It's completely hopeless. The owner isn't receptive to any arguments, it's out of the question. I explained to him in detail that his server will never be anything at all unless he enables boxing and he just kept banging on about how it's only a matter of time and bla bla. Months after launching their server, they still have only like 3-4 people online at any given time. He hasn't really expressed any reasons other than a dislike for boxing, which means his server will be a pointless waste that never amounts to anything. He's got like five people praising him on his forum for sticking to his guns, but five people is all he'll ever get and that does not make a server.
Well those are your thoughts. I have run a boxing server before, it is still running. Sorry, done that before and I will not do it again. For every player asking for boxing, there is another not wanting boxing. Next week there will be one asking for bots. Then the week after that they are wanting the mobs scaled, did that too. What I have created and will continue to create is a solid server. A few of you say it is buggy, unless you are playing there do not make comments like that. We have very few bugs. Most bugs that are submitted are fixed and close just a day or two after they are opened. You tell me how many of the servers in the list can actually say that? Many cannot even keep any decent amount of uptime, if they are still even running a few months from now. Servers come and go, I am in this for the long haul. We are no fly by night operation.
Everyone seems so concerned about numbers. Numbers mean nothing to me. What I care about is a bug free server that is accurate to the era. I created the server for me and a small amount of friends to be able to play on. Although the idea of p1999 is great, and it is a quality server, the actual pool of players is toxic. Do not bash something you either have never played on, or just played a limited amount of time. For those looking to get into something new and just starting then please give us a try.
On a last note, you guys realize how p1999 started? Were any of you even around back then and know how many players they had initially? You guys do realize they used the EqEmu source code and had to go through the exact same steps I am on making it classic again? Pulling out thousands of items, quest, npcs? This is a huge effort for just one person. We have been open for just over half a year, Rome was not built in a day.
Now to something more positive. If you are interested in playing and helping point out bugs, out of era npc's and items, please join us. It never hurts to have more people looking over spawn points and gear that should not be in the game. Yes, we are small but are also a very dedicated group of players that love Velious.
Lenas_sl said:
Anyone that has the ability to roll a server like this could give so much value to the open source EMU project that it's understandably frustrating that they throw away their time.
Who says I do not? I have been in the EqEmu community since 2007. I have over 1700 post on the forums. I have given out many of my changes to the community, map files, scripts and directly submit bug fixes back to PEQ
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