Things That Should Not Be

[Aetherial]

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

Guys playing female characters = okay. I play one myself.

Guys actually pretending to be girls = not okay. That's rather warped.


As for all of the Luclin-related comments, it needs to be pointed out that Luclin was the final expansion developed in full by Verant, thus is it every bit as "classic" as Kunark and Velious. Whether people preferred it or not has nothing to do with its status as a classic EverQuest expansion. It most certainly was... and in my humble opinion, it should be included on any server claiming to be "classic EQ."

I play a female character also, in most RPG games.

If I have to look at a toon for hours, I would rather it be a woman. Also, I just find the idea of a kick-ass female to be much more interesting.

[Rasterburn]

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

I play a female character also, in most RPG games.

If I have to look at a toon for hours, I would rather it be a woman. Also, I just find the idea of a kick-ass female to be much more interesting.

Agreed. I'd rather look at a chick's ass all day long than a sweaty guy's ass. That's just the sort of person I am. I like girls -- both real and imaginary -- even if they are just a collection of pixels.

Not only that, but I also play caster classes exclusively... and the notion of a seemingly harmless looking little chick who can blow your balls off has a certain humorous appeal. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lucrio40]

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

Agreed. I'd rather look at a chick's ass all day long than a sweaty guy's ass. That's just the sort of person I am. I like girls -- both real and imaginary -- even if they are just a collection of pixels.

Not only that, but I also play caster classes exclusively... and the notion of a seemingly harmless looking little chick who can blow your balls off has a certain humorous appeal. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People can get away with that excuse now with the improved camera of the modern client, but seriously who the hell played 3rd person view in 1999? If you rolled up a female toon in 1999 you didn't roll it because you wanted to look at a female character, you wanted other people to look at you and see a female character.

[jyaku]

what was so bad about the armor dyes? all it did was change the color of your armor. just to be funny i would run around with bright green armor

[Weekapaug]

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

what was so bad about the armor dyes? all it did was change the color of your armor. just to be funny i