@ Strifer: I don't have any proof / documentation, but I was playing on the Agnarr progression server when the shit hit the fan. No, they didn't disable all quest exp for a month; what they did was even worse... they nerfed all quest experience by a factor of about 90% forever and ever, amen.
Why did this happen? Well, as Rogean insinuated, players cheesed the mechanics to the point of exploit, blasting out (high) levels as soon as the expansion dropped in a variety of ways. But the worst offense only became possible because in their infinite wisdom, the live game devs over the years made it possible to hand in literally thousands of quests at once. (Quest items could be handed in in stacks, and stack sizes were increased to 1000 for tradeskill items. Red wine, fire beetle eyes and bonechips are all tradeskill items on live, in case you didn't know.) So it became possible to hand in 1000, or even 4000 quests at once.
The side effect of this situation was that newb toons couldn't even get hold of a bone chip or fire beetle eye in certain locations because level 50+ pet classes were clearing every spawn the moment it spawned.
Sure, this mass quest turn-in scenario doesn't apply to us on p99, but the equivalent power gamer exploit phenomenon is "why we can't have nice things." At least for us it's only one month and not forever. Personally, I would have laughed if the other live server solution had been implemented: corpse wipe with expac drop. But on p99, that would just have created a million petitions for lost inventory. And our devs / moderators don't deserve that kind of grief. They work hard and we owe them thanks for that.
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11-08-2020, 02:48 AM
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