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[Savok]

I’ll turn you question around. What keeps all the high end players here on p99? Surely after 3 years in Velious you should have everything you want by now?

[Erati]

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

I’ll turn you question around. What keeps all the high end players here on p99? Surely after 3 years in Velious you should have everything you want by now?

I know the question was not for me but I will add that if gear is what motivates a high end player on P99, its very likely that even after 3 years of raiding, they would not have 'everything'. Its quite difficult on this server to obtain BIS even with Velious being the lock point, guild sizes and competition/neckbeardness really puts an artificial 'rarity' on items that for some keep them coming back to obtain 'that one item'.

[loramin]

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

I’ll turn you question around. What keeps all the high end players here on p99? Surely after 3 years in Velious you should have everything you want by now?

I'm not at all a "high end" player, so I've been here longer than 3 years and still don't have a single "best in slot" item. I'm not really in a rush though: I don't want a game that ends after 3 months, so I enjoy getting a single (not BIS) upgrade every other month or so.

And sorry if I over-reacted, but when you wrote:

After 3 months of casual play I already have better gear and have killed every raid mob in the game except the Vulak ring

Well first off, I thought "Vulak ring" was Luclin content (just because I haven't seen that term used here), which made it sound like you'd killed every raid mob in Kunark AND Velious, AND most of the ones in Luclin, in 3 months. Putting my confusion aside, I can't even get to level 60 in three months, and certainly not without triple-boxing, and even if I somehow managed to I certainly wouldn't have time to raid every target in Kunark and Velious, so what you described sounded very "loot pinata"-ish.

But I didn't mean to make it sound like there's anything wrong with playing through the game quickly. If you want to play on a server with a /levelmeto 60 command and you enjoy "beating" it in a couple months, then great. But personally I've been looking for a viable alternative to P99 that has Luclin, PoP, etc. content ... but (like P99) still is the EverQuest I remember.

I want TAKP to be awesome and I want it to be that server. But their triple-boxing policy means it will never be that server, and if you can all but beat the game in three months that's not even EverQuest IMHO. So yes, maybe I get a little frustrated by hearing about a server that's so close to awesome but doesn't see anything wrong with everyone on the server triple-boxing and speed-playing through the whole game ... but if I'm not allowed to get frustrated about another server's failings here in the P99 forum, where can I?

[fadetree]

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

I'm not at all a "high end" player, so I've been here longer than 3 years and still don't have a single "best in slot" item. I'm not really in a rush though: I don't want a game that ends after 3 months, so I enjoy getting a single (not BIS) upgrade every other month or so.

And sorry if I over-reacted, but when you wrote:



Well first off, I thought "Vulak ring" was Luclin content (just because I haven't seen that term used here), which made it sound like you'd killed every raid mob in Kunark AND Velious, AND most of the ones in Luclin, in 3 months. Putting my confusion aside, I can't even get to level 60 in three months, and certainly not without triple-boxing, and even if I somehow managed to I certainly wouldn't have time to raid every target in Kunark and Velious, so what you described sounded very "loot pinata"-ish.

But I didn't mean to make it sound like there's anything wrong with playing through the game quickly. If you want to play on a server with a /levelmeto 60 command and you enjoy "beating" it in a couple months, then great. But personally I've been looking for a viable alternative to P99 that has Luclin, PoP, etc. content ... but (like P99) still is the EverQuest I remember.

I want TAKP to be awesome and I want it to be that server. But their triple-boxing policy means it will never be that server, and if you can all but beat the game in three months that's not EverQuest. So maybe I get a little frustrated by hearing about a server that's so close to awesome but doesn't see anything wrong with everyone on the server triple-boxing and speed-playing through the whole game in 3 months ... but if I'm not allowed to get frustrated about such stuff here in the P99 forum, where can I?

Lor, you *can* beat the game in any server in a short time if you really want to. You could have done that here. If you played on TAKP you wouldn't beat the game in 3 months, because that's not how you, or I, play. You seem to think that the server will control how you play, but in fact it's just the opposite.

[loramin]

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

Lor, you *can* beat the game in any server in a short time if you really want to. You could have done that here. If you played on TAKP you wouldn't beat the game in 3 months, because that's not how you, or I, play.

Well sure, but what I meant was ... Savok even said he played here for almost eight years. That's not a "speed racer" player, that's a normal player. And there was nothing to suggest he quit his job, divorced his wife, and put his kids up for adoption when he started playing TakP either [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So it sounded like he was a normal player here, then was a normal player there, but over there the leveling rate/loot drop rate was so much higher that he had all but beaten the game in three months. That's all I was talking about.

[fadetree]

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

Well sure, but what I meant was ... Savok even said he played here for almost eight years. That's not a "speed racer" player, that's a normal player. And there was nothing to suggest he quit his job, divorced his wife, and put his kids up for adoption when he started playing TakP either [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So it sounded like he was a normal player here, then was a normal player there, but over there the leveling rate/loot drop rate was so much higher that he had all but beaten the game in three months. That's all I was talking about.

Yeah I get it, I don't really know what that part is about I guess, my experience has been anything but that. I haven't even killed a single raid mob yet, unless you count Gkrean the priest guy in Kael. Like I said, I'm not particularly interested in raiding.
But really, Lor, for someone who says they aren't against TAKP, you seem to show up pretty fast and raise issues. Like someone said before me in thread, why not just stop paying attention? It's clear you're not interested....right? I feel like you are just grasping at stuff trying to poke holes in the TAKP idea. Oh, max lev in 3 months? Awesome gear? Server must be a loot pinata! Go try it, for heavens sakes. At least that way you'll have first hand experience.

[loramin]

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

Yeah I get it, I don't really know what that part is about I guess, my experience has been anything but that. I haven't even killed a single raid mob yet, unless you count Gkrean the priest guy in Kael. Like I said, I'm not particularly interested in raiding.
But really, Lor, for someone who says they aren't against TAKP, you seem to show up pretty fast and raise issues. Like someone said before me in thread, why not just stop paying attention? It's clear you're not interested....right? I feel like you are just grasping at stuff trying to poke holes in the TAKP idea.

Why not post about TakP in TakP forums instead of P99 forums? Or why not post here, once, to announce the server, and then only again when something major happens like when Luclin is released?

If people are going to come to Off Topic and crow about their server more often than that then great, but when I respond back and say it's inferior to P99, in a P99 forum, I'm not going to apologize for it. But again, I have nothing against TakP or P2002 specifically.

I just have general issues with boxing servers because they're bad emulators, in the sense that playing on them is not like playing EQ on live was (I can all but guarantee half the live server population or more was not boxing, or at least not up through PoP). And I also have issues with servers that let you "win the game" at super speeds: based solely on that one post I keep quoting it sounded like that included TakP.

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

Oh, max lev in 3 months? Awesome gear? Server must be a loot pinata!

Yes, if you can easily get to max level with BIS gear on any EQ server in under half a year (while having a job and a life) then I do consider that server a loot pinata and not real EverQuest. Where do you draw the "pinata" line: is it only a pinata server if you can get BIS in two months? Three? Wherever you draw it, it can't be that far from my six months.