Any plans for A legends/stormhammer server?

[Ballads]

<p>Heard about this from eq1, An upgraded supscription where you play on a server with better performance and dedicated CSR's,  Daily/weekly/monthly Gm events, and other such perks. I think if it was just a server with Top End harware and clean upgraded DB I'd definitly be willing to pay a double sub or some higher sub cost.</p><p>Anyone else interested in this?</p>

[Eritius]

<p>Make it a RP enforced server and I'm in.</p>

[Ballads]

<p><cite>Taemien@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Make it a RP enforced server and I'm in.</p></blockquote><p>Uh no</p>

[Korrupt]

<p>Just a server on decent hardware would be nice. These guys keep adding more and more game to an etch a sketch and then can't figure out why lag is so bad. It's not just your code SOE, the code I'm sure needs fixing but you also have to spend a little money and use up do date hardware!!!</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Ballads wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Heard about this from eq1, An upgraded supscription where you play on a server with better performance and dedicated CSR's,  Daily/weekly/monthly Gm events, and other such perks. I think if it was just a server with Top End harware and clean upgraded DB I'd definitly be willing to pay a double sub or some higher sub cost.</p><p>Anyone else interested in this?</p></blockquote><p>you also realize that the cost to play on that server was just about double the cost of playing on a regular server, you may be willing but a lot of people would not be - which is why it died in eq1 land</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Taemien@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Make it a RP enforced server and I'm in.</p></blockquote><p>really - and how do you plan on enforcing this? Have the additinal gm's ban the accounts of players that refuse to role play?</p>

[Jupios]

<p>Pay extra for what we should get for normal sub prices,,,I think not.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>I don't have to pay extra money to experience good server stability and at least 2 guide events or encounters a week on the Kithicor server.</p><p>Stormhammer offered new zones that were unavailable to the rest of the game as well. We don't need that kind of discrimination in this game. There's really no purpose to making such a server or service for this game.</p>

[Khurghan]

<p>The Stormhammer server in EQ1 bombed pretty badly.</p>

[Guillard]

<p>You pay extra money for game comfort only in one case: if you're playing on a emulated server, and subscription cost therefore is 0. It's not a case with this game, I'm afraid.</p>

[erin]

<p><cite>Khurghan wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The Stormhammer server in EQ1 bombed pretty badly.</p></blockquote><p>It attracted a crowd of very hardcore gamers, and they enjoyed the elite status immensely for a while (I had friends who tried it).  They paid twice what the rest of us were paying, but a lot of what they were paying for was actually that hardcore, elite gameplay.  Most of the people I knew who tried it, liked it.</p><p>But for this game?  Doesn't make much sense unless its a special ruleset server.  In EQ1 it sucked a good number of hardcore guilds entirely off their servers, that would about kill some servers in EQ2 these days <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[glowsintheda]

<p>Thought stormhammer was $50 a month, not just double normal price</p>

[Pinino-Lfg]

<p>it was 30 dollars a month, back when it only cost 10 dollars a month for everquest =P Township Rebellion was the top guild of the server, and they also woke the sleeper on the first day of release if i remember, it was called legends server or somthing, i think if i remember, most people transfered to it because once there u could have them change ur name for free then transfer to any server there after for free. but yes the CSR was phenominal the GMs would help you with the smallest things, back in eq traveling was alot longer then it is in games now, and the Gms there would teleport you wherever you requested if you asked them.</p><p>better server performance would really be the only reason id play on a server like this, if they could get an amazing server to host it, where you could raid on a highly populated server without lag , that would be worth paying any amount for.</p>

[Andok]

<p>I just checked my billing history, and we paid $39.95 a month to play on Stormhammer.</p><p>I loved all of the cool events and the almost instant response from GMs, but those slowly died down over the months until the server was almost the same as the normal servers.  Still, I loved it because the higher price tag made the community a little more mature.  The server population was also very low, which was actually a good thing in EQ1 when you needed to camp rare mobs.  For example, I never even saw the Ancient Cyclops when I was on my normal server, but after transferring to Stormhammer, all of my alts had their Jboots within a month.</p>

[Beef_Supre]

<p>I think the population was intentionally kept at a certain level on Stormhammer, which is shocking I suppose since it meant actually turning <em>down</em> added subscription money!</p><p>I say this, because I tried a handful of times to get on to the Server and was told it was already full. Pretty impressive if that was really the case.</p>

[Gungo]

<p>Merge the low pop servers and create a legends server.  Something about $20 a month w better hardware and slightly more elevated support. </p>

[Ka'gor]

