I rather like the way EQ mostly let the players run with emergent gameplay rather than bust out the nerfstick anytime someone figured out a way to do things that the designers didn't envision (hello, Warcraft). I know a lot about this game that I didn't know twenty years ago and I enjoy using that knowledge. I'm not interested in trying to re-live the past. I've enjoyed P99 for a lot longer and got much fuller usage out of it than I ever did the original.
There are a number of additional factors beyond experience rate that encourage solo on P1999. Part of it is the very helpfulness of the community--when it's trivial to almost always find a port and rez, death isn't so scary anymore. Part of it is the low population that makes pick-up grouping flat-out difficult at some level ranges, so sometimes people solo out of necessity and if they didn't, they'd quit. Part of it is the culture of a player base that has been influenced by solo-centric games that have come out in the past twenty years. Part of it is the reality that we're twenty years older and it's rude to join a group if I'm going to be AFK every little while to do various tasks around the house.
That P1999 EQ supports different modes of gameplay is a strength, not a weakness.
Danth
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12-08-2021, 05:07 PM
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