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

Been keeping an eye on The Sleeper. I have very little faith in the developers' ability to actually get it right, they show zero ability to do it or even willingness to try. They constantly post stuff like "we might keep /melody in because it's cool" or "we're considering re-balancing the classes a little" and their lead dev literally claimed that warriors never needed proccing weapons to hold aggro (and his avatar is an epic warrior so I fully expect him to sneak little "features" into the server that make warriors overpowered). They have no intentions of removing things like the map and other non-classic features like that because, quoting their lead dev, "nothing wrong with a little convenience." Browsing their forums killed my faith in their ability to make the server legit and accurate. Reckon it'll be like VZ/TZ except no PvP.

They seem very dedicated to the server, but every time one of their devs or prominent beta testers post, it just screams "I have no clue what I'm talking about." The server seems worth trying just for Velious content and the ability to two-box, but I wouldn't count on quality being any higher than the countless shitty amateur servers that have sprung up over the years. They literally just don't seem good enough at it, and they aren't devoted to making things classic. They're happy to leave shit non-classic wherever it suits their favorite classes or whatever, not understanding that this will alienate most prospective players. When I tried to explain that seeking out the classic factor wherever possible was what made this server so succesful, they didn't even seem to understand the idea.

They won't even move to a proper forum but insist on sticking with the absolutely terrible one they have, lacking common format syntax and a search function which makes it completely impossible to navigate or post properly. However, they seem pretty likely to actually get the server up and, judging by the amount of time they've been working on it, can at least be expected not to disappear after a month. I suppose if it isn't a total failure then enough player feedback might get them to understand that the key to a good classic server is to actually strive to be classic. I just hope their lead dev isn't as oblivious as he sounds in his forum posts. I encourage anyone who tries the server to be critical and give them a lot of feedback so it doesn't die out, P99 has set the bar pretty high and nobody will succeed with a shitty half-assed server. The world really needs a 2-boxing server of decent quality.

Hmmm, is this you?

1. So first of all i made an epicemu account, said to click a ling to make an eq login from the menu... where is this link? Am i missing something? I need two accounts. All i saw was my profile and that i could change my password.
2. For above reasons I have not bothered to install your projects code into a seperate file, I started playing p99 recently.
3. I'm very interested in the nerf status of more then a few things, im sorry if I don't have time to sort through 100's of posts for this a summary would be sufficent if someone wouldnt mind. ( monk ac / defensive nerf, SK and Necro pet pulling nerf, will /melody be available?, Are you using the "new" spells from live, ex. mages and their pets dumping dps thats unheard of in classic, I read that you "fixed" warrior taunt? Personally and I don't mean to rant, but if your decent its not a problem on p99, have you indeed changed dragon dmg / hp's / aoe timers to make it harder? I ask that only because many many years ago i played on the combine server on live. I believe RoI had ~70 people in their raid , ours, FoH had around 40-50, and it wasnt playland easy. If you guys are doing this with 20 people on beta the code is incredibly wrong or your using the "new" caster spells, monk fists(which on live, are retarded compared to classic, and god knows what else, If I'm wrong please I mean no offense but I'd like to play a classic that isnt wow, with 20 man raids or whatever the hell they do there, swtor had 8man raids and that was retarded sorry. If you guys have a list of whats been changed from live or something? whats not "classic" etc.. would really like to see this. All in all I'd like to login to the open beta and see for myself but I have yet to see anywhere or any link to do so. If this is redundant im sorry.

Thanks for the reply kegz, velious is my absolute favorite expansion and i am indeed an elitist in that aspect i guess you could say. I played a monk on the combine server on live from classic to GoD, and lead raid pulls, I'm getting back in gear on p99.. praceticing fiegn pulling etc.. With college so late in my life ( after 4 years of avionics tech in the navy ) im majoring in physics but i will no doubt do my best to go all out for end game velious. Luclin and PoP are decent, as well as GoD (absolutely love the level if difficulty involved there, elitist's shine here). Also if there are any planned top end guilds in the works I have a long history with eq and know the content well, I would therefore be interested in a bat phone type guild if any are in the works. Also I did indeed look at that particular post, which was why i asked, because a monk in cloth , under the weight limmit, and max defense will trump almost every class in tanking ability, I do so on p99, pulling argo from warriors, sk, pallys, and even casters and taking minimal dammage even grossly overweight and without worn haste. This may seem OP but its really more skill then one would think, as for melody, this may be the turning point of weather i roll a bard or monk, as i can cc and much more without it, but raid wise and grouping it is much easier to use melody imo. Also my bard on fippy tanked fairly well up to 50 in classic, that was my first and only bard and i quit before kunark but i might like to do more endgame with a bard as theyre just as fun as monks for me. I also thought SK but was also wondering about the pet pulling thing as well?

Wow. Just Wow.