P99 green launch permanently killed my enthusiasm for everquest

[Vizax_Xaziv]

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

Anyone else try Mischief's server launch. I paid the 15 bucks and basically made 10 characters but couldn't will myself to play them. I liked the idea of random rare and raid loot but Live is still not making an attempt to give a classic experience which turns me off and when I found out it was only going to be in classic for a month that killed all my enthusiasm entirely. I only found out about the server on launch day so I was going in semi blind. I decided I'd rather play the exact same character on P99 then Live. So that ended that.

It's been fun so far. My Druid just hit 46 for planar raids tonight. It'll be fun to experience EQ during POP again, if nothing else, and the randomized-loot-drops alongside basically EVERYTHING being stoppable means that it's very very easy to get geared up.

It'll be fun levelling a melee alt with NTOV gear during Velious.

[Emile]

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

have you always had this avatar? I am having nostalgia looking at it, I seem to recall looking at it loop wondering what it was all about when I first started playing here.

Yep many years ago.

[Jibartik]

whats it from? At this point I should know.

[Emile]

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

whats it from? At this point I should know.

Memory is a bit hazy. I want to say she was some kind of anthropology student on a research trip to Africa possibly? This is her, and there are some other pictures of her topless with tribal folk that went viral. She was of course doxxed and it was found she apparently did weird torture porn, and my avatar is from one of those videos. I think. Could be completely wrong about all of that. Have fun going down this rabbit hole.

[Zuranthium]

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

If the staff bothered to show up 99% likely you were told to take turns. KSing before the GM arrived or not directly observed by the GM was like never punished.

It was usually a FFA kos fest for the 40 minutes waiting for your petition to be answered and a GM to arrive.

This is completely accurate, and also GM's weren't supposed to intervene anyway before the Play Nice Policy. The game world was open for the players to do whatever they wanted with it, unless it was some kind of exploit. There was no such thing as kill stealing, except in the minds of players who wanted to view it that way (which the majority did, to be fair, but it was absolutely NOT against the game rules).

[cd288]

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

This is completely accurate, and also GM's weren't supposed to intervene anyway before the Play Nice Policy. The game world was open for the players to do whatever they wanted with it, unless it was some kind of exploit. There was no such thing as kill stealing, except in the minds of players who wanted to view it that way (which the majority did, to be fair, but it was absolutely NOT against the game rules).

Well of course KSing out of sight of a GM was never punished. We couldn’t punish things we couldn’t prove. That’s like saying if no one sees you rob a bank you can get away with it. Stating the obvious. That doesn’t mean we didn’t punish people for it if we could catch them doing it or prove it (ex. They said something in chat about doing it (we had access to anything anyone ever typed)).

The PnP came in shortly after launch. It wasn’t some extended period of time where people could just do whatever they wanted.

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The PnP came in shortly after launch. It wasn’t some extended period of time where people could just do whatever they wanted.

No, the Play Nice Policy didn't happen until a year after launch. There absolutely WAS an extended period of time where people could do whatever they wanted, unless it was considered an exploit or extreme harassment. Social constructs often dictated that people would respect established "camps", but it was completely allowed to "Kill Steal" as much as you wanted, or to create trains. This is a game where Rogues were allowed to steal from other players. All of these various things made the game much more interesting.

[Old_PVP]

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

No, the Play Nice Policy didn't happen until a year after launch. There absolutely WAS an extended period of time where people could do whatever they wanted, unless it was considered an exploit or extreme harassment. Social constructs often dictated that people would respect established "camps", but it was completely allowed to "Kill Steal" as much as you wanted, or to create trains. This is a game where Rogues were allowed to steal from other players. All of these various things made the game much more interesting.

I can testify to that. All of this was allowed on oldschool Rallos Zek and no action would be taken against you. Back in those days players frowned upon other players that killed their own race too, and would label you as a "Kinslayer". Other random PKing was hugely frowned upon and you would become blacklisted by the big guilds. There were a lot of unspoken "player rules" which weren't actually official rules. Ninja looting phat lootz from mobs, killing your own group member and stealing a piece of gear... etc. All of this made you a hated member of society, but it wasn't illegal.

[Jibartik]

not at all what I expected haha

[Baler]

@Old_PVP I like your UO avatar!
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