Why Classic EQ is still the best online RPG (and how P1999 could make it even better)

[Slave]

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

Plain and simple the game would be much much better without twinking, pling, item recharging etc... ...now were stuck with a server that uses these "exploits" as normal every day behavior, item recharging and mq is bullshit, needs to go asap but there's nothing we can do

There's games that "fixed" these things. World of Warcraft and every other "modern" game other than EverQuest doesn't have any of this. Many of us choose to play here because it allows more of a sandbox feel to the oldschool RPGs that we enjoy.

-Twinking is just about one of the coolest things ever in a video game, and it barely exists outside of EverQuest. One of the things that modern games have gone the wrong way on, and one of the reasons I play EverQuest.

-PLing allows people who have done it all before, to get to a level where they can experience new content they didn't do on Live or P99 yet for some reason. It rewards time spent on all characters, rather than arbitrarily punishing you if you want to make a change some day. This is a video game, not PnP, not even close, and it never will be. PLing is one of the reasons I play EverQuest.

-Multiquesting circumvents what I am going to call an unnecessary and bullshit mechanic in No Drop items. This was invented to keep people playing at their computers longer so that they would have to pay more money. I'm sorry but if I decide to give an item away I should be able to do it. They're not all powerfully cursed Dungeons and Dragons artifacts.

Challenge these weird preconceived notions you have about how games should be that are merely a manifestation of your nurture, because that's, you know, just like, your opinion man.

[fishingme]

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

Power-leveling existed in classic EQ. Check

MQing items existed in classic EQ. Check

Recharging items existed in classic EQ. Check

Twinking existed in classic EQ. Check

I see your points, and agree with some of them, but this server was created to mimic a classic era EverQuest. Removing or altering the above listed would be interfering with the devs intentions of creating a classic server.

Determining what or whats not fun is subjective. People loved EverQuest for many reasons, not just the reasons you listed.

Mqing on my server on live was extremely rare. A large population imo was the cause of this. Twinking to the extent on p99 was really really really rare on live, also imo due to a large population. So, classic? Not too much, but I can live with it.

[Elements]

No subscription fee, damn not classic...

[Massive Marc]

Wow you found someone that agrees with, congratz. two fucking peas in a pod.

[Slave]

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

Also in case your interested, there is a bug report somewhere that states that back in classic there was a cap on exp you can get from mobs, players back in the day were not getting insane exp from a mob 30 levels higher then them, that would actually bring pling to a more acceptable level but it is certainly way out of line right now

In case YOU'RE interested, the cap on experience you can get from mobs was around 20% of your level.

Do you really think that "bringing down" the experience earnable from a mob to 20% of a level is going to make one bit of difference in any way at all whatsoever in whatever shape imaginable or conceivable that one might consider to possibly ponder?! "OMGZ I have to kill 300 mobs to get to level 50 that reallly sucksss....."

Like have you ever gotten past level 4? I don't understand.

[Noudess]

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

In case YOU'RE interested, the cap on experience you can get from mobs was around 20% of your level.

Do you really think that "bringing down" the experience earnable from a mob to 20% of a level is going to make one bit of difference in any way at all whatsoever in whatever shape imaginable or conceivable that one might consider to possibly ponder?! "OMGZ I have to kill 300 mobs to get to level 50 that reallly sucksss....."

Like have you ever gotten past level 4? I don't understand.

No you clearly don't. And apparently never will.

[Furniture]

Twinking sure is fun, I did it back in the day and I do it now, I consider it to be the least important issue that I mentioned, and there was always the fironia vie server for those who didn't want it

Pling on the other hand is not so bad, but on p99 the max exp cap needs to be implemented, it is easier to pl on this server then it was back in classic by far because of this, this would in turn rise the cost of pls so that it would be quite expensive to pay for one like it should be. you want a pl? I can imagine this will be fixed eventually since it is a known non classic bug on the server

Mqing and item recharging however is complete bull shit and are straight up unintended bugs that were never fixed, sure it was classic, but they weren't intentional and were way more rare compared to p99

[Furniture]

Lol at the losers shedding tears of anger that people actually want the server to get rid of the ez mode exploits, and by the way you moron the cap was at 2-3 blues, you really think that is 20%?? Lol

[Ele]

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

Lol at the losers shedding tears of anger that people actually want the server to get rid of the ez mode exploits, and by the way you moron the cap was at 2-3 blues, you really think that is 20%?? Lol

Ad hominem attacks do nothing to help support your cause or goals. If you believe that there are bugs/exploits occurring, please report them with evidence in the bug subforum.

[Furniture]

As I've mentioned there's already been a bug thread about it, thanks for the suggestion though