Fewer quakes and impact on server population

[nbkr1ckynbk]

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

They're not getting money for running p99 so they don't care if you play it or not. They're also dedicated to running a mostly classic experience so they're not going to turn it in a loot piñata to attract new players.

Seems like you don't want to play classic EQ and that's alright.

You don't think they get money for running p99? They get donations. Albeit, I'm sure it's slowed quite a bit in the last year or two and that's why I feel like that's why there is almost zero sightings of the big wigs anymore since they're in the end stages of what they set out to do and all they can do is cycle servers in classic and have what, only 2 or 3 current servers per their agreement with daybreak? I know they made a killing when they turned on ads during the whole celebgate thing went down. But their interest in this project is just non-existent anymore or they would have put forth SOME kind of effort in the last couple of years to maintain interest but it's clear they give basically fck-all about anything anymore except for maybe milking what's left with the least amount of effort given. But they definitely made money. I dunno why they chose to just allow things to die a slow painful death with all the effort that was put into this thing in the beginning, unless it was just their agreement with daybreak that kept their hands tied, but like I said, it feels like they made theirs and are just milking what's left and letting it die a slow painful death 🤷🤷

[Tewaz]

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

Yeah I could see them resetting sleeper's tomb every 2 years...

You could see them doing something they haven't ever done or even entertained the idea of? Great!

There is a fundamental flaw at the heart of this project. They want a 100% classic server ...but not really. Rooted dragons, nerfed recharge cost, nerfed life tap, quakes, and most importantly, the most important thing about this server that differentiates it beyond all others:

Velious locked for 9 years and counting.

Also, the server gets locked into metas that are completely devoid of CSR intervention through lack of developer support creating staleness for the end game.

We constantly post here and on the discords about what the developers could do to make the server more fun and bring old and new players back to the server.

But Nilbog and Rogean just don't want that. They don't want lures to their server. They don't want custom content or future expansions. I think it's tragic but that's the way it is.

[Samoht]

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

Quakes didn't happen in classic. I think live saw a lot more server resets due to weekly maintenance, not sure how that worked on the raiding scene.

While it's true that a quake is a simulated repop exclusive to P99, the quake was designed to be an on demand substitute for the weekly maintenance repop that came from server resets or from spontaneous resets that happened time to time. So quakes themselves may not have existed on live, but repops did, and they were weekly during this era.

Insisting quakes did not exist may be true, but weekly maintenance repops did exist, so you're just dissecting the choice of word, and it is not an argument made in good faith.

[Goregasmic]

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

You could see them doing something they haven't ever done or even entertained the idea of? Great!

I'm not a classic absolutist but stuff I suggested would somewhat remain in the spirit of classic. If you think they won't even bother with that why suggest adding new zones/mobs/AA when it clearly goes beyond the scope of the server's goal?

[cd288]

Originally Posted by nbkr1ckynbk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You don't think they get money for running p99? They get donations. Albeit, I'm sure it's slowed quite a bit in the last year or two and that's why I feel like that's why there is almost zero sightings of the big wigs anymore since they're in the end stages of what they set out to do and all they can do is cycle servers in classic and have what, only 2 or 3 current servers per their agreement with daybreak? I know they made a killing when they turned on ads during the whole celebgate thing went down. But their interest in this project is just non-existent anymore or they would have put forth SOME kind of effort in the last couple of years to maintain interest but it's clear they give basically fck-all about anything anymore except for maybe milking what's left with the least amount of effort given. But they definitely made money. I dunno why they chose to just allow things to die a slow painful death with all the effort that was put into this thing in the beginning, unless it was just their agreement with daybreak that kept their hands tied, but like I said, it feels like they made theirs and are just milking what's left and letting it die a slow painful death 🤷🤷

They get donations to help offset some of the cost and expense of keeping the servers running. They're not legally allowed to make money off the IP.

[cd288]

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

I can't say I understand the lack of communication from the p1999 team. It's nothing new but it doesn't help.

I honestly just wish they'd tell is what's planned or what isn't.

The issue is half of this community will go nuts on them with complaining if they say something and then it doesn't happen exactly how they said it would or exactly when they said it would.

There's no incentive for them to communicate when they'll just get dragged for the slightest deviation because half this community are whiney.

And if they ever roll a new server, thousands of people will show up to play it whether they communicate now about it or not.

[torporseller]

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.

[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.

[Salaryman]

RED99

[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.