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Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would rather lose a thousand pixels and be trained by the most retarded looking neckbeard screaming "git gud" than have an instanced MMO. WTF is the point, content is only part of the battle and you have cut out the other. Just unhook the comp from the internet and call it a day.

You clearly have some strong feelings on the topic; ) But look, I never said "P99 should do instances", and I don't believe that it should.

What I said/believe is that back in '99 guilds were not racing for anything. Even the top guild on the server did top content (for the most part at least) on their own time. Club Fu on Bristlebane (mostly) didn't "race" Arch Overseers. They just recruited more/better players, engaged more PvE content, and beat more of it. This resulted in them having more pixels than AO and "dominating the server", but in an incredibly different way from how Aftermath or TMO does on P99.

Now of course per capita we have like a million more raiders than live did, and of course every last one of them has about a million times more knowledge than anyone did back in '99. It's impossible to recreate the classic experience by just doing things the way people did them in classic.

But look, just because there was the "live way", and there's the way P99 has done things for a decade, that doesn't mean those are the only two options!

There's absolutely a third possibility: instances. And a fourth possibility: rotations. And then there's likely 5th through 22nd possibilities also (without even getting into the hundred specific different ways either instances or rotations or anything else could be implemented).

All I'm saying is, we've tried the race for ten years, and it doesn't produce classic results. If we tried literally anything else we have a better chance of getting classic EQ raiding.

And if you don't care about making things more classic, then here's another thing: the current P99 system is not fun for most people. Almost any other system could be more fun.