Earthquakes

[regandna]

All of these 3-5 week earthquake timers is BS. You are killing the life of any smaller raiding guilds, as the big two (sorta now three) are, and will be, the only guilds to get 90% of the kills due to the quakes being on bad timers for 4 weeks. This trend only strengthens with less earthquakes. Please start adding more quakes in. This is ridiculous!!

Thank you!

[Danth]

Earthquakes or lack thereof don't kill guilds, the Pixel Sickness kills them.

Danth

[White_knight]

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

Earthquakes or lack thereof don't kill guilds, the Pixel Sickness kills them.

Danth

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[Trexller]

Yeah P99 mobs are in open worlds (NOT INSTANCES) and are targets of opportunity.

If you want to kill a mob you have to be able to muster the appropriate force faster than any other guild.

Small guilds will always get the shaft in that regard. It's not an insult, its how things were in the days of EQ classic live.

Around here the pixels will always go to the guild with the fastest zerglings, regardless of when earthquakes occur.

[xdrcfrx]

quakes provide opportunities to the guilds to kill targets that they otherwise can't, which is nice. They also help keep spawn timers stacked up, which is also nice. Today is 7/11/20. There has been - one - quake is just about the last 90 days, counting from the 4/19/20 server reset at 3am which respawned everything.

That seems very low. used to be 1-2 a month.

[Tobius]

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

Yeah P99 mobs are in open worlds (NOT INSTANCES) and are targets of opportunity.

If you want to kill a mob you have to be able to muster the appropriate force faster than any other guild.

Small guilds will always get the shaft in that regard. It's not an insult, its how things were in the days of EQ classic live.

Around here the pixels will always go to the guild with the fastest zerglings, regardless of when earthquakes occur.

The difference is, in Live, more expansions kept coming, which meant smaller guilds at least had a chance to do more content and the lower stuff was abandoned.

The levels of players was less top heavy in classic, and people did stuff other than levelling more often.

[Trexller]

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

The difference is, in Live, more expansions kept coming, which meant smaller guilds at least had a chance to do more content and the lower stuff was abandoned.

The levels of players was less top heavy in classic, and people did stuff other than levelling more often.

Expecting P99 to play like Live is your first mistake.

There won't be any P99 expansions after velious which is years from now anyway. After xpacs came out on live, small guilds would kill a previous raid boss a few times just for fun (after they geared up from the new xpac).

Expansions post-velious always brought group loot that was on par with the previous expansion's raid loot. with few exceptions (a couple items in raid velious are better than luclin group loot etc) After luclin every xpac meant you re-geared up really fast.

Trying to compare your experience on live servers with P99 is apples and oranges, Live is only everquest in the sense that it keeps on going, after about 2005 it became a blend of every popular MMO. "They can do that on AoC and WoW? ok we'll add it to EQ"

You're not gonna have the experience you described on P99 due to the fact that new content like luclin+ isn't ever coming.

If you want a real hardcore raid experience that you can take 6 hours mustering and preparing for, try to kill an NPC guildmaster. But you won't do it, there isn't any loot. There are plenty of "God Tier" mobs around, they don't drop any loot tho.

So you're back to your tight-knit guild of cool friendly folks. Things aren't horrible on blue with such a wide range of targets. Keep logs of mobs you won't get a chance to kill. Vulak, AoW, CT etc. You can expect Riot and AG to be busy flaming each other during the windows of those mobs. Compare this to a list of mobs Riot/AG isn't gonna make a mad dash for, such as kunark dragons, demi-gods, Vindi (24 hour spawn, basically welfare pixels). One day it was just me in skyfire and Talendor was just taking a leisurely stroll as if he didn't have a care in the world.

Smaller guilds just can't compete for tier 1 mobs for the simple fact that they are smaller guilds, and Rog-Bog will not make earthquakes more common or even predictable. So you gotta work with what you have, or give up your small guild mentality.

Tier 1 guilds are a collection of people with no lives, no responsibilities who are instantly responsive to raid calls. Now I'm a broken record.

Time and Tides, they wait for no man.

[Arvan]

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

Yeah P99 mobs are in open worlds (NOT INSTANCES) and are targets of opportunity.

If you want to kill a mob you have to be able to muster the appropriate force faster than any other guild.

Small guilds will always get the shaft in that regard. It's not an insult, its how things were in the days of EQ classic live.

Around here the pixels will always go to the guild with the fastest zerglings, regardless of when earthquakes occur.

Incredibly wildly maximally incorrect. In this era of EQ one or two guilds only could kill the hardest bosses and lots of weeks many raid mobs were just up with nobody to kill them until they finally got around to it on a saturday or whatever.

What we have here is not “how it was” even in the slightest. Most people were still trying to hit 50 at this time on live. On p99 most people are working on their 2nd or 5th lvl 60

[Fammaden]

The official approach was supposed to be randomly as few as zero to as many as four quakes per month right? So its not impossible to have so few.

We all want more quakes. It would be nice if every respawn was a quake. Hell, put the quakes on a 16 hour window, and then do random quakes in between the weekly one. I'm guessing at this point our best chance at seeing the raid respawn paradigm revisited is if it has something to do with the raid meta on green.

[pogs4ever]

have you tried donating?