"We want people to obtain their levels naturally via kills" --Rogean

[Sirquestalot]

@ Strifer: I don't have any proof / documentation, but I was playing on the Agnarr progression server when the shit hit the fan. No, they didn't disable all quest exp for a month; what they did was even worse... they nerfed all quest experience by a factor of about 90% forever and ever, amen.

Why did this happen? Well, as Rogean insinuated, players cheesed the mechanics to the point of exploit, blasting out (high) levels as soon as the expansion dropped in a variety of ways. But the worst offense only became possible because in their infinite wisdom, the live game devs over the years made it possible to hand in literally thousands of quests at once. (Quest items could be handed in in stacks, and stack sizes were increased to 1000 for tradeskill items. Red wine, fire beetle eyes and bonechips are all tradeskill items on live, in case you didn't know.) So it became possible to hand in 1000, or even 4000 quests at once.

The side effect of this situation was that newb toons couldn't even get hold of a bone chip or fire beetle eye in certain locations because level 50+ pet classes were clearing every spawn the moment it spawned.

Sure, this mass quest turn-in scenario doesn't apply to us on p99, but the equivalent power gamer exploit phenomenon is "why we can't have nice things." At least for us it's only one month and not forever. Personally, I would have laughed if the other live server solution had been implemented: corpse wipe with expac drop. But on p99, that would just have created a million petitions for lost inventory. And our devs / moderators don't deserve that kind of grief. They work hard and we owe them thanks for that.

[Nuggie]

Guys were trying to game the system and got got themselves. Time to move on(with the game or with your lives if you can't handle the P99 admin decisions). And that's just the way it is, in all its brutal cruelty. Sorry to be the messenger.

[jolanar]

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

How unclassic can we get boys ?

quest exp doesnt exist on p99... lmao what the hell am I reading

Green server sounds fucking retarded btw

This. It's time we stop pretending this server is classic. It's whatever the fuck Rogean wants it to be, and it certainly isn't classic.

[magnetaress]

Necromancy is unnatural but bone chips are real and part of a natural process.

[GoldenGoat99]

Gotta say I'm kind of surprised to see so many people in this thread that regard quest xp as a somehow illegitimate form of leveling.

Like, sure, dumping a truckload of bones onto a dwarf to become powerful is an innately funny thing to imagine. But I always just thought that was part of the charm of playing a 20 year old MMO. Yall pick some strange places to draw the line.

[Kohedron]

Ah, the """""""""""classic""""""""""""" server.

[kudlezz]

lol

[Donkey Hotay]

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

There was a certain individual or rather group of individuals who loaded up alt accounts as well as a huge pile of corpses containing paw scrolls to turn in the moment Kunark dropped to power to 60 or as close as possible.

ahaha Mannastone BTFO. I had forgotten about him vulturing the spire gnolls for the past several weeks.

[busted]

The bread quest was classic.

This gluten inorlant nerf is offensive to bread eaters everywhere

"Bread quest has been replaced with free-range gluten-free low-fat non-GMO flatbread quest"

[Gugga]

All I know is Grugga personally wants to thank all of you whom I made thousands upon thousands of plat off of whilst living in SK killing gnolls... Sorry for your losses. #Istandwiththescrollpeople