My thoughts about what the new server should be

[immaterial]

i believe one of the major goals of this server is preservation and accuracy. in that sense, yes it is worth it to have a vanilla classic server that gets all of the patches and expansions according to the original timeline.

[slowpoke68]

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

i believe one of the major goals of this server is preservation and accuracy. in that sense, yes it is worth it to have a vanilla classic server that gets all of the patches and expansions according to the original timeline.

Like I said before, if that is the way they want to do it, that is just fine by me. I'm just thrilled to see Green coming and for the chance to play on a new server.

[Osprey39]

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

i believe one of the major goals of this server is preservation and accuracy. in that sense, yes it is worth it to have a vanilla classic server that gets all of the patches and expansions according to the original timeline.

Once you eliminate human night blindness and casters staring at spellbooks as they med, all attempts to something in the name of accuracy go out the window.

[Muggens]

^not true.
Btw you can change your gamma in the .ini config file to a lower value and the night blindness is there.

[Osprey39]

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

^not true.
Btw you can change your gamma in the .ini config file to a lower value and the night blindness is there.

You can't just say "not true" and make it so, friend. The facts won't let you and the facts are that EQ, at the time period we are playing, had night blind humans and low level casters that couldn't 'see' the game they were playing for a good deal of the time. Those things are not here in p99. That is definitely not classic EQ. The argument of "we're going to do/not do this thing because it is/isn't classic" loses a lot of weight when two of the biggest 'features' of classic EQ have already been removed from the game.

Don't mistake me, I don't miss those things, they were bad game design to begin with. That said, it's not debatable that they were part of the original game and you can't dispute that.

[Muggens]

Originally Posted by Osprey39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can't just say "not true" and make it so, friend. The facts won't let you and the facts are that EQ, at the time period we are playing, had night blind humans and low level casters that couldn't 'see' the game they were playing for a good deal of the time. Those things are not here in p99. That is definitely not classic EQ. The argument of "we're going to do/not do this thing because it is/isn't classic" loses a lot of weight when two of the biggest 'features' of classic EQ have already been removed from the game.

Don't mistake me, I don't miss those things, they were bad game design to begin with. That said, it's not debatable that they were part of the original game and you can't dispute that.

With my settings Im completely in the dark at night on my human/erudite characters. I med with the book up.
I like it and dont see the "night blindness" as a bad game design but rather a good one.

[Elysium]

Originally Posted by Osprey39 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Once you eliminate human night blindness and casters staring at spellbooks as they med, all attempts to something in the name of accuracy go out the window.

that's a client issue that they don't have control over. it doesn't take away from their efforts to make everything they can control as it was in classic