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Originally Posted by rekreant
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This is fundamentally wrong. You cannot earn the same amount of plat in the same timeframe as they did. You could play 18 hrs a day for 3 more years and NEVER EVER get close to the amount of plat people who did the same thing from the launch of the server. Facts are facts.
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The general point people make is that they are just so far behind they will never "catch up". The reality is that most of the people who say this, would never "catch up" even if the server launched last week.
Are there people on this server with millions of platinum? Yes. Do you need millions to do just about everything in EQ? No.
Example:
Player 1 starts an enchanter. He has 10 hours a day to play. Probably gets to 60 and can join Aftermath in 3 months, maybe 2. In the first 6 months of raiding, he is in mostly no-drop gear, substantially better than what 90% of the server wears. He also has won a few 100k+ items that go for relatively low DKP and should not be sold. Things slip through the cracks and he makes 300-500k by selling droppables. He is also a well geared 60 enchanter and 10 hours a day will allow you to camp for hundreds of thousands more plat anyways.
Player 2 starts an enchanter. He has 2 hours a day to play. He gets to 60 in 15 months. He can't join any meaningful guild because his play time is too low and will never maintain the minimum DKP requirement. He joins a casual guild that has to team up with another guild to down even trivial targets. He has 8k in the bank and struggles to buy even his level 60 spells.
I would be willing to bet that most of the folks that whine that we need a new server are player 2. And always will be, whether they start day 1 or day 1000.
It's just how these things go
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