Will the game become too easy once exp penalties are removed?

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

I'm a recently returning player to EQ, I played through Velious, and came back shortly in Luclin/PoP.

I came back to EQ because of the "classic" era nature of P1999. There's a couple things EQ does that go beyond many modern MMOs that I've tried and that's the forced player interaction. you have to interact with people to play this game. You have to ask a wizard/druid for a port. You have to speak to people in auction channel instead of their being an auction house. Etc. I definitely think the PoP books helped ruin the game, because it was one more thing they took away from having to make relationships and make people interact with each other.

MMOs are about interacting with other people. Otherwise you're just playing a single player game. This is just one of the things classic EQ does so well. I would be quite sad if the PoP got added into P1999.

As far as the exp penalty goes. I rolled an SK. I'm not that far yet (only 15). At first the penalty was driving me insane, but by now I'm used to it. I don't feel that strongly either way about it be removed in Velious. I would feel a little bad for everyone else who's leveled a hybrid to 60 already if it was removed and hey, if other people could get to 60 pre-removal, then so can I. I'm not going to complain if it's removed though.

That's all good and fine. Until you are anon/role 100% of the time and only talking to your guildmates. Which is what happens to many people on this server. They don't interact at all with other people.


Then they don't understand why I refuse to port their anon/role toons. If you don't want people to interact with you, I don't want to interact with you either. /who all anon Druid and ask them for a port... Oh wait, you can't.

Anon/Role killed interacting with others 100x more than any silly PoK books did.