GLOBAL ooc/auction. Poll time.

[utenan]

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

i ve a question: was everything sooooo great and fun in classic? Yes, i had my best time there. but when i realy think back, there were more than 100 hundred things, which peeves me (its the same with the school time. Now, we say: yeah, it was the damn best time i had. But in the time, when we were so young and at school, there were plenty not so funny things we only forget later...). What i want to say: we now ve the Chance to make the Best / our Best Everquest. And when its mostly classic, its fine for me and i will say "hurray" :-) But we shouldt things do only cause its classic.... that would be dump (cause than we wouldnt ve learned anything from the past). I play Everquest on this Server cause i love the game-/groupplay, the need for tactics and so on. i dont play Everquest cause its 100% classic

Greetings Maggok

PS. or anybody will truely tell me, that it was "gameplay-fun" to sit 2 hours /LFG or try to /who all lfg to got a group? or need to walk one hour to EC-Tunnel only to see, that not many peeps r seeling (the right stuff)???

Everyone's opinion of fun differs, so im not even going to start in on that, but what I can say is that stuff, like you mentioned above, may not be fun for some, but its what helped eq feel more like a world instead if a game, and it is the very reason eq was so unique, and why theres a demand for a classic server. Pretty much, and i hate to say this, if you make lfg as easy as possible, like automatically grouping you with people, and make trading the same way, you have the group system and auction house in WoW.

Also, in your first paragraph, " we shouldn't do things just cause they are classic " that is the whole reason we are here!! And when we, or at least I say " because it's classic " it is a little more complex then that. I want the feel of the game back before it was destroyed, which means taking out non classic functions, which alter the game, and make it less classic. So when I say " because it is classic ( which I don't actually say often ) " I really mean " because I do not want what is suppose to be classic eq changed and altered in a way that made me quit in the first place "

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

yeah, 15 years before, i had no probs. with sitting 2 hours in EC and watch the /auction-channel - cause i was a student and had time like no others. Now, think the most of us has a Family, Work, RL..... :-)

Not really an excuse to destroy classic elements of the server, as Nilbog stated earlier in the thread

[Yoite]

we used to have like a sale sunday where most of the server knew that on sunday was the day that most people would be doing the buying and selling and trading. Sure there was still activity throughout the week, but if you were looking for something in particular, you knew come sunday you could find someone selling or trading it.

[starguitar33]

OOC should be zone specific, /AUC shouldn't

[r0xx0r]

only worldwide messaging i recall in eq back in the day were as follows: party/tells/guild

even duel messages weren't global o.O

[Rufus]

I hope they don't remove it, though it seems inevitable at this point...

Everyone talks about this being a "Classic" server, which it obviously is, and Classic was the greatest time I ever had in a video game. But I also remember there being a much larger population that was able to support not only EC-only trading, but support the MANY zones that are going to be completely empty if we get rid of worldwide OOC. The world is going to seem very empty for most of us, UNLIKE in Classic where most zones had at least a few people to interact with.

Additionally, remember that this is NOT Classic. This is a world that is constantly in flux with things changing all the time, i.e. bard songs, items coming in and out, etc. Unless you remember to log on to the forums every time before you play, you will not have any way to be notified of changes to the game. Worldwide OOC serves this purpose.

It will also be much more difficult to put a group together, thus destroying the most fun aspect of the game. Like most of you, I have other obligations in life and cannot spend an hour sitting around waiting for a group to find me. Proactively making a group aware of your existence is a much better way to find a group than sitting in one zone with LFG on. Oftentimes a group won't even try to pick you up if you are a certain distance away.

I loved Classic as much as anyone, but P1999 and Classic are not analogous.

Thanks.

[Phallax]

Originally Posted by r0xx0r [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

only worldwide messaging i recall in eq back in the day were as follows: party/tells/guild

even duel messages weren't global o.O

in true classic duels were indeed global, wasnt untill kunark came out or right before they became zone only

[Doomapple]

The whole finding groups point isn't much of a reason to keep ooc global. I can't think of a time where finding a group or a new member for a group just by using global ooc got me anywhere. It was MUCH faster when I just did a bit of '/who all' searching and sent a few tells to people. It honestly doesn't take that much time, guys.

[nilbog]

I still do not understand the "can't find groups" argument.

So.. over the past few days, I tried several / all LFG

First one, 30 matches. Various levels, guilds, etc.

35 matches

25 matches

40 matches!

33 matches

and currently, at 12:45pm cst, 25 people LFG.

So, if you are using OOC to look for a group, and 25-35 people aren't spamming ooc for LFG, you are limiting the groups you can possibly get by not doing / all LFG.

This particular argument holds no value with me anymore.

[Myrkskog]

So what argument is there left for global channels besides having an in game IRC Nilbog?

[astarothel]

The /lfgs for tanks or clerics is much more sparse. Finding a replacement (especially when pretty much every levelling cleric except me is /anon or /role) isn't always so easy with a lower population.