Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

Tuco said:

It seems goofy to me that the 2box server has truebox rules. Why bother with two trueboxes and not just let people run whatever for their two boxes?

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Just makes it more work to circumvent i would guess. Also probably makes for slightly less people 2 boxing at all.

So what's the meta duo these days?

I was pretty excited to play on Aradune because I thought that you would be able to run two clients on the same PC with an IP restriction.

Then they fucking ruined it by making it a truebox server for no reason. I don't feel like having to set up a 2nd PC to play EQ, I did that for a year on Agnarr and I'm over it.

The whole point of truebox was to limit boxing. If you're going to police boxing, truebox is just a stupid pointless barrier.

And then I guess on Rizlona they let you just run as many boxes as you want from 1 PC. I would play here instead, but with no cap on how many clients someone can run my 2-box is going to be competing with people 50-boxing. No thank you.

So like, how does Daybreak fuck everything up so badly and consistently? I've never seen a company so inept at understanding what their customers actually want from them.

I don't see any reason for truebox or PoP-locked servers right now. Agnarr still exists, right? Just make them normal servers with no truebox limitation, so one server has a 2 IP limitation and the other server has no limitations. I solved the rulesets in 10 seconds, this is fucking simple Daybreak.

Word said:

So what's the meta duo these days?

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Enchanter/Cleric or Enchanter/Shaman early on. Then around Velious+ Shaman/Monk or Shaman/SK becomes really good once charm is less effective. Enchanters can just do a lot of degenerate shit that other classes can't really do like charming your rare mob and then gating to the other corner of the zone to kill it.

Word said:

So what's the meta duo these days?

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Monk/Shm is probably the most meta but there's a ton of very useful combinations.

And you can always just tack a Bard on to anything.

"You can play two characters but only two for really reals" wouldn't be an awful server. What they are doing with Aradune is going after the people that box one or two groups and monopolize content often for RMT purposes. People are perceiving it is that they're allowed to play two accounts at the same time but with a bunch of unnecessary complications mixed in for no reason. If I can only play two and you're going to have dedicated GM staff dropping the hammer immediately than why not make it simple to have the two? It's really a problem of perception.

It's also a problem of "neither of these servers are exciting." I still hope they retool them. Have Rizlona be exactly Mangler plus boxing and then have Aradune be a little fancier. Time-locked TLPs with nuanced boxing rules is lame. Selo was fun but if it didn't hold the numbers at all in comparison to Mangler I can understand them not taking chances but I maintain there's still room for a little salt and pepper on Aradune.

Tuco said:

I've never played TLP so I'm talking out of ignorance here, but am I the only one that finds it weird that they release multiple servers at the same time? Maybe I'm thinking of these servers as "seasons" in other games, but I feel like if I was interested in TLP I'd prefer the entire TLP community was trying each TLP server instead of the community being dilluted. In this case I'd rather they have an aradune release and then later this year the Rizlona release.

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different rulesets attract different players. but yes releasing 2 at a time will definitely dilute each one. but 2 servers with 2000 accounts is still better than 1 server with 3000 accounts. Also whenever they release a new tlp existing tlps lose some number of players to them, but there are still people on most of them. Like people are still raiding on Phinny even, but it's population isn't anywhere near what it used to be.

ver_21 said:

I don't want to play on a PoP-locked server. wtf?!

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Yeah same I'm kinda bummed that Aradune is LDON locked. Was looking for something o progress through some of the expansions that I missed.

I tried to make it clear to them multiple times they need an end game with these servers. You cant just launch tlp after tlp with 3 month unlocks that will take 5-6 years to reach end game. They are working with a set amount of players they need to recycle every 1-2 years. Seasonal servers fix this, era locked servers help, or fast release severs as well.

Pop locked
This would have been fine may next year but this was just too close to Agnarr. I would have preferred seeing like a OOW locked server with 2 month releases.

Two Box Limit
This is just dumb and is going to cause so much headache and will kill guilds after a few expansions. First time someone sees someone with 3 boxes following a char around people are going to freak. Truebox was not perfect but it was never meant to be 100%. It was only supposed to limit boxing not stop it. Now you have a few people running around with 10+ toons but without this you would have dozens running around with 30+ toons.

Now if you want to box 6 toons you have to join the boxing server where there will be tons running 24+.

Dedicated GM
People think they want this but they dont. GMs always end up deciding winners and losers and its their judgment. DPG hands off approach while not perfect is FAR better than P99 and this new dedicated GM will turn into the same situation and run people off. .



My main issue is why mess with a winning formula. Manger and Selo were wildly popular. All they needed to do was make Manger_copy01 Truebox and Manger_copy02 Boxing and call it a day. If they wanted some change then just make the new servers FV loot and be done with it.

Did they do it? Did they actually come up with something worse than what Selos and Mangler were initially announced as?

can i get some clarity on the box rule?

They say no more then 2 boxes.
Is the main considered a box? so 1 main and 2 alts or just 2 chars no matter what?

True box means you can only use one client per computer right?

Zaide said:

Two characters logged in simultaneously maximum. Must be connected from separate physical devices.

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What they should do is add improved Mercs, to replace boxes for those of us that dont like boxing, then no boxing needed, could structure it however they want, maybe even make it so that you could have move than one Merc, could make it a into quests etc to add more, improve them etc. Then do servers with no boxing allowed. That is if they could implement it so it actually worked.

Elderan said:

I would have preferred seeing like a OOW locked server with 2 month releases.

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This is actually the perfect idea. What attracted me to Agnarr, and why it's the only TLP server I've played seriously since The Sleeper, is that the server had an end. I knew that my guild would "beat the game" once we defeated Quarm and then we could move on to something else.

The PoP-locked servers feel too much like a repeat of Agnarr. But I would absolutely play on an OoW-locked server. Also LDON and LOY need to be launched with GoD instead of being their own unlock, or come in halfway in between PoP. Ie. if you normally have 3 month unlocks then 1.5 months after PoP you get LOY/LDON and 1.5 months after that you get GoD.

Daybreak pls make Aradune OoW-locked and get rid of the stupid truebox restriction (keep 2 box IP restriction) and I'd probably return to EQ for another 1 - 1.5 years.

OOW locked with 2 month progression would be pretty great.

So it'll never happen