[Amelinda]

Originally Posted by Cast v27.5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Attack of the straw man

Poster is clearly stupid irl so he wont understand my reply. Still not sure what this argument is about because there isnt a more clear advantageous method of cheating on a pvp server than boxing when other people cant.

It is very rare that I find myself agreeing with Cast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You have to look at this like this.....this is PVP box. WAY different from a PVE Box.

If we go easy on a blue box on this then sure...gold farmers may get richer, the economy may suffer. guilds may have skewed advantages. If we go easy on boxers on the red box it would be devastating.

There is a very special subset of people out there on the web who enjoy ACTUAL TRUE PVP (Not the instanced battlegrounds junk) There is an even smaller subset of those folks who enjoy Classic EQ or EQ PVP. So the pool of possible people that we could ever get to play here is finite anyway.

many people have left for various reasons over the past few months and that leaves us with an even smaller set of people to play on our box.

When you have a smaller population then cause and effect is always more pronounced. The waves seem larger because there are fewer people.

Because there are fewer people to group with / trade with / buff each other and just generally hang out with......it makes things different than on a more populated blue server

We have nightly a population of around 130. That's a small number of people when you spread them over 100 zones. If Cast comes at me 1v1 lvl 50 bard v lvl 50 bard then we could legitimately PVP for a long time depending on how dedicated we both are to the fight and our skill. If I am secretly schlepping around a druid box it's over. If Cast beats me then I'm stupid, but more than that it is INCREDIBLY unfair to him. I get bored of PVP? We can both run the same run speed. so he could keep up with me no matter what. Unless I ran over to where I have a hidden druid and cast port on my druid and time it to land just after i get there. Or a well timed heal or nuke.

Not only that, but the second box would enable me to farm equipment so much easier than Cast who would have to wait for a second person to play a druid.

Something like this is a MASSIVE Game breaker and I read pleas for lenience and i'm like "Gee! You either haven't thought this through or just don't care."

People always think their behavior warrants a shortening of the sentence.

"But I was only trading items over to my alt"
Ok. But that's not fair to the other 100 people who chose not to cheat, who have to wait for HOURS sometimes to trade items over, or they ultimately drop transfer and then get fucked because the items poof when the login server goes down or because Amapolo ran through the zone and found the items and "Finders-keepers'd" them. It's not fair to the people who ask a guildy to transfer items and the guildy /q's and steals their stuff. Yes. Small offense. But HUGE ramifications when you look at the entire picture.

"But I was only Porting/buffing!"
Again that is not fair to the 100 or so other people who have to wait for a port or find a druid. Had a player petition yesterday because he handed his last 10 plat to a druid who said he'd port this guy to commonlands and then the druid ran off and responded he didn't even have that port.

"I just had my trader there because I was looking to buy X"
And i'm sure everyone else wishes they had that luxury as well.

"I was only waiting for X to spawn while i messed around on my bard."

Well. Once again. It is unfair to the other people who choose to follow the rules.

I don't LIKE being a hardass. But It's totally unfair to go easy on people breaking the rules when everyone else follows them.

PS - Bringing up the macroquest people on blue as your excuse as to why you should be unbanned for boxing = lame. That wasn't my decision and honey...It will NOT get you anywhere with me. So you can all quit that road of discussion now [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]