Veeshan's Peak

[Atmas]

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

success = drama

That is really not the source of it. I on several occassions now have had the misfortune of being in a zone when a high valued mob pops and just been casually trained.

As individuals I have good relationships with and like a lot of the people in the top guilds. As guilds though, there are too many disreptuable things done for the ones who have the get all mobs mentality. People train and kite mobs and lock down mobs they don't really need.

[Knuckle]

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

That is really not the source of it. I on several occassions now have had the misfortune of being in a zone when a high valued mob pops and just been casually trained.

As individuals I have good relationships with and like a lot of the people in the top guilds. As guilds though, there are too many disreptuable things done for the ones who have the get all mobs mentality. People train and kite mobs and lock down mobs they don't really need.

atmas impaler

[Nuggie]

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

Well, there are really only a few guilds that even attempt to do bosses or anything past island 4 in Sky right now. TR, TMO, VD, Taken, Bregan... guilds like Reclamation certainly raid, but not to the same degree. If you want to do serious raid content, then as it stands, yes, you must join one of those guilds. Since TR, TMO and recently VD have collectively killed the vast majority for the last month, if you want to kill dragons and gods, you have to be in one of those 3 guilds. Obviously, there are only going to be a few successful raiding guilds at one time, and these guilds are going to be getting the bulk of the attention simply because success = drama.
The rest of P99's guilds are not 'feeder' guilds; it just happens that players must move from a smaller, casual guild to a larger guild if they want to do the bigger raids. These few raiding guilds are a minority on the server overall; there are plenty of people who have more fun leveling that new alt up than in gearing up a main in raid armor, and they and the guilds they make are the majority of the server in terms of population, if not in terms of drama per capita.

When 7th Hammer and Lanys merged I had quite an eye opener. On Lanys there was almost always one major guild and one lesser competitor. After the merger there were like 7 guilds that were in the hardcore raiding scene. Guilds competed for players, not the other way around.

[WizardEQ]

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

When 7th Hammer and Lanys merged I had quite an eye opener. On Lanys there was almost always one major guild and one lesser competitor. After the merger there were like 7 guilds that were in the hardcore raiding scene. Guilds competed for players, not the other way around.

Did you know Ludic, Garwood, Detlev, Stillnight, Erat from Lanys?

I played in '99-'02. Ludic and his RL dad, Garwood started Chosen of Norrath. He was wheelchair bound and his life revolved around EQ. I know he died a few years after I quit; I felt such a loss because CoN was an amazing family. I know the uber guild was Conquest when I left. They were the only one's able to go to VP at the time. Zero competition from other guilds.

What do you remember from those years?

Xaxian

[Happyfeet]

Originally Posted by murrayh81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

5. Not sure if the quests are going to be operational, but there should be some mechanism to permit questers to approach prior to the dragons being slain.

Someone was talking about leaving dragons up for questers... I can't find it now, but regardless:
What quests are even in VP 1.0? I found a bunch for VP 2.0.

[Heebee]

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

What quests are even in VP 1.0?

None.

[Nother]

Trivia : NILBOG spelt backwards is...

[Silentone]

I know it wasnt an official answer but I think people said that since its content its going to have to be a full repop.

[Lazortag]

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

I know it wasnt an official answer but I think people said that since its content its going to have to be a full repop.

This hasn't always been the case so I'm still not sure. I agree every content patch should mean a full repop but the staff haven't publicly said anything about whether this is a policy or not.

[Sephyre]

Why even get involved?

Let there be trains and ignore the tears.

Community will either work out a rotation, or become so voraciously competitive that rants and flames will come alive again and population would go up.

Waste of time trying to police it.