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[Fammaden]

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

Secrets will figure it out someday, I have faith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But seriously, the fundamental thing that will always make TakP unclassic is the boxing. If you played on live from '99-'01 you probably didn't know anyone at all who boxed. Maybe you happened to know one rich person who already had two computers sitting side by side, and could afford two phone lines and two EQ accounts ... but the vast vast majority didn't.

The only people really boxing back then were those who played in computer gaming centers, schools, or other places where a bunch of computers with Internet connections were already in the same place ... and even then it wasn't one guy with multiple accounts so much as friends using each other's accounts.

P99 doesn't emulate that perfectly: instead of live's maybe 0.5%-1% of players boxing, we have (ostensibly) 0% ... but it will always be a million times more classic than TakP's "everyone is playing three accounts at once" system.

Somewhat disagree, I knew a number of people on Saryrn that two boxed in that era, but mostly they were tank mains who had a pocket cleric or general melee mains with pocket druid. It wasn't super widespread but it wasn't as rare as you describe.

I do agree that it was nothing like TAKP where the vast majority seems to triple box just because they can.

[loramin]

Well admittedly it's hard to know exactly. A) everyone has different experiences, B) a lot of people (both those that remember boxing and those that don't) have memories from after the classic period which bleed into the classic period, C) our population here is probably not representative of live (we probably have a greater percentage of "hard core" players) ... and so on.

But whether it was my estimate (0.5%-1%) or slightly higher one (not sure what y'all would estimate based on your experience: 2%? 3%?), I think we can all agree that:

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

I do agree that it was nothing like TAKP where the vast majority seems to triple box just because they can.

[Bhairava]

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

But whether it was my estimate (0.5%-1%) or slightly higher one (not sure what y'all would estimate based on your experience: 2%? 3%?), I think we can all agree that:

nah i dont agree to shit you said about boxing