I suspect a better solution will be in place as soon as staff can get the server bounced again.

So I haven't played in a long while but am I to understand I wouldn't get experience from gnoll fangs at the moment? They're no-drop, so I mean they can't exactly be hoarded for alts. Personally disappointing, since given my playstyle P99 might as well be called Gnoll Dentist Simulator.

Think of it like this: You're still free to collect quest turn in items. Once quest XP is re-enabled, go turn them all in. You're still getting the same total amount of xp, it's just a smaller percentage of whatever level you happened to level up to in the meantime.

Douglas is a man with a plan.

To gagbert, I don't care enough about to create the diagram to show you the error of your ways. Just imagine a normal distribution graph X-axis = time played in EQ, Y-axis = number of players. There is a dot representing you. Everyone to left of the dot you'd call casual scum. Anyone to the right you'd call "obsessed" with the game. Maybe you can step back from RnF where surprise surprise you don't hear anything good about anyone :D:D

SeedyDude288, trolls on reddit are trolling? Oh no. Reminds me of the time camping frenzy and someone... wait... no I mean the time camping Efreeti... no wait... the time camping... oh wait, this "history" you allude to doesn't exist. People don't like Castle because he pushes the envelope and challenges people to believe in what's possible. He's a big man who talks a big game. So big, he must often describe himself in the third-person for no other could due justice his awesomeness. This rubs a few scrubs... the wrong way.

He doesn't get the joke, but he does get the heart of the matter: Castle ≠ bad guy. To correct the former, maybe I should stop being so darn subtle? Or maybe more over the top? I don't know - I know some people get it at least. I've had to use hinting and allusion to only some success. Maybe lots of Ogres and Trolls on forums so low INT. Lot of trolls confirmed... hmmmm... *puts his sunglasses back on* It's probably blind jealousy of my awesome elf resume - It's always that in the end. I guess you can't keep ______ going if everyone is in on the ________.

Lastly,

Fact Check: True

I'm a casual user, which means I only can get on for maybe an hour or so a night. I am married and I have a toddler, so my time is at a premium, but I love to play EQ.

Quest XP is literally the only thing that keeps me leveling at a somewhat speedy pace.

My Iksar is currently stuck in the slow bog between levels 3-6, when many new users like myself get bored at the grind and end up stopping playing. You know what fixes that? Quest XP. Because otherwise, all I'm doing is mindlessly killing literally hundreds of skeletons over and over. Not collecting items. Not doing quests. Because why should I? There's no quest xp.

I was super excited to snag some Iksar bandit masks and turn them in for my new shackle, hoping the xp bump would hit me to level 5. "Oh wait, it's disabled." Womp womp, no XP. It was a real bummer guys.

You need to bring back quest xp. You're ruining the game.

The problem is that now my bank and inventory are ENTIRELY full just waiting to turn in CB Belts and LS/GLS. I have 0 inventory space and this is effectively killing any motivation I have to play my alts. I was stockpiling CB Belts and LS/GLS prior to Kunark being released completely unaware the Devs would implement such a terrible decision to remove quest exp.

And there's still two more weeks until quest experience is turned back on...

It's sad that the Devs can't even figure out how to disable (or limit somehow) the quest in question that was being abused - instead they ruin it for hundreds of people who are legitimate players. Way to go!!

Iksars are already over 50
other races are already 59
As some one who only just started a week ago if i hadn't run in to some amazing people i would have already left.
No one really cares who hits 60 first. instead you disrupt new players that you NEED to keep the population up. You then also screw the economy because so many people need that little extra plat from selling belts to buy expensive spells....
so the only people this really even affects are the newbs that cant afford items to PL themselves or dont have High level guild mates/friends yet to level them

Great Plan....

It's better to have some monopolize zones/mob PLing than let people quest without distrupting others.

it seems more like some higher tier guilds said we didn't plan ahead and we cant have that so we demand you slow everyone down so we can have a chance at brining down raid mobs first