yerm
Golden Baronet of the Realm
Alright ... based on what? Where are you getting your numbers from?
The rough visual provided of server activity by the staff, and the numbers submitted by a few of our resident nerds.
Alright ... based on what? Where are you getting your numbers from?
I do.Did you even try to think?
How do I play a Mischief server in eras before the one it's in now, with everyone else at that same point? What if I only like certain eras or high population levels?
It's like you don't realize that every TLP is a reset for the people who want the same shit over again. That's why it exists.
Mischief was a huge success. It's been years and years since PvP was. The emulated servers also serve as evidence of a lessened interest in PvP. They are not the same thing at all.
There's nothing preventing anyone from replicating a TLP experience on any other server, then. They should simply never release another TLP server. Great argument, you should be the CFO at daybreak.I do.
Not seeing another argument for a duplicate Mischief here. Nothing preventing you and other like-minded jihadists from levelling characters to 60 on the existing server to raid Trakanon, go knock yourselves out!
Suppose you have the financials to show that a TLP server is worth doing annuallyThe rough visual provided of server activity by the staff, and the numbers submitted by a few of our resident nerds.
Not a CFO and not a DPG employee ... don't give up so easily.There's nothing preventing anyone from replicating a TLP experience on any other server, then. They should simply never release another TLP server. Great argument, you should be the CFO at daybreak.
I do.
Not seeing another argument for a duplicate Mischief here. Nothing preventing you and other like-minded jihadists from levelling characters to 60 on the existing server to raid Trakanon, go knock yourselves out!
Good rebuttal.Not a CFO and not a DPG employee ... don't give up so easily.
Suppose you have the financials to show that a TLP server is worth doing annually
Suppose you have the most favorable population model with Mischief 1.0
You have anything else?
You got anything that's creative, controversial, and challenging? While John Wick : Chapter 4 is doing really well ... Chapter 27 would probably be crap. Why push the dev focus on derivative work?
That's a strong suggestion ... I cannot effectively play devil's advocate here since I never played FV. Not sure what DPG's objection to a duplicate FV is/was.We are past the eras where I normally quit on TLPs but based on the kill trackers it seems like Mischief is vastly more popular than other servers in similar eras. Consider that as recently as last month they told us that the server was still too populated to remove afk kick. Also it’s been shown to be much more active than Yelinak which launched a year after it.
As far as I am aware when we talk about population retention it goes Mischief, then Mangler and then a big gap before landing on Phinny/Aradune.
Mischief has 22 raiding guilds that I am aware of, plus probably a few more under the radar. Thornblade has another 6. At least 3 guilds atm are splitting all content, and 2 of them are pulling in like 100+ sign ups per raid night with minimal boxing.
I think the “perfect” server for an absolute jackpot population boom would be:
FV Loot
Double Drops (or Mischief loot)
Launch with Kunark open
8 weeks per expansion
Merge LDoN with PoP
Merge DoN with Omens
Merge PoR with DoDH
Classic zones (Commons, Ro, Nek, Lava, Freeport, Highpass)
Redo ZEMs the week before launch.
So ... in the end you are restating Mischief has the most favorable population model to date? Alright.What if I told you that I did do this? I made a character, equipped him with velious era no drop loot that I purchased via free trade, got sets prepared for various expansions after, and then raided era appropriate content with it? And I did this with a bunch of other like minded jihadists? And that other jihadists did this just like I did at other times?
Your argument is stupid. Free trade loot was the norm, not the exception, for the kind of thing you are talking about. If you mean random loot, mischief is the only place for that, and, get this, people are still actively playing there.
They have said approximately half their revenue comes from TLPs.Suppose you have the financials to show that a TLP server is worth doing annually
Suppose you have the most favorable population model with Mischief 1.0
You have anything else?
You got anything that's creative, controversial, and challenging? While John Wick : Chapter 4 is doing really well ... Chapter 27 would probably be crap. Why push the dev focus on derivative work?
So ... in the end you are restating Mischief has the most favorable population model to date? Alright.
That's a strong suggestion ... I cannot effectively play devil's advocate here since I never played FV. Not sure what DPG's objection to a duplicate FV is/was.
I am deliberately challenging the status quo mindset about Mischief 2.0 here. As a player, I am not completely sold on the idea myself.
Phinny was popular with a new mechanic (raid instancing) and they did a copy/paste of it to create Coirnav.
I am deliberately challenging the status quo mindset about Mischief 2.0 here. As a player, I am not completely sold on the idea myself.
yerm DickTrickle
What am I missing here? I don't think we should have a Mischief 2.0, how does that contradict what I have posted?
If you hired me to go make a "John Wick" movie, only make it exactly like the first John Wick movie, then I am going to tell you to go watch the original and stop wasting my time. Absor's Objection applies here just as well as it does when it comes to pvp. If you like EQ1 pvp, then go play on Zek. If you like the Mischief rules, then go play on Mischief.