Were there cultural differences between servers on live?

[Besmear]

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

Xegony was known as a shit hole of drama

Being in Inner Circle, we were usually in the center of any drama, but it really wasn't all that bad (from my point of view). The worst of it i think, was when we woke the sleeper. I don't recall the specific trigger as to why we did it, but we were pissed about something another guild had/was doing. Other than that, it was just usual top-end guild issues.

[fastboy21]

there were big cultural differences between servers. imo, the biggest rifts were the large original servers, the split servers (new servers that allowed transfers from old servers for a limited time), and the new servers that came a couple years in.

the biggest engine that drove the culture of the server was the raiding game, and the character of the big raid guilds. some servers were extremely contentious (like p99 is atm) and others were more laid back with player organized rotations.

a good example of this is to look at how long the sleeper took to wake on some servers. on xev, the rotation was held to without a single guild breaking it, well into pop. when they did wake the sleeper it was a smaller rogue guild that wanted the notoriety; not one of the big raiding guilds...and the server absolutely hated them for it, publicly.

[Boognishe]

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

Randoming variations: 1 -1000, 0-1000, 0-100, 1-100.

Mith Marr did /random 200 300.

[Mirana]

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

Mith Marr did /random 200 300.

Any reason for this? From a statistical perspective, it makes no sense.

[kaev]

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

Any reason for this? From a statistical perspective, it makes no sense.

IIRC (memory gets hazy in 15 years) there was a brief issue with people faking /ran on live using copypasta macros. A lot of people started varying the /ran range in response, and even after Verant fixed the /ran emote to be non-fakeable lots of players preferred non-default ranges. On Tunare it was the groupleader's responsibility to specify the /ran range and a lot of them continued to vary every roll long after. Not that it matterred very much, most people who played to cheat didn't group much anyway, preferring to use ShowEQ to snipe loot droppers (I never saw a Forest Loop or Sarnak Earring of Station or Bracer of the Hidden drop in all my time on live) thereby avoiding any risk of having to share their precious pixels.

[Nubben]

Yes, on Mith Marr this was definitely a custom that originated as a theory that it could prevent people from "cheating" with their rolls. This custom lasted long after the ability to "cheat" was fixed and/or debunked.