<p><cite>Beef_Supreme wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I think the population was intentionally kept at a certain level on Stormhammer, which is shocking I suppose since it meant actually turning <em>down</em> added subscription money!</p><p>I say this, because I tried a handful of times to get on to the Server and was told it was already full. Pretty impressive if that was really the case.</p></blockquote><p>It wasnt that the server was max population, people used it for a cheap character trasnfer, move a toon there for a month then move it to any server you wanted.</p><p>The server was pretty cool, the gm's were crazy helpfull and i dont say csr's becasue it was gm's doing everything, from name changes (got my name changed 5 times in one afternoon and didnt cost me a dime) to resetting mobs.  It was what you would want a server to be with GM interaction.  They had special things going on and you got all kinds of diffrent gear that wasnt avaible on regular servers.  One thing i rember was rez sticks, i had some on my beast when i transfered off and got reported for hacking when i rezzed someone lol. </p><p>The attitude of the server though was terrible, people had massive attitudes and thought they could do anything, when they pretty much got away with it.  I had a mage stealing my mobs in BoT, when mages could pet mobs (cant rember what it was called but they were beasts when they did this) i kept asking the guy to stop ksing me and he continued so i started dispelling his pets charm, took him abit to figure it out but needless to say i was suspended for a 3 days in a matter of seconds. Guess i should have been the one to petition first lol.</p><p>I dont think i met more then 2 descent people on the server and i was in TR, 99.9 percent were total dicks.  But really i dont see why we should have to pay more to get the service we shoudl already be getting.  All servers shoudl be like Legends was back in the day as in customer service and GM interaction.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p><cite>Pinino-Lfg wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>it was 30 dollars a month, back when it only cost 10 dollars a month for everquest =P Township Rebellion was the top guild of the server, and they also woke the sleeper on the first day of release if i remember,</p></blockquote><p>Haha I remember hearing about that. They did that just to [Removed for Content] everyone else off and make sure nobody would ever get any of the loots from the 4 wardens. Back when the server started, the loot off th 4 wardens were still among the best you could get in the game.</p>

[Upir]

<p><cite>Kagor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><span >...you got all kinds of diffrent gear that wasnt avaible on regular servers...</span></blockquote><p>And there is the reason you'll never see this happen in EQ2.</p>

[MurFalad]

<p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I don't have to pay extra money to experience good server stability and at least 2 guide events or encounters a week on the Kithicor server.</p></blockquote><p>Ditto for Runnyeye, I don't keep track of the guide events though myself (and we are not connected to the US BG's yet).</p><p>I wonder if too many of these problems are due to overcrowding on servers rather then hardware limitations (if upgrading hardware though is feasible then AB/Nagafen megaservers sound the way to go), maybe some free account moves are in order to help spread the population around?</p>

[Ka'gor]

<p><cite>Upirus wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kagor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><span>...you got all kinds of diffrent gear that wasnt avaible on regular servers...</span></blockquote><p>And there is the reason you'll never see this happen in EQ2.</p></blockquote><p>The gear was non effectual, one item was a rez stick with 2 charges all/all.  Wasnt god more gear or anything like that.  Getting special items is no reason to not have a server of this type.  Iam not saying i would pay for it again but hey might not be bad to try it out for a month or so lol.</p>

[rubels]

<p>The only thing I be interested in , if EQ2 did a progression server T5 content cleared unlocks T6 . I still think they have to adjust it alot and thats still only worth my 15.00 a month.</p>

[Andok]

<p><cite>Kagor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><span ><p><strong>The attitude of the server though was terrible, people had massive attitudes and thought they could do anything, when they pretty much got away with it.</strong>  <span style="color: #888888;">I had a mage stealing my mobs in BoT, when mages could pet mobs (cant rember what it was called but they were beasts when they did this) i kept asking the guy to stop ksing me and he continued so i started dispelling his pets charm, took him abit to figure it out but needless to say i was suspended for a 3 days in a matter of seconds. Guess i should have been the one to petition first lol.</span></p><p><strong>I dont think i met more then 2 descent people on the server and i was in TR, 99.9 percent were total dicks. </strong> <span style="color: #888888;">But really i dont see why we should have to pay more to get the service we shoudl already be getting.  All servers shoudl be like Legends was back in the day as in customer service and GM interaction.</span></p></span></blockquote><p>I think the bad attitudes you experienced has less to do with the server and more to do with the company you kept.  My experience was the opposite of yours – almost everyone I met was very cool.</p><p>Also, someone mentioned earlier that Legends was a flop.  It lasted 4 years and everyone that I knew on the server loved it.  That’s hardly a flop in my book.  That’s a success.</p>

[Upir]

<p><cite>Kagor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><span>The gear was non effectual, one item was a rez stick with 2 charges all/all.  Wasnt god more gear or anything like that.  Getting special items is no reason to not have a server of this type.  Iam not saying i would pay for it again but hey might not be bad to try it out for a month or so lol.</span> </blockquote><p>Doesn't matter, far too much "me too" takes place.  Look at how itemization has gone in terms of risk vs. reward the past few expansions.  They could be giving away house items that were literally the graphic of a pile of ratonga crap on said server exclusively, and people would cry they didn't have access to it.</p><p>**edit grammer</p>

[Andok]

<p><cite>Upirus wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kagor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><span>The gear was non effectual, one item was a rez stick with 2 charges all/all.  Wasnt god more gear or anything like that.  Getting special items is no reason to not have a server of this type.  Iam not saying i would pay for it again but hey might not be bad to try it out for a month or so lol.</span> </blockquote><p>Doesn't matter, far too much "me too" takes place.  Look at how itemization has gone in terms of risk vs. reward the past few expansions.  They could be giving away house items that were literally the graphic of a pile of ratonga crap on said server exclusively, and people would cry they didn't have access to it.</p></blockquote><p>... and some people <em>did </em>cry.  Big deal.  Every change comes with crying from someone, and other people cry when there are no changes.  No matter what, there's gonna be crying...</p>