classic servers.. would have huge population even if it was just a new server with TOA ..

over half the people that went to them went for the "new" faction not the lack of TOA .. then a few months later once the casuals started getting stomped in rvr again by the hardcore that got high RR quickly... the servers started dieing off again ...

Ywain may not have been needed if classics never split and drove off population...

more people left the game completely, then reactivated so even after classic launch the game still dropped over all population...

it would of been better for mythic to focus solely on regular servers then wasting resources on classics.

 

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YOu have your historical timelines messed up. Atlantis theoretically predated Rome by over 1000 years and came from Greek myth, not Egyptian. At its height, the Egyptian civilization predated Rome by 1500-2000 year. Romans in Britannia had nothing to do with either Egypt or Atlantis. At least Midgard fits the time period of Norse mythology.

Well it certainly doesnt have much storyline or I didnt read it anywhere ingame but the mood of game is done well. And I really like classic Hibernia the most or some parts of mid SI.

Btw, it might sound strange, but what I like about daoc is that you dont have to spam 20 buttons in a fight. No crap about loading 4 dots or 3-4 nukes doing same ammount as 1-2 spells in daoc could hit for. It's not one of those games with 40 skills although Im sure, if the game still was in development it would have seen some more.

However its ironic with all the charges you must keep up or use - lol and that is probably just worse !

and toa was an ancient lost civilization that died out .... now, if atlantis was newer lore then camelot.. then it wouldnt have fit..

but considering it was the lands of the ancients, where the masters were all dead and you were doing trials to prove your worth...

umm.. seems to fit just fine.

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VII ruler of eqypt... connections with julius ceasar..

rome and egypt talked...

seriously it isnt that far off as you think.

if the atlantians were still living in the time of DAoC then it wouldnt of fit.. but being a long distance land of myth, then it fits just fine.. because the myth of atlantis would have came through the eqyptian connections to the romans that were scattered all over albion (but also mostly dead)

 

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ToA was needed, it was just implemented the wrong way. The high-end pve content made DAoC cater for both pve and rvr players, but also added a new dimension to the game. What was wrong was that most of the abilities were silly and were far to over the top, I remember 25% cast speed with tiny croc, hiding amg trees, insanity how much I could do there. If they had been implemented differently I'd suggest ToA would have been a success, the nail in the coffin for me was NF.

 

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The "Romans" that remained in Britannia had long since gone native, and ROman literature was scarce, much less Atlantian lore. The Irish had to re introduce Christianity to Britannia, for example.


You do realize that Cleopatra was of Greek origins (Ptolemy's line) not Egyptian, right? Egypt was 1000 years past its prime when Rome arrive and was a Hellenistic, not Egyptian culture.

Romans in space...

 

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