Staff - Players - TMO, a Treatise on the Future of the Server

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

What people fail to realize is that the majority of the server just isn't interested in playing how TMO plays.

EQ is a poor game to try be competitive in. It's just not designed for it. The challenge is in downing the mob, anything after that is artificial and generally silly to care about.

Everyone knows there are several guilds that can kill most raid targets, and at least TMO and BDA can handle the top end stuff too (like Gore, Trak, and honestly after VP keys are finished for the teeth we have, VP shouldn't be a problem either). So at that point the game becomes "who can train better in VP" and "who can wake up more raiders to log on at all hours", which is a really stupid game to play.

EQ is a great game for competition. However, most people are carebears and don't learn how to fully utilize their characters. It's not hard to steal a train and derail it, but most people don't want to do it because it involves more than "tank and spank".

It's just sad that p99 has the WoW mentality raiding aspect from players." Let's all do absolutely nothing challenging and all end up in the same pixels and talk in chat rooms." Sounds dumb, is dumb.

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Stealin:
I have a blast derailing trains from other people to save their group or just show it can be done, the challenge of dealing with the extra mobs and all.

I don't enjoy derailing trains getting dropped on top of me because another entity is trying to ruin my day. If someone is going to ruin my day, I want the ability to ruin theirs right back. That's why game-developers created first person shooters, team-based games, and fight games. DOTA, TF2, WoW battlegrounds, PVP servers, CS:S, MW4, Tekken, all of these games were developed so people could bash their heads against each other and proclaim victory. Dropping a train on someone to intentionally screw with them is like the toddler that comes in and bulldozes the other's sand castle. It's beyond childish and no one does it passed age 4, except with internet anonymity.

Nirgon:
And here is where your argument falls apart:

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

and were in 1999

The ball, as Nilbog has pointed out, is in *our* court as players. Fighting over 13 year old content is something the top minority has inflicted upon this server and the only reason it is that way is because those toddlers get jollies knocking over our 13 year old sand castle.