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Originally Posted by Etherelia
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Sigh, why did I know the first response was going to be 'not classic'.
Neither is FTE. Neither is Sont's AE being a proc. Neither is the leashing rules in NToV that allow pulling to zone. Neither is the current state of the Sneak skill. Neither is half a dozen spells that don't work like classic. There are no class based XP penalties like classic. Levitate for boats to avoid collision issues didn't exist on live. Neither is FD's memblur. Restrictions on swarming did not exist, nor AOE targets. etc etc etc
If people ever want to see progress in this game and things like this made better, they need to realize that this game is not classic right now and stop using that argument. Improvements that are not classic are all over p99.
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This sort of post pushes my buttons, so wall of text inc.
A few things. First, you're just flat out wrong about some stuff. For instance, classic totally had XP penalties for classes.
Second, there are things that are unclassic because they can't be fixed. Levitate for boats for instance: boats were buggy as hell on live, and the devs had particular difficulty making them work here. On live if a player fell off a boat a paid GM or guide would come get them, but P99 doesn't always have that, so to avoid players being stuck in the middle of oceans they added levitate. Similarly some spells don't work the same (eg. all the Stamina ones) because P99 uses the Titanium client and it's impossible to have classic Stamina with it.
Third, some things are unclassic to be more classic. Was there an official swarm limit on live? No ... but there also wasn't Bards dominating entire zones (like P99 used to have). On live there was a limit, it just wasn't in the game: it was called shitty 1999-2001 Internet (and before you say "well I was the 1% that had a personal T1 line", great, but 99% of the players didn't, and the vast majority were on dial-up). This (and the cost) was also why 2-boxing was rare on live during the classic era.
Plus, another factor in several of the above issues is that we have an all volunteer staff, and that staff doesn't have time to constantly fish people out of the ocean or break up fights between swarm kiters and everyone else in OT.
Finally, and this is perhaps the most important point, the "B" in Blue stands for Beta. The Blue server is not the perfect classic server. It's not even the "perfect, except for all the factors I just mentioned" server. It's the "this is the best the dev team has so far" work-in-progress server. Unless you want to stop playing (devs can't play) and sign up to code with them the only way it's going to get better is patience (though players can help speed things up with well-reasoned, well-documented bug reports).
So, at the end of the day you get to choose. You
can wish for unclassic features on a server that's been dedicated to being classic for as you've been playing on it (and then several times over). You
can complain about all the unfinished bits, and all the things that can't be finished for one reason or another. You
can ignore everything that's great about P99 and focus only on the negatives ...
... or you can enjoy your 100% free almost classic beta server, not expect a volunteer-run project to be perfect, and maybe even submit a helpful bug report every now and then.
Or you can just wait a few years for Green which
will be "finished", and
will be a lot more classic.