die and dot and die and dot and die.....1-2 guys can kill DT golems like they're no problem. It's become a joke now.

i know this will get loads of love but...
not all tlp have been tried.
any type of pvp tlp has not been done. deity teams would be preferred.
when they do that, your statement is fact imho

They could keep doing vanilla TLP servers, and I'd probably be back every few years to jump back into Norrath.

I'm surprised they haven't made a generic yearly resetting server. Launches in March, 2 months of classic, kunark, Velious, luclin, then planes. In January, after two months of PoP, it merges into the PoP locked server, gets wiped, and starts fresh in March. Call it Druzzil since she rebooted us at the end of PoP in the lore (I know a server existed with that name before, but it fits) .

Let the chronic rerollers have their yearly stroll.