[Lordfate]

1. PvP? PvE? Mix? (explain if mix)
[Me] PvE - I have no interest in PVP, I just like to do my thing.

2. All available expansions? Progression? Old school?
[Me] Progression is fun, but it's annoying not having access to the better levelling areas. Faster xp curve helps with that.

3. Custom content, or EqLive standard?
[Me] I like a mix of both. I like when custom quests and items are added to EQLive zones. My favorite servers have been ones with custom items liberally sprinkled across all zones so that you have to go on an easter egg hunt to find them. ie clearing through Siren's Grotto and discovering that a certain type of siren deep within drops a really nice warrior 1hs.

5. Exp rates?
[Me] I prefer somewhere around 5x or so, depending on player power vs mob power.

6. Lvl 1 grind? Insta level?
[Me] Grinding isn't particularly fun from lower levels, but it's good to make us work a little bit to reach max level. 6-10 hours to reach max level seems reasonable.

7. Equipment/spell vendors? ect?
[Me] Yes, yes. Hunting for spells is a total pain in the ass. My favorite implementation of this would auto-scribe your spells when you levelled, sublime.

8. Bots?
[Me] I'd rather box a crew than have a lot of bots, but I don't mind when they're around.

9. Macroquest allowed? (admit to being a big mq2er myself).
[Me] Yes! Most of my enjoyment of EQ comes from boxing a group and that's much much harder without MQ2. I think it's totally reasonable to ban players for using MQ2s warping/equip/any other more hack-y features.

10. Leave me alone to play server? or gm hosted events/fun suprises?
[Me] Either. I think the content should speak for itself.

Additional suggestions:

A. Give me some sort of progression so I can move from zone to zone and feel that sense of achievement and progress. Please allow 1 group to do pretty much all of the progression, I really hate when I hit a roadblock where I suddenly need 2-3 groups to progress. That's when I typically stop playing (and stop donating) on a server.

B. Give me some alternate gear progression, such as weapons/gear purchasable for large amounts of platinum. This gives players an alternative to grinding progression zones and helps break things up.

C. Let me feel powerful. Let me twink new chars with awesome items, one way to do this is to remove No Drop and avoid recommended/minimum level. I love creating a new char and tearing through the content with high end weapons. Bonus: This fosters a lot of goodwill in the playerbase because they tend to give away nice items to other players, since they typically have more than they need.

D. Teleporter! Travel was the worst part of EQ, so please include a teleporter that sends you to any zone. This is especially important for multi-boxers, I hate playing on servers where I have to run my crew through zone after zone just to get to a new hunting ground.