Fewer quakes and impact on server population

[TytosOfEight]

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

The reason there are fewer quakes is pretty obvious. Especially more obvious by recent lead GMs blistering reply to a recent petition which in short form said "this is bullshit, you guys figure it out yourselves"

The top guilds in P99 act like 40 year old children 90% of the time, they argue and bitch and moan over mobs that are not only 26 years old , but 5-6 years old on this iteration. Less quakes is less petitions and less head aches less having to "clarify" bullshit.

Your original post is also in need of correction. People dont play those servers for "Ease of loot" but for ease of ACCESS TO CONTENT. If someone gets off work and wants to raid with their friends, they shouldnt have to hope for a evening quake or that their play time lands during a late window of a 16 hour spawn window, and even if it does spawn you have to fight over it with degenerates who sat in that spawn window for the full 16 hours.

P99 is probably the best version of Everquest there is if you want the classic experience 1-60 but once you decide to raid, its unrecognizable. The combination of that and these other servers actually allowing you to fight the mobs on your own schedule is why people flee. I doubt even some of the big guilds like socking windows, but for some reason they do it anyways because the culture of this raid scene on the server has engrained it into their brains that its the only way.

At the end of the day, I doubt the staff give two shits what the population is though, its a free server.

To be frank, your perspective seems somewhat biased and a bit resentful. Should the actions of a few individuals, or your personal dislike for the raiding scene on P99, spoil the experience for everyone else? Certainly not. And please, let's not use the excuse that it's a free server. These individuals volunteered to assist and should perform their duties to the best of their abilities. Currently, the server is quite glitchy, with some encounters not functioning due to insufficient server resets. Additionally, the lengthy spawn windows and lack of quakes are making it difficult (and less fun) for smaller guilds or those who are less intense overall.

[cd288]

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

To be frank, your perspective seems somewhat biased and a bit resentful. Should the actions of a few individuals, or your personal dislike for the raiding scene on P99, spoil the experience for everyone else? Certainly not. And please, let's not use the excuse that it's a free server. These individuals volunteered to assist and should perform their duties to the best of their abilities. Currently, the server is quite glitchy, with some encounters not functioning due to insufficient server resets. Additionally, the lengthy spawn windows and lack of quakes are making it difficult (and less fun) for smaller guilds or those who are less intense overall.

Well on the one hand I don't blame the staff at all. The person you replied to is absolutely correct that the majority of raiding guilds on P99 throw temper tantrums and submit multi page Word doc petitions over the slightest issues.

As far as his other comments that raiding on here is unrecognizable to classic, other than guilds having armies of bots I would disagree with him.

[Keeboo]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well on the one hand I don't blame the staff at all. The person you replied to is absolutely correct that the majority of raiding guilds on P99 throw temper tantrums and submit multi page Word doc petitions over the slightest issues.

As far as his other comments that raiding on here is unrecognizable to classic, other than guilds having armies of bots I would disagree with him.

There's been a grand total of twelve petitions by all guilds combined over the last year. Not exactly "over the slightest issue".

[cd288]

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

There's been a grand total of twelve petitions by all guilds combined over the last year. Not exactly "over the slightest issue".

Have you raided longer than the last year?

Have you seen the size of the petitions some of these guilds will submit?

[Salaryman]

RED99

[Ciderpress]

Legacy items are not legacy items if you can just get them at your leisure. The entire appeal is that they are one and done, you either get them or you don't and when they're gone they're gone. They can all be traded\bought\sold anyway, other than guises which are the only actual cool legacy item. Server pop is fine for the content imo, several hundred people play every day. It's not like if the pop was 2500 there would be lots of groups, it would just be more neckbeard raiders. It's the nature of the beast.

All that being said I too long for a fresh p99 server. The hero's whatever is a cool novelty but it might as well be a different game. It's like shards of dalaya; if you're gonna modify everquest that much why not just make a new game with new ip?

[JayDee]

Thing that makes sleeper different is

A) there is no set amount of time for when it expires. It's more when a group of people feel like being dicks and preventing others from getting items. Fair play

B) its end game content that will keep people compelled to continue playing and thus perhaps donating to the project

C) waking the sleeper marks the end of classic (in fact it wasnt killed til much later on most servers) and I dont see p99 ending anytime soon

[Goregasmic]

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

The entire appeal is that they are one and done, you either get them or you don't and when they're gone they're gone.

Lets not pretend stuff like elder prayer beads is just a novelty bauble. On live they also brought some of them back under different mechanisms (casino, wandering merchants) so that argument doesn't hold all that much water. P99 being P99 it probably will stay the way it is though.

That being said I wouldn't be against them opening up sleeper's tomb a bit more. That's the end of classic but that's not how the game ends. 5 years of velious is not classic either, they could get a bit more funky with the timeline but I doubt it would go beyond a perdiodic reset.

[sajbert]

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

Legacy items are not legacy items if you can just get them at your leisure. The entire appeal is that they are one and done, you either get them or you don't and when they're gone they're gone. They can all be traded\bought\sold anyway, other than guises which are the only actual cool legacy item. Server pop is fine for the content imo, several hundred people play every day. It's not like if the pop was 2500 there would be lots of groups, it would just be more neckbeard raiders. It's the nature of the beast.

All that being said I too long for a fresh p99 server. The hero's whatever is a cool novelty but it might as well be a different game. It's like shards of dalaya; if you're gonna modify everquest that much why not just make a new game with new ip?

Even if legacy items were to be reintroduced instead of a new fresh you'd still have to wait several years between each chance at beads or manastone. The camps would still be a pain and possibly worse than before. There'd certainly be a significant level of hardship behind acquiring one, unlike on Quarm. I guess a "classic" concern would be paineel erudites or iksars being able to get a Guise.

As for pop, honestly it's quite dead and 95% of the world is just depressing. Outside raiding and a handful of zones there is nothing going on. Outside of raiding or soloing there isn't much.

I'd consider playing again but without knowing if there'll ever be another fresh and not having the option to get guise or firepot binds on another toon I just don't feel motivate and I think I'm far from the only one.

[Salaryman]

RED99

The Sleeper hath been awakened and you will be mad about it for the rest of your life.

RED99