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Originally Posted by loramin
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Trakanon was the bottleneck: no one was failing to get into VP on live because they couldn't do Pained Soul ... they were failing to get in because the top guild on their server could kill Trakanon and they couldn't.
Again, guild's "locking down" top content (ie. entire zones gate-kept by raid mobs) was 100% classic. Guilds trading turns to keep a spawn point monopolized for weeks on end 100% wasn't.
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We aren't talking about the bottlenecks for the VP key or raiding in VP. We are talking about "normal mob" camp monopolization lol. Please stop changing the topic to try and avoid admitting you are wrong.
If pained soul was as rare on live as it was on P99, you are looking at an average of like 20 hours per pop. That is like 1 key per day. Trakanon drops like 4 or 5 teeth, so they are pretty similar in terms of how many drop per week. On live, the following "regular mob" camps must have been monopolized by the top guilds trying to get into VP at minimum:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Pained_Soul and
https://wiki.project1999.com/Rotting_skeleton . Unless you want to try and claim top guilds were not monopolizing VP keys, you must admit that they were monopolizing these two "normal mobs" to get enough keys. Therefore, guilds monopolizing certain "regular mobs" for raiding is classic. Yet again, you prove my point and fail to see it lol.
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Originally Posted by loramin
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That's like saying we don't have shitty servers that come down all the time, so we can only have raid mobs once per whatever-their-timer is. But that's false: the staff implemented earthquakes, which aren't "classic" ... but are clearly "more classic" than having nothing at all.
Similarly here I agree we can't do exactly what the GM guide says ... but that doesn't mean we can't look to it for clarity as to what live was like, so we can do our best to simulate it here.
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Except we can't look to it for clarity, because it is impossible for us to get the number of GMs required to make the guidebook work. It is literally irrelevant, because it is a guidebook for a server with full time paid GMs, which our server will never have. Just because there are some things that COULD make P99 more classic, doesn't mean they can. For example, we COULD theoretically find all of the original servers and code. That would certainly make P99 more classic, but it isn't possible. Just like it isn't possible to get the correct number of GMs.