Please stop the quakes

[Nostalgiabait]

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

Yeah we goofed. Sorry

I don't think I ever saw Verant display such humility no matter how much they screwed the pooch. Hats off to you.

[Duik]

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

I don't think I ever saw Verant display such humility no matter how much they screwed the pooch. Hats off to you.

Surname Fences?

[cd288]

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

It is unusual - and unfortunate - that the GMs did not make a forum announcement about the event. I think that was a mistake and they should announce such things in the future for the sake of those who aren't clued into the raid scene.

Server staff painstakingly planned and ran a GM event, which is very classic, and it shook up the grindy raid meta and brought joy to literally hundreds of people. These events are a wonderful gift from our volunteer server staff.

Regarding the UN, it is a Discord server in which the raiding guilds make agreements, hash out disagreements, make amends after committing faults, and shoot the breeze. After the GMs told us about the coming event in the UN, the leadership of each guild informed their guild.

I highly recommend joining a guild - even if you don't intend to raid. It's a great source of friends, entertainment, and info. I hope this helps.

Don't think he's talking about the event. Think he's saying he wants a heads up when quakes are scheduled, which isn't likely to happen

[Nostalgiabait]

I just started playing again a few months ago after 20 years, and had the same "wth another quake" feeling, but I think I understand it better now.

Logging onto a server where people have been playing Velious content for many years has been really disorienting; all this content was new last I played it, not more than 2 years old when I quit the original.

Even though it's for all intents and purposes the exact same game, a server that people have been playing on for a decade or more is decidedly different from the new-and-fresh experience. For example, plat inflation vs. what I was used to is extreme, so much so that new players are priced right out of the market even for mid-level gear, and I still don't have a good handle on how things are valued on P99, whereas back in the day I could spit out an approximate market price for any item you could name.

Which brings us back to the quakes.

At first I hated them, but coming to an understanding of just how mature the server is and all that it implies, I get it now and support the frequent quakes. There's just nothing left other than raid mobs for players who have been playing for years - it was already that way for me when I quit EQ back in 2022. And who is going to be playing EQ still in 2024? Not the casuals, pretty much only raiders are going to be logging on.

The numbers show it. First quake raid I participated in, a /who of NToV showed over 220 players in the zone - somewhere between a third and a quarter of all logged-on players were raiding mobs in the one zone, under an hour after the quake. Probably just as many if not more were raiding in other zones. Back in the day you'd never see 100 players in NToV at once with three times the server population, to give some perspective.

The downside to the quakes is item rarity - it's not special to get that uber drop when the most difficult part of getting them - being first in force with a competent raid - is gone. But with the server as mature as it is, you don't get the glow of seeing others admire your shiny pixels when those others already have the same stuff on their 3rd and 4th alts anyway - the ship has sailed.

Thanks for putting up with a bit of a rambling message; I hope this perspective helps inform others reading this thread.

[Videri]

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

At first I hated them, but coming to an understanding of just how mature the server is and all that it implies, I get it now and support the frequent quakes. There's just nothing left other than raid mobs for players who have been playing for years

Ah ah ah, you have imagined that the purpose of the Earthquake mechanic is to appease the raiding population. This is not the case. Quakes are actually called "sim repops," or "simulated repops," and are meant to replicate the weekly server resets which occurred on live EQ back in the day for patches. These resets respawned everything and resulted in raid mobs spawning more often (7-day mobs would be seen more often than every 7 days, for instance). This is replicated here for a more classic environment.

But seeing as each sim repop does respawn all the raid mobs, of course all the raid guilds mobilize and snap up what they can.

Furthermore, last Wednesday's quake was an accident. The GM literally pushed the button by mistake.

[maxtorps]

I'm liking them. It energises people and they have fun.
I've not took part in one... but don't you oldies take them away before the noobs can have some fun! ��

[magnetaress]

Gib moar plxz.

[magnetaress]

Pvp quakes plz

[Valakut]

This thread should have at least 1 star for every time Menden commented just out of respect. Don't always judge a book by it's cover guys.

[killerbeebs]

The quake meta and drafts are making guilds not compete on cycle day. They’d rather wait for the next draft or chase after quake mobs with no other guild in the zone. Even teaming up with each other at certain points towards end of the quake as to not compete with each other.

Less quakes right now would be ideal