Game Mechanics: Lets Talks About Velious Binding Rules

[Phantasm]

Your bumps are being ignored.

This is one of those political issues that need to be talked about for 8 months before an ineffective raid summit is called together, ultimately resulting in no change

[Raev]

BDA, I can assure you that under current rules A/A will have no trouble pulling dragons to either East or West without TL boxes. This rule change will not enable a golden age of constant TOV crawls.

[Man0warr]

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

BDA, I can assure you that under current rules A/A will have no trouble pulling dragons to either East or West without TL boxes. This rule change will not enable a golden age of constant TOV crawls.

Doesn't matter. Couldn't bind in any Velious dungeon on live, shouldn't be able to on P99 either.

[nyclin]

bump - we've had unclassic binding rules in ToV for way too long. reset existing binds and remove the luclin-era roamers in the safe hall.

[nyclin]

bump - got some quality evidence in this thread. here are some choice posts:

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=29
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=61
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=78
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=80

thus far, nobody has been able to present conclusive evidence that binding should be allowed. there's plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that binding wasn't allowed, but nothing that outright states "you can't bind in ToV."

given that nobody can conclusively prove that binding should be allowed, we should err on the side of caution and change this mechanic to a more classic state until evidence supporting binding in ToV can be found.

[nyclin]

bumperino

[lurk]

I dont even see the issue here. Theres no real proof you could bind in TOV and i feel like it was common knowledge that you couldnt. AFIAK on live today you cant bind there

[nyclin]

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

I dont even see the issue here. Theres no real proof you could bind in TOV and i feel like it was common knowledge that you couldnt. AFIAK on live today you cant bind there

I think the real issue is that the CSR staff doesn't want to deal with the inevitable shitshow when ToV raiding is turned on its head. On the other hand, there are a lot of bored raiders that would greatly enjoy having a new challenge to overcome.

[Ikon]

Recently we evaluated many underutilized dungeons and considered reasons why they might be underutilized. Some people suggested that proximity of bind locations plays a part, and as such we are considering adding more binding locations to the game. We of course will not allow everyone to bind on the doorstep of a dungeon, but these changes should hopefully reduce the potential run for a melee class. While additional binding locations probably will not be in the next patch, we did want to discuss our thoughts on the matter.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/edit...rs_letter.html

Exactly where a caster can bind themselves depends on what area of the game we're talking about. In the area of the original game (i.e. Antonica, Faydwer, and Odus) a caster can bind themself anywhere, inside or out. In Kunark and Velious, however, they are only able to bind themselves in outdoor areas, and can not be bound in dungeons

http://web.archive.org/web/200712300...bindguide.html

[Ikon]

He earlier states being bound at PoM would be great and then unequivocally states "as you can't bind in ToV."

You could definitely bind in PoM

be aware that you can no longer bind in PoM, on live servers.

PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong, but i dont think i am, because if i am wrong, time for me to go back to pom, so correct me fast

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