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Originally Posted by hammertime7795
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Well this is clearly not true since he allows outright racist names that never would have been allowed in classic. I don't have 15 year old parses. Things were broken in classic it took time to fix them. Going back to broken mechanics that they went and fixed later is silly and not classic just broken.
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While I agree with you, the devs of P99 do not, and have bluntly stated so.
Look at class-based XP penalties. When EQ game out, the knowledge of group roles wasn't well-known, so the devs ran on the assumption that a hybrid of warrior and druid, or warrior and cleric, was more powerful and more versatile than either parent class, so a massive 40% penalty was applied.
Then, after EQ was out for a while, they realized that each group member has a role to play, and that specialization is just as valuable as versatility, so they removed the class-based penalties because they weren't relevant to the MMO dynamic.
Yet, here we are with class penalties because they were present in classic EQ. Even though the community and even the creators of the game themselves admitted they screwed that one up, here it is, because there it was.