Ever a chance of allowing double boxing?

[Tuan]

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

This has been asked time and time again, the answer is and will always be no. The server has 500+ players on week nights, population is not a problem.

I should have mentioned I am in Europe time. There are no where near 500+ people on the server.

[Humerox]

You can also expect that to change very soon. Ask a few RL friends to play with you, while the recent interview with 10 Ton does its magic.

[Tuan]

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

You can also expect that to change very soon. Ask a few RL friends to play with you, while the recent interview with 10 Ton does its magic.

Unfortunately all of my friends are US based (I moved to London just a few years back), so it's the same problem.

Well thanks for the input everyone, at least I know where it stands for sure. Maybe I will try again soon if the population is rising that much.

[Olorin]

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

Unfortunately all of my friends are US based (I moved to London just a few years back), so it's the same problem.

Well thanks for the input everyone, at least I know where it stands for sure. Maybe I will try again soon if the population is rising that much.

Maybe play a more solo friendly class is an option -- don't even have to go with the druid/necro/mage triumvirate. Try a shaman, try and enchanter -- hell, even a bard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tuan]

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

Maybe play a more solo friendly class is an option -- don't even have to go with the druid/necro/mage triumvirate. Try a shaman, try and enchanter -- hell, even a bard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah I know there are some options.. it's just the fact that I am being told to play a solo class shows there is a problem.

But anyway not trying to argue back and forth, just wanted some straight responses.. Maybe I will try a better soloing class and see how things go with finding people during my time!

Things were much easier when I was in CST!

[rsynweap84]

Well I can see his point as being in central timezone sometimes I play till all hours of the morning and I see the population drop off after midnight, but its just something that has been pretty much a consensus of the majority here, to not have.

I don't really care for 2 boxing, though it makes item transfers somewhat exciting, and hazardous, but I can deal with that. I do think the Ten Ton Hammer review will bring more people, unfortunately, it also brings those stupid DDoS fucks too, who for no valid reason wanna ruin everyone's day by fucking with the server, but hopefully there will be a way to deal with them one day. You have to admit though, for bein' a no boxing server I think its doin' quite well, just my opinion though.

[Ferok]

Originally Posted by rsynweap84 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't really care for 2 boxing, though it makes item transfers somewhat exciting, and hazardous, but I can deal with that.

My personal opinion (and somewhat off topic), but if boxing isn't allowed; shared bank should be.

[Alawen Everywhere]

Didn't we just have this exact same thread with a guy who insisted that he had to play a warrior for short periods at unusual hours, couldn't possibly make any new friends and absolutely had to two box a grouping class?

I'm calling shenanigans. This is a troll. It is pretty obvious that the success of Project 1999 has more than a little to do with not allowing boxing. There is no problem to fix here. Indeed: imagine prime time with the same number of people and twice as many characters trying to fit into the classic dungeons.

Yes, original poster, you can consider this a flame. You are either intentionally trying to start an argument or else you are so ego-maniacal that you expect the community to adapt to your needs without ever learning a thing about the community. Your post makes it obvious that you don't play here and you haven't spent any time at all reading our forum.

There are many EQemu servers that will let you box characters. Since you have no intention of grouping or making any friends, it doesn't matter where you play and that should work out fine for you.

[Ferok]

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

It is pretty obvious that the success of Project 1999 has more than a little to do with not allowing boxing.

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There are many EQemu servers that will let you box characters. Since you have no intention of grouping or making any friends, it doesn't matter where you play and that should work out fine for you.

Many people are here for the classic / progression aspect. Other servers don't offer that. I hear people say "if two boxing were allowed, I wouldn't play here." I wouldn't necessarily call them out on it, but I don't think there are many here that are here because this is a single-box-only server. If that was the case, that'd be a key selling point of this server, and would be highlighted on all the descriptions. Instead, it's not even a subtitle.

No, people are here for classic. Certainly no boxing feels more like classic than everyone boxing. However, there's nothing classic about 100-person server populations in the early hours.

[Tuan]

Alawen: Have you tried to start a character in time-zones where there aren't many people around?

It's easy to say there's no problem when that isn't the case, and maybe the only time you login and there aren't many people around is random times and you are already high-enough that your character is at least somewhat self sufficient and there are different things to do.

What I was trying to get at is that it wasn't much fun for me attempting to start leveling up a character when there is no one around to group with at a very low level. My first night, which was around a month ago, I started a cleric in Butcherblock, I saw maybe 2 different people in the span of 4 or 5 hours. I started a necro in Akanon, I saw no one in the span in a few hours. What is the fun in that? It isn't going to drive people to actually want to play on this server.

The point of the game is to play with people. And I can understand that the very low level zones have little-no population, it's not as if every stays level 1 forever. So what I think would be helpful is to allow two-boxing so players can get characters up to at least a level where they can actually find people playing, and if no one is around they can at least do their own thing in the meantime.

If I was even just level 15 or so I could have wandered to some different areas to try to find people. Good luck doing that at level 1!

Hell, just let people two-box up to level 10 or 15 or something. Good enough for me, it's just not fun playing such a low level char alone.

And the main point is that this drives people to not play at all, which the community should be aware of.

But hey if you want to argue more people wouldn't play if two boxing was allowed, then be my guest. Perfectly valid argument. You could have attempted to make a non-jackass comment like that, but you chose not to. Or you could have just moved on to the next thread since you have no interest in any discussion.