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Originally Posted by Swish
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I never get the want/need to box.
You're logging onto a game with 1000+ people, to play 2-6 characters in a group by yourself. While I'm sure that prevents lost time LFG, why not play Baldur's Gate or something instead? Most of the fun in EQ is meeting other people and sharing some good times together.
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I get it, I totally do. In an effort to level my girlfriend's cleric, I sometimes get on there and LFG for a good hour or five and end up spending the majority of my time running around soloing undead. It's not like it's that bad, but I would prefer to not have to solo if I could prevent it. I know I could just try to recruit others to make my own group, but people are impatient and it's difficult to work through the hardships that it takes to make a group sometimes. Some people (like me) do not have friends on this server, or they do, but, the friends are so wrapped up in the server politics that they would rather not be around them (like me), so we rely on strangers. Strangers can be a fickle breed.
On the other hand, some of my favorite times have come from being inconvenienced by not having a lot of friends on the server or wanting to inconvenience anyone. Sometimes I feel like I've taken the boat more than anyone else on the server, and I have met a lot of random people doing it too. I've had a lot of random boat dances, I've spent days in OOT with no way to leave except the boat, but it doesn't bother me, I just meet people and talk to them. The temptation of having a pocket druid, or whatnot can be really strong, because some people really enjoy the RPG aspect of the game (leveling in a challenging environment, not doing quests but grinding, the nostalgia of the old graphics) and are not into the game because of the people. Others however, really enjoy talking to other people and being in the center of it all.
People relying on me boxing in EQLive though really ruined the game for me, and ended up making me leave it whenever a better option came around.