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Originally Posted by Danth
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...And some of that bunch are millennials who were little kids when EQ came out (hence bad at games) and forget that some of us were grown adults who were very much more capable. It's amusing watching the issues change but the claims stay the same. We had basically these same threads with things like melee combat bind, invis pulling, chardok AE, you name it. Heck, when P99 first opened and charm was lasting full duration every time (remember that?) of course you had the Enchanters swearing up and down that was totally normal. Broken whirl was entirely legit too, ench's only didn't use it back then because they were too stupid obviously, etc etc. What can you say?
That being said after 11+ years here I can't motivate much "care" anymore. I ain't going to disappear tomorrow, but I've definitely been watching my own activity gradually wind down the past few years. Even if they fix it now, probably too late to do ME much good anymore. That ship's more or less sailed. I think of P99 as its own game, not so much as an emulation of anything, anymore.
Danth
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Quality post, I'm in the same boat. P99 has become a custom EQEmu server and is no longer attempting to recreate classic.
Channeling proves this to me. Proof provided that P99 channeling is obscenely far away from classic values and the staff just lets the bug report fade away with not even a single comment. We put tons of work into researching bugs and figuring things out and it just sits there. Devs occasionally making a "fixed pending update" response to some trivial bullshit bug and leaving the major issues to fester unaddressed.
There is no point hearing endless morons try to justify how it's just slow computers or player knowledge that explains how channeling rates at level 1 on P99 are 50-70% successful compared to 10% on live. Such a core mechanic like this being overlooked shows no one is interested in classic EQ anymore.
Classic EQ is too hard and takes too much time to get raid pixels so we'll just smooth some of these rough edges so the raid scene can be a boring bottlenecked cluster fuck that no one enjoys but is fully available to even the dumbest greenest newb to EQ after a couple weeks of playing. WoW players don't like a 10% chance to cast a spell in combat when they start, they won't play if we fix it.