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Originally Posted by psway
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I could get behind removing this penalty. I belong in the camp of sometimes changes should correlate more with the time than the content it was released with. Due to obvious distortions in the time frame here.
I'm curious to hear what opponents have to say about holding onto the penalty?
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:classic: nerds are :classic: and have no reference to anything other than :classic:. Not really any point in asking them for a reaction to rational argument, they have rejected rationality in the name of :truebelief: before they started. (No, I'm not really judging despite the sarcasm. :classic: is where they're at, rationality is mostly irrelevant to :classic:. In EQ :classic: is the alpha, the omega, and everything else besides from their perspective.)
As I recall things, the hybrid XP penalty was hidden/denied until ~ half-way thru Kunark when it was proven to exist as part of a comprehensive analysis of the way XP worked in EQ at the time. PUGs for hybrids evaporated as the word spread through the player community. It was irrational beyond the min-maxing that happens here. For example, a couple of times I had groups of three undergeared toons at the FM giant fort refusing to add my paladin even while they watched me solo giants at better than half the pace they were managing with three toons. The removal of the hybrid xp penalty was purely a CS (as in customer service) evolution that had nothing to do with gameplay, just as the earlier removal of the idiotic hybrid mana penalty and the (also hidden) hybrid spell mana cost penalty (that's right, they penalized hybrids both in the size of mana pool and in the cost of casting spells, troll SKs could NOT cast their L1 necro pet at L9 when they first got spells.)
For a player community perspective, much of the :classic: shit that was patched out and/or reworked by mid velious should NOT be replicated because it had to do more with company-player relations than with game design. But :classic: nerds gonna :classic:, so what can you do?
(And seriously, this server exists only because a couple guys decided they wanted to see what happened if they headed down the :classic: path, and I love this server, so I'm quite happy enough with p99 as it is and as it has evolved. It's fun here.)