I hated the idea of boxing. EQ needs the social aspect to thrive in these eras, right? Played many years on p99 as a cleric so no cheese soloing, all groups for every tick of exp.
Then, tired of the end game gong show here, I tried the alternatives, especially takp.
Know what? I was wrong. I would never play an emu that doesnt allow either one or two additional boxes (you start getting into some bad problems in other respects with more than that). I can still group and single box when I want to because on takp at least the best exp bonuses are for groups of 4 or 5 and you can only box up to 3 so people are happy to add in. And when I want to screw around on my own, I can three box somewhere.
I also think the optimal eq server population is considerably lower than what p99 has. There are too many people for this level of content, maybe more than twice as many. While I wish Takp had more people, I would only wish for one or two hundred more, no more than that, to settle the server in at 400 or so max.
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