Idea to stop all the fighting

[Grozmok]

I watched a bunch of groups get trained in Guk the other night. They all cried and claimed to report the assailant, but nothing ever came of it.

Not to say that the GMs aren't around, it just didn't seem like being trained was worthy of their time.

[arsenalpow]

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

Need more ban hammer



threads like this make me doubt the policing of the server

For the 5782647337th time, the server wouldn't need full time GM/guide policing if the raid guilds could just police themselves like normal well adjusted human beings. Transatlantic Basterds Inglourious Rampage left to EQMac because they felt they weren't getting a fair shake from the GM rulings, I guess it never occurred to them that they could inject some civility into the proceedings and Amelinda/Rogean wouldn't have to award loot every single time a FTE had to be researched. VD/TMO are walking that same path all over again and they don't give a fuck, as long as the pixels keep coming right?

[Flunklesnarkin]

Thats not going to happen... guilds aren't going to police themselves...


I've seen it rarely on a few servers.. in any mmo for the most part top raid guilds hack/cheat/claim bot/lie/deceive/rules lawyer / etc to achieve their goals.



With a small staff to actually police the server.. I'd say longer suspensions or bans would help them keep ahead of the flow of shit.


At least give them a few less petitions to look at for a couple weeks.



Enough about the "banning people is going to drop the population"


Its raid level players not the standard people leveling up.


There seems to be plenty of raid level players too... most raid targets are dead within 2 minutes of spawn.


would it hurt the game if a raid target lived 15 mins or 30 mins?

[Silentone]

More pixels plz

[Grozmok]

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

More pixels plz

If you can't beat 'em

[username1337]

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

It's funny that all the people saying that this wouldn't be classic are the only people that think having camped loot for hours upon hours from absolutely random drop chances for most every item, would rather continue to sit on their asses and waste more time on such a slowly paced game.

Raiding is no where near like it was on live, because there are no maintenance days. The folks here at P99 think they're making changes that will help the situation, but it's never going to change.

Who the fuck cares if more people have access to the HANDFUL of raid targets and zones around? Only the people who actually enjoy the poopsocking, harassing GMs about the rules, complaining and bitching, and calling contested Everquest mobs in zones like VP or the Planes, 'competition'.

"Oh my god, you mean if shit was instanced, instead of spending 100 hours camping Fear for a set of xyz, they'll be spending 100 hours camping it still?!!!!"

Changing the zones to instances (sans the PvP Server), doesn't change the loot drop chances. The only reason they would increase is due to no system of lockouts, which Everquest most definitely has. And for anyone who wants to argue that you could have six different raids going on per every lockout timer, which would mean up to 6x the loot being dropped, people would be locked to their instance. Have it be lockout upon entry, and first mob killed. Really would be a simple system to prevent loot sales from the planes. If you entered any Plane you had an automatic 3 hour lock to that instance, if you killed a mob, even a trash mob, you'd be locked to that instance for the remainder of the lockout. If the lockout was 3 days, you could do it every three days. If someone really wanted to sit around and buy loot from the planes, they'd have a whopping two chances to do it every six hours, and they'd have to pray that the two raids during that six hours are spaced apart and not going on at the same time. Keep the non-requirement zones contested, Vox, Naggy, Kunark Dragons sans VP, Venril, etc. That's literally the only 'competition' Blue can speak of. I find it absolutely hilarious that people on a non-pvp server are complaining about other people getting primarily no-drop loot, on a server where it matters the least. "OH MAN DID YOU SEE THAT JOE'S GUILD GOT ALL THAT GOOD GEAR LAST NIGHT? THEY'LL BE ABLE TO KILL 1% CLOSER TO THE RATE THAT WE DO NOW! RUH-ROH!!!" Seriously, get over yourselves.

It's too bad it couldn't be done here, it certainly never will be. The only thing that will help Kunark and Planes raid availability is going to be Velious, even then people will still be raiding the Planes and Kunark. Don't expect anything other than what happens day in and day out.

Basically. What people call "competition" on P1999 is laughable. I guarantee if scheduled simulated patch days were introduced (as was classic) then this "competition" fiasco would be over in a heartbeat.

[oldfish]

Tired of people locking down raid content that you will never see because of the poopcamp rules on blue?

Hop over to red99.

Organize a pvp raid group and go poop on the zerg guild's raid.

[Versus]

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

Uh, until this?:

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The whole expansion was a series of instances.

^Why I quit EQ. Fuck instances. Fuck them in the asshole.

[Flunklesnarkin]

The most instanced mmo i ever played was D&D online


literally there are no zones except safe zone cities...


every time you travel somewhere or exp its an instance.


It's F2P tho so you can give it a look and see what i mean if you bored lol

[Hitchens]

Deepest Guk was a pretty cool dungeon.

I'm probably going to get flamed.