Will Hybrid XP penalties be implemented on Green Server launch?

[Zuranthium]

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

Whether its a dps race or a camp line or a race you will always be beat by the most unshaven and unemployed among us. Tis just the way of things.

This isn't true though. DPS race inherently limits the ability of a single poopsocker. They need to bring in friends if they want to hold down high-priority camps, and if these people are crowding around content that doesn't normally require so much effort, then they are no longer somewhere else in the game world at that point in time. They aren't collectively able to hold down as many camps, and they get far less time to level up twinked alts.

It's true that people who play more and exclusively "power game" the content will generally always have an advantage, but they get the smallest advantage under the classic 1999 ruleset (given that pretty much the entire playerbase now understands the game, and isn't just getting lost in Faydark for days at a time).

What's also true is that the current p99 design goal will NEVER result in a fully satisfying game, regardless of whatever form of PnP it uses. p99 as it stands will never be more than a bottom-barrel drug or a niche museum. But at least it could try to be the most thoughtful version of itself.

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

one dude wants PNP to be revoked so we can have dps fights to rationalize shitty player behavior

You're trying to rationalize competition and the classic, immersive MMORPG experience as shitty player behavior. Anything that gets in the way of you sitting on your ass and not having to think or be challenged is "bad". Long live the philistines!

The PNP (at least part of it anyway) should be revoked specifically because that's what 1999 EQ was; it's how the game was designed, and p99 is striving to recreate every detail of the game it feasibly can. The anti-truth brigade can try to deny it all you want, but the facts will never change.

If a PNP does exist, it should be the actual classic PNP. Not the garbage unclassic p99 PNP that warps the game and caters to poopsockers. The way people keep trying to ignore this point is very sad.