Rooted Dragons and FTE foot races. Failed experiments - Page 6

BallzDeep · #51 07-20-2019, 09:40 PM

For the history on the rotation - it was C/R/FFA. C could kill anything. VP had no rotation. Lower mobs outside of VP, Trak, and VS, afaik, were C, R, FFA. This is a rotation. This is the defintion of a rotation but favored towards guilds that wanted to play more. It did not work. BDA that was in class R was starting to get unhappy at the amount of guilds that were joining the rotation. This was a rotation you had to qualify for. Slowly over time, there was so guilds killing stuff out of order, people broke from the rotations, etc. I think the wait time was around 3 months to get through full rotation again.

Yes, you can spawn more mobs but basically instancing is the same idea of giving everyone a shot with less complicated mechanics and you already have that on live. My opinion is if you want to recreate the classic experience, play the classic experience rulesets. If you want to recreate an old game with new rulesets, it's pretty much pointless to start in classic.

Wonkie · #52 07-20-2019, 09:49 PM

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For the history on the rotation - it was C/R/FFA. C could kill anything. VP had no rotation. Lower mobs outside of VP, Trak, and VS, afaik, were C, R, FFA. This is a rotation

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Nuggie · #53 07-20-2019, 09:53 PM

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It worked decently for awhile. It was later on when a couple of the largest "class R" guilds decided to break the rotation that the project admins decided to wholly scrap the system for Velious launch.

Danth

IIRC rogean scraped it when Velious launched simply because Velious launched. I'm sure we could go forum investigator mode and find the truth, but meh.

As far as the rotation in R-class breaking up goes- the only one that ever threatened to break it up was the Lord Bob guild that... Hyjal formed twice? Plus a few swipes outside the rotation from a couple of the stronger/more skilled guilds. But it mostly went smoothly. No?

Whomever it was that asked about wether I play on P99 - I've been an active community member for 80% of the projects life since it launched. I went inactive about two years ago. I kept in relative regular contact with my guild leader in the duration. Are we measuring PETER'S or something? Am I current on raid drama? No, but from what I've seen on the forums the last two months not much has changed. I think that's sufficient enough knowledge of the P99 psychological experiment to fill in the gaps.

Nuggie · #54 07-20-2019, 09:58 PM

Mmm, I forgot about the Chest drama. He was a juicy RnF squeeze 24/7.

As far as the 3 months per rotation - it was that was on paper, but with how regular the EQ's were, plus what you could pick up from the FFA spawns, it was never close to that long.

The strategy on which FFA mob to go after was a mini-game all in itself.

BallzDeep · #55 07-20-2019, 09:59 PM

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You must be dumb. You are grabbing two different sentences and combining them together. Doesn't surprise me in today's world. Context is everything. When referring to class R, it was a rotation. Even then it was based on a qualifier. If you are trying to prove me wrong by saying there shouldn't be a qualifier...….I'll stop there.

Wonkie · #56 07-20-2019, 10:52 PM

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You must be dumb. You are grabbing two different sentences and combining them together. Doesn't surprise me in today's world. Context is everything. When referring to class R, it was a rotation. Even then it was based on a qualifier. If you are trying to prove me wrong by saying there shouldn't be a qualifier...….I'll stop there.

It's not a rotation if only 1/3 of the mobs are rotated.

hope this helps

branamil · #57 07-21-2019, 12:06 AM

Rooted dragons are only fun in quakes because you actually "crawl". After that you coth to a cheesy safe spot during the 16 hour unclassic spawn window and train away the 4-6 mobs in the way then smack the loot piñata. ToV is so unclassic right now I think p99 has strayed from its original mission statement and isn't fun anymore.

aaezil · #58 07-21-2019, 12:10 AM

I was told when i signed up i would be able to experience classic everquest as it was

Mblake81 · #59 07-21-2019, 12:22 AM

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Wonkie · #60 07-21-2019, 12:35 AM

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Rooted dragons are only fun in quakes because you actually "crawl". After that you coth to a cheesy safe spot during the 16 hour unclassic spawn window and train away the 4-6 mobs in the way then smack the loot piñata. ToV is so unclassic right now I think p99 has strayed from its original mission statement and isn't fun anymore.

when you get so good at the game that you ruin your own fun, it's time to stop playing.