Random Idea: Account Tradeins

[Splorf22]

Having a GM event where people trade in accounts for illusion masks is way more classic than variance or three years of Kunark. Even Elethia isn't complaining.

95% of the people who bitch about classic in server chat are just trolls. People that actually care post in the bug forums.

[wrxBRAH]

or just wipe it clean. less work to hit the delete button. I guarantee the first few months the server would push 1500-2k people. Restart as a classic timeline without all the hax and bloated economy and buys more time to release Velious.

[heartbrand]

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

AA's
gnome shadowknights
pok books
item dye
/surname instead of having to petition

its the LITTLE things that made classic eq memorable. sure having to stare at a book for 35 levels sucks but dont you remember that as part of the experience? wasn't it so awesome when you finally got over that hump?

I don't know what a lot of you are looking for in p99, but it certainly isn't a classic eq experience.

I'm looking for a chance to progress through old content without people hacking and six boxing and without quests from ten expacs later in game that give 20/20 dmg delay weapons. The classic aspect of not being able to /makeleader or link items, or bugs and design flaws like hybrid Exp penalties kept to a timeline is completely trivial and meaningless to me.

[Fael]

Who are you people kidding.

Alt army's beyond 3 lvl 60s are completely redundant. Most of the time, only 2 lvl 60s is necessary.

Worst case scenario having 1 at trak, 1 KC, and 1 at ej/td is all that is needed. For the most part, all you need is 2: 1 at trak, 1 at kc.

Having "alt armies" really doesn't provide a huge competitive advantage in the current raid environment.



Dolic

[uygi]

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

Alt army's beyond 3 lvl 60s are completely redundant. Most of the time, only 2 lvl 60s is necessary.

Worst case scenario having 1 at trak, 1 KC, and 1 at ej/td is all that is needed. For the most part, all you need is 2: 1 at trak, 1 at kc.

You're nuts. A minimum of one character in VP, a minimum of one at Trak. Need one at each of Fay, VS and Sev but you can manage those 3 with two characters between evacs and window overlaps. Advisable to have a toon at Fear portal but not necessary if you answer batphone immediately and mobilize fast. The only encounters that are really solid mobilizations are Inny (unless a guild is parked there), Talendor and Gore(lol). CT is a mess where anything can happen every time so all bets are off. Draco is basically a one-group mob if you do it right and have a good kite/pull.

The only serious problem with Loraen's idea that I see is the epic part. Maybe I'm an idiot, but the only 3 epics I have are SK, wizard and mage; having them trade-in the same as rogue/cleric/shaman/monk epics seems particularly obscene. I like the 25% chance at prenerf fungi, but it should be nodrop. Being able to trade, on average, 4 epic 60 rogues for one prenerf fungi seems waaay too easy for an item that's essentially priceless. I'd gladly 60 and epic a few rogues til I got a prenerf fungi, if it was nodrop I might have to think about whether it was worth it.

And yeah, it's super not classic. Heck having level 60s with epics in the first place isn't very classic pre-velious, so what the hell. I agree, the work for the GMs would probly be a no-go, but they could probably streamline it if they wanted to, something like the /movelog command, maybe /sacrifice <name of character to receive benefit>. For the item rewards the recipient should just get a token, and add a character to PoSky quest room that accepts tokens for rewards; as a fun classic-ish bonus, the guy that accepts should spawn the different turn-in guys and therefore restrict these to one every 8 hours in true PoSky fashion.

[Rhambuk]

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

completely trivial and meaningless to me.

as they are with most people...

[Aviann]

To be honest the only items they'd farm for are illusion items, which have basically no benefit aside from looking cool. Think of how it will get rid of a lot of high level alts in certain guilds and actually level out the playing field momentarily in the raid scene. We've been stuck in Kunark for quite some time now, maybe it isn't such a bad thing to find a way to sync things out a bit. They focused a lot on getting rid of economy problems by setting up money holes like the casino in Luclin. PoP also did a bit of work on helping things itself, but we won't be getting it here.

I feel it will help the server survive a little longer than what it may or may not in the future.

Dark elves look sexy

[Pringles]

Id just level bards to trade in..... getting a bard to 50 takes minimal effort.

[applesauce25r624]

would sacrifice the shit out of my 55 bard for a guise on my new necro

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by applesauce25r624 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

would sacrifice the shit out of my 55 bard for a guise on my new necro

my necro has one and needless to say it goes to waste. Your in lich form so much never really have time for DE.