Monopolizing Scout in WW...

[Crawdad]

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

theres no variance to scout window, she pops 10hours (i think) on the dot, each and every time.
you log in for 20 secs, spam click for 5 secs and your done. Your not camping this for 10+hours, unless you like doing things the hard way.

I mean, this pretty much right here. Get rid of the monopoly and switch to randoming, throw out some DTs if some people don't want to cooperate. This is quite possibly the worst risk:reward quest in the game (in a good way), and you're letting plat farmers ruin it for by throwing plat around senselessly.

[Sadiki]

Not to beat a dead horse, but the situation is just going downhill.

We now have a new person that now sits at all of the scout spawns, mysteriously wins every one, and sells the kill rights. This is somehow okay. Still no official comments or intervention about this behavior.

Scout is already a terrible system and people chain gating and flooding the area with illusions is borderline griefing. This server is populated with bots/farm squads that limit content for everyone who wants to actually play and enjoy EQ. I often meet people levelling who ask me about how difficult it is to complete some quest and I need to tell them that their mob has had a group of people sitting on the spawn spot for the last 2 months. The adventure is over once you hit 60.. you tunnelquest all of your needs and raiding involves staring at your screen intently for 16 hours straight for a 5 minute kill.

I feel like P99 has completely lost its purpose in favor of greed and the WoW mentality.

[TheDuck]

you are not enabling shit when they kill the mob/stop the quest from being able to be done unless you pay them. lol.

[Crawdad]

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

you are not enabling shit when they kill the mob/stop the quest from being able to be done unless you pay them. lol.

That's called extortion hombre. Don't feed the beast.

[Ivory]

Removing multiquesting will fix a LOT of this.

[Ikon]

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

Removing multiquesting will fix a LOT of this.

QFT.

Remove multiquesting. Implement the classic Play Nice Policy, not just a cherry picked PNP. Enforce a rotation.

Mostly importantly - Take a no nonsense approach to the petition system - reading some of the comments by Sirken regarding the harassing / abuse of staff on P1999 why not just outright banhammer repeat offenders, disband guilds if they can't behave, they did it on live and it worked which is why many can't remember the stupidity you see here on live.

Server should go back to the players, not just some tards who think they're "winning"an emu server at any cost.

Edit: Another thing I'd do is put a limit on the amount of plat a single account can hold. Having accounts with literally 10's of millions of pp is a recipe for RMT. Consider you have people who are farming certain things and selling them for up to half a million pp. Even if they're not RMTíng what do you think those people will do when they decide to quit and they have 10's of millions of pp on their chars? if like someone as has said in another thread 500kpp is worth 1.5k dollars and they have no regards for the health of the server which they obviously do not what are they going to do with those 10's of millions of pp?.

[Ravager]

I don't know how anyone ever played this game without Bracer of Benevolence.

[Kaedain]

Benevolence
[buh-nev-uh-luh ns]
noun
1.
desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness:
to be filled with benevolence toward one's fellow creatures.
2.
an act of kindness; a charitable gift.

Seems a fitting name for the items now in retrospect .....

[Erati]

theres no MQ involved in this quest-leave MQ alone some of us do the quests legitly for our alts and MQing portions is a great feature of EQ

attuning items and having quest journal check marks rather than physical drops are whats crappy ab other games- keep that shit out of classic EQ

Scout spawn has had people use illusions or sit on the spawn since day one of Velious- its an easy quest avail every 10 hr to anyone w faction - thats why its so contested and cheesed. Litterally 2/3 of the server is prob capable of attempting and its so easy u can redo the quest each spawn

the real fix is put an unclassic cool down on acquiring the scout tools from Commander Leuz

if u only allow people to have 1 Scout Tool a week, you would get rid of sellers

[Ikon]

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

theres no MQ involved in this quest-leave MQ alone some of us do the quests legitly for our alts and MQing portions is a great feature of EQ

attuning items and having quest journal check marks rather than physical drops are whats crappy ab other games- keep that shit out of classic EQ

Scout spawn has had people use illusions or sit on the spawn since day one of Velious- its an easy quest avail every 10 hr to anyone w faction - thats why its so contested and cheesed. Litterally 2/3 of the server is prob capable of attempting and its so easy u can redo the quest each spawn

the real fix is put an unclassic cool down on acquiring the scout tools from Commander Leuz

if u only allow people to have 1 Scout Tool a week, you would get rid of sellers

No MQ is not okay irrespective of whether one quest does not require MQ. The understanding of the server appears to be its okay to feck anyone over and over and over for quest mob to get PP for gods knows what - maybe just for the fun of screwing them over who knows.

Whether that person has been showing up every 8 hours trying to get their quest done its completely fine to give them a big fuck you and kite the mob around for hafl an hour while your buyer logs on...

Whether someone has all their epic pieces but are lacking that one item you've had permacamped for the last 8 weeks or longer its okay to give them a big digital finger and demand 20k to 500k while you corpse the item over and over because that's a-okay on this server...

Scout is just another symptom of a toxic group of a people intent on screwing up the server for whatever mean spirited reason they can think of.... perhaps because they have 15 level 60's and not much else.