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Originally Posted by Dolalin
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The P99 patch process seems pretty involved and Rogean seems to be necessary to do a lot of it, and his availability seems very limited.
From playing with eqemu on my private server I know you can disable quest xp with a quick DB change / hotfix, and this doesn't necessitate pushing new code.
Every other way I can think of to do more targetted nerfing of quest XP (like say, disabling quest xp over level ~20 via a change to the perl quest libs) involves a patch or server reset.
I'm about 99% sure that's the limiting factor. They can't do patches / code changes easily without Rogean's involvement.
I've had a lot of interactions with staff and I can say I don't recognize Nilbog from what you make him out to be in your post. There are some server balance considerations but 99% of the time if you give them classic evidence they make the change when they find the time.
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I didn't intend to "make anyone out to be" anything. I simply started with two objectively true facts: 1) R&N
do claim classic EQ is priority #1 (especially on Green), and 2) disabling a core mechanic of the game for a month
isn't classic.
Seeing those facts from the outside, all that's clear is that
something was higher priority to the staff than keeping classic EQ quest mechanics. Based on the only communication provided, I inferred that server firsts ("speed runs") were the priority.
If my guess was wrong, the staff could just ignore me (I'm just one dumb poster). Or they could ban me for making their life difficult. OR they could give not just me, but our whole community (which "joined the cult of classic"
because of them), just a couple sentences of communication:
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Originally Posted by Staff
Yes we know that disabling quest XP for a month is unclassic, and our goal is still to keep things classic. We decided having Kunark be a few days late (so we could code up a better solution like quest XP caps) would be more unclassic than disabling quest XP for a month.
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They don't "owe us that "
at all. Period. End stop. But as members of the cult of classic that they indoctrinated us into ... it certainly would be nice.