Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see how this is workable.
Look you are not going to get the population of something like P1999.
So tell me about the play experience of a warrior or rogue on this server. You can insert a lot of other classes in those spots.
You can do the old necro soloing some gear for the class you really want to play. Or maybe an enchanter or bard to do some of their particular types of soloing. A druid or Wizard quadding. A mage doing their solo that works quit well in some locations, but no where near what a necro could do.
But the xp gain is pretty low. You are going to be grinding. Then maybe grinding on another class depending on what you do.
What about epics? I kind of think that some of them aren't going to be doable solo. Maybe if you play long enough to get to GoD content or something, maybe a shaman or necro could solo theirs (don't really know those quests). What about everyone else? Some epics require you to go to sky. That is probably a non-starter for most classes.
This is a catch-22. If you want to have anything like live, you have to have the population. If you don't have that, then a bunch of the classes I mentioned above is pretty much what you are going to have.
So most servers adjust things somehow, either with boxing, bot armies, gear drops, or tweaking the mechanics.
But a classic style server with none of that? If they don't come, it won't be viable, not really. If they do come, maybe it will be then, but you would have to have people willing to work with others and dedicate time to doing content as a group.
At best you might get 50 or so people on at a given time, if your server is a runaway success. And to progress very far, those guys would basically have to function like a raid guild.
Just don't think it is going to happen.
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