The Sleeper to be awoken tonight in Rampage's final raid.

[Detoxx]

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

I wonder if Omnia should be removed from that signature =(.

Ill never give up on the best Wizard to grace Project 1999!

[stront]

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

By "competition" you mean 150+ people staring at a wall for hours, while a half dozen people from each side play a mini-game of tag and record the other team's actions for the slight chance of a misstep, then either side can claim victory by the mere chance that their one person managed to press a hotkey first?

boom

[Gimp]

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

Game. Set. Match.

We had been doing Tunare every other Saturday.

Hoku got his fist on 12/19. There was a repop the following Sunday (12/27), putting everything on a weekend timer.

There's your reason. Nobody was going to do a 7 hour PoG clear then have the motivation to start tracking 6+ mobs at 3AM Sunday.

So, keep reaching.

[Fountree]

Most of these guys in Rampage got their loot (their number one priority), 10th rings, legacy ST items and are now leaving the server. They probably never really enjoyed the game of EverQuest to begin with -- EQ is just another nerd competition for domination in a video game, doesn't matter what game it is whether its diablo or Starcraft or whatever. They beat it and then they move on. It's reminiscent of when IB left the server in Kunark.

Most of us who've been around awhile and have a real love of P99 and Classic EQ outgrew this mindset years ago. It sucks that the new players that discover this awesome server are constantly pushed into a toxic raid environment, and unfortunately they do what is asked of them because they're fresh, they're eager to raid, and there's no real alternative. I mean, I haven't tracked a raid target seriously for DKP in years and to many of these players that is the definition of EQ and p99. To stare at walls and not actually play. It gets to the point where you have to question these people's sanity. Having a beer or 3 and staring at the screen for hours just doesn't mesh quite well -- maybe it does for some folks.

Rampage claimed to be the best but I watched a full group of theirs gets rustled and wipe in SG to an icy servant + 1 add the other day, with a lot of the group in velious BIS gear. As a guild they haven't been all that special, they had good clerics and raid leadership but this last repop they were raiding with around 150 players, far far more than TMO ever raided with. Along with the zerging they've utilized consumables to an unprecedented degree which trivialized most of these encounters anyway.

I think its a true statement that Rampage was "special", ahem, because they approached the game like work moreso than any guild before them -- and from my experience being in the guild, most of them (not all) were boring and socially inept. There was no funny guildchat, no players on non-raid times and no personality overall. Player behavior was strictly controlled to the point of hilarity. IB at least had some characters and laughs, and a tight knit community. Same with TMO and Forsaken.

Rampage was P99 competition taken to the point where it was completely devoid of fun and was strictly "business" at all times. If you weren't raiding or tracking you were recharging. If you weren't recharging you were getting your next consumable. They'll have that legacy for sure. Thanks for making this server so much fun for everyone - I think we're all very sad to see you go. The sleeper wakening was just icing on the cake.

[Daldaen]

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

Looking forward to a new batch of Asgardian raiders this weekend while Forsaken is suspended !

Still confused how you guys are not suspended along with your allies when you certainly participated in the encounters that Forsaken got punished for. Will your leaders take the high road and acknowledge that they took part in those kills and serve the 2 mob suspension as an Allied force? Or will you ignore this oversight conduct business as usual? You will be raiding with Forsaken during the other windows when those impacted upon mobs come into window - it seems messy to randomly do a couple of them solo.

This also boggles my mind...

Taken/Rampage eat a suspension for killing their train, while off tanking Dracoliche. They get the suspension together because they killed the mob together.

Forsaken eats 5 suspensions, for killing or training a variety of mobs stalled and such. All mobs were killed with Asgard. Yet only Forsaken gets the suspension??

What's the reasoning for suspending 1 alliance on one petition and only 1 guild of an alliance on 5 others?

And the 5-day suspension when 80% of the targets are 7-day respawns, 5% are 5-day respawns and 15% are 3-day respawns... Seems like a troll of a suspension. Why suspend for 5 days of raiding when the vast majority of targets won't spawn, and when the reason you're being suspended in the first place was exclusively your behavior on 7-day targets.

