Lionheart

Best news I heard in months! Thanks guys! =D

I for my part, think that the team should look into competing with something else than some strict adherence to some special snowflake "more blizzlike than blizzard" formula, since the worst extremists have other servers to go nowadays. We should keep being blizzlike in preserving the atmosphere and cultural treasure this world is, but some custom content that are just vanity or enhances RP:ing (a mature, adult playerbase that 'B' has always but ignored) would be welcome. One example would be the opportunity to gain rep with the Scarlet Crusade in a manner similar to the Bloodsails (ie. by grinding Argent Dawns, for Alliance only ofc.). Another nice thing that could potentially draw a lot of revenue, especially after TBC is released, is the chance to pay for the opportunity to play as a High elf. Which would only be a cosmetic thing, a blood elf with exactly the same abilities but with blue eyes, on alliance starting in Elwynn like humans (you could have Dark Irons as a Horde equivalent.. maybe). Some other stuff that wouldn't break immersion nor be a heavy burden on people's potatoes - like new models - could also be a nice change. Community does matter. For my own part - and I really had nothing to do with the stuff that took place - I was digsuisted to see 4chan trolls come and viciously attack people who have worked their backs off for years out of love for this community and the project. Surely a lot of those probably don't even play the game and was drawn there by neo-nazi propaganda videos on youtube - but it still kinda made me despair about the future of this community which used to be known for its adult playerbase and seeking to preserve some kind of immaterial values. Community matters and people matters. People are DM:ing me on Discord and telling that they wouldn't wanna play without Shenna, for example. The major reason for why this project have been at a disadvantage compared to the hackers is because they shut down our severs and also torched them purposely so that only they could offer people's toons with all of their character progression up to that point. For my own part, I'm eagerly awaiting TBC - but I could already have gone playing on one of the already TBC servers. Community matters - and we should be able to compete well there through actually holding up the legacy banner of attracting the mature, adult playerbase that do not engage in petty drama, trolling or hacker attacks. That kind of community will always have a given segment of potential new players especially as people grow older.

I don't necessarily have a problem with this stance in the light of the situation we're in. It's great that someone raised this question though since I think that the RP-PVP crowd would be a really good audience for EP to target. We should work on some fun RP-PVP guild on the server and see how it works out. =)

Fully support! =) RP-PVP servers have been a sanctuary for the kind of mature, adult audience that are fed up with Blizzard only catering to kiddos whose gaming experience is all about "omg lol new epix" - the same kind of people who like Legacy servers. What Blizz did especially with Cata and afterwards was killing the immersion of a magical and dangerous world were you were really just an adventurer rather than some sort of superhero. This project is all about preserving a cultural treasure for future generations, and this is something RP-PVP:ers do the best, by engaging in the immersion to the full extent possible.

Both ofc lol.

Yeh that's probably gonna be my choice. =)

Either Mage or Lock, probably the later. Might try something new I never done before - like Troll Shammy, but I'm a caster at heart.

Amazing! =D Great to hear about TBC too!

I'm also waiting eagerly for Fresh.. and regarding pop statistics and such, I'm not contributing much until it arrives. No.. a god of justice he is not.. ;)

Ofc. it'd be even more epic - and an even bigger selling point - if the new server could be TBC. Obviously our team deserves rest after all they've been going through, and our admiration for all of their contributions and hard work, but if Crogge has a nearly ready TBC on his computer... please go for it. I'd actually enjoy having early TBC to begin with with the old blood knights quests where you had to suck the light directly out of Mu'ru... epic stuff. ;) However - as for xp-boosts, I must say I'm sceptical. I'm also against autistic allegiance to Blizzlike - I'd even say new models could be a boon which wouldn't change the immersion, or minor custom content like reputation for Scarlet Crusade or something (be epic for RP:ers). But part of what was lost in Cata was the magic and dangerous mystery of experiencing the world of Azeroth during all the levels, thanks to the focus being on catapulting people to the end game. If people want that, then they already have better options like WoW-mania available to them.

Why not call it 'Shenna' in your honour my lady? But otherwise... 'Atlantis' is a really nice name. 'Plaguelands' would be epic tbh.

I'd support a fresh server and hope we'll get TBC asap but I assure you that when LH starts collapsing, there'll be no ghost towns here. The server has been up for 1 hour and 45 minutes by now, not exactly fair to compare with Light Shop atm lol.

And if you don't appreciate the gifts you can do what I did: start a new account. Felt good with a fresh start for me.

So? I'm not playing atm but I'm still on EP's side. We have 10677 people on Discord atm.

I support this. We need a proper way of giving our team a fair reward for their hard labour. It should be a vanity shop only though.

I actually tried to give LH a chance since.. after all - most of their staff aren't WhiteKidney. And even if most of the players are basically good people, I didn't exactly enjoy their laggy gold spam-ridden (a lot more so than when our servers were up) servers. But most of all I became disgusted by the savage behaviour of loud parts of their fan base. Like the wear smears and character assassinations of people who have devoted years to this community, often with ugly misogynistic and antisemitic undertones (and I'm a right-winger myself lol). Really made me felt despair about the legacy community which has always been known for its mature, adult player base compared to retail. Perhaps attracting more role players would be an option to have the right kind of people come this way? So I left those idiots pretty quickly. Decided to go play on wow mania in the meanwhile. Which is about as bug-ridden, p2w and ezmode as any HoMM game post Ubi. Might try out some other TBC or Wotlk server in the meantime. I'm a kinda broke student atm but if I was sitting on a bunch of money I didn't need, it'd sure be a pleasure to donate some to Shenna or someone else who has devoted her or his life to this project. The root of the problem is the outrageous demand that people should provide entire days of work and servers for free and get nothing in return, not even through a vanity shop or something. Blizzard doesn't work like that, and not even the asshole WK really believes in it (though it was sure a good propaganda stunt to rise power...). Nothing works like that in the real world. If some very special snowflakes believes that it's the only proper way of doing it they can go and set up a server of their own.

Something is definitely not right with LH's claims in this case. Their own customers are already outraged about their lack of "transparency" (yeh, lol) about this. Seems they can't handle their own servers or tasting some of their own medicine. WK didn't give anyone a choice if the community wanted to become his money-slaves through Chinese friends at lovewow or whatever it's called. Like when he made the entire server lag like a sloth so he could steal our personal info, he's rather doing that again rather than giving the community their legitimate freedom of choice. That's all he cares. The only thing this douchebag is good at is exploiting vulnerable people.

LH is "running smoothly"? Were where you yesterday? Get gold whispers every ten minutes, especially on their Elysium server - and it's so common and regularly occurring in the Trade chat that they can't exactly be doing everything they can to stop it... Don't fall for their B. S. Apart from a fresh TBC server - I'd love to see us advance into TBC as quick as possible - I'd like an increased focus on Roleplaying in one way or another. Would attract the right kind of people tbh...

I would enjoy a fresh TBC server.