Power leveling should be banned.

[Noudess]

When someone takes a zone like najena or unrest, and makes the entire zone a personal playground for some level 10 character via power leveling.. is that in line with what this server wants.

I wanted to go hunt najena with a friend. I am 16, she is 14. Instead a level 50+ is getting paid 2k an hour and pulling every named and mob he can past us as we watch his level 10 friend level.

As an of-level group, we can't really get anything going, as the mobs we want are down, and when they pop, we might get 1 or 2 while the Pler pulls everything past us. If we try and go deeper for pulls, entire rooms spawn on the puller on his way back.

I'd argue that PLing is WAY worse for the game than 2 boxing (though I hate that also).

I propose a modification that makes it impossible for a character to gain XP from any mob more than double their level - regardless of how the kill is made.

We want a classic EQ experience, or a race to dominate spawns at 60 - screwing the population that wants to fight of-level dungeons?

[Marmo]

No, that is all.

[Noudess]

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

No, that is all.

Witty. Can't form a reasoned response?

[Itap]

While I agree with you, this was done back in classic, though maybe not to this extent. Altering the ability to PL would interfere with the "classic" setting that this server is trying to imitate.

If I were you, I would've claimed a camp. Power-leveling is allowed, but camping an entire zone isn't unless its all uncontested.

[Splorf22]

IMO the people that PL in places like Unrest or Crushbone (and this is like 90% of the PLers) are utter douchebags. Whenever i play a new char I am tempted to start a 'PL hall of shame' thread.

Najena is pretty rare though - I guess you were just unlucky there.

[Cypher.]

Did you try talking to him? I'd say 90%+ of problems like these can be resolved with discussion amongst the two parties. The other 10% or so are just douche bags.

[Kraftwerk]

I can 100% get behind this original and persuasive argument.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I'm in with this complaint. I traveled to south karana, only to see someone pulling the entire aviak tower down and killing it. Wait for respawn, and then repeat. There goes that camp spot. Wow this exp kicks ass!

Yes, it kicks gimp ass.

I've gone to Najena too, and seen an empty zone, but only 2 or 3 people in it, with one always mysteriously /anon. Unrest? Same.

Any place that can be "power pulled" is used to PL people it seems, in the old world. Which sucks. minmax. Jesus. It's an emu server for chrissakes.

And no, this did not happen in classic. People were too busy playing the game, getting epics, trying to get items.

It happened... well, well after the era this server is supposed to capture.

Granted, however, the server is now old. Newcomers are stuck.

A solution would be to eliminate all non-planar loot from the game now, as well as reduce bank accounts to zero for any account more than 6 months old.

"Game Master" -- check it out! A concept!


edit: as it stands, the server simply feels like last year's Fippy prog server, except with limits on boxing and warp traveling. But, grouping? I have seen people log out and say they don;t want to deal with a dungeon crawl, but would be down to go someplace they can be afk a lot and take turns pulling and killing.

I would recommend a revisiting of how this server works so as to penalize PL'ing, and reward actual classic-style gameplay. Otherwise, me and the other "new comers" are kinda realizing this is just a more closely monitored and slow moving SOE prog server, locked up tight by people who own the server. At this point, if SOE were to start another prog server, I would go there if simply to see if they fix some problems from last year's attempts. But this server needs fixing for those of us who wanted to adventure, explore, and yes, maybe have to play carefully so as to avoid nasty corpse runs. In other words, I wanted a challenge. Not an offer to pay someone to PL by hourly rates.

[Grahm]

actually i PL'ed since velious era with a 52 druid, but since could two box, would say lvl 10 wizzy LFG. have 52 druid to PL.



never once had a problem with getting a grp. 2 boxing: 1 / solo box: cries

[sox7d]

There is a much more highly educated population on P99 and assets like high level druids and monks are a lot more common per capita than they were in classic.

I think PLers ruin this server, it's hard enough to get a group going with the population, why even log on if you're not going to play it?