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Originally Posted by Wakanda
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Also I see a lot of people on this forum imply that the GMs were super cops and that if you stepped out of line and intentionally trained someone, ninja looted or KS'd then you would get banned. In my experience you could basically get away with murder. If I had a time machine and could travel back to the year 1999 or 2000 or 2001, I doubt I could get banned from EQ even if I tried. I remember people constantly intentionally training, KS'ing, stealing named mobs, making death threats, ninja looting, scamming etc. and the GMs never did anything.
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Yeah dude unfortunately we had to actually see it happening not just take you at your word. But if we saw it happening then yeah we would 100% issue warnings and third warning resulted in a ban. We were able to witness things a lot more frequently than the staff on P99 can because there was a large roster of volunteer guides and hired GMs, so it wasn't uncommon to get someone caught if they were consistently doing things. If they did it once, then yeah you're probably not getting caught and it's not like fraps was a thing. In certain instances (such as high value things like raid targets) we might look at logs. In any case, you're misconstruing what people push back on. People push back on the idea that there was zero enforcement, which there decidedly was not once the PNP came out.
As far as graphics, I wouldn't use TLP as a supporting point as they don't use era accurate stuff. At any rate, graphics are something that you should be able to provide examples of if you care to spend the time (it will probably be a slog, but I assume you could eventually find something on the wayback machine).
Anecdotes about drop rates etc. is harder to prove, but the frequency on P99 is probably pretty easily explained by level of knowledge etc. For instance, on live you didn't have guilds on a weekly Sky rotation clearing all of POS like it was nothing (on most servers at least). You didn't have multiple guilds able to efficiently and easily clear the Planes.