On its dying breath, <Criot> cries enough to turn blue into Dice simulator 2022

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

Riot was quite content when they were the controlling entity on the server and staunchly against allowing in new entities. They're not magically saints now that a different force is the controlling entity.

My comment wasn't directed at any specific guild or group. I don't give 2 shits about which 2 groups of neckbeards and their merry bands of warmbodies are doing what. It's been the same clowns doing the same shit since TMO/IB days. I'm talking server population by and large does not agree with or enjoy the way the endgame works on this server and they haven't for a very long time. Many continue to play in spite of it because they enjoy the game for other reasons

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

Have you forgotten server history now? The C/R rotation showed that these "silent majority" guilds still weren't happy when given a bigger piece of the pie. When you removed competitive guilds from the equation, they continued squabbling amongst themselves.

That's what these people want. To weasel and Arcler their way to more loot rather than killing dragons. And what we learned from the C/R rotation is that this server is never going to tee up free loot for guilds just because they exist.

C/R was a clusterfuck for a variety of reasons. Nobody is asking for that back. Nor is anyone asking for "free loot". People are just saying they don't want to participate in 16 hours (per mob and every week or less for years on end) of staring at a screen waiting to run a pre-practiced (for dozens of hours) footrace to hopefully get FTE on a mob and probably still lose cause someone else was scripting or simply had better ping to the server.

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

If you want to raid, you should have enough ambition to prepare for killing the targets you want and the skill to see it through.

This is Everquest we're talking about. Acting like anything on this server requires true "skill" is laughable at best. EQ is a game about knowledge. Very very little mechanical skill is required. As for ambition? I'd argue the lengths people are required to go to in order to get endgame pixels here goes way beyond ambition and borders on psychotic.

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

The intention of this server is not to coddle the "silent minority." The intention here is to be a nostalgia based server true to the original mission. And the truth is, these people would have never have been max level or had epics during this era.

The intention of this server as stated (ad nauseam) by the people in charge is to recreate classic EQ as closely as possible and serve as a sort of "museum" of what EQ was in the classic era. The list of "not classic" changes made to P99 is too long to count. Many of them are specifically tied to the endgame systems that you're defending.