bots are a stupid meta

[wuanahto]

why not when a raid target pops it ejects everyone logged out of the zone to erud's crossing and then code in some stuff to stop people over level 28 to bind in eruds crossing and have a 100% gate collapse chance/group port fail to anyone over level 28 in eruds crossing?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

why not when a raid target pops it ejects everyone logged out of the zone to erud's crossing and then code in some stuff to stop people over level 28 to bind in eruds crossing and have a 100% gate collapse chance/group port fail to anyone over level 28 in eruds crossing?

I'd call this a good starting point.

Alas, p99 is a museum piece. There are some things added, like the volcanoes or whatever they are called, to allow people to still pixel hunt.

But every person familiar with the project say the same exact thing: if you want innovation and new ideas, this isn't that and won't be.

Keep in mind, the guys who built this emulator are in their late 70's at this point.
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It will require a younger man, much braver than they are in their dotage. to draw from this IP the riches and funnies it could yield, were only bravery and time not so thin on the ground these days.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But hey, we dont have those pesky Bards swarm kiting in dungeons - the server is thriving - Just today Red hit 25 concurrent players online and green a couple of hundred

Sorry you're lazy and aren't good at swarming outside

[Andyman1022]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry you're lazy and aren't good at swarming outside

loled

[Bardp1999]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry you're lazy and aren't good at swarming outside

c you REAL soon pal

[Swish]

New green would also fix OP's gripes if only temporarily.

[Wakanda]

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

The original game was set up for the hardcore gamer. The casual could not compete.
Time sinks ruled.
Those with literally no life or those that had jobs allowing concurrent timewasting, oops gaming owned the pixels.

Like now, only its free to play here and those that can be available (whatever the reason) at any time own the pixels.

I will never have an epic or a chalice or BIS anything requiring massive dkp.

That is as it should be.

Im not sorry I don't got, its just sad some of you feel the need to say it.

I actually agree with this aside from the fact that in order for this sentiment to be accurate they need to also get rid of PNP.

My memories of EverQuest back in the 90s and early 2000s was not a bunch of care bears who were worried about offending someone, and who would respect people's camps and wishes. My experience was a ton of cutthroat hormonal teenage psychopaths intentionally training, regularly KS'ing, sniping raid mobs, ninja looting, griefing etc.

Because of the PNP none of that exists. Is that a bad thing? Sometimes, yes. Overall? I don't know, I wasn't around during the early days of P99. But it kind of irks me when people are like such and such is so hardcore and then comparing to the olden days.
In the olden days I don't care that your guild mate told your other other guild mate who told you that you guys could indefinitely hold a camp around the clock by passing it off to each other every few hours. My group is coming in and taking this camp that y'all have been AFK farming for days now.
If you have a problem with it then bring more players and we'll DPS race. Sike, I'll actually just FD pull the entire zone on you and then do it again when you try to drag your corpse.

To me that was hardcore EverQuest. This ain't it. Even on TLPs I've seen the best guilds on the entire server who are way more coordinated than any thing I've witnessed on P99 get sniped by third rate guilds who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Doing something like that on P99 would get that guild banned. This is not hardcore. This is carebear shit.

[cd288]

As CSR during that time period your memory is exaggerated. Policies were put in place by late 1999 and you'd absolutely get warnings (and a ban after 3 warnings). Honestly, in my experience P99 is less stringent than the live policies were because they will give you temporary bans, occasionally review appeals of suspensions, etc.

On live once you hit warning 3 we just permanently banned your account with no appeal process.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As CSR during that time period your memory is exaggerated. Policies were put in place by late 1999 and you'd absolutely get warnings (and a ban after 3 warnings). Honestly, in my experience P99 is less stringent than the live policies were because they will give you temporary bans, occasionally review appeals of suspensions, etc.

On live once you hit warning 3 we just permanently banned your account with no appeal process.

There's no need for anyone's memories: our wiki has the Kunark Era Customer Service Guidelines. As it turns out, the response depends on whether we're talking "minor disruption" (spamming a chat channel/non-fantasy name/kill stealing), "major disruption" (foul language/harassment/zone disruption) or "abuse" (sexual harassment/fraud/ninja looting):

8.2.2.7 For minor disruptions, three warnings will be issued. The perpetrator will then be suspended for a minimum period of three days. For major disruptions, two warnings will be issued, followed by suspension for a discretionary period with a one-week minimum. The next major disruption offense following suspension for major disruption will result in the player being banned.

8.1.2 Abuse Procedures
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8.1.2.6 If this is the first incident for the accused, they will be suspended from the EverQuest servers for one week. If this is the second or later incident, the player will be banned from EverQuest.

[loramin]

P.S. I do wish our P99 rules were more classic, but only in one respeect:

8.2.1.1 Examples of Minor Disruption:

Non-Fantasy Names – Names that are not appropriate for the fantasy genre of EverQuest