[Murri]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Al'Kabor had longevity due to a few factors.

• Older code base made the game just progress slower. DPS was lower, spells were less powerful, there were fewer AAs, the client forces slower playstyle due to how limiting it is.
• Obscurity with a Mac client / PC Hack client lead to a very small population. Basically even the top guild was running with 30-35 mains during low times and 40-45 during high times. Doing events like Bertoxxulous, Rallos Zek, PoAir/Earth Rings, Coirnav, Rathe Council with only 40~ mains and 5 boxes is just not feasible.
• No 85/15 backflag rule and the lack of checklist flags meant EVERY person who was flagged in Elemental Planes did their flags in order and was required to have every single one. Same with PoTime. Having to devote a few weeks out of every few months to doing an entire backflag cycle to flag 3-4 new recruits was a huge time sink.

Now... I would probably still play an EQLive POP locked server. But it wouldn't have the long lasting effect that Al'Kabor had.

When your spells do 25%~ more damage or heals due to updated spell values, when your Melee parse 25-50% more due to updated Melee tables, when you only need to do PoP flagging once or twice and then just do EP Gods to backflag for each EP by hailing the Essence at the end, or doing PoTime for the P3 backflag drops... there isn't much of a struggle to get into Time and stay there, and of course having 72 members on your raid makes all content trivial. It's not until they cut down raids to 54 man where the challenge in the raids is very substantial and the tiers of guilds show up by who can and who cannot beat the content.

Phinigel will beat PoTime within the week I suspect. I wouldn't be too surprised if some guild is in Elemental Planes in the next day or two. Would be similar on any time locked PoP server.

Also when the revamped plane of mischief certain people who lived in that zone were pissed. Mac server had the pre revamp version forever.