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Old 08-09-2013, 06:58 PM
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Watching videos of a sport makes you better because you are watching people actually play it. Tracking is watching nothing, for long periods of time.

People watch baseball videos to get better at baseball by watching technique, much like an EQ player could get better at EQ by watching videos of other raid guilds raiding targets. People don't watch empty fields where no one is playing baseball, because they probably won't learn anything to better themselves, much like tracking teaches nothing about the game of everquest.

It is necessary to track on this server in order to get raid mobs, no doubt, but likening that to practice or watching the game being played is not an apt comparison. There are youtube vids of raid guilds killing targets, and you can warm up with chardok royals or ixiblat or something if you're looking to practice.

I don't really understand what you're not getting, Nietche.

If baseball's core ruleset meant that the first team on the field invariably won the most, and if these baseball games occurred randomly, people would probably sit around watching an empty field for the 20-40 hours before a game starts, waiting so they don't miss a baseball game that may or may not start in some predetermined time-range after the last game happened. If that was baseball, I bet most people would say it's a stupid game.
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Old 08-09-2013, 07:19 PM
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Nothing wrong with tracking. When you are a "noob" in a high end guild guess what. You will be a tracking whore, batphone whore. You think you are going to get top gear and be the main tank in a week. Think if you are in the 5th or 6th top guild on here that you are going to get the "gold ring" every other week. Yeah right. God, half the people on here just think they ought to get everything for free. You people complaining are just crazy.
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Old 08-10-2013, 02:50 AM
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I don't really understand what you're not getting, Nietche.
The point is what I've already said twice. Both baseball and Everquest, to be successful at either, requires time and effort--both falling under the umbrella of "preparation."
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Old 08-10-2013, 02:56 AM
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The point is what I've already said twice. Both baseball and Everquest, to be successful at either, requires time and effort--both falling under the umbrella of "preparation."
I don't think Loraen is talking about success, I think he is talking about fun. It's obvious what it takes to be successful at EQ, but i think the general population would agree the cost of that success is not fun.

I can suck at baseball but still have a fun time and a chance to play.

Just own up to your god awful analogy!
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Old 08-10-2013, 03:04 AM
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I don't think Loraen is talking about success, I think he is talking about fun. It's obvious what it takes to be successful at EQ, but i think the general population would agree the cost of that success is not fun.

I can suck at baseball but still have a fun time and a chance to play.

Just own up to your god awful analogy!
Success = fun. When's the last time you lost at a game all the time and still had fun?
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