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Originally Posted by loramin
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As we already established, in "classic EQ" there were no monopolies. Monopolies are 100% an unclassic P99 thing.
And to Alarti's point, the Idol camp is not the only P99 monopoly. Another example would be the CE camp in Seb, which was monopolized for weeks on Green by a guild.
Seriously, you have got to learn to express your ideas without writing essays. This will be my last response to you unless you can write forum posts like a human and not like a NY Times column.
But to your point, you've still failed to show how either system requires more GM involvement. And switching to a random system would have a much bigger bonus than just eliminating monopolies:
It would make this place more classic!
(which, if you look in the upper-left corner, is the entire goal of P99).
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Firstly, claiming monopolies are not classic is basically irrelevant, as P99 is not classic. The only reason why monopolies weren't as common on live was because people had less knowledge of the game as to what items were good or bad, and expansions were coming out fast enough to where people had to move on to the next best camps anyway. As more and more camps came online, and items in general became more homogenous, there was no point in perma-camping something. Since P99 is time locked to the first two expansions 20 years later, people have to work with the limited camps and good items we have available. P99 also has custom (non classic) raiding rules that make certain items more desirable than they would have been on live.
Secondly, adding one more camp to the like 5 camps that are monopolized isn't helping your case. As you said yourself, 99% of camps are not monopolized, so whether that number is 5 camps or 6, it isn't generally a problem, and Shiny Brass Idol isn't even that great of an item outside of raiding lol. The camp owner rule is designed for the 99% of camps that aren't monopolized, I am really not sure how you can miss this obvious point, other than willful ignorance.
Thirdly, I have not failed at all. You have simply admitted you have not been reading my posts, which has been pretty obvious to be honest. Please don't bother chiming in to a conversation if you can't be bothered to participate, it just makes you look silly. You yourself have given all the evidence needed to prove my point that the camp owner rule is valid, you just don't want to see it because you simply don't like the rule. You can certainly have that opinion, but you are wrong
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Finally, it is not possible to write complex ideas into a few terse sentences. Why? Because human beings can interpret words in many different ways. It is why people write books, rather than sentences lol. The more descriptive and clear I can be, the better you will understand my point. If you can't be bothered to read, why bother to post? Your post based on half-read, half-understood knowledge is basically going to be nonsensical most of the time.
EDIT: Also, I think you missed my entire point. The PnP is designed to avoid GM involvement. That is why you don't get GM involvement lol. But because the PnP is designed to try and avoid GM involvement, you cannot fully separate it from the idea of GM involvement, as you have been trying so hard to do. That is why the camp owner arbiter rule exists, the camp owner acts in place of a GM to try and avoid GM involvement.