no global ooc in offpeak killed the game

[Branaddar]

I know it sucks trying to build a group during non-peak periods. I've been there. Back in the old days I worked an evening job, so most of my game time was morning-afternoon.

Honestly, global chat wouldn't have done much to fix the issue. It's an issue of not enough people playing during those times. Or people not putting up LFG. Or people not being adventurous enough to ask non-LFG people if they want to do something.

All I can suggest is try to get more people that would game on your time to play. Re-enabling global OOC may get you one more group spot filled out of ten play sessions. But people need to stop leaning on /role and /anon so much and just accept that they're going to get tells and that it's part of the game.

I've played a chanter and a wizard and the only times I put /role on were when I was running through a low level zone to avoid a billion tells for crack. Worse things have happened than having to "/r sorry, I'm busy at the moment."

[eqdruid76]

Aye, record number of players on P99 since serverwide chat was discontinued.

Yep, this game is obviously dead.

You monkeystick.....


The only thing around here that's dead is a lot of players' adaptability and ability to play the game themselves without having everyone else play it for them.

To quote Benjamin Franklin:

It's fine. L2Play.

[jilena]

I miss having random global chat when I am doing boring things. EC tunnel is a shitty horrible pain in the ass compared to global auction. I would gladly give up the tiny bit of "oh look a bunch of people standing around selling crap" nostalgia for convenience. Otherwise this doesn't really effect me.

[gruumsh]

I feel that the population of this server has increased lots since they announced the end to global ooc/auction. Population was around 600, and now that global chat is gone, I see the amount of players growing quickly (we almost hit 800 last nite I saw).

I also do like the EC tunnel being used as an auction hub, you can auction and you know that the buyer/seller is in the same zone as you are. Even when there was global auction, there were times when people who offered an item that you wanted could very well be on the other side of the world, and I really doubt that some people would like to run across the world/ask for a port to get an item (I've heard of people getting duped doing that also, running really far only to see that the seller logged or something like that).

[girth]

I feel bad for people not in peak hours, though some of my best groups/trading has been off hours.

But, all we can do is advertise more - tell your friends - tell your old guilds - especially those aussies/euros.

[nicemace]

there are some days where i can sit LFG for 10+ hours and not get a single tell regarding it, as an enchanter.

other days i get pestered non stop when im trying to solo.

as its been said its hit or miss. some times its painful as fuck and you want to slit your wrists, other times its a breeze.

i play both peak and offpeak (new zealand is kinda in the middle of both) and it is /MUCH/ (as much emphasis as possible) easiser during peak time for people to play.

[Kainzo]

Stop going role playing or anon and start using the LFG function - Classic isn't suppose to be "Easy" and if you dont remember I remember SEVERAL times on a "Full" pop server waiting forever to get into groups / camps.

It's part of the game - suck it up or go back to WoW

[gedeost]

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

Stop going role playing or anon and start using the LFG function - Classic isn't suppose to be "Easy" and if you dont remember I remember SEVERAL times on a "Full" pop server waiting forever to get into groups / camps.

It's part of the game - suck it up or go back to WoW

They aren't role playing or anon and they are using the lfg.

Are you stupid or something?

Just because you can't find a group in a computer games doesn't make it hard, it just makes it a extremely crappy game.

[Vonblund]

Thanks to all those who replied with constructive arguments and refrained from personal attacks (ie "monkey stick" "L2P" and other douchebaggeries)

A few things I'd like to add:

- I am talking OFF Peak, so if you play in peak time this does not concern you as you probably have enough people on to group / buy / sell / tradeskill / socialise with... In my play time I see 200 players on.. I remember on live server in 2000 we had about 700 on in the same timezone, and that was not peak time. Later in Kunark, the popular grind zones such as OT had 50 to 80 players easily. Last night... SOLB = 0, Najena = 0, Lavastorm = 3, etc etc ...
there was not even enough players in Oasis to form a group because 3 out of the 7 present were mages / necros who wanted to solo and 2 were high levels, either running past or Pling someone soloing.

- Add to this that the server pop is becoming a bit top heavy, so out of the 200 online, a good number are either active raiders or AFK Raid target campers.

- The benefit I saw in global chat (again in OFF PEAK I repeat for the ADD Anonymous members of this forum) is that if I went LFG somewhere and saw nothing is happening, I can still get a feel the server on /ooc, and check if there is a grouping opportunity for ant alt.. ok no tanking Guk today but they need a dps in Oasis or a healer in Crushbone.. cool!

- the /who zone seems a good idea, any link to a list of the zone names for /who would be appreciated.

- Again I repeat, I have NO PROBLEM with the current system in peak time or on week end when there is a population of 500+ as it is perfectly viable.

[Maggok]

hmmm hat a look on the actual (thursday, 10:49 am, german time) situation and think, its not so bland. Currently the server population is the following:

- 34 necros online
- 11 warrior
- 6 palis
- 13 wizards
- 13 shamans

only to pick up some classes for example. So i ve the question: why does alle the people player Necros? Ok, its a nice class! True, but i think the solo-ability of the class is one of the most important arguments. so u dont ve to search a group to play. u can log in and start to fight. and thats fine (i also ve a low lvl necro). but in the opposite, whey we try to make it harder as it has to be, to build up groups? we dont play EQ to sit there and searching for groups/players! we play EQ to fight, doing adventures, getting loot (or what ever we all do when we r online)...