server population

[tekniq]

farm your plat, buy your items, then call it a day. the raid scene is hectic and it's nice not hearing a batphone anymore.

[finalgrunt]

Everquest is more about the community, thus why we choose to come play EQ again after 13 years instead of WOW/Aion/EVE/FFantasy/etc after being away for even 1 year of it.

Population will increase again with velious which is possibly around the corner

And lastly, stop asking for hand outs, if you want pixels without trying, go back to wow.

We (coming from many of the community you're so willingly to speak for) mostly came here to relive our memories.

And poopsocking, batphone, training, FTE sniping, lawering abuse and hacking clearly don't belong to these memories. I guess I was lucky to have played on a more civilized server back then than you did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
As hard as it is to believe it, rotation was actually pretty widespread on live/classic servers. So I don't see how enforcing rotation on part of the server dragons / bosses is not a valid request.

P.S: not a chance, I'll ever "try" (and that can be applied to pretty much the whole server minus TMO as we speak) what you think it should take. Not now, not ever. Some people take way too seriously a 12 years old game on an emulated server for sure. And until proven wrong, people who are willingly investing much more time on this server do not have the authority to dictate how other people should play. The final word comes from the server staff. And my guess is the staff isn't so happy with the current raid scene if they're asking for input from the community.

P.P.S: many people actually don't care so much about loot (it's just the cherry on top) and have fun just from gathering with a bunch of friendly people to kill a target together, and take a nice screenie of everybody cheering after some hard work (not our fault if some of you find it too easy/trivial due to abusing the knowledge of game mechanics after so many years, CH bps come to my mind).

[Safon]

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

We (coming from many of the community you're so willingly to speak for) mostly came here to relive our memories.

And poopsocking, batphone, training, FTE sniping, lawering abuse and hacking clearly don't belong to these memories. I guess I was lucky to have played on a more civilized server back then than you did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
As hard as it is to believe it, rotation was actually pretty widespread on live/classic servers. So I don't see how enforcing rotation on part of the server dragons / bosses is not a valid request.

P.S: not a chance, I'll ever "try" (and that can be applied to pretty much the whole server minus TMO as we speak) what you think it should take. Not now, not ever. Some people take way too seriously a 12 years old game on an emulated server for sure. And until proven wrong, people who are willingly investing much more time on this server do not have the authority to dictate how other people should play. The final word comes from the server staff. And my guess is the staff isn't so happy with the current raid scene if they're asking for input from the community.

P.P.S: many people actually don't care so much about loot (it's just the cherry on top) and have fun just from gathering with a bunch of friendly people to kill a target together, and take a nice screenie of everybody cheering after some hard work (not our fault if some of you find it too easy/trivial due to abusing the knowledge of game mechanics after so many years, CH bps come to my mind).

Good points, but as far as the raid scene goes, you put in the effort or you take the leftover scraps. Pretty much how it's always been in one form or another on this server, and no i don't raid

[Arclanz]

Classic on our server (Brell/Cazic) meant the following from July 1999 to July 2000.

1. Raid rotations, not competing/socking/batphoning
2. Numerous guilds joining forces for raids
3. No powerleveling (Other than very few exceptions)
4. Lots of grouping.
5. Very little RMT.

The exact opposite is true on this server. Other than the pixels on the screen, this does not remind me at all of classic; hence why I only played here for two months in 2010. Did enjoy those pixels quite a bit, though; wish they'd fix the rest or open a new blue server for old world only.

Velious opening will be just another fad that temporarily brings players back; but in the end the server will settle to even less players than before Velious launched.

[Fists]

Server population is declining for a few reasons, summer (it always get's lower until the end of summer), new games (everyone always comes back), stale content (wait till velious), and lack of competition OR server promotion.

Any of you /R/ fags could go and post Rogeans ten ton hammer interview and a link to p99 on Reddit anytime and get us more people.

Regardless, these new games will burn out, summer will end, Velious will one day be released and the server population will go back up.

[Fists]

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

Classic on our server (Brell/Cazic) meant the following from July 1999 to July 2000.

1. Raid rotations, not competing/socking/batphoning
2. Numerous guilds joining forces for raids
3. No powerleveling (Other than very few exceptions)
4. Lots of grouping.
5. Very little RMT.

The exact opposite is true on this server. Other than the pixels on the screen, this does not remind me at all of classic; hence why I only played here for two months in 2010. Did enjoy those pixels quite a bit, though; wish they'd fix the rest or open a new blue server.

Velious opening will be just another fad that temporarily brings players back; but in the end the server will settle to even less players than before Velious launched.

I'm so happy that you had a lovely little carebear server with no competition on Live. What about those of us from Rallos, Sullon, Tholuxe Paels? I on the other hand think this AND red are both too carebear, but you just deal with it and accept it because it's EQ bro.

[Massive Marc]

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

I'm so happy that you had a lovely little carebear server with no competition on Live. What about those of us from Rallos, Sullon, Tholuxe Paels? I on the other hand think this AND red are both too carebear, but you just deal with it and accept it because it's EQ bro.

So you're saying that because some servers were extreme, this one should be ? Derp of course you could argue it both ways. The thing is though, that competition that used to matter, doesn't anymore....because we've all done it hundreds of times on live..derp...Most guilds don't want a hand out, but they don't want to get up at 3:00am in the morning at a chance to slay pixels.. you would think this is obvious.

EQ is what we make it and having a rotation wouldn't be outside the norm of EQ. The fact is, TMO has a lock on everything simply because they have the highest unemployment rate of any guild, then they complain about competition like someone gives a shit, when obviously no one does.

I'll take the title of carebear over low life basement dwelling batphone answering poopsocking faggot, any day. That's not hardcore, that just fucking retarded. Get some sun.

[Arclanz]

I played on Rallos Zek about a month (when item loot and deleveling was still in the game). Loved it, but I had a guild to run on Brell so I couldn't stay. I wouldn't call old school raiding carebear, TBH. Raids were eight hour affairs at the time. Let's face it, this server is easier than classic even before you consider the fact that every detail of every encounter is common knowledge that has been done 1000s of times.

[Fists]

I understand the idea that you believe all of TMO and IB etc were unemployed basement dwellers, and where as some truth may follow that belief, myself being both an ex TMO/IB; raided, logged in at 4 am, while working 40 hours a week and taking a full load of school at the same time. I can also list a multitude of people from both guilds that I know are employed, go to school, or even both.

The nostalgia fades for everyone. 95% of us have done this all before, but there is still the desire to farm, find and play with friends, and better your character. Fixing the raiding scene is just a matter of having another guild be willing to track mobs, and log out when you are done playing (or towards the end of a window), at that target necessary. I can then argue that if it pops at 3-4 am, don't log on so what let them have it, many guilds in Classic played that way and still got mobs (WI, Trans, Div). Not every mob spawns late, every guild does have a few European players that can track on off hours, recruit as necessary and the problems solved.

TMO controls everything because no one else even attempts to compete. Taking an hour long shift to track while you make/eat dinner doesn't make you a basement dwelling no-lifer.

[Safon]

There's nothing wrong with speculating on the server's health or even it's downfall if it's constructive. It's the people who have quit (yet still haunt these forums for whatever reason) such as Arclanz and possibly Massive Marc (who seems to have returned here purely to fight with people) who talk about the server's downfall smugly and gloat that they got out while others are still in that are bothersome.