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Originally Posted by Lowako
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I understand the point you are trying to make but you picked the worst literal MQ in the game to make that point for. People would kill pofear golems even if childs tear rotted to the floor every time and couldn't be MQ'd because they drop AoN/Strings/Slimeblood etc. I also disagree with you, to an extent. There are items that only provide benefit to the person who loots it (pony cloak, eyepatch of plunder map pieces, that dude who sold pohate stuff, infestation, a broken disc, people buying ntov and vindi loot etc) and those items still have loot rights sold. I'm not quite sure what other MQs have a significant bottleneck problem but I wouldn't find it surprising for people to kill the mob, try to sell the loot rights, then loot it on an alt/friends character/friends alt/ if they can't sell it.
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This.
The nature of trying to stop the selling of items in EQ would require a complete overhaul down to the very looting system itself. It isn't realistically possible IF the devs even wanted to do it.
The reason guilds farm "old world" content is because it was still very desirable during velious era. one of the charms of classic EQ is that velious and kunark did not make what came before obsolete...on a static server the same virtue is in someways a vice. Even if you take MQing and RMT totally off the table folks would still clear most of the content because it is needed.
I don't really see what the big issue is to be honest. Most players on p99 have stupidly easy access to their epics because of the static nature of the server and the MQ market. There are some classes that have it hard, but they would have it hard on live too (it isn't p99 that does this its the nature of EQ itself). If you really want to raid this content you need to join a raiding guild (also a feature of EQ, don't blame p99).
The last wave of progression servers used instanced content...and it was actually fun, but it certainly didn't feel like classic camping and racing EQ. There are other classic EQ emus out there that do instance raid bosses. I don't mean this insultingly, but it sounds like maybe there are other places that are already providing what you want p99 to be.