Ruining EQ

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

Greed of players plain and simple.

When you start talking dragon pixels, there are players who's greed show no boundaries. Players early on found ways to cheat other players out of their dragon pixels using exploits or just dirty play.

To try to reel in these players, rules were made.

The same greedy neckbeard players found loopholes and new ways to exploit around the rules, so then more rules are made.

This pattern seems to have continued since p99 raiding came into existence, and so you got what we have now.

Some people blame the staff but in all honesty it's not staff it's 100% player-made problems culminating from greed.

It's sad because it's just fucking pixels.

The problem isn't extreme greed. Most of the people across both hardcore and casual guilds are not bad people. The problems come from competition/overpopulation and the scarcity model of EQ.

I do primarily blame the server staff for the mess that P99 raiding is. The raid rules are set by the staff not the players. On the whole they haven't been well thought out or considered if the goal is to have a healthy raid scene with both hardcore and casual guilds getting a take of the pixels. For that matter I can't see how the server rule set is easy or fun for the GMs themselves to administer.

If you actually raided you'd know how inane a lot of them are. Perhaps this is half the issue, the GMs don't raid as they aren't allowed to (conflict of interest). Most of the input is from the 1% neckbeards and the rules are very twisted to cater to the worst kinds of behavior.

The tracker FTE rule would have barely made sense in Kunark let alone Velious. It creates a bunch of toxic side effects for any zone with more than one raid target. There's a huge incentive to pull everything to the zone in to avoid being permanently DQed. This in turn makes guilds train each other often unintentionally. That's not to mention all the inanity regarding being DQed simply for exping in a zone while a boss happened to pop.