Should encounter locking system be moved to Live servers?

They have come out and said that FTE is designed to solve an issue that is only present on early era TLP servers which would suggest that there is no need to move it to live servers.

It will likely be removed when it gets to live or at some point later that they determine it should be removed. Just because they don't tell us ahead of time it will be removed doesn't mean that they plan on it going to all servers.

It also doesn't mean it won't. Until Darkpaw make an announcement players will always fear the worse.

Better idea how about TLP trolling stays to TLP threads. TLP players keep trying to entice live servers with threads like this.

End result if Darkpaw does shove it to live servers they will, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

It does suggest that it is unlikely though and there is no reason to keep suggesting that it will. The legacy character feature makes much more sense to move to live servers as that is something that seems that will be more used on live then TLP.

No one would EVER think that because when Mischief was released, they didn't say they were thinking of putting elements of that server's ruleset on Live servers. With Oakwynd, they explicitly said that's what they were planning...if an element of Oakwynd was successful, they'd put it on Live servers.

Again, if they have no intentions at all of putting FTE on Live, nobody is stopping them from saying that. The fact that they have chosen not to do that tells me that they still intend to put it on Live servers.

I'm interested to see what happens with Mischief once it hits live. If it keeps its high population, I can't see it being merged into FV which is also a high population server.

They may well decide to keep Mischief with its current rule set and allow folks to transfer to it from live servers.

Yes, they did say that something from the server could get moved to live servers but they also stated that FTE was designed for a TLP only problem. There is another rule, legacy characters, that actually makes more sense on a live server then a TLP server as players are more likely to have multiple high/max level alts on the same account.

Back when I started playing, ppl were doing junk that would have made this necessary. But with everything else, Live has grown and and implementing this on Live is unnecessary. Most, if not all, Live servers have a healthy population of reasonable and nice players when it comes to encounters. Maybe back when raids were open and not instance, I can see where there were arguments, but they simply aren't that way on Live any more. Comparing apples to apples with situations, not seeing a need.

True and they could shut down Everquest tomorrow because they haven't said they won't shut it down tomorrow.

That would be a lot of refunds.....

What refunds? We don't pay for Everquest or any other game in the all access package and even if one game shuts down we still have access to all the others. I don't remember talk of them giving refunds when Star Wars Galaxies or Vanguard shutdown.

In my opinion, FTE is a great addition to the game, and would be great for the rest of the servers.

Well, if they do they do, if they don't they don't. No need to be arguing with each other over what DPG stated or has not stated (or won't state). Don't let the TLP trolls work us up into a frenzy.

Except it did in a way; any named in a NoS zone has a chance to drop any aug/armor piece. Allowing people to camp any named of it's tier for any item of that tier reducing camp contention significantly.

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It is a nice concept and it would solve the KS issues forever which does also mean much less conflict involvment of daybreak staff, clear rules by the game mechanics, less dead PCs and therefor more happy customers and less banned players. The game, including all servers, could be automated a step further and one or two guys from the service/conflict team dismissed from work which does mean less costs for the company and we know that it is all about costs, greed and profit.

And without these you wouldn't have a game to play.

Wrong. It would be a much better and more populated game instead. The small amount of devs is choking the game to death. Overseer is broken since years, and now there is an UI disaster since months and no end in sight. As long as parasites like EG7 are in control nothing will change to the better.

From what I can tell the devs have been able to get more things done since EG7 took over as none of these projects ever seemed to be considered before.