In some ways TLPs play more classic than P99.

[Zuranthium]

The TLP's use the actual 1999 ruleset of DPS racing for everything. The playerbase gets to decide if they want to blacklist "kill stealers". So much more interesting. Unfortunate the TLP's are garbage aside from that.

p99 will never be a faithful recreation of classic EQ until it has that, or at least the classic Play Nice Policy from 2000. Nobody is ever supposed to be able to own any camp.

[Ciderpress]

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

The TLP's use the actual 1999 ruleset of DPS racing for everything. The playerbase gets to decide if they want to blacklist "kill stealers". So much more interesting. Unfortunate the TLP's are garbage aside from that.

p99 will never be a faithful recreation of classic EQ until it has that, or at least the classic Play Nice Policy from 2000. Nobody is ever supposed to be able to own any camp.

That would be a nightmare. You couldn't really camp anything because somebody could just form a cohort of dps classes and steal any kill they want. If "play nice policy" means anything it certainly includes preventing that.

[Zuranthium]

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

You couldn't really camp anything because somebody could just form a cohort of dps classes

You can do the same thing. It becomes a matter of who wants it the most, plus a bit of luck since DPS fluctuates. Or you can just go somewhere else while there isn't a big crowd around a specific spawn. People are only capable of being in 1 place at a time. Currently most everything can be camped by a single player. If you bring back the classic rules and incentivize needing more players at a spawn in order to hold the camp down, it opens up other camps. Also makes Wizards relevant again.

[Wakanda]

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

You can do the same thing. It becomes a matter of who wants it the most, plus a bit of luck since DPS fluctuates. Or you can just go somewhere else while there isn't a big crowd around a specific spawn. People are only capable of being in 1 place at a time. Currently most everything can be camped by a single player. If you bring back the classic rules and incentivize needing more players at a spawn in order to hold the camp down, it opens up other camps. Also makes Wizards relevant again.

I remember solo camping gator scale leggings for over 24 hours on my Monk back in like 1999. Periodically other players would show up and try to snipe me, but I could out DPS them. Then a high level Wizard showed up and I started having a meltdown due to lack of sleep and being a kid who had never stayed awake that long before. I remember panicking and begging my friends to come help me, and wondering if our collective damage would even be enough to stop a Wizard from one shotting the mob etc. (he ended up leaving anyways).

As someone who did play on TLP I never had a huge issue with KS'ing, what I did notice is that players were way more polite and willing to discuss things rather than risk pissing off a neighboring group who may in turn start stealing their mobs / camp. A few times I actually did have to log onto a high level character and start killing every mob in my camp after a PL group tried to show up and take over my group's camp. But for some reason it feels less toxic than the PNP does at times.

Also I was never in a huge guild on TLP, but we still managed to snipe a few world bosses from the top guild on our server just by pure luck. Had more people online when certain bosses spawned, more people in the right place at the right time etc. I feel like this type of behavior would be illegal on P99? I don't really raid on P99 so IDK if that's true, but from what I understand the top guild pretty much has exclusive rights to most of the content and guilds who contest that are banned?

[F0rmsh1fter]

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

Also I was never in a huge guild on TLP, but we still managed to snipe a few world bosses from the top guild on our server just by pure luck. Had more people online when certain bosses spawned, more people in the right place at the right time etc. I feel like this type of behavior would be illegal on P99? I don't really raid on P99 so IDK if that's true, but from what I understand the top guild pretty much has exclusive rights to most of the content and guilds who contest that are banned?

If you read all the (unclassic) rules, raiding is actually illegal on p99