NPC Spawn Issue: Project 1999 Would Be More Classic If It Removed the Plane of Hate Safe Spot

[loramin]

Let me start by saying, I don't know if there ever was a safe spot or not in Hate during classic. I've tried to look on the Wayback Machine at sites like Allakhazam and Caster's Realm, but there is no mention by anyone of such a safe spot. The closest I could find was:

Originally Posted by https://web.archive.org/web/20020113090152/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zones.html?zstrat=68

The Organ Hall its self is fairly safe

... although I did find this gem:

Originally Posted by https://web.archive.org/web/20011228071222/http://allakhazam.com/zones/Planes/Hate.htm

It currently can only be reached through a wizard gate spell. Rumor also has it that you may someday be able to reach the plane through the spectre tower in the Middle of the Oasis of Marr.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Anyhow, I assume the safe spot was added based on Al'Kabor data or some similar source.

But whether or not a safe spot existed on live, my argument is that it shouldn't exist on P99, for the same reason ToV dragons are rooted: having the safe spot leads to incredibly unclassic behavior.

In classic, guilds raided Hate. Period. No one ported up for a quick mini kill, because no one had trackers to know when minis were up .. and certainly, no one was soloing Hate!

All this unclassicness could be eliminated with one simple fix: adding a spawn near the pillar. No more unclassic Hate trackers, no (even more unclassic) solo hate farmers, just guilds clearing Hate ... and then doing it again three days later. Classic AF.

C'mon, Nilbog, you love classic EQ, right? Don't you want to see classic Hate raids, instead of Enchanters selling Earth staffs and guilds ignoring 95% of the zone? Literally one mob, that's all it would take.



P.S. And yes, as a Mage who has been tracking in Hate as much as I can for a year now (and is still epic-less), I fully understand this change would ultimately result in less earth staffs (and necro books) dropping. I certainly wouldn't complain if you upped the named spawn and/or drop rates a little to go along with change [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

However, even without such an increase, this change would be better for players like me, because the staves which do drop would go to the guilds that earned them by raiding Hate ... vs. now, where a lot (perhaps even the majority?) go to whoever buys them off soloing Enchanters.

Make Hate Classic Again!