Acrylia shard kinda sucked in AC1.0. Only dropped from the two guards at the entrance to the city area or from Inner AC which barely anyone did the key for.

On phinny are you competing for shard camps or do you get a new zone instance?

I'm sure there are like 10 pick instances per zone during prime time.

Jesus, this thread is still going? Seriously Sirken, just make VP no CSR again. Most of the people who were around during that period agree it was some of the most fun they've ever had in EQ. The content is old and trivial. Most of the loot is weak. The difficulty of attaining a key keeps most casuals out of the zone. It is literally the perfect situation to let the raid guilds take their frustrations out on each other.

The raid scene on this server has gotten so lame that bragging rights basically boil down to who was able to run to a mob first... no CSR VP would actually present an opportunity where raids would have to do more than wait for the FTE race and then kill an uncontested mob. It would actually reintroduce some degree of competition to raiding.

If you consider foot races competition I'm sure the dept of fun guild will be holding another rivervale race at some point in the future, but that shit is weak when you're talking about end game guilds. Let us train the hell out of each other and utilize the zone fully and see who gets mobs. 1 zone of anarchy on a server governed by endless rules isn't asking much.

Edit - just for clarity, for the majority of no CSR VP I was on the losing end of things. TMO wrecked us for months before we got our first kill. It was still way more fun than the weekly special olympics we've got going on in ToV and Kael. Make VP great again.

Wasn't the nexus the port in/out zoning using the translocator people? I'm not knowledgeable of luclin but the point would be to remove those silly people in favor of a rocket ship


Duh

Nexus wasn't nearly as bad as PoK books, and actually a pretty solid compromise imo. I think the pads worked on a 15 minute timer, so getting a port from a druid/wiz was still way more convenient.

Also, Bazaar was dope simply because there was an arena there. Had a ton of fun in Luclin/PoP doing post raid night "king of the arena" events with other guilds in the bazaar arena. I'm admittedly not much of a trader so I don't really see the appeal of EC tunnel, but bazaar arena would be a welcome addition imo.

but but but a fucking spaceship!

NOT CLASSIC

I must admit, I am slightly jealous you are getting to experience Luclin.

Oh, no. I recall the timer was either 15 or 20 minutes and you had to get a shard of the nexus from either the people or from a groundspawn in order to use the teleporters. The NPCs hanging out at the spires were only there to tell you how to use it and to announce when a port was about to happen.