Originally Posted by Splorf22 (Post 965103)

No, the variance is the effect of the congestion, not the cause. Rogean and co got tired of having 200 people on every bosses spawnpoint.

I don't like variance because although it does solve the congestion problem it does so by making the endgame so annoying that most people can't/choose not to participate. I was chatting with Flemming yesterday on my mage and asked how much tracking he did. He said 10 hours and I thought that was a lot, but apparently a lot of people do 40+ hours (!).

Originally Posted by Tekman (Post 964396)

Rodcet Wut

Originally Posted by Lyra (Post 964418)

Rodcet Who

Originally Posted by pharmakos (Post 965205)

did ya think you could raid with me?



know your spellbook from the a to the z

Originally Posted by August (Post 964958)

I guess my thought on this is that classic is not about adhering to the strict guidelines that were set forth in the early golden days but more about NOT wanting what further expansions gave us, such as:

AAs
Cats on the Moon
Mounts
Bazaar
PoK books
Instances
Spreading out the world / obsoleting the old-world content.

I'm not sure how 'classic' defines what we currently have. Being in Kunark for 2.5 years is not 'classic' - there is too much platinum on the server. The server is too top end. The server has too much item bloat.

To add to that, technology has significantly advanced since the 'classic' times. We have resources to find out everything we would ever want to know about X quest and Y NPC. Hell, even the wiki and it's price watching is not 'classic'. Part of the great thing bout EQ is that I could catch a steal on an item and then resell it for gain. Now when you buy an item you are BASICALLY using the bazaar - pull up your search interface (wiki.project1999.org) and you can see a listing of all the items and their sell price.

I just think the excuse of 'we want it classic - no tokens! no respawns!' is so old hat and just caters to the people who want to monopolize the content. While a high end guild certainly dominated servers across the board, we had 20+ servers to spread them out on, and if you wanted to be a 'hardcore raider' you could get into that guild on your server. On this server, we have 300+ 'hardcores' and 1000s of people who know their class and would like to attend a raid and there's only enough end game to support 60.

Devs have worked hard on this server and you can't expect a small team to recreate what a whole org did back in 1999. There is definitely an issue at the top that is affecting a vocal minority of players on p1999 - the same vocal minority that likes to rant and flame on these boards. There's a lot of logistics problems with fixing the end game bloat, but let's not wave the 'classic flag' as a reason not to pursue any of those options.

Originally Posted by Vild (Post 964552)

The way some people get energy from projecting their own misery on their surrounding never ceases to amaze. Add to that the way those people seem to find each other and do it in groups to multiply the effect.

Solution 1; Take the fight to them, in this case beat them at their own game.
Problem with that is you will become the very thing you hate; a greedy, cockblocking loot whore.

Solution 2; Don't bother with raiding P1999, enjoy the rest of the content solo or in a group. Dungeon crawling with big pulls will be just as fun as any Kunark raid (pre VP).
EQ raiding doesn't become serious fun until PoP!

Solution 3; Face the fact that it's been 14 years and MMO's have evolved. Let EQ stay a memory and realize that "first ever" is not the same as "best ever".

Don't bother flaming this, I wont read it and don't give a fuck anyway!

\V

Originally Posted by August (Post 965057)

Chicken and the egg. Scarcity of an item aka large demand lets the price of the item soar. Scarcity of content creates a high price of obtaining said content, which in turn makes it hard for people to pay that 'cost' of possession. The problem is very much lack of content.