Balance and game design : Why red got it right?

[radda]

a shit load of people for you to twink dance all over. @ hivemind

[Mac Drettj]

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

If you went to red to solo your way to 60 you're definitely doing it wrong... unless maybe you're playing a blue character and a red character at the same time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A good XP rate brings people to red, there's no question about that.

ya, good xp means you can spend more time being casual and getting into fun little skirmishes which is what its all about

[freez]

blue needs exp bonus? super saturated market + over pop not enough to gain exps?


naw.


better yet, wont happen.

[hivemind]

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

a shit load of people for you to twink dance all over. @ hivemind

There can be nothing better than fresh blood for the server. Pras red99. Pras PVP.

[Ikonoclastia]

Originally Posted by innocent51 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is, indeed, wrong.
Most classes can solo, half the classes for a better xp than full group.
Soloing is not hard, is not dangerous and for some grants you the ability to kill boss mobs (tho you have to define boss here).

When you go down to duo and trio you just can take anything if you have the proper classes/gear.


If I had to design a game I would make everyone completely unable to solo shit (and my game will probably close after 2 month because you have to care the bears). But it would take too much of EQ to make it such on P99 (remove spells? really?).
So the best thing to promote grouping, if you ever want to, is giving a large bonus to group xp.

Wasn't like that on live early on though. Its like it on P1999 because of the availability of gear for so little pp.

In classic at least when I played you couldn't get better xp soloing unless you were a necro, wiz, druid or bard. And then you could only solo outside zones.

Charming was a complete bitch to do. You could charm as an enchanter but you couldn't charm the way you can charm on P1999 imo.

I remember even in PoP, when charming was really buffed with AA's and gear that would make you a god in classic it was still better in group for grinding aa's.

The only real powerlevelers were bard reverse charm kiters till they nerfed them.

[iruinedyourday]

you could totally charm the way you can in 1999, the only diff is now we're not total bitches like we were back then. I used to pee my pants all day long playing eq.. now i know how to make EQ MY BITCH.

things are more available, but not in the way that its solo making of any class, people are just better at the game, especially us people that came back 15 years later to re live our fantasies of being the botb.

[Iumuno]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Luclin, the greatest expansion?!! /ducks nilbog's wrath

Not saying that regarding the content of course [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But a lot of the mechanics changes in the second half of the luclin era made a lot of sense, this one among them.

[Champion_Standing]

Group content is supposed to be moved through slowly in this game. Soloing is faster assuming you can kill at a decent rate, but a lot of the games content just isn't really accessible when it is level appropriate for soloers. Grouping is not supposed to be a way to level up faster in EQ, it is a way to experience more content and get better loot. Not that it always works out that way, but I think that was the intention.

[Gaffin 7.0]

server doesnt need more xp just more often xp bonus weekends and such which is classic as fuck

[Softcore PK]

Group xp bonus isn't in the spirit of the game. What would be is a big solo xp nerf... maybe disabling it entirely [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]