PSA: Your Gnoll Scrolls are Nerfed 50%

[Scalem]

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

It had nothing to do with players (all they did was play classic EQ).

Quest XP was shut off because after ten years of "beta testing" (when they easily could have made any changes to quest XP ... or anything else) the staff decided to just throw classic EQ out the window for a month on Green ... so they could indulge their unclassic "server first" MMOG speed-running fetish.

If any players are to blame it's the like 0.01% of the server that actually cares about server firsts: "they" ruined classic EQ for 100% of the players on the classic EQ server. But again, it was 100% Rogean and Nilbog's call, so it's not even really any player's fault.

This server has never been anything but "classic" in name and spirit. Green will never be a true classic EQ server. Those are 20 years old and are never coming back.

[Castle2.0]

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

It had nothing to do with players (all they did was play classic EQ).

Quest XP was shut off because after ten years of "beta testing" (when they easily could have made any changes to quest XP ... or anything else) the staff decided to just throw classic EQ out the window for a month on Green ... so they could indulge their unclassic "server first" MMOG speed-running fetish.

If any players are to blame it's the like 0.01% of the server that actually cares about server firsts: "they" ruined classic EQ for 100% of the players on the classic EQ server. But again, it was 100% Rogean and Nilbog's call, so it's not even really any player's fault.

Loramin's a hammer. This topic is a nail.

[Bootlee]

Classic isn't 50 accounts.

[loramin]

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

Classic isn't 50 accounts.

Right, but a simple (and more classic) fix would have been to cap quest XP gains.

You want to use 50 accounts to gnoll scroll to 60? You can try, but after you get (say) 20% of your XP for the level from quests, quest XP stops working. Go kill something, those 50 accounts won't help (much).

Who cares if the people who prepped for the race get to race 20% faster (while playing by the rules of classic EQ) ... unless you care that much more about speed running than you do about classic EQ?

[cd288]

Lmao I’m NGL this middle finger from the staff to Castle is pretty hilarious

[BiG SiP]

video game “achievements” (LOL) are one of the dumbest things to happen in gaming in the last 20 years

[DoodyLich666]

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

video game “achievements” (LOL) are one of the dumbest things to happen in gaming in the last 20 years

This is totally true. We nerds have always tried to flex our “skillz” against one another, but the whole digital trophy system that exists now has made it much more cringe. The weird jock “esport” thing is so lame.

[Castle2.0]

Originally Posted by DoodyLich666 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is totally true. We nerds have always tried to flex our “skillz” against one another, but the whole digital trophy system that exists now has made it much more cringe. The weird jock “esport” thing is so lame.

I know, it's like chess or wrestling. Why must one man prove himself against another? It's all so tribal.

WTB Pearls

Need something to clutch right now.

[DoodyLich666]

I am fine with competition, I just don’t think that we need accolades for gaming. I think in the end the whole achievement thing actually ends up working to stifle the creativity in games that I think makes mmos fun. It creates a box that you must work within, and if you go outside of it to do something new, you are accused of cheating people from these achievements. I believe that this whole quest nerf debacle proves this point.
It’s fine that there is a race to get to max level fast, but the whole yellow text/ name on p99 wiki thing set up a pretense where it created a “right and wrong” way of going about it.

[Solemnus]

Way to double down on the idiocy P99. At least if anyone ever calls you out on making some of the dumbest choices ever, you can say you stood by your convictions.