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Originally Posted by Taxi
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making it a fucking headache for skimming for non-troll replies
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Quoted for STFU (to the trolls, I mean.)
We're here to discuss the issue, not your issues with another player. Stay on topic, get the fuck over yourselves or take it to flames and rants. Nobody wants to hear your bullshit, and frankly it's fucking annoying.
Personally, I can see an advantage to global ooc. Yes, I haven't played here much because my PC is slowly dieing. (Power supply and/or video card are borked.) But I can commiserate with the off-peakers, because I remember playing in off-peak on EQLive back in Velious days. At the time, I was a wizard so soloing was an option.
But something people need to realize is that on these emu servers, SO many people choose to play a class they don't need to group with, and will often tell you to bugger off if you do invite them, because soloing is more profitable for them.
Regardless of how server population compares to anything, the times have changed, and a lot of people are more interested in soloing than grouping. Myself, I prefer grouping and meeting people, which is why I am playing a shaman and a paladin. I want to fill needed roles in a group, I want to help other people out and make new friends.
But I am far from the majority, unfortunately.
So quote "how it was in the old days" as much as you want, decry the offpeak hour players as lazy or whatever, but of those 200 people playing in offpeak, I'm betting you about half of them have never and will never group.
I was originally against the idea of global chat because, as has been said numerous times, the level of douchebaggery one has to endure to do anything relevant with the channel sucks.
Any workaround we can think of will involve either a minor bandaid (IRC, how many people would really join it?) or a full fix that introduces new or old headaches all over again.
It would be nice to say "hey, make an LFG channel" but that would be turned into the new global chat faster than you can say LFG.
One potential solution I can think of is to do something that breaks the "classic" in a minor way.
Bring in the EQLive LFG window, or make something similar. Allow people to be on their level 50s farming plat/gear while LFG with a comment of "26 PLD or 37 CLR LFG" Allow groups to LFP so people on those 50s can check for their alts.
Yes, it's not classic, and no it's not perfect, but I think it's a decent middle-ground to the frustrations a lot of people are dealing with.