Postby Control » Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:08 am
Hi, I plan to keep the server running for the foreseeable future. I like the idea of keeping it as essentially an EQ archive. If that ever changes for some reason, I'll definitely arrange for an orderly transfer to someone else from the community. There won't just be a lights-out. Also, the server is running on a dedi with multiple daily backups pushed off-site, so there's some redundancy if the server or datacenter ever explodes.
For direction, the main goal was to get the server running smoothly through PoP, which has mostly been done, but there's still a lot of balance tweaking that needs to be done and a pretty significant list of bugs/issues/improvements.
In the near future, I want to get a custom hub in to get us out of PoK as well as a pretty extensive progression quest that upgrades the charm and encourages people to go visit zones they may not have been to recently (or maybe even ever).
For post-PoP content, it's tricky. Even though I played some after PoP and really enjoyed some parts of the later expansions, I think most peoples' nostalgia pretty much ends with PoP, which was why that was the initial goal. However, it does feel a bit sad to be sitting on hundreds of zones of content without using them. We need to find a good way to keep the nostalgia of the PoP era from being ruined though, so if/when later expansions get opened, the post-PoP game will need to be separated somehow. Maybe through post-pop-locking progression quest, or maybe pop gets the naggy-punting code for people over 65? So still a bit fuzzy, but if anyone has any ideas about how to best handle that, I'm all ears.