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Originally Posted by Weekapaug
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Are you smoking the same thing Swish is? I already said, it's not about farming. It's how it was done. Which, here, wasn't remotely classic. There was no PERMANENT CHARMING in classic EQ. Or in-game maps that, you know, show those alleged "good players" where the namers are. I was in lguk one day while a trio of casters with perma charmed pets were spam /ooc-ing for somebody to come show them where all the nameds popped because they had no clue. Ponder the irony of that a moment considering they could have had maps if they'd wanted them. Not like an actual experienced player from Classic EverQuest would need them. And these are the people you hold up as "good players." They were typical of that era on this server.
Nor translocators to/from the cash spots in OoT. Nor were accounts allowed to be sold for plat. Nor was a lack of exp penalty for hybrids. Etc etc etc. A book could be written about everything non-classic that was taken full advantage of by a significant portion of the playerbase during the "classic" era on this server. With the addition of exploitable bugs. Not to mention boxers everywhere.
"Good players" my ass. This server was full of clueless noobs who exploited every non-classic mechanic and bug concievable. People who were 8 years old during live classic, if they even played at all, and finally got to play for real now that they didn't have a bedtime....exploiting every zone. It had nothing to do with player skill. If you weren't around when they finally fixed the charm bug, you should have seen the crying on the boards. I didn't quit because I couldn't handle the content. I quit because it was lame.
Again, none of this is a slam on the server or the devs. It's a work in progress and that's where it had progressed at that point from a technical standpoint. It's a slam on the idiots who think that the classic era we had here was even remotely like real classic. All of this has been fixed and continues to be. It will be much better next time around.
For the record, I kind of dig low pops, if they are healthy enough. And I don't care who is "at the top." I care about playing through the content legit.
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Wow, I didn't know it was this bad. I am glad I wasn't around for it now, or I would have quickly quit... I remember when fabled mobs were released and I got to "camp" the jboots. The number of people who were completely clueless about nejena made me sick to my stomach. If people want to be told exactly where to go and what to click I don't want to play with them.