A fresh idea for a TBC server: give me your opinions!

['Facepalm']

Very promising and interesting idea you got there, Blukkie.
Looking forward to see how this is gonna turn out, let us know about it.
Good luck!

[koen1993]

The idea looks very promising. Looking for a TBC private server which comes very close to retail for over half a year now. I only found servers where every retard could have full epic gear in less than 3 hours.

Also, if you have a lay out for the website, I am willing to Base the website with my html/css knowledge.

Best regards,
Koen

[Myuu]

This looks very awesome! Im gonna try this out ASAP :P
But tbh i think it should be patch 2.4.3. It's a bit harder to get members at first but once you have some members it just gets a lot better because you can focus 100% on making new content etc as you wont have to keep on fixing new bugs once new patches releases. And don't say that there are no big pre wotlk or pre tbc patch servers because I know some servers with 300+ players online all the time.

[Imbecill]

Gief realmlist so i can be a beta tester D:

[blukkiee]

The server website is almost done. On there I will be posting all changes regarding to the server.

The server will be released with a close-to-blizzlike Karazhan and Gruul's lair.

So far:

- Servant Quarters (random boss) -
- Attumen & Midnight - DONE!
- Moroes - DONE!
- Maiden of Virtue - DONE!
- Opera Event - DONE!
- The Curator - DONE!
- Chess Event - skipped (needs core scripting / workaround for loot will be made later)
- Terestian Illhoof - DONE!
- Shade of Aran - DONE!
- Netherspite -
- Nightbane -
- Prince Malchezaar -

- Teleporter - DONE!
- Trash -
- Trash respawn shit -

Videos of all fights will be released on the website aswell!

I've made a couple of core fixes myself, but you'll see that in the big list of fixes when the website is released.
The server is 2.4.3, running on my custom ArcEmu.

The server will start out with at least 50 active people. 79 accounts have been registered for the Closed Beta already.

STAY TUNED!

[Zotek]

Sounds awesome, but some changes I think that would be nice:

Start out in MC/ZG gear, so there is more of a reason to do the 5 man instances at 70.

Increased profession and reputation rates since these are boring to raise but should still be an accomplishment, I think 3x would be nice.

Please do not release any boss that isn't well scripted, I'm tired of servers that release bosses half scripted and people down them easily, then a month later the boss is fully scripted and he's much easier to kill cause they already have his loot.

No custom items with stats that are better than real gear.

Award fun items like ogre suit, mini-pets, murloc costume for voting/donating.

There is a vendor in Shattrath that sells T6 quality items for badges from 5 man heroics, remove him so you have to do all the raids to progress and can't just farm 5 mans.

[Mr. Clean]

I think its great you want to do this, but from what I can tell people are missing the key issue here.

You want to create a server which focus's on 40 man raids. And thats awesome, i miss those. But its 40 people you have to have on at any given time, and not only that but 40 people on each faction to progress. The idea is fine, but getting the people and keeping them is not so much as easy.

[blukkiee]

Start out in MC/ZG gear, so there is more of a reason to do the 5 man instances at 70.

Gear is 70% blues, 30% greens. So it's pretty much a must to gather better gear or else you won't be able to go far in Karazhan.
Plus, I reimplemented all of the attunements. Which requires the 5-man dungeons.

Increased profession and reputation rates since these are boring to raise but should still be an accomplishment, I think 3x would be nice.

Profession rate will be noticeably higher yes, reputation not so.
I want people to be "proud" of their character, just like retail where they work hard for it.

Please do not release any boss that isn't well scripted, I'm tired of servers that release bosses half scripted and people down them easily, then a month later the boss is fully scripted and he's much easier to kill cause they already have his loot.

You're right on this one. I would never do that, as I have noticed this on plenty of servers as well. I'm a perfectionist myself, so releasing a boss is always hard for me haha.

No custom items with stats that are better than real gear.

I would never do that. Not even think about it.

Award fun items like ogre suit, mini-pets, murloc costume for voting/donating.

Those will likely be voting rewards, IF I'm going to implement a voting-system. because tbh I've seen big servers with a voting system and I've never seen them on the list. Server that reward actually good items for voting are always on top.

There is a vendor in Shattrath that sells T6 quality items for badges from 5 man heroics, remove him so you have to do all the raids to progress and can't just farm 5 mans.

That's been taken care of. These mobs have had their vendor-table removed and are placed in their item-level instances, near a high-end boss.
Magister's Terrace is not accessible before completing the SSC pre-quest either. MGT Heroic is disabled atm.

The whole 40-man idea has been scrapped, it's going to be a retail-like TBC with PvP seasons and instance releases approx. each 1-3 months.

[jolle_103]

This idea seems very promising indeed. If you are in need of any help with anything at all, feel free to contact me. I'm somewhat good at HTML/CSS and basic PHP/SQL, but I'd do whatever I can to help you out.

[Zotek]

Nice work, this server could become great, are you planning to add reset timers for instances? Would be nice to make it longer to gear up and do multiple instances instead of just farming whichever is best.

[blukkiee]

Nice work, this server could become great, are you planning to add reset timers for instances? Would be nice to make it longer to gear up and do multiple instances instead of just farming whichever is best.

Yes, I am planning to.

[blukkiee]

Crappy website has been released to keep everyone up-to-date to changes made in BETA.
Don't mind the banner, lol. I suck at making photoshopped WoW images.

The Outlands Server - Home page

[Sebastian011]

I'd like to help you out if i can!

Hit me up on [email protected]

[Iaccidentallytwink]

loltbc .

[mag1212]

loltbc .

lol u.
cant wait till this server is out u was a rly good Dev on Q-Gaming