Rooted Dragons and FTE foot races. Failed experiments

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

The game itself lacks fundamental infrastructure for raiding to make sense.

Take a look at what Blizzard does best: taking a game with a solid concept, polishing it up, and making it more appealing for a wider player base. They took one look at Everquest dungeons and raids and went, NOPE! Instances, baby! It worked so well that later EQ expansions added them.

On top of that, we've had years of "solutions" where the server developers fix one problem by adding another. "We have a serious rat problem on the island, let's release a shit ton of mongooses to kill them all! Okay, great, what are we going to do to keep the mongoose population in check?" 30 years later...

Hyjal, you can point fingers at certain groups of players and specific problems in specific zones, but what it comes down to is the game's infrastructure. P99 is unique, in both it's appeal and problems, that is simply comes down to how well people work together and communicate. Unfortunately, we all know how well that goes.

Instancing wasnt the magic potion that saved everquest. It makes the world disjointed and kills competition.

Its the constant flow of new expansions that really makes EQ raiding make sense. The no lifers could go poopsock the latest and greatest pixels and the cool normal people could raid more at their own pace.

Eq just was not designed for time locked Velious and no amount of band aid server rules will make end game any better here.