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Originally Posted by jolanar
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So better to just make something up brand new instead of making it how everyone remembers it when there is no 'evidence'?
That makes no sense.
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I mean, again, there's this misconception that when P99 developers change and implement something they just wipe the slate clean and design something new from scratch - that's not how it works. They're working with the EQEmu source for server-side mechanics, and they're restricted by what the EverQuest Titanium client will allow for the end user. Both of these things are a far cry from classic without altering code. The current implementation of P99 FD mechanics is not the product of P99 devs going, "I believe FD should work specifically like this!" and then implementing it. It's a result of altering the EQEmu source in order to make those mechanics behave in a way that is, for better or for worse, more classic than they originally were.
So if it's currently obscenely unclassic and not at all representative of what people remember, that's because of how even more obscenely unclassic it was originally, not because the P99 devs concocted some obscenely unclassic idea for FD mechanics and then ran with it.