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Post by Sturm on Jun 8, 2017 22:47:24 GMT -5
In an effort to grow our community, I've created this new thread over on eqemulator.org so others can get a feel of what we're about here on Imperium. Feel free to head on over and give them your feedback on what you think of the server and the time you spend here. Thread found here: www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?p=254862#post254862Cheers!
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Post by Arek on Jun 9, 2017 2:54:27 GMT -5
I threw in my 2 cents. I suggest other people do the same so we can shed some light on our server.
Thanks, Sturm.
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Post by cronk on Jun 9, 2017 19:39:56 GMT -5
huh. they're a little skeptical over there.
I did the best I could to give an honest review of (or my take on) this server, while pushing back against some of the chicken-little-ing.
honestly i stand by what i said: dunno why this place isn't more popular. you've done a great job of balancing custom content, leveling speed, and not losing the EQ-feel. I *DID* enjoy ezserver, but all the bots and custom content made it not feel like i was playing eq, so I haven't felt any push to go back, unlike this place where I pop back on every 6mos-yr.
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Post by Sturm on Jun 9, 2017 19:47:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the testimonials guys, appreciated. I don't blame them for being skeptical, alot of bogus stuff has gone on over there through-out the years and there's a bunch of negative nancy's, but I digress. We got the word out, maybe we'll meet some more nice/cool people to play with in the months to come. Time will tell.
I personally don't mind the small community we have here, but like Cronk mentioned. I don't understand either why we're not a more popular destination.
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Post by cronk on Jun 9, 2017 19:58:27 GMT -5
well you might be a bit biased on that front but i agree and i can't even fathom the whole "bogus stuff", but in fairness, a lot of places charge for stuff. So I could see people being tricksy if their server earns them some coin. AFAIK, you guys don't even have a donate option... you just do this for funsies.
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Post by Atrayas on Jun 9, 2017 20:50:04 GMT -5
At one point in time Imperium boasted 120+ players at peak times with the max amount of players online at 153 at one time. As time went on and custom content had to be created to give the players more to do people became bored and slowly dwindled down. Custom content is time consuming to make from scratch and requires allot of testing to get just right. When Pryme and I created solc, feerott2 and innothuleb it took us probably a combined 120 hours or more of straight work over a few weeks for just three zones. Thats placing the mobs, scripting there pathing, creating all of the items/recipes, scripting the encounters and then balance testing to ensure it wasnt to much of a leap from GoD so that people wouldnt hit a brick wall.
Fast forward a few weeks and we are making plans to finish out our custom expansion with all of the zones picked out. Our devs at this time had grown to 6 people volunteering there time and taking direction from myself. I then received a promotion at work and pretty much lost all free time for quite awhile as I had to travel allot. At this point and time the dev team I had assembled had crumbled. Then Zephyr (the creator of Imperium) announced to me that he would be shutting the server down soon so I went on a mission to find a new host, and I did in Fizban. Once everything was setup I just lost my desire to work anymore so I allowed the reigns to go to Fizban who in turn brought Sturm on board to ensure the longevity of the server.
Fast forward to present day and much of the same content from two years ago is still end game content. People grow bored and require new and unique things do do. That is were Imperium stands now, it is in a content drought and needs fresh ideas and unique encounters to give it even more longevity for the future.
I came back briefly to help fill this void but unfortunately the current team and I had creative differences so we both decided it best to go our separate ways. I did then and do now support this dev team and hope the void gets filled so that imperium may see another 2 years of enjoyment for players.
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Post by cronk on Jun 9, 2017 21:17:44 GMT -5
thanks for posting that bro
gives a much more clear picture of things, and yea, tends to be the way of free servers
RL comes first, for all of us
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