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[Ezrick]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

First, even bards need instant clickies.

Secondly, what makes EQ great is that you can play how you want. All this BS about play how you want in modern and next gen MMOs...total nonsense. EQ had real freedom when it came to how you interacted with the world and community.

If you have a problem with someone camping the AC because you don't think they should then you are probably playing the wrong game.

Nice rationalizing, all of you. And you all know it's so much BS. He's there to sell the MQ and we all know it, along with the shaman with three corpses on the hill storing rings. You can't rationalize the greed that permeates this server. Everyone sees it every time they log in.

A group of a dozen of us stuck with a ranger in Frenzy earlier this week. The poor guy was there for nearly 48 hours (and never did get a sash). Why did we do this for someone we had never met? We all knew that the minute the camp was free it may be a month or more before anyone but a level 60 item camper could play there again. (one showed up every hour or so, one even commented on how 'old school' it was to see an actual group camping the frenzy.)

It harms the server, and it especially harms newcomers to P99. We started a guild with 10 or so new players almost three months ago, only three of us are left. All the rest left for this very reason. Anything of value is camped to a monopoly by bored, high-level players. Prices on what is sold on the market are not reflective of what a new player can possibly pay, it's what another high-level player will pay for their twinks. I recall buying a FBSS on live for less than 2k. It's six to eight times that amount here.

People will actively give you advice on how to deal with this. My favorite was: "You need to level up a druid first. Do ports and kite giants for money to outfit your real character." Really? I somehow missed that in my classic experience.

This server is effectively dead to most new players. The only way to equip a character is in EC, the only way to obtain the plat to buy it is to sell in EC.

Try leveling up a new warrior with LFG on. You aren't invited to groups, you get tells asking what weapons you have and how well you are twinked (yes both have happened to my 22 warrior). Then they decide if they want to ask you to a group (no both times). Can you imagine that happening on live EQ in 1999?

I'd like a pair of Efreeti Boots for my 46 enchanter. Do you think there is a chance in hell I can get an appropriate group together and actually fight for them? Nope, by your method of playing I should just kill 867 Hill Giants and buy them from a level 60. Not classic. Not as intended. Not fun.

I'll go out on a limb here without actually checking in game first. By my recollection my level 46 character is using exactly ONE item that was obtained directly from a mob (a braided cinch cord if you must ask). Everything else had to be purchased.

What was intended as a PvE adventure game has been turned into a PvP economic simulator.