fix the bleeping boats!

[Goldknyght]

I dont get it, ok the reason translocators were introduced cuz the boats were caca. why cant they fix this? i just got put in the bleeping ocean of timerous deep and how is making us feel this bleeping pain classic? it was a bug! cuz they were morons. FIX IT! or give us translocators!

[mcoy]

I belong to the church of "it's intentional, because it's classic for the boat to drop you sometimes".

-Mcoy

[Encroaching Death]

The boat screwed me over once in TD and I petitioned a GM and they fixed me right up in less than 30 seconds.

Just do that.

Happens like once a generation.

[Rager and Quitter]

Didn't we just have someone whining about the boats?

[Arvan]

Filed under classic experience

[branamil]

Devs too busy. An innkeeper in western karana that has had 4 customers in 11 years was found to be selling berries instead of muffins.

[cd288]

Devs too busy. An innkeeper in western karana that has had 4 customers in 11 years was found to be selling berries instead of muffins.

Are you just going to keep repeating this attempt at a joke until someone laughs?

[kained]

I like boats

[unsunghero]

…

[Jimjam]

Are you just going to keep repeating this attempt at a joke until someone laughs?

You seem pretty upset. Sour grapes if you ask me.

[Tewaz]

Are you just going to keep repeating this attempt at a joke until someone laughs?

This is an incredible joke. Perfectly encapsulates the absolutely shitty priorities of the dev team.

Take the average priority list for dev of the majority of players, now flip it upside down and you get the dev priority list.

[Nibbles]

I get that people want that "Classic" experience, but let's be honest, a lot of shit in classic really needs to just go. At least, supplement boats with TL's. Yes I know, you can dial a port anywhere, but it just does not make sense.

Also, why not increase exp or have every weekend have a bonus? Green is at EOL anyway, and most endgame loot is perma camped by high end raiding guild, so at least give the normies something.

Even Diablo 2 Resurrected , a 20 year old game, is making QoL improvements.

[Jimjam]

TLers suck. They were worst boat fix ever. Shoulda had a 000.5% chance to DT you as a miscast causes you to get torn to pieces as per the lore.

[Jimjam]

Even Diablo 2 Resurrected , a 20 year old game, is making QoL improvements.

This is a reconstruction not a remaster. We’re electronic experimental archaeologists!

[Chortles Snortles]

elven archivists

[Reiwa]

You seem pretty upset. Sour grapes if you ask me.

:D

[Danth]

This is an incredible joke. Perfectly encapsulates the absolutely shitty priorities of the dev team.

Take the average priority list for dev of the majority of players, now flip it upside down and you get the dev priority list.

Sometimes you do what you can. Their priority list is presumably modified by available capability: Changing an NPC script or a database entry is easy. Ships...heck, they might not have any presently active staff members who have the time and know-how to fuss with that stuff. If you haven't noticed the rate of patches--ANY patches--is at an all-time low. At this point we're going good if they keep the proverbial lights on.

[cd288]

I get that people want that "Classic" experience, but let's be honest, a lot of shit in classic really needs to just go. At least, supplement boats with TL's. Yes I know, you can dial a port anywhere, but it just does not make sense.

Also, why not increase exp or have every weekend have a bonus? Green is at EOL anyway, and most endgame loot is perma camped by high end raiding guild, so at least give the normies something.

Even Diablo 2 Resurrected , a 20 year old game, is making QoL improvements.

TLDR: New person joins a classic EQ server and complains about how it's classic EQ

[Jimjam]

TLDR: New person joins a classic EQ server and complains about how it's classic EQ

I'm amazed by the number of people that thing p1999 is about creating everquest 2, not about recreating the blemished eq we all hate.

[Valakut]

Devs too busy. An innkeeper in western karana that has had 4 customers in 11 years was found to be selling berries instead of muffins.

"My body lies broken by your wicked hand. I place a curse on your soul and a pox on this land!"

[zelld52]

My first ever toon got dropped by the boat in TD, back in 2000. Level 20 Dwarf Warrior with hard-earned small scarab armor. I died in the water. Tried to have a friend help me (we were both 13) to no success.

I didn;t know that I could petition to have GMs recover it. I let the corpse rot, and rerolled a new toon instead.

One of my fondest EQ memories

[MrSparkle001]

Isn't one of the problems with the boats that there's only one in OOT when there should be two, so the wait time is too long?

I don't know I haven't taken a boat in a while.

[eqravenprince]

Just open the zone lines to allow you swim/run through.

[Worry]

Consider it a shipwreck. It’s a hard knock life.

[cd288]

Isn't one of the problems with the boats that there's only one in OOT when there should be two, so the wait time is too long?

I don't know I haven't taken a boat in a while.

Don’t believe so.

The boat does go the opposite direction of what it did on classic but that makes sense. On classic when coming from Freeport the boat somehow went east to west across OOT. Now it goes the right direction.

[Danth]

He's correct, cd288. The Ocean of Tears route was changed sometime Kunark-Velious period to two ships on separate westbound and eastbound routes. It was easy to tell there were multiple ships because they were targetable and had individual names. You can probably find a rough estimate of the time of the change someplace on the internet archive. I think Erud's Crossing was also tinkered with but I don't remember that one very well, didn't go there so often.

Kind of miss the original ship models (we have the beta ship on P99) and the music that played when you were on them. The original ship models don't work, collision is apparently fubar, maybe they could be fixed by someone with the know-how since some other broken things like helm transparency were fixed by various community members.

Given staff turnover throughout the years, I am not sure whether the person who originally got the ships working is even with P99 anymore. when P99 opened they didn't work right and we had translocators for awhile. My oldest character still has the /say macros they required.

Danth