Shadows of Luclin server

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are you gonna be butthurt when we have driverless cars instead of Ubers driving people around too? Cause I promise that's coming lol

Too true, it's coming. Just like today with so many driverless people, their headlights are on but no one behind the wheel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[thufir]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So if the devs coded PoK books to require you to /who all pokbook /t freeportbook Can u port me to freeport pls? then wait 2 minutes and trade it 50pp and say "ty" then it'd be legit? I still think you and others like you are WAY over romanticizing the whole idea. There's VERY little social interaction or feeling of "working together" when I use DAP. It's basically calling an Uber. Are you gonna be butthurt when we have driverless cars instead of Ubers driving people around too? Cause I promise that's coming lol

Sure. Make it a 2-5 minute wait with an outside chance it won't come at all. Then have the guy charge you a random amount before they start the port. 1-2% of the time the port should put you somewhere else in the world (to represent sulky or pranky porters). Increase that chance drastically if you "undertip".

Some of the "porters" can even exchange pleasantries with you. Maybe if you don't say the right things it gives you a chance for the porter to drop you from group without porting you, or port you again to somewhere random. Then it can be a 10-30 minute wait before you can get another port (as they "blacklist" you). Fail too many times and you get blacklisted permanently - no porting!

I actually kinda like this idea now that we're talking about it.

[iruinedyourday]

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

"we" as in your red server? That might help. STAT!
What's "vanilla", isn't that WoW terminology? Not classic, bro!

whoah curb your upset.

vanilla means pre-kunark expac.

and its the best of all EQ period.

if you like more than rawhide & banded i feel bad for u son.

I would also like to express my fondness for driverless cars.

[Evia]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So if the devs coded PoK books to require you to /who all pokbook /t freeportbook Can u port me to freeport pls? then wait 2 minutes and trade it 50pp and say "ty" then it'd be legit? I still think you and others like you are WAY over romanticizing the whole idea. There's VERY little social interaction or feeling of "working together" when I use DAP. It's basically calling an Uber. Are you gonna be butthurt when we have driverless cars instead of Ubers driving people around too? Cause I promise that's coming lol

still obvious you do not get it.

[Daywolf]

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

Sure. Make it a 2-5 minute wait with an outside chance it won't come at all. Then have the guy charge you a random amount before they start the port. 1-2% of the time the port should put you somewhere else in the world (to represent sulky or pranky porters). Increase that chance drastically if you "undertip".

Some of the "porters" can even exchange pleasantries with you. Maybe if you don't say the right things it gives you a chance for the porter to drop you from group without porting you, or port you again to somewhere random. Then it can be a 10-30 minute wait before you can get another port (as they "blacklist" you). Fail too many times and you get blacklisted permanently - no porting!

I actually kinda like this idea now that we're talking about it.

Or how about the reverse? I get on my drui, click the book and it follows me around begging for a port? I kill some hill giants, begs for ports. I kill some ice giants, begs for port.

Funally I click ok and it gives me some random location to port to. Once I and the PoK book arrive, the book explains that it'd tip me, but all it's coppers are on it's corps (the PoK book is standing there decked out in raid and epic equip), but will if I buff him out and we travel four zones over through Death and Hades.

After wandering around the target zone four times, finally finding the corpse, the PoK book rewards me with a cat's eye agate and 12 copper, immediately gates out as the mega swarn-train arrives that it managed to collect searching for it's corpse.

Who said there was no interaction? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[thufir]

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

Or how about the reverse? I get on my drui, click the book and it follows me around begging for a port? I kill some hill giants, begs for ports. I kill some ice giants, begs for port.

Funally I click ok and it gives me some random location to port to. Once I and the PoK book arrive, the book explains that it'd tip me, but all it's coppers are on it's corps (the PoK book is standing there decked out in raid and epic equip), but will if I buff him out and we travel four zones over through Death and Hades.

After wandering around the target zone four times, finally finding the corpse, the PoK book rewards me with a cat's eye agate and 12 copper, immediately gates out as the mega swarn-train arrives that it managed to collect searching for it's corpse.

Who said there was no interaction? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is exactly it. Sure, 98% of the time the interaction between porter and portee is a pretty simple exchange. But the kinds of random events that you can get because humans are unpredictable are pretty nice, if you ask me. It adds to the game's charm.

[jcr4990]

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

Sure. Make it a 2-5 minute wait with an outside chance it won't come at all. Then have the guy charge you a random amount before they start the port. 1-2% of the time the port should put you somewhere else in the world (to represent sulky or pranky porters). Increase that chance drastically if you "undertip".

Some of the "porters" can even exchange pleasantries with you. Maybe if you don't say the right things it gives you a chance for the porter to drop you from group without porting you, or port you again to somewhere random. Then it can be a 10-30 minute wait before you can get another port (as they "blacklist" you). Fail too many times and you get blacklisted permanently - no porting!

I actually kinda like this idea now that we're talking about it.

2-5 min wait with chance it won't come at all - Fair

The rest of the stuff you said has basically never happened to me. Never been refused a port if I didn't pay up front. Never been prank ported to the wrong spot and left there. Never been "blacklisted" and had to wait longer than like 10 min for a port ever. Unless playing at super off-peak hours and even then most of the time ports are easy to come by. I get a lot of ports and I play a lot of Everquest. I feel like the stuff you're talking about is exceptionally rare. About the worst that's ever happened is certain porters feel like they're getting ripped off if you don't pay them like 200pp to push a button and they'll whine that you didn't tip enough. People tend to assume if you're a 60 Shaman that you just carry thousands of pp around on you at all times. But to be fair that's happened like 2 times out of hundreds of ports over several years. Statistically insignificant.

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

still obvious you do not get it.

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[thufir]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2-5 min wait with chance it won't come at all - Fair

The rest of the stuff you said has basically never happened to me. Never been refused a port if I didn't pay up front. Never been prank ported to the wrong spot and left there. Never been "blacklisted" and had to wait longer than like 10 min for a port ever. Unless playing at super off-peak hours and even then most of the time ports are easy to come by. I get a lot of ports and I play a lot of Everquest. I feel like the stuff you're talking about is exceptionally rare. About the worst that's ever happened is certain porters feel like they're getting ripped off if you don't pay them like 200pp to push a button and they'll whine that you didn't tip enough. People tend to assume if you're a 60 Shaman that you just carry thousands of pp around on you at all times. But to be fair that's happened like 2 times out of hundreds of ports over several years. Statistically insignificant.

Not insignificant to us. You don't care about this stuff, that's fine. I like it. But this is why we're talking past each other.

[Evia]

Your gif is implying you do. But really just don't. Your responses make that clear with your ass backwards idea that waiting 2-5 min for the pok book to respond to me is the same as dealing with a person. They're not even close to similar let alone the same thing. And the uber reference is from left field. No idea what the fuck you're talking about. I was taking about everquest and classic. Not the difference between robots and drivers. Again not even the same. Nice attempt at an analogy though.


You're clueless on the matter, obviously.

[Psionide]

JCR, did you play a porting class back when Luclin came out? Do you play a porting class now?