Circle kiting needs to be nerfed

[hammertime7795]

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

Nerf quad kiting, necro soloing, mage pets, chardok aoe, warrior defensive, shaker-paging and the rest of the stuff that makes EQ EQ.

Its not that they can do it its that it disrupts a zone that people use and need for quests. False equivalencies and things like shaker paging that will never exist on this server are pretty sad arguments.

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by hammertime7795 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its not that they can do it its that it disrupts a zone that people use and need for quests. False equivalencies and things like shaker paging that will never exist on this server are pretty sad arguments.

A sad argument is being told something is allowed several times by the staff and campaigning for it to be disallowed.
If someone is taking EVERY SINGLE NPC in the zone and is refusing to share, then petition! It's against the play nice policy to do so.

Communicate with the person. Say, "Hey, can you stop kiting all the NPCs in the zone? I have nothing to hunt.", then petition if they said 'no go fuck yourself this zone is mine.'
GMs just can't slap a blanket ban on something like that. That's stupid; if you weren't effected by it you wouldn't be making this topic. Be the bigger man and petition that douche bard if he's like that. But send him a tell first. They HAVE to be reasonable according to the server staff.

Same goes with Chardok AE groups. You're more than entitled to steal their AE mobs provided they aren't tagged, drag them to the side, and kill them. If the AE group kills you on purpose, then you can petition.

Oh, but wait, you won't do that to a chardok AE group. You'll be blacklisted by the server and won't be able to join most guilds. Boo hoo, if it's bothering you that much deal with the social consequences and petition.

[sox7d]

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

Nerf quad kiting, necro soloing, mage pets, chardok aoe, warrior defensive, shaker-paging and the rest of the stuff that makes EQ retarded.

FTFY.

Kind of laughable that someone would equate holding 40+ mobs over 20 minutes to a necro soloing 1 at a time every 1-2 minutes or a druid/wizard killing 4 mobs every 5 minutes.

Anyways, shit's not gonna change, just peel mobs off the assholish bards, wtf are they gonna do about it?

[Danth]

To me, anyway, the frustrating part of watching those Bards ruin zones like Overthere isn't that it happens. That by itself doesn't matter so much; lots of annoying stuff happens on P1999. My largest frustration on this issue is knowing that most the time it happens for nothing because most of those Bards will lose interest and quit by the early/mid 50's.

The minority of folks who stick with it, well, I don't blame 'em. Who wants to spend a lot of time leveling an alt that's probably intended to be used just as a raid resist singer? If you want to talk about "damage" to the server (I quote the word because it's a matter of opinion) then Chardok is a lot worse than any number of Bards running in circles since it directly contributes in a big way to the alt armies of 60's owned by folks on this server. That's not going away, either, so just accept it for what it is and that P1999 isn't quite the same as, well, 1999.

Danth

[Jaleth]

Originally Posted by sox7d [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

FTFY.

Kind of laughable that someone would equate holding 40+ mobs over 20 minutes to a necro soloing 1 at a time every 1-2 minutes or a druid/wizard killing 4 mobs every 5 minutes.

Anyways, shit's not gonna change, just peel mobs off the assholish bards, wtf are they gonna do about it?

This.

If I'm in the OT with my wizard and can't find a single mob anywhere in sight, I just go towards the middle of the zone. When I see a bard pulling 20+ mobs across the zone with nothing left for pickings, I just Staff of Temperate Flux the fuck out of that swarm, and pull off 4 mobs of my choosing.

[Eliseus]

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

Nerf quad kiting, necro soloing, mage pets, chardok aoe, warrior defensive, shaker-paging and the rest of the stuff that makes EQ EQ.

Late response, but, boxing is something that makes EQ EQ and it's banned. Just saying.

[Mentathiel]

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

Late response, but, boxing is something that makes EQ EQ and it's banned. Just saying.

Here's a thought; P1999 has one of the strongest populations at any time of day and does not allow boxing, to the point where two people on the same LAN have to get special dispensation. On blue, you can usually find a group quite easily, you will meet people and there will always be a few vendors in EC hawking their wares.

Why would they allow boxing? Boxing is for under-populated servers and sad gits who don't have the social skills to find a pick-up group.

[Conky]

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

shits classic

Really it's not classic nobody had the connection to handle pulling 40+ mobs and not lag out and die in kunark era.

[Dillian]

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

Really it's not classic nobody had the connection to handle pulling 40+ mobs and not lag out and die in kunark era.

i had a cable connection in 2000 and a computer that was pretty good since i spent an entire months lance corporal pay on it lol.

[Danth]

I also had cable by the time I started EQ, but I'm not sure it would have made much difference on a 100 mob pull. EQ was meant to run on modems of the time. A lot of folks didn't even have 56K (and if you recall, even folks who had 56K rarely to never actually connected at that speed), and I don't know that the host's rate of data output took any advantage of broadband. Some other MMOG's of the time definitely didn't (I know a few online games that still used a 9600-baud or equivalent data rate even into 2000/2001). Even the best connection wouldn't help if the host wasn't sending position updates and such quickly enough.

I don't know for certain either way, but it's something to think about.

Danth