Dial a port is bad for server health.

[Crawdad]

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

Mana burning Wizards isn't classic and that is still different

Classic in the sense that once it was in game, gallivanting bands of wizards mana burning down targets was a thing (until the nerfs). SKs did the same thing.

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

Yes, Druids and Wizards were designed to have fast travel for THEIR GROUP.

So you're saying Druids never advertised ports on Live, or...? A druid's "group" for porting has always been "whoever wants a port." Players organizing guilds and groups (even all the same class) has always been a thing.

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

I would advise you not to use the word moronic, you'll just have egg on your face with the line of argumentation you're trying to present.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] You may have been gone a while but your post quality remains the same.

[Zuranthium]

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

Classic in the sense that once it was in game, gallivanting bands of wizards mana burning down targets was a thing (until the nerfs).

Again, groups of Wizards doing that has nothing to with everyone in the game being able to easily port. What a ridiculous fail of logic to call something classic for that reason as well. Countless things from Luclin and beyond eras were "in the game"...you don't have a valid point.

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

So you're saying Druids never advertised ports on Live, or...?

There was no mechanism in place for porters to instantly be connected to everyone in the World for a port. Port classes had to advertise per zone and people had to manually do /who all searches and PM each individual player to find a port. Again, even beyond that, port classes were busier trying to actually play the game to begin with. Not just do nothing but port while waiting in queue to do mass AoE power-level.

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

your post quality remains the same

Superior quality, yes.

[Nune]

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

Again, groups of Wizards doing that has nothing to with everyone in the game being able to easily port. What a ridiculous fail of logic to call something classic for that reason as well. Countless things from Luclin and beyond eras were "in the game"...you don't have a valid point.



There was no mechanism in place for porters to instantly be connected to everyone in the World for a port. Port classes had to advertise per zone and people had to manually do /who all searches and PM each individual player to find a port. Again, even beyond that, port classes were busier trying to actually play the game to begin with. Not just do nothing but port while waiting in queue to do mass AoE power-level.



Superior quality, yes.

While agreeing with you here, I feel like you're kind of omitting the fact EQ was a "new" game during classic. A huge chunk of the P99 pop was between 10-18 when they played on live. There were Tradeskill guilds on live, you would generally ask someone with that tag for crafting before /who'ing. Plus, theres an easily accessible archive of knowledge on this era of EQ that was being learned during live, you couldnt just google search it.

[Zuranthium]

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

I feel like you're kind of omitting the fact EQ was a "new" game during classic.

Well, yes, the game is too outdated now. Regardless that doesn't change how the things people are doing these days are bad for the game. This just goes to show why a "coded for classic intent" EQ server is needed, though. The current game is pretty much only an empty time sink at this point, after the initial nostalgia blast.

[Expediency]

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

There was no mechanism in place for porters to instantly be connected to everyone in the World for a port. Port classes had to advertise per zone and people had to manually do /who all searches and PM each individual player to find a port. Again, even beyond that, port classes were busier trying to actually play the game to begin with. Not just do nothing but port while waiting in queue to do mass AoE power-level.

The entire point of this game is that its a sandbox. There have been raiding, tradeskill, and roleplaying guilds since the launch of EQ. Porting is a tradeskill. How you can think that a group of people binding together to offer a classic service is not classic is beyond my understanding. Do you believe <cracked staff artisans> or <dirty gnoll brewing company> are bad for norrath too? Whats the difference between them and dial a port other than the size of the entity and its amount of business?

Also the obvious answer of: if you dont like them, dont deal with them. I openly advertise against dial a port and try not to ever use their services, but arguing that its not classic is just lol to me.