I see Sirken also deleted all posts in the petition thread and locked it. That seems constructive...

Should just make all repops so people spread out IMO.

[fan D]

RIP omnia she died like she lived, the galaxy is at rest

[Gimp]

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

Most of these guys in Rampage got their loot (their number one priority), 10th rings, legacy ST items and are now leaving the server. They probably never really enjoyed the game of EverQuest to begin with -- EQ is just another nerd competition for domination in a video game, doesn't matter what game it is whether its diablo or Starcraft or whatever. They beat it and then they move on. It's reminiscent of when IB left the server in Kunark.

Most of us who've been around awhile and have a real love of P99 and Classic EQ outgrew this mindset years ago. It sucks that the new players that discover this awesome server are constantly pushed into a toxic raid environment, and unfortunately they do what is asked of them because they're fresh, they're eager to raid, and there's no real alternative. I mean, I haven't tracked a raid target seriously for DKP in years and to many of these players that is the definition of EQ and p99. To stare at walls and not actually play. It gets to the point where you have to question these people's sanity. Having a beer or 3 and staring at the screen for hours just doesn't mesh quite well -- maybe it does for some folks.

Rampage claimed to be the best but I watched a full group of theirs gets rustled and wipe in SG to an icy servant + 1 add the other day, with a lot of the group in velious BIS gear. As a guild they haven't been all that special, they had good clerics and raid leadership but this last repop they were raiding with around 150 players, far far more than TMO ever raided with. Along with the zerging they've utilized consumables to an unprecedented degree which trivialized most of these encounters anyway.

I think its a true statement that Rampage was "special", ahem, because they approached the game like work moreso than any guild before them -- and from my experience being in the guild, most of them (not all) were boring and socially inept. There was no funny guildchat, no players on non-raid times and no personality overall. Player behavior was strictly controlled to the point of hilarity. IB at least had some characters and laughs, and a tight knit community. Same with TMO and Forsaken.

Rampage was P99 competition taken to the point where it was completely devoid of fun and was strictly "business" at all times. If you weren't raiding or tracking you were recharging. If you weren't recharging you were getting your next consumable. They'll have that legacy for sure. Thanks for making this server so much fun for everyone - I think we're all very sad to see you go. The sleeper wakening was just icing on the cake.

And yet, you were in IB and just reapped Rampage two weeks ago.

Pot, kettle, etc

[Lazie]

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

We had been doing Tunare every other Saturday.

Hoku got his fist on 12/19. There was a repop the following Sunday (12/27), putting everything on a weekend timer.

There's your reason. Nobody was going to do a 7 hour PoG clear then have the motivation to start tracking 6+ mobs at 3AM Sunday.

So, keep reaching.

Ok. Or Hokushin had what he wanted and didn't care to take the guild there anyone... Kinda like Waking the Sleeper after not getting the Gharns.


I mean why kill Lendinaria, Zlandicar and Klandicar as 3 of your first 4 targets on a repop if you are planning to Wake the Sleeper ? It's kinda paper thin ya know. These excuses.

[Gimp]

I just explained to you why we hadn't been doing Tunare in our normal schedule, or did that go over your head?

As far as target choices, youd have to ask him. I just go where I'm needed.

[Ashkari]

Are you guys just mad your Rampage didn't hang around long enough for you to finally beat them? On a long enough time line, with attrition being what it is, I'm sure you'd win. I'm sure whoever loses the Superbowl will say if only there were a 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th quarter, they would have won! And nobody will listen to them either.

It's happened in every 'cycle' of the game. Content gets released, IB/TR/Rampage beat it, people get bored of farming it over and over and quit, DA/TMO/Forsaken come along and claim they 'ran them off the server.' New content, old players come back, IB/TR/Rampage beat it, people get bored and quit, so on and so on.

There's a reason all the Server Firsts, Epic Firsts, First lvl 50's, First lvl 60's etc. were all IB/TR/Rampage. That was what they set out to do, beat the game and beat it first. They did it, so they won.

If your goal is to week in and week out for all eternity be the best guild, enjoy the rest of your life on P99, because until Rogean pulls the plug this will go on forever.