I'm new to P99 but played EQ back when it released. Can someone explain what the crux of this argument is about? I read this whole thread and nothing described sounded really any different than EQ was back in the day.
A handful of guilds dominated the choice raid spawns/dungeons. People had alts parked and continuously scouted for spawns and engaged in forum espionage and such to get the jump on guilds (when mobs died, when guilds might be assembling to do Vex Thal or whatever).
The whole batphone thing was SOP but whether it was mandatory that you participated depended on guild. We were a "casual" guild (casual then was raiding 4-5 nights per week) and still used the whole batphone technique to try and take advantage of spawns in off-hours but couldn't always assemble enough people.
I really don't get the Chardok reference. I remember that being a choice spot to grind because a well geared/skilled group with a good puller could pull huge numbers of mobs and AE them down continuously. I never recall that ever being looked down on or considered any sort of exploit (or maybe I'm not understanding what is being described here).
I only just started playing around on this server so none of this is that relevant to me as a lowbie but I was just curious. Based on this thread alone it *seems* the classic EQ experience has been pretty accurately achieved. lol. GMs almost never interfered with guild squabbles or disputes. Everything was hashed out on the forums in high drama fashion in a rant forum called "The Shit List" much like this one. As far as the classic EQ experience goes this all seems par for the course.
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