So... How classic do you want it?

[Wurl]

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

Some players seem to want things to be selectively classic based on what class they play, or how much they play, or their preferred UI or ...etc .. etc ..etc

WAY TO MANY negative posts and threads, I don't like this... I don't like that... change this , change that..

Devs , Gms , guides and others have put a lot of work into giving us a place to play old school EQ = Thank You to all of those people who have worked on p99 the past 10 years.

Maybe the best thing to do is make green as close to the 99 release as possible and let the chips fall where they may.

........But For Christ sake to many of the playerbase needs to stop with the whining.

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

At the end of the day, we have to keep in mind that the goal of this project is to recreate the experience of classic EverQuest as closely as possible. And something that a lot of players have forgotten is that most of the modern conveniences we've gotten used to on the Titanium client (gamma for night blindness, target cycling, item linking, third-person mouse wheel scroll, no spellbook medding) have significant impacts on actual gameplay.

Amen brothers, devs/GMs/guides PLEASE throttle our connections to dial-up speeds, and PLEASE lock us to 800x600 full-screen only. It's extremely un-classic to let us use a modern internet connection and 1920x1080 resolutions, and they have significant impacts on our actual gameplay. THANK YOU STAFF!!

[Nilstoniakrath]

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

Amen brothers, devs/GMs/guides PLEASE throttle our connections to dial-up speeds, and PLEASE lock us to 800x600 full-screen only. It's extremely un-classic to let us use a modern internet connection and 1920x1080 resolutions, and they have significant impacts on our actual gameplay. THANK YOU STAFF!!

Let's replace the current "earthquakes" with actual server shut-downs for 6-18 hours too while we are it. And this would be a huge mistake on many levels, but boxing is actually Classic, and I don't hear any purist white knights on the forums advocating for that

[Splade]

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

Amen brothers, devs/GMs/guides PLEASE throttle our connections to dial-up speeds, and PLEASE lock us to 800x600 full-screen only. It's extremely un-classic to let us use a modern internet connection and 1920x1080 resolutions, and they have significant impacts on our actual gameplay. THANK YOU STAFF!!

This is my main argument when people being up the "not classic" argument. It's best to leave the stupid shit out of the game. Everyone's stoked about having to stare at a spellbook, I'll be amazed to see how they feel 2-3 weeks after the server launches and they the nostalgia of spending 80% of their time staring at a goddamn blank screen wears off

[El-Hefe]

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

This is my main argument when people being up the "not classic" argument. It's best to leave the stupid shit out of the game. Everyone's stoked about having to stare at a spellbook, I'll be amazed to see how they feel 2-3 weeks after the server launches and they the nostalgia of spending 80% of their time staring at a goddamn blank screen wears off

Play a melee then?

[Splade]

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

Play a melee then?

I won't be playing green at all, thanks

[Fammaden]

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

This is my main argument when people being up the "not classic" argument. It's best to leave the stupid shit out of the game. Everyone's stoked about having to stare at a spellbook, I'll be amazed to see how they feel 2-3 weeks after the server launches and they the nostalgia of spending 80% of their time staring at a goddamn blank screen wears off

It was a deliberate decision by the original design team related to power balance with casters, and in Vanilla at least the concern of how powerful spell casters would be was very well founded. In expansions less so, but by then any serious player is 35+ and would be able to power an alt to 35 pretty fast.

EQ is something that was greater than the sum of its flawed and now technically obsolete parts. The more that those original aspects were removed in favor of accessibility and quality of life the more of the game's magic was lost. Other design decisions were at play as well but much of the "classic feel" people talk about was intrinsic to a confluence of design choices that are nothing but a nuisance when examined one at a time in a vacuum.

I realize from a powergamer standpoint all this sounds like some stupid romantic purist nonsense, but some of us are really here to come back to classic EQ as close as possible to the way it was. Some of us really do think that old, flawed, pain in the ass EQ in a "warts and all" state represents something that's been lost in game design.

This absurd attempt to draw equivalence with broadband speeds and CRT monitors is asinine. Everyone back then had differing hardware too, some had college T2 lines while others had 28.8 modems peaking at 14.4 speed, some had better computers than others, everyone's ping was different, etc. Those differences still exist, the devs can't account for hardware, but they can strive for the most accurate representation of what the software did, with certain compromises based on player behavior like the 25 mob limit.

[Jibartik]

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

This is my main argument when people being up the "not classic" argument. It's best to leave the stupid shit out of the game. Everyone's stoked about having to stare at a spellbook, I'll be amazed to see how they feel 2-3 weeks after the server launches and they the nostalgia of spending 80% of their time staring at a goddamn blank screen wears off

As I read this I was like, YEA! Then i remembered I was meditating and clicked back over to my screen and was like, oh yeah if this was black I wouldn't have even noticed.

That said, it may make the game LESS immersive, if we're always watching youtube while we meditate.

JUST SAYING [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] sometimes its nice to look at your halfling partymembers faces........ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]