so you guys are looking for EQ Minus....

[Leeyuuduu]

Originally Posted by drew0987654 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

and eq isn't great just b/c of antonica, there are over 900 zones now. over 100k trees! 20k spells! its land area is estimated at one third the size of texas! it's by far the biggest game ever made, the sheer magnitude is daunting.... that's what drew me back, just hearing those things I knew I had to see what I had missed out on. it's a shame so many of you can't appreciate all that content b/c of some silly models or b/c some insignificant portion of the playerbase multiboxes. it's sad that to over 70% of you, removing the hand-holding, freebies, and shortcuts wouldn't be enough....

and I can't believe not a single one of you knows of any guild that plays on an official server that doesn't allow mercs etc.........

The thing is, the game you play, and the game this server runs may have the same name, but they are not the same game. They are completely different games now, so there's no point in saying X is better than Y or Y would be better than X and trying to pick and choose features to add or leave out. EQ Live is closer to EQ2 or other modern casual/RMT MMOs than it is to Project 1999 EQ.

[jarshale]

Why is this guy shilling so hard for live?

Also,

there are over 900 zones now

Why would anyone want that?

[Messianic]

Live is a totally different game. That's why people don't want to play it. They prefer classic. Almost every aspect of the game is different. Not just the few pithy examples in this poll.

[Alanus]

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

It's funny since one of the main criticisms of Luclin was the poor loot quality. There really wasn't much gear progression from Velious to Luclin outside of ATH and a few outliers. Vulak's loot was still better than the majority of Luclin, which is why they artificially increased the difficulty of the encounter via the ring event.

PoP attempted to address this complaint but they overshot it by quite a bit, so you had players going from stuff like Sprinkler of the Spirits or Mace of Confusion to Time's Antithesis, which is just an unfathomable power leap.

I always was of the opinion that the "boss" of the last expansion having some of the still best loot in the game isn't a big deal. I think the leap in gear from Velious to Luclin or from PoP to GoD was a good amount. Luclin had more effects (like flowing thought, aura of battle, etc) and had the then-max HP of 125 (versus 75-100).

Like having Vulak loot be comparable to non-Aten/Emp mobs in Luclin is not a bad thing, since then all of that work for Vulak loot during Velious isn't "wasted".

What killed live for me was going from playing hardcore (through Omens of War pretty much) to playing a lot more casual, and being unable to tank in experience groups anymore as a paladin since my gear was real solid from 2 expansions ago, but now is complete crap despite only a 2 expansion difference.

But your post did hit the nail on the head, particularly on Luclin

[Uton]

Why is P99 trying to follow live timeline to the T? the point of p99 is to correct the major fuck up that happened with 25 expeansions and game ruining bullshit. If things make sense thats cool, but why must so many things be a duplicate of what SOE did?

6 months after velious? how about whenever it makes sense to... if immediately makes sense then cool, if never makes sense then thats cool too.

like target color for example, thats a handy thing to see what lvl your pet is to know if you need to resummon.

Sense heading... if i am a character with magic powers or w/e and i can see the sun come up in the east and down in the west, why the fuk does it take 20 attempts to know what direction im going in? Why does p99 have to copy that bullshit?

regarding pvp windows. if i am in a 45+ zone and a lvl 5 bard mule runs by, i should be able to kill and loot them. the windows should also scale with zone lvls, THAT is realistic.

[Glenzig]

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

Why is P99 trying to follow live timeline to the T? the point of p99 is to correct the major fuck up that happened with 25 expeansions and game ruining bullshit. If things make sense thats cool, but why must so many things be a duplicate of what SOE did?

6 months after velious? how about whenever it makes sense to... if immediately makes sense then cool, if never makes sense then thats cool too.

like target color for example, thats a handy thing to see what lvl your pet is to know if you need to resummon.

Sense heading... if i am a character with magic powers or w/e and i can see the sun come up in the east and down in the west, why the fuk does it take 20 attempts to know what direction im going in? Why does p99 have to copy that bullshit?

regarding pvp windows. if i am in a 45+ zone and a lvl 5 bard mule runs by, i should be able to kill and loot them. the windows should also scale with zone lvls, THAT is realistic.

You're probably playing the wrong server.

[Messianic]

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

Why is P99 trying to follow live timeline to the T? the point of p99 is to correct the major fuck up that happened with 25 expeansions and game ruining bullshit. If things make sense thats cool, but why must so many things be a duplicate of what SOE did?

6 months after velious? how about whenever it makes sense to... if immediately makes sense then cool, if never makes sense then thats cool too.

like target color for example, thats a handy thing to see what lvl your pet is to know if you need to resummon.

Sense heading... if i am a character with magic powers or w/e and i can see the sun come up in the east and down in the west, why the fuk does it take 20 attempts to know what direction im going in? Why does p99 have to copy that bullshit?

regarding pvp windows. if i am in a 45+ zone and a lvl 5 bard mule runs by, i should be able to kill and loot them. the windows should also scale with zone lvls, THAT is realistic.

There are plenty of custom servers out there. They all have like 50 unique players.

That's why things are the way they are here.

[myriverse]

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

Why is P99 trying to follow live timeline to the T?

The timeline affects the progression, thus the classic-ness. If you only had a certain amount of time to perform a certain action on Live, whether "good" or "bad," then straying from that can have undesirable effects. The purpose of the server is not just to fix things. Many fixes are not Kunark era, like the xp penalties that go away in Velious.

[SCB]

I would play Live right now if they made it f2p for my old characters (all of them) and did what normal f2p games did and charged me for cosmetics/leveling boosts that i'd never buy.

I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it, but I'd play it.

[Troxx]

I have every class except rogue and monk at level 100 and 8-14k aa. Live eq is a joke these days. It is watered down, easy, and boring. There are too many zones and too few players to fill them. 99% of the game is a ghost town.

Seb? Empty
Both guks? Empty
CB, unrest, Najena, Chardok, BB, high keep, Paw ... Empty
All of velious? empty

Trash mobs in newbie yards drops gear that level 30s-40s here would drool over. Trash in the 30s drops gear better than classic raid and a full set gives you capped stats and resists.

No thanks.

I've only been here 3 weeks but it's far more fun.