Duration of Shared Grp XP Penalties

[holkan]

lol gotta love people like charms too afraid to say what they really think so they back pedal constantly and try to hide what they mean. If solo'ing isnt classic xp rates it will be nerfed if it is it will be left alone. Theres no reason to say all the stupid shit you said.

[Virtuosos]

well that too :$ we need more paladins....or hell id love to see more rangers..




yeah lets kill all solo xp and mega nerf all class's but rangers.....sounds good lets go!

[HippoNipple]

Charms your thoughts jump all over and your ideas/comments suck.

[Extunarian]

I think we are actually watching Charms descend into lunacy before our very eyes.

[Arclanz]

wow look at everyone cry about the possibility that they can't level so quickly (or be powerleveled quickly as the case may be). I play a chanter; not even a primary solo class...and I find leveling rediculously easy solo...but when in a group the xp is utterly terrible. If that's classic then I guess classic sounds broken.

[renegadeofunk]

So if we know shared group XP penalties were a bug in classic, and we know it makes people stay away from playing or grouping with hybrids... whats holding up the fix?

Keeping it in because its JUST SO CLASSIC X-TREME is bullheaded and silly.

[utenan]

where does it say that shared exp penalties were a bug?

[renegadeofunk]

I read it somewhere, I'll have to dig it up again.

Edit: Well now I can't find it, but I swear I read from a decently respectable source that it wasn't really intended by Verant. I guess the war rages on... but I still think a group penalty is retarded. Harder doesn't always equal better, especially when it influences social dynamics.

Edit2: A more eloquent follow up to my argument that the shared XP penalty should be eliminated beyond "its retarded": I understand that the goal of Project 1999 is to emulate the state and feeling of Everquest from 1999, for better or for worse. My contention is that even though you can make the code 100% identical to that time, it still won't truly be like 1999 EQ because WE have changed. Nobody was blocked from grouping for being a hybrid in those days because only a handful knew about how harsh the XP penalty was.

Now that a large majority of players do know, I contend that this EQ is actually less like 1999 with the shared XP penalty than without.

[utenan]

Well, once you start deciding "we should leave this in, or take this out" the server becomes more and more custom, or fits the opinion of the people running it, its easier imo to call it classic and try your best to make the server as classic as can be. You cant do anything to change the fact that we, have changed either. On a side not, ive been playing since the server opened and I have never been in a group, or even heard of a group, rejecting someone because their class is a hybrid, specifically after the patch.

[Sarkov]

I agree that making it as true to classic as possible is the only way to avoid some pretty nasty QQ.

But, remember there are already examples of our P99 overlords changing the dynamics to suit their vision. For example the no-boxing rule.

And, a piece of anecdotal evidence from the recently-started, level 14 peanut gallery... take it as you will... I won't invite hybrids to groups.