Overpopulated

[Lampolo]

On live I remember killing lots if yellow, red, white cons in groups. On green everyone just wants to full group blues and greens. There are also lots of people farming no xp mobs. Sola is a great example of this. Theres almost always a 40+ sitting on kindle but killing everything from freet to cap. Doing this hogs half a dung for 1 person. A full group of 30-35 is too high for a camp like the bar, most 35's can solo it but we full group it on green, killing every mob in the other half of the dung. This is the prob with green. Your all a bunch a greedy, lazy, unskilled bastards that play your toon like a 6 yr old. If your in a grp and your killing greens...

[Castle2.0]

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[Lampolo]

Why would anyone vote no?

[Picked]

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

On live I remember killing lots if yellow, red, white cons in groups. On green everyone just wants to full group blues and greens. There are also lots of people farming no xp mobs. Sola is a great example of this. Theres almost always a 40+ sitting on kindle but killing everything from freet to cap. Doing this hogs half a dung for 1 person. A full group of 30-35 is too high for a camp like the bar, most 35's can solo it but we full group it on green, killing every mob in the other half of the dung. This is the prob with green. Your all a bunch a greedy, lazy, unskilled bastards that play your toon like a 6 yr old. If your in a grp and your killing greens...

I remember this being the case on live more as well. I was in highkeep killing goblins and remember hitting 20 in there with my dwarf warrior. They wont even look at a level 20 for that group here on Green. I also spent a lot of time in MM when I hit 20. Here seems to be a 25+ kind of place.

It's probably more of a using ZEM and killing in quantity instead of having no idea what ZEM is and killing the highest possible mob for the most exp hit at one time. Again mostly speaking it was not knowing anything on live that changed more than anything. Now we know and the information is out there.

Not to mention when you're killing blue cons it's a lot more consistent and less risky than killing yellows and reds. Less deaths less setbacks faster exp grind over all.

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[El-Hefe]

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[azxten]

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

I remember this being the case on live more as well. I was in highkeep killing goblins and remember hitting 20 in there with my dwarf warrior. They wont even look at a level 20 for that group here on Green.

This is your fault for not forming a group and claiming the lookout room. People on P99 are scared cucks who won't dare claim a camp according to rules lest someone get mad at them.

Pissing people off is what made EQ fun. Training, telling newbs to /consent you, kill stealing with memory blur, all of it. Not doing it yourself but that it was in the game. It is what drove social behaviour, defined guild character, etc.

Rules are what is wrong with P99. No GM was going to save you in classic EQ because you petitioned someone for KSing.

Even on P99 where the rules DO allow people to split "camps" and force multi group exp people just cry to the devs to add multiple servers so everyone can be happy grouping their favourite instance.

Ultimately I think all amateur emulator projects are doomed to do the same. They want players to be "happy" because it means less bullshit they have to deal with in terms of people crying. Classic EverQuest had the notorious "The Vision" meme because so many people cried all the time that it was too hard, this should be that one, it's too slow, blah blah blah.

Brad had the The Vision to torment people exactly how they needed to be tormented. He is the Architect of the Matrix. People aren't happy unless they're miserable as well. He found out that people want the most punishing environment to experience the highs of overcoming it.

tldr:

In classic EQ to level the fastest meant you had the best social strategy. Limited mobs and other resources including game knowledge meant playing well socially had real value. In P99 EQ to level the fastest simply means finding the highest ZEM camp, claiming it, and putting in the most hours there. In true classic something like the HHK goblin/nobles camps would be utterly unusable due to training, kill stealing, and other efficiency killers. This happened in a minor way on P99 but not to the same extent. That is what made EQ fun when leveling. The challenge of gaming this system and how to interact with the other players to try to avoid killing efficiency.

[Zeboim]

It's not about pure population #s, it's about population concentration.

Classic didn't have 600 level 50s on a server. It was a far more even spread. Game knowledge is a curse.

[Tenderizer]

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

Green is severely overpopulated.

The ZEM changes along with COVID has caused not only an increase in active players, but an increase in players spreading across zones.

covid wasnt expected and if it never happened the population would be fine. its ok if people cant farm or get that sweet legacy item before they are gone, working as intended

if everyone is wearing a gold watch there really isnt a reason to have a gold watch.

[Sacer]

We need a temporary server, hopefully called "quarantine".