The great merge of 2020

[NeoThaFive]

https://youtu.be/Q38Q7l10XH4 Bring Back Teal Please So People can Actually Get The Legacy Items before you yank them away!

[Smellybuttface]

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

https://youtu.be/Q38Q7l10XH4 Bring Back Teal Please So People can Actually Get The Legacy Items before you yank them away!

You can still get them, just be prepared to wait 60+ hours.

Why exactly did you link a YouTube video of you fighting a spider for 15 minutes?

[loramin]

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

You can still get them, just be prepared to wait 60+ hours.

I love how "just stay awake for 60+ hours" is thrown around like it's no big deal here ... as if it didn't require consuming an unhealthy amount of stimulants, or the sharing of one account between two people.

Not picking on you in particular Smelly, it's just ... the fact that this isn't like some crazy fact to everyone, that it's just no big deal in everyone's conversation ... that itself is a bit crazy to me.

P.S. I should note that making people stay awake to get precious loot has a long history on P99, going back to the earliest days of raiding:

Originally Posted by http://wiki.project1999.com/Raid_History#Initial_Raid_Ruleset

The first raid force with fifteen active players present and "camping" the target was guaranteed it ... as long as they kept 15 non-AFK campers present.

This resulted in three days straight of 15+ players sitting semi-afk at raid targets. For example, both guilds would have players sitting in Fear waiting for Draco to spawn, calling out AFK checks to ensure the other side was present.

Maybe that's why it's so blasé here?

[tommydgun]

I have to agree with loramin. This nonchalant attitude towards 70 hour camps is borderline mentally unstable. I managed to get a guise after camping for 16 hours on my day off and I was completely drained and I'm pretty sure it wasnt worth it. Proceeding like this for 54 more hours consecutive is not safe or healthy. I understand account sharing but then you are saying you HAVE to account share to get these items and that is also just stupid. Oh well. It is what it is I guess, but if you're willing to stay up for 70 hours to get legendary pixels in a 20 year old game on a private server then you might need to get evaluated by a professional.

[cd288]

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

It is what it is I guess, but if you're willing to stay up for 70 hours to get legendary pixels in a 20 year old game on a private server then you might need to get evaluated by a professional.

I don't understand why comments like this are necessary. While I wouldn't personally do the camp for that long, why do you care so much if someone else does? Who gives a flying you know what if that's what someone wants to do, as stupid as it may be

[astuce999]

The bottomline is that there are 2 types of people who want to play classic EQ.

Those who want to enjoy the content, and those who find enjoyment by denying others access to the content.

It's very easy to find who's in what camp based on the types of comments they leave here, and even easier in game.

I don't believe we can re-conciliate both sides.

With the merge, the show-runners clearly indicated which side they are on. It is sad that they failed to understand how an overpopulated server would quickly become toxic/radioactive.

Yes, in 1999, you had 1500-2500 players on a single server. You also had people 2-boxing. Neither of those should be true in 2020 for any chance at a healthy vanilla-only server.

Godspeed and best of luck,

Astuce

[Corbin]

Originally Posted by astuce999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Astuce

Did you play with Final Door on the live Stromm server?

[Asteria]

Originally Posted by astuce999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The bottomline is that there are 2 types of people who want to play classic EQ.

Those who want to enjoy the content, and those who find enjoyment by denying others access to the content.

It's very easy to find who's in what camp based on the types of comments they leave here, and even easier in game.

I don't believe we can re-conciliate both sides.

With the merge, the show-runners clearly indicated which side they are on. It is sad that they failed to understand how an overpopulated server would quickly become toxic/radioactive.

Yes, in 1999, you had 1500-2500 players on a single server. You also had people 2-boxing. Neither of those should be true in 2020 for any chance at a healthy vanilla-only server.

Godspeed and best of luck,

Astuce

In 1999, people played to make friends and have fun doing stuff! We weren't all min/maxers waving our hands around in frustration or quitting if we couldn't get a manastone and loot all BiS items...

What are your priorities in life?

[lordpazuzu]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't understand why comments like this are necessary. While I wouldn't personally do the camp for that long, why do you care so much if someone else does? Who gives a flying you know what if that's what someone wants to do, as stupid as it may be

I've noticed how people derogatorily refer to getting pixels in a 20 year old game and the people who take it even semi-seriously. It's like,"Bitch, you're playing this too, don't pretend like you're any different."

[Smellybuttface]

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

I love how "just stay awake for 60+ hours" is thrown around like it's no big deal here ... as if it didn't require consuming an unhealthy amount of stimulants, or the sharing of one account between two people.

Not picking on you in particular Smelly, it's just ... the fact that this isn't like some crazy fact to everyone, that it's just no big deal in everyone's conversation ... that itself is a bit crazy to me.

P.S. I should note that making people stay awake to get precious loot has a long history on P99, going back to the earliest days of raiding:



Maybe that's why it's so blasé here?

I should say I meant the “60 hour” comment more as a tongue-in-cheek jest at the absurdity of it.

This was my comment from a separate list thread post-merger:

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

32.5hrs in between drops is absurd. And that’s been a great time??

My question though on the list is this: how is people sharing accounts necessarily hurting this process? If I were to wait 20 hrs and not get a manastone, I wouldn’t want that time to be completely wasted, so I might enlist the help of a friend. With the present system at least, the devs know it’s taking 32.5hrs between drops, so they have to have factored in that people would be sharing accounts. It’s completely unrealistic otherwise for someone to stay up for almost 3 days straight, so their system almost requires account sharing.
Even though guides will come on here saying “you shouldn’t share your account data,” what else did they expect when they made the drop rates this low? They asked for it.

I honestly can’t fathom having to sit at my computer for that many hours clicking an AFK box every 5-15 minutes. I’ve had to stay up for work in the past for multiple days, and it was draining as all hell, but at least I was up and moving around. I can’t think of anything worth doing that for in a video game. Perhaps I should be more sympathetic to the plight of those that do, but it’s for such a nonessential bit of pixels that it’s hard for me to rationally understand it.

We’re going to see something like this before long, especially with the merger increasing the times spent at these camps: https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world...ath/index.html