Dial a port is bad for server health.

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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.