OK, after about 30-45 mins of reading, I'm ready to respond to this:
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Originally Posted by Atern
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Unless you can find patch notes saying that it was changed on live to allow platinum instead of gold, you have to assume it always allowed platinum.
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That makes absolutely no sense. Why should we assume that the way it is on live is the way it has always been? Not every change in the game is announced with a giant trumpet via patch notes.
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Originally Posted by Atern
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Are you saying that there are posts on alla where people say they turned in platinum with the quest and hasten ate their items?
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Many of the archived comments from 2001/2000 say so, quite affirmatively.
http://web.archive.org/web/200106170...st=28&start=50 "I assure you, if you hand him a Ring, a Rapier, and 325 plat, he will keep it all and you will get nothing."
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/arch...hp/t-6972.html "-You must pay him 3250 GP, not 325 PP."
http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.asp...7&QuestID=9686 "Finally, the 3,250 GP can be found in your bank account. Hehe! You must use gold pieces since the quest will not work with platinum pieces."
To be equitable, I haven't been able to find a "smoking gun," where someone in Allakhazam's, etc showed that they turned in pp and the quest failed. However:
Judging by the comments from 2004 on current allakahazam's websites and the ones on the web archives of allakhazam's, i'd bet it was changed sometime around 2003-2004 to allow pp. Given the whole set of comments i've been able to find, i'd turn it around and say the burden of proof lays on you. Prove to us that as long as the quest was in EQ, pp was acceptable - prove that all those people who claimed it had to be 3250 gp were simply believing a myth, and NO ONE tried 325 pp out of curiosity and posted that it worked with 325 pp - because before 2003, I can't find someone posting that pp worked.
So, show me someone saying on a forum or elsewhere during the classic period (1999-2001ish) that pp works just as well as gp. Because I can't find one.
However, because I don't have a smoking gun, you can shakily argue that "it was just a myth everyone believed, so no one found out that you could use 325 pp," and you could argue that's the only reason so many people believe this. I think as many people played EQ during that time, someone would have figured it out.
I'm simply not willing to spend anymore time on it - you can if you like. I'm satisfied that uber-gamers I knew in the top tier guilds on the largest servers emphatically asserted it was gp only, and attempting to use 325pp instead would have been chump change to them...