This game, this community... holy crap.

[Spyder73]

raid scene isn't that bad - gets over blown on the fourms.

There is this imagined image of eighty 30-40 year old men all staring at a computer screen with drool dripping out of the corner of their mouths sh!tting into socks. Its simply not the case.

[Famas1171]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

raid scene isn't that bad - gets over blown on the fourms.

There is this imagined image of eighty 30-40 year old men all staring at a computer screen with drool dripping out of the corner of their mouths sh!tting into socks. Its simply not the case.

I call Bullshit.

[Sodors Finest Poster]

Trackers are for sure.

The rest just log when they hear the phones. Some of them will stop their real lives for this call and be on high alert. Others will log in if convenient.

The last most reasonable group of people often get blocked from bidding because they do not meet the holy number of raid attendance in order to spend the dkp THEY EARNED.

[JayDee]

Make your own server and summon anything you want with GM commands

[Ravager]

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

Make your own server and summon anything you want with GM commands

Some people like to play in their own sandbox. Which is fine. Other people like to play in a public sandbox, which is fine too. Even more people like to play in public sandboxes that aren't pissed in by few special buddies who think it's fun to piss in a public sandbox and then tell people to go find their own sandbox if they want a piss-free sandbox. Why isn't that fine?

[RDawg816]

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

Even more people like to play in public sandboxes that aren't pissed in by few special buddies who think it's fun to piss in a public sandbox and then tell people to go find their own sandbox if they want a piss-free sandbox. Why isn't that fine?

That would be fine with me. Realistically, we can only hope those neckbeards and lawyers quit before Sirken and them do, eh?

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

raid scene isn't that bad - gets over blown on the fourms.

There is this imagined image of eighty 30-40 year old men all staring at a computer screen with drool dripping out of the corner of their mouths sh!tting into socks. Its simply not the case.

I mean the drool dripping is the only untrue thing you said in that sentence.

[Pokesan]

post the last week of raid alerts

[thufir]

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

So, I play here super casually. I played with the hope of raiding on here someday, but having been browsing the forums for the past few months I can honestly say no-fkn-way.

The argument in the guild summit meeting thread about move speed getting to Tormax was enough to turn me off to this game forever. Is the high end community really THAT nitpicky over every single rule and how every single statement written by the staff is worded? I don't want to hang out with people who are going to try to twist everyone else's words so that they favor one individual.

Then I read about how every guild needed a bat phone to be competitive. So I'm on the same page: You want to text me at 3am on a work night to wake me up to log onto a game to push some buttons to kill an e-monster to have a 1/60 chance of getting some loot? That doesn't fit into my life and I'm surprised it fits into so many other people's lives.

For a casual like me I guess there's no hope of playing. What are you guys even competing so hard for? Those same monsters are going to spawn -forever- and future progression is pretty uncertain. You're literally just rushing to min maxing a character so you can look at some slightly bigger numbers in your stats screen and you're killing the enjoyment of the game for a ton of people.

I don't play here really so I guess my word is pretty much crap to all of you and I expect a pretty unfriendly response, but from the outside looking in - how the hell do people play this game?

Because much of EverQuest is the journey, not the destination. The end game was never awesome and is even less awesome on this server than Live. I am of the opinion that end games for mmos are generally not awesome, which is why it makes me sad so many of them have the mindset of "get to the level cap and now the REAL game will begin" (which is usually dull).

The meat of this game during this era was always in the exploration of new areas, bringing your group to dark corners of Norrath, killing mobs that few people ever saw. You can still do that on p99. To me that's the reason to play. No matter what anyone says there's still things to do here that few people ever do, and things to see that few people ever see, even 17 years later. I know because I bring my static group to these areas and very few people are ever there, if anyone.. The population concentrates itself in a few zones, leaving a lot for others to see.

I've been playing for close to three years on p99 now, on and off, taking my time. It's a long trek to 60, and it can be quite enjoyable if you do it right. People who rush to 60 just so they can sit at the firepots in NToV and wait for the pull team to give them a dragon to kill confuse me. On one level I get it, people like having the best pixels, and this is one of the easier ways to get them. But that isn't me.

The point is that EverQuest is what you make of it. Don't worry if you are not planning on being a top end raider. There's tons to do even if you're not.

[Brontus]

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

Because much of EverQuest is the journey, not the destination. The end game was never awesome and is even less awesome on this server than Live. I am of the opinion that end games for mmos are generally not awesome, which is why it makes me sad so many of them have the mindset of "get to the level cap and now the REAL game will begin" (which is usually dull).

The meat of this game during this era was always in the exploration of new areas, bringing your group to dark corners of Norrath, killing mobs that few people ever saw. You can still do that on p99. To me that's the reason to play. No matter what anyone says there's still things to do here that few people ever do, and things to see that few people ever see, even 17 years later. I know because I bring my static group to these areas and very few people are ever there, if anyone.. The population concentrates itself in a few zones, leaving a lot for others to see.

I've been playing for close to three years on p99 now, on and off, taking my time. It's a long trek to 60, and it can be quite enjoyable if you do it right. People who rush to 60 just so they can sit at the firepots in NToV and wait for the pull team to give them a dragon to kill confuse me. On one level I get it, people like having the best pixels, and this is one of the easier ways to get them. But that isn't me.

The point is that EverQuest is what you make of it. Don't worry if you are not planning on being a top end raider. There's tons to do even if you're not.

This is one of the best insights I have ever seen about P1999 and MMORPGs in general. It is indeed all about the journey. Savor it and enjoy it. Stop and smell the roses. Think about the good friends you'll meet along the way as you explore Norrath.

Don't fall sway to the siren song of the empty promises of the raiding culture and let the ultra-achievers dictate your pace and what you can and can't enjoy.

Look at all the acrimony these raiders are experiencing on these forums and in-game as they squabble over a few pixels. Why would anyone ever want to race to level 60 just to be unhappy?

Nobody wants to rush to age 60 in the real world, why then is everyone rushing to level 60 in EQ?