End the Debate? Hardcore and Regular Servers

[SummonerSenah]

I see a few problems here. Namely, how would you define hardcore for this type of thing? I have almost all battle classes to 50 yet I haven't done EX Primals or Coil. Where does something like that fit in between people that are doing EX/Coil and the people that haven't even got their first 50 yet?

[Worm]

I don't know why this is so hard for you guys to imagine. It'd just be a server that's harder, smaller HP pools, steeper death penalties, harder leveling, etc, etc, etc. It's certainly not creative or anything, but the game isn't "mathematically incapable" of having a server like that. Like the Siege Perilous shard in UO. Certainly it might not be popular of financially sound but we don't have to pretend it's some n-hard compsci puzzle to make a server that's harder.

[Maduro]

Instead of trying to segregate hardcores vs. casuals, why don't we just give more incentive for hardcores to play with casuals. Add something like a new type of tome that you get for having a player in your party who has never completed that specific duty? Have those tomes used to make the best gear in the game better. Sure, you could run through a bunch of stuff with your current FC,LS, etc. but eventually you would have to reach out to new people, so there would be a certain point where the hardcores are looking for noobs to help. If something like this was implemented it would make the most hardcore player also the most helpful to everyone else.

[SionDurant]

Instead of trying to segregate hardcores vs. casuals, why don't we just give more incentive for hardcores to play with casuals. Add something like a new type of tome that you get for having a player in your party who has never completed that specific duty? Have those tomes used to make the best gear in the game better. Sure, you could run through a bunch of stuff with your current FC,LS, etc. but eventually you would have to reach out to new people, so there would be a certain point where the hardcores are looking for noobs to help. If something like this was implemented it would make the most hardcore player also the most helpful to everyone else.

Because then the Hardcores I know will just start complaining say that SE does nerf Atma RNG and makes it static style drops, they'll say "This is too easy, I should be the only one with Animus" or rather they'll say something else in different words but truly mean what I quoted.

[NyneAlexander]

lol @ trying to level a new job on a hardcore server. "i've been waiting in the DF que for cutters cry for 3 days"

[Felis]

Hmm, Hardcore server
2.3 Hardcore: Coil 1-5 get removed. Please speed up to clear Coil 5 or the character get transfered to a casual server

[Mitsukai123]

This thread gave me cancer. Thanks, OP.