but but I played Nilbog's porn stash backwards and now I must camp them

I got a pretty good idea today! Pass out manastones to anyone who is over lvl 35!!! Will help gear up Gothic Circle and drop the price down of manastones so those who camped them for money will feel a bit dumber :)

Oh and as for this thread... it's EQ, welcome and enjoy.

Now that this is a dead topic, I'd like to share my Manastone experience.

I spent an entire day of my life waiting for the camp. I was second in line when I began my vigil. Others would come and wait for a while and then leave. After a few hours, the camp was turned over and I was first in line. As I approached 30 hours awake, the person holding the camp decided he was going to stay up all night instead of getting a few hours of sleep before going to work. As soon as I left, he turned the camp over to someone else who already had two stones.

So what did I do? I could have gotten really pissed off. I could have nerd raged and made some enemies. I could have taken a passive-aggressive approach and put them on ignore. I could have come to the boards and flamed everyone involved, including the developer staff, alienating a large percentage of the server. Those things might have even been fun for a moment or two, but none of them would have gotten me a Manastone. Did I really want the Manastone camp? Not really. It would have been kind of find to loot it myself, but what I really wanted was a MANASTONE.

So what I did was go to sleep. Then I woke up and began to farm. Really farm. I quested Stein of Moggok, Hero Bracers and Gem Inlaid Gauntlets. I killed hill giants. I killed spectres. I ported everyone who advertised or sent me a tell. I searched less popular areas for named mobs. I took every group I was offered at a camp with valuable loot. I saved about 22K and a good friend of mine from live lent me about another 6K and then I bought a Manastone for 28K.

My point is this: keep your eye on the prize. Do you really want the camp? Do you want to be part of a big flame board bitch fest? Or do you really want a Manastone? I really wanted a Manastone and I got it and let me tell you that it doesn't diminish my fun even the list bit that I bought my stone instead of looting it. After I was level 50 with a Manastone and some other good gear, I applied to a good guild and was fortunate enough to be accepted in no doubt partly because of my resourcefulness.

I've tried to calculate the number of stones on the server based on what people know about drop rates both before and after the change around the beginning of the year and the range everyone agrees to is somewhere between 250 and 400. That means there are far fewer manastones than players. Every time I log in and see my Manastone, I smile. I feel fortunate to be one of the lucky players on Project 1999 with a stone. When someone asks me for a port or a buff, I always try to remember that I have been rewarded for my efforts here and share a little of my advantage.

There are other items I would have loved to have on Project 1999. One was removed today and I will never have it. That prize, just like the Manastone, is now gone. It's time to set our sights on the next prize, whether that's a piece of loot or an experience or a new friend. Maybe you're the new friend. Maybe we'll share that experience or camp that loot together. See you in game.

I am liking this guy right here! :D
Wonderful attitude!

Yeah, I've talked to him a bit already when the retarded vztz crew showed up.

I like him.

Alawen is getting a fan club.
I thought only chicks had fan clubs on mmo's. :P

Your just envious :p
(me too)

LoL, envious of your and finawin's affections?

Boom boom tsk boom boom "NOT!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHdr4rWG98

No, I meant about having a fan club in general. :cool:

I loved that song as a kid.

Me too!
I had a A's hat that had huge block letters that said "NOT!" written in sharpie on the underside of the bill.