Tried to fight this fight several times, but it's an exercise in futility because there's enough simpletons on P99 who think saying "deal with it" and "cry moar" makes them cool people, and/or who desire to keep most players out of the endgame in order to remain part of the elite, so the problem is never fixed. The admins don't seem to want to acknowledge the issue, either. It's a pity, because it has always been by far the biggest problem and the one elephant in the room that keeps this server from being truly great. It's also the cause of countless other problems, such as the widespread RMTing which takes place largely because it's the only way for most players to "progress" since there simply isn't room for more swinging dicks in the raid scene.
This situation isn't classic -- in fact it's precisely a product of an overwhelmingly unclassic factor: there's only one server and no solution to the fact that it has like five servers worth of would-be endgame players. The problem is expressly a consequence of it being an emulated server instead of classic live EQ, but it's somehow defended as a feature of classic EQ. It makes no sense and it's such a blemish on the server, its main failing and the root of very nearly every other problem that plagues it. What a joke, really. Horrible mismanagement of what could have been the perfect Everquest experience for thousands of players.
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