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Originally Posted by kaev
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This sort of dumbassery is entirely classic, the EQ playerbase has always had a large proportion of lemmings and munchkins. IIRC, some early gaming site posted an article in August of '99 that claimed Gnome Necromancer was the "best" EQ race/class combination, soon every server in the game had a serious lowbie gnome necromancer infestation (much like the monk & bard infestations here.)
Lemmings & wannabees: classic EQ at its finest.
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Everquest had the play nice policy though, and as a Guide, I can tell you some examples of the PNP in action:
One example: two groups fighting over the Arch Magi camp. The GM more or less forced the two groups to "share" by offering one all the mobs outside the Arch Magi camp, and the other group, the Arch Magi named himself.
I see a lot of people in this forum talk about classic being so hideous and unlawful, and it wasn't. If you felt that way about your classic experience, then your server either sucked big time, you came into the game at an era when GM's no longer cared (past the guide era), or you just never utilized the GM's to help you out.
I find more often than not that most times players will either just deal with it, or they'll do something negative themselves to attempt to screw the people they feel are screwing them, thus they don't want the GM's to intervene because of that.
If you were truly wronged back then and it was blatant, like two groups heading for a camp at the same time and nobody being able to agree who deserves the camp, a GM WOULD force share. I never did because I was just a guide, but I have seen it happen many times with my own eyes, on a few different servers.
Another example was a pair of level 50's claiming the Assassin in Lower Guk and a full group of 30ish players came in asking if they could have the mobs around there for exp since the 50's couldn't get exp. The 50's told them no and somebody petitioned. GM came and forced the 50's to give up all exp mobs to the players who could get exp.
Seriously guys, you know better. You KNOW when you're being a dick. You're just mad when someone with authority and the sensibilities to know when to flex it comes along and forces you to stop being a dick. You start making announcements about how it's not right because you have every right to stake some claim or another.
Bla bla bla, don't be a dick. This is stuff we were told by age 5. It's just some people are still that old.
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