AE nerf

[Mantis187]

"Changes regarding AE Spells
Recently the staff had internal discussions related to the effectiveness of various AE methods being used by players, specifically that the number of mobs being killed at once far exceeded what was possible back in the day of classic Everquest. When determining what prevented this from being possible during Classic, we found that it was not necessarily mechanical, but more technological reasons that limited it. For example, having 100 mobs in one tiny area would not have happened back then for several reasons such as PC Processing power (CPU/Video constraints), networking bandwidth requriements (56k lol), and quite possibly server limitations at the time as well."

Still blows my mind, on a pII 333mhz / 4mb voodoo2/ and aol 4.0/5.0 i was able to swarm np. not sure what their talking about.

[SamwiseRed]

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[Dillian]

they did this becuase people were crying about exping in the only zones in the game ie overthere, loio, chardok. Because as you no those being the only zones to exp in they are left with few other options.

[Swish]

Like it or not a large bard kite could crash some people's clients with old computers, pras the staff for making this positive change and continuing to allow those of us on netbooks (and worse) the chance to keep playing without fear of that happening.

[Swish]

Also I believe this might have been something to do it, pras to the defenders of Chardok fighting for justice against evildoers who sought to lawyerquest us out of the zone...


(thread) (http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244093)






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[Baler]

Any zone a bard could swarm in they would and ruined it for everyone else.
This is why the AE CAP is a good thing.
Why it's a bad thing is because it's not quite accurate to classic but it's better then nothing.

[Swish]

Plus bards might not be shit by the time they get to KC/Sebilis... you know... having grouped their way to 60 etc

[maskedmelon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds

[Bruno]

http://i.imgur.com/LZGAcol.png

[Swish]

went to the trouble of taking a screenshot :o

[Dillian]

swish im not sure what you did to him/her but you always seemed a likable guy to me

[Pumpedup]

swish made an awesome picture too bad you missed it

also if you cant figure out how to wipe AE groups you dont deserve to be in chardok

[Korrupt]

cringe

[Stormfists]

GMs got wind of mortgages being paid through proxy platlord....

[silo32]

6 years too late rip blue you had a good run

[astuce999]

Any player who claims that as a bard back in classic they were able to swarm many many mobs and that this nerf is unfair is lying.

Why? Because swarming isn't AE kiting, they're two completely different techniques. Swarming involves charm, and isn't really possible on p99 because of bad social aggro code. This is what was popular in classic.

AE kiting came along much later and didn't really become problematic/popular until PoP, where it was nerfed 3 times until they finally got it right.

Astuce

[zanderklocke]

Any player who claims that as a bard back in classic they were able to swarm many many mobs and that this nerf is unfair is lying.

Why? Because swarming isn't AE kiting, they're two completely different techniques. Swarming involves charm, and isn't really possible on p99 because of bad social aggro code. This is what was popular in classic.

AE kiting came along much later and didn't really become problematic/popular until PoP, where it was nerfed 3 times until they finally got it right.

Astuce

I think the terminology battle is a losing battle on Project 1999. It seems like people started using "swarming" and "AE kiting" interchangeably on this server a few years ago, maybe 2013?

[derpcake]

The fix was put in to lower server and CS load.

Same reasons it was put in on live, but that was years and years after Velious.

Not classic though.

[Champion_Standing]

6 years too late rip blue you had a good run