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?