Post from a "casual scum"

[Velerin]

I found this server about 6 months ago. I spend a lot of time forum lurking (while procrastinating at work). Been having an awesome time playing some good ole classic eq (played a lot from 99-03 or so). Lots of ideas are bouncing around, some good, some bad but I don't have enough first hand experience to say what'll work. Just thought I'd add my two cents from a "casual scum" and maybe some others feel the same..
I don't want anything handed to me. Y'all wake up at 3am and put in tons of work to get your pixels.. If you wanna do that go for it. I could care less about loot. In the end what does a piece of loot really mean if you're not having fun getting it? I just want to have a chance to kill a few mobs. I want that feeling of "are we gonna wipe?, ah #$!$, we're gonna wipe!...nooo we made it!" Classic eq. Classic eq didn't have people with tons of accounts with multiple 60s camped out at targets. I don't understand the point of zerging a mob that is no challenge whatsoever for loot that will probably just go to a 7th alt or something.
One thing I have noticed in the 6 months I've been playing is people have seemed the happiest and most optimistic over this last week or so and seem to be having fun. Isn't that the point of this whole project? All this work done to recreate classic eq? This is by far the best classic eq simulator out there and the developers have done an amazing job.
If someone is so focused on "winning" this server maybe they should move to a game that is well..actually new?

[Aviann]

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

I found this server about 6 months ago. I spend a lot of time forum lurking (while procrastinating at work). Been having an awesome time playing some good ole classic eq (played a lot from 99-03 or so). Lots of ideas are bouncing around, some good, some bad but I don't have enough first hand experience to say what'll work. Just thought I'd add my two cents from a "casual scum" and maybe some others feel the same..
I don't want anything handed to me. Y'all wake up at 3am and put in tons of work to get your pixels.. If you wanna do that go for it. I could care less about loot. In the end what does a piece of loot really mean if you're not having fun getting it? I just want to have a chance to kill a few mobs. I want that feeling of "are we gonna wipe?, ah #$!$, we're gonna wipe!...nooo we made it!" Classic eq. Classic eq didn't have people with tons of accounts with multiple 60s camped out at targets. I don't understand the point of zerging a mob that is no challenge whatsoever for loot that will probably just go to a 7th alt or something.
One thing I have noticed in the 6 months I've been playing is people have seemed the happiest and most optimistic over this last week or so and seem to be having fun. Isn't that the point of this whole project? All this work done to recreate classic eq? This is by far the best classic eq simulator out there and the developers have done an amazing job.
If someone is so focused on "winning" this server maybe they should move to a game that is well..actually new?

Basically what I had wrote before my posts got deleted... You don't need to fix the raid scene, just need to fix the one guild cock blocking the rest of the server with their army of alts. How to do that? I don't know. I don't know what these GMs are capable of, but hopefully we can come to a settlement soon enough, and it won't involve a forced rotation, however beneficial it may be to smaller guilds.

[Droog007]

Truth

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

Basically what I had wrote before my posts got deleted... You don't need to fix the raid scene, just need to fix the one guild cock blocking the rest of the server with their army of alts. How to do that? I don't know. I don't know what these GMs are capable of, but hopefully we can come to a settlement soon enough, and it won't involve a forced rotation, however beneficial it may be to smaller guilds.

One character per ip, gestapo points for turning in known multi character users o_O

[Aviann]

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

One character per ip, gestapo points for turning in known multi character users o_O

I wouldn't be opposed to this. Of course, it would suck for a lot of legit people.

[heazels]

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

I found this server about 6 months ago. I spend a lot of time forum lurking (while procrastinating at work). Been having an awesome time playing some good ole classic eq (played a lot from 99-03 or so). Lots of ideas are bouncing around, some good, some bad but I don't have enough first hand experience to say what'll work. Just thought I'd add my two cents from a "casual scum" and maybe some others feel the same..
I don't want anything handed to me. Y'all wake up at 3am and put in tons of work to get your pixels.. If you wanna do that go for it. I could care less about loot. In the end what does a piece of loot really mean if you're not having fun getting it? I just want to have a chance to kill a few mobs. I want that feeling of "are we gonna wipe?, ah #$!$, we're gonna wipe!...nooo we made it!" Classic eq. Classic eq didn't have people with tons of accounts with multiple 60s camped out at targets. I don't understand the point of zerging a mob that is no challenge whatsoever for loot that will probably just go to a 7th alt or something.
One thing I have noticed in the 6 months I've been playing is people have seemed the happiest and most optimistic over this last week or so and seem to be having fun. Isn't that the point of this whole project? All this work done to recreate classic eq? This is by far the best classic eq simulator out there and the developers have done an amazing job.
If someone is so focused on "winning" this server maybe they should move to a game that is well..actually new?

And when your character with gear is always camped out at raid targets, whats all the effort to gear up matter? You may has well been playing skyrim, no one sees you, so you dont exist to most people most of the time.

[Aviann]

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

And when your character with gear is always camped out at raid targets, whats all the effort to gear up matter? You may has well been playing skyrim, no one sees you, so you dont exist to most people most of the time.

Some people just want to see the world burn.

[whitebandit]

Lets just Wipe P99 and start anew. :-p

I do agree with this post though.

[heazels]

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

Some people just want to see the world burn.

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[citizen1080]

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

Basically what I had wrote before my posts got deleted... You don't need to fix the raid scene, just need to fix the one guild cock blocking the rest of the server with their army of alts. How to do that? I don't know. I don't know what these GMs are capable of, but hopefully we can come to a settlement soon enough, and it won't involve a forced rotation, however beneficial it may be to smaller guilds.

The amount of extra accounts people have here is not classic. Therefore, we need an un-classic solution for this.

I propose we figure out what zone is a somewhat equal distance away from the various raid targets and have a NPC placed there. Once this NPC is hailed a ~1-2 hour buff is placed on the player and persists through death. This buff would allow them to get onto a raid mobs hate list without being either DT'd or Banished to the middle of OOT (up to the staff)

This would require everyone to start at the same point when racing for mobs. The Alt Army would still have a leg up on other people because they could log out their army at the NPC and would only have to race from A to B. While people with one toon would have to tag the NPC first before rushing off to kill trak etc. But over all this would even the playing field I think and create a more fun and exciting raid environment.