Change ZEMs for a MORE Classic experience!

[loramin]

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

Your last paragraph is the core issue that has faced EQ since it's live launch. If the ZEM changes were removed from the Hole, people would just go monopolize the next best zone. I suppose that would be considered, classic?

This is the beauty of "dark" ZEM changes, ie. ZEM changes made without informing the player base. Such changes might actually be 100% classic (if they were, we players wouldn't have known, right?) Actually, with Show EQ, maybe we would have ... but even if Verant wasn't periodically/secretly changing ZEMs without telling us ... that certainly seems like a very Verant thing to do.

The best solution in my mind is for staff to say "we're going to change ZEMs, secretly and periodically", and then say nothing more. Hell, they could even say that and not actually do it! I can all but guarantee that simply saying it would be enough that, after every patch, we'd have multiple threads to the effect of "does it feel like the Hole's XP is lower post-patch?" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Players hunting the mythical "best XP zone" (again, even if the staff never actually made one) would drive adoption of alternate dungeons ... or at least would do so more than the current system.