Koadic's Endless Intellect

[cs616]

Also, on the topic of Nexus / Travel, I feel like people tend to group Nexus and PoK together too often. PoK gave you instant access to something like 15-20 zones. Nexus on the other hand gave you access to 4 port locations, with each port triggering at a 15 minute interval, meaning travel through the nexus could take anywhere from a few seconds, up to 30 minutes based on how lucky your timing is. That is a HUGE difference.

Travel through the Nexus reduced the burden of travel in such a small way that in my opinion, it hardly changed the game at all. 90% of people I played with never used the nexus because finding a druid / wizard was still easier and faster. Nexus was only really an option I used when I had time to kill and could afk until the spire ported me. PoK definitely trivialized travel and made the expansive virtual world a much smaller place. I think most of us agree that it had a negative impact on the game.

Basically I think Nexus was a decent mechanic that didn't really impact the game all that much, while PoK was a horrible mechanic that trivialized travel in the game.

[Feanoir]

I didn't mind the Vah Shir, the Luclin models, or the Bazaar really...what i hated was that instead of people gathering all over Norrath, ie Gfay, EC, Rivervale, HHK, everyone went to nexus when they weren't grouping. Essentially everyone was either running to a nexus portal, in the nexus, or grouping (usually in Luclin zones because they dropped good items and had good exp) it condensed everyone into a few zones and really killed the immersion aspect of the game. It made most of Norrath a ghostown. The town next to nexus had anything a player needed....ports out to each continent. guild trainers, tradeskill supplies....there was no more use for all the towns, and it killed the social vibe. Not only that but it really irked me that every race/class was represented there...i mean what the heck kind of town has every race coming together to be friends when a 15 minute port away they're still at eachother's throat....its just messy nonsense to me

[Feanoir]

Also there are impressive zones, then there are zones that are just big for fucks sake..... I really don't enjoy spending 25 minutes running along a wall to get inside katta casteleum or however you spell it....all that shit coulda been smaller....i liked the building details and layouts..they just could have made the cities and buildings much more reasonable

[Vidar]

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

Will we ever see it again? I seem to remember this spell in particular being patched in before Luclin actually went live? That and virtue. I know it's not a popular opinion, but i believe Luclin to be everquest's pinnacle, though the lvl 46 restriction on kei and virtue should have existed from the get go.

Luclin brought the nexus where porting and buffing business was absolutely booming! It brought AAs which were a fantastic reason to keep playing once you hit max level! It brought the bazaar which really helped the availability in terms of tradeskill and cheaper items. The nexus portal locations were spread out just right, to not make the world seem smaller. There were still reasons to use a boat.

Edit: Forgot to mention wizards getting TLs and familiars too, great additions to that class.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone has any idea how far into velious we will be
going

Bazaar = Crap! Lazy people who cant trade like the bazaar. it was ahorrible addition to eq.
Nexus sucked. period.
New player models looked ridiculous. How they screwed that up i dont know. to this day if i play live all new player models are off.

/rant off

[Splorf22]

I like the concept of AAs. In fact I think if this server had them, our endgame would be in much better shape because people would be working on them rather then leveling a thousand alts.

100% agree with Pasi about the whole travel thing. I don't even travel really: my enchanter is bound at the pots and my warrior just hammers to OT and gets a port (35p, you feel that Jeremy?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhPPOXnyKo ).

There are about 10% of people that love spending time in EC buying and selling. The 90% (including me) definitely would rather just have shit happen.

[Arteker]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I like the concept of AAs. In fact I think if this server had them, our endgame would be in much better shape because people would be working on them rather then leveling a thousand alts.

100% agree with Pasi about the whole travel thing. I don't even travel really: my enchanter is bound at the pots and my warrior just hammers to OT and gets a port (35p, you feel that Jeremy?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhPPOXnyKo ).

There are about 10% of people that love spending time in EC buying and selling. The 90% (including me) definitely would rather just have shit happen.

EC damages the economy badly

[Dirtnap]

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

I didn't mind the Vah Shir, the Luclin models, or the Bazaar really...what i hated was that instead of people gathering all over Norrath, ie Gfay, EC, Rivervale, HHK, everyone went to nexus when they weren't grouping. Essentially everyone was either running to a nexus portal, in the nexus, or grouping (usually in Luclin zones because they dropped good items and had good exp) it condensed everyone into a few zones and really killed the immersion aspect of the game. It made most of Norrath a ghostown. The town next to nexus had anything a player needed....ports out to each continent. guild trainers, tradeskill supplies....there was no more use for all the towns, and it killed the social vibe. Not only that but it really irked me that every race/class was represented there...i mean what the heck kind of town has every race coming together to be friends when a 15 minute port away they're still at eachother's throat....its just messy nonsense to me

You just described this server, but instead of the nexus its east commons.