Heh Swish, a swing and a miss. I don't care about "Earthquakes." EQ in 2001 simply had a lot of server downtime and restarts and P1999 doesn't; in a sense it's a testament to P99's vastly superior stability. Lower spawn rates presumably contribute to pixel starvation, especially when those pixels are spread out among a vastly larger population of raiding characters thanks to hundreds or thousands of Chardok-leveled alts (to that end, the raiders contributed to the pixel shortage themselves!). That's the genesis of pixel sickness: Knowing you'll never have enough to sate your own hunger, and consequently seeing red when anyone else gets anything.
If the staff thought Dain was a problem, they've had months to turn off the quest. They did that with others, like the BFG guy. It's still there so why don't you guys enjoy it while you have it? Consider it a consolation prize for a severely overtuned ring war.
Danth
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