Dial a port is bad for server health.

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

Mana burning Wizards isn't classic and that is still different; a group of Wizards working together for a shared self-interest. Yes, Druids and Wizards were designed to have fast travel for THEIR GROUP. Obviously either of these classes can choose to port people around on their own whim as well, and people learned to do /who all wizard or druid to find ports, but never was it the intent to have "Dial-a-Port" and never was that how the game actually played in Classic. Druids and Wizards were mostly busy trying to, you know, actually play the game themselves.

There is a reason why Plane of Knowledge was so terrible for the game and why nobody who actually understands classic Everquest wants that kind of porting mechanic in the game. "Dial-a-Port" isn't quite so bad as PoK, but similar in its degradation of the core values of the game.

I would advise you not to use the word moronic, you'll just have egg on your face with the line of argumentation you're trying to present.

You want us to take you seriously, yet you use PoK as a comparison to Dial A Port? Do we get direct ports to ANY city on P99? No. Not even close to being PoK like. You dont click a druid and instantly port right to a major city. You get a port, and hoof it to wherever you need to go.

Designed around "THEIR GROUP"? Are you stupid? You have to be in their group to fucking port you momo. Working as intended. And fyi, im not going to hold your hand and google it, but on Morell Thule before Velious even happened we had a guild of porters JUST like Dial a Port. There were also guilds on Fennin, as well as Sol Ro, and Vazaelle, to name a few. No...it neeeeeever happened in classic.

If the devs didn't like the way ports were being used in classic, they would have made them take rediculous amounts of mana, and put shit on a long cooldown, like they did a lot of spells and items from back in the day. Classic EQ was a hotbed of emergent sandboxy gameplay. The devs were quick to fix crap they didint like. I assure you the developers of early EQ understood what classic EQ was like, far better than you ever will. I highly doubt you ever even played classic EQ. You talk like someone who started playing post PoP, and googled your bullshit. Go back to WoW, we dont need you here.