Alter End-Game Mechanics

[fischsemmel]

All right, fine.

/em walks out the door, surrounded by pretty, floating, blue musical notes.


More seriously, are you really going to blame me for not being on the server back when there was a war between the raiding guilds? Most of the time you trolly folk are excited to point out how I play too much, but now you're going to blame me for not playing enough! And are you really going to blame me for picking the winning side when I did get here? Of course I joined the best guild on the server, and why I did so had already been explained to other mad, epicless bards on the forums before.

And more importantly, these people probably aren't talking about how they want to avoid raid-guild wars. They're talking about how they want to be able to kill dragons on their own schedules without anyone else showing up to take their merbs. AKA they want Skyrim/instances/whatever. Hence my original comment.

[falkun]

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

All right, fine.

/em walks out the door, surrounded by pretty, floating, blue musical notes.

Who earned that for you, and how much time have you spent on poop mountain?

[Ravager]

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

All right, fine.
They're talking about how they want to be able to kill dragons on their own schedules without anyone else showing up to take their merbs.

This would be ideal for the casual players who came to this server to see content they never got to see on live, but have careers and families now that they can't devote their time to poopsocking mobs.

The majority of the population isn't TMO. TMO is the only guild with the player base that actually wants to spend their entire day raiding or poopsocking, which makes the raid scene practically unplayable for any other guild.

How is it fair that one guild gets to set the terms for content access in a game?

[fischsemmel]

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

This would be ideal for the casual players who came to this server to see content they never got to see on live, but have careers and families now that they can't devote their time to poopsocking mobs.

The majority of the population isn't TMO. TMO is the only guild with the player base that actually wants to spend their entire day raiding or poopsocking, which makes the raid scene practically unplayable for any other guild.

How is it fair that one guild gets to set the terms for content access in a game?

The server wasn't created to enable casual players to kill raid mobs that they didn't see in classic. It was created to recreate a classic experience. And there certainly wasn't much killing of raid mobs in classic just because you thought it would be fun to go do it once, as far as I can remember.

[Ravager]

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

The server wasn't created to enable casual players to kill raid mobs that they didn't see in classic. It was created to recreate a classic experience. And there certainly wasn't much killing of raid mobs in classic just because you thought it would be fun to go do it once, as far as I can remember.

Variance should go then.

From the front page:
"Relive the classic Everquest MMORPG Gaming Experience as it was in 1999 and onward. Project 1999 is a free to play Emulated Everquest Server giving Players the opportunity to experience Classic EQ Once again, starting with the original 3 continents and a max level of 50, with the look and feel of the old interface and several modifications making game mechanics similar to how the game used to be. Project 1999 is the best and most popular classic Everquest experience."

I can't experience it if one guild blocks the content. It's a hobby server created for nostalgic purposes. If it isn't for the casual player, which makes up the majority of the population, who was it created for?

[fischsemmel]

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

From the front page:
"Relive the classic Everquest MMORPG Gaming Experience as it was in 1999 and onward. Project 1999 is a free to play Emulated Everquest Server giving Players the opportunity to experience Classic EQ Once again, starting with the original 3 continents and a max level of 50, with the look and feel of the old interface and several modifications making game mechanics similar to how the game used to be. Project 1999 is the best and most popular classic Everquest experience."

I can't experience it if one guild blocks the content. It's a hobby server created for nostalgic purposes. If it isn't for the casual player, which makes up the majority of the population, who was it created for?

It says it was created for you to have the OPPORTUNITY to experience classic EQ. It says it was created for you to relive the classic EXPERIENCE. It does not say that the server was created so you can experience things you missed out on back in the day. It does not say that it was created so you can experience everything as a casual.

You have an opportunity to experience every single piece of the p99. If you can't/won't seize on that opportunity, that's fine! But don't complain that you aren't being handed the game on a silver platter as if you were promised that with p99 any more than you were with classic.

[Ravager]

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

It says it was created for you to have the OPPORTUNITY to experience classic EQ. It says it was created for you to relive the classic EXPERIENCE. It does not say that the server was created so you can experience things you missed out on back in the day. It does not say that it was created so you can experience everything as a casual.

You have an opportunity to experience every single piece of the p99. If you can't/won't seize on that opportunity, that's fine! But don't complain that you aren't being handed the game on a silver platter as if you were promised that with p99 any more than you were with classic.

I'm not asking to have things handed to me. Getting 30+ people together to kill a dragon that you have an even chance of wiping to, isn't the same thing as having something handed to you. I'm simply saying it's unfair that one guild gets to dictate the access to the end-game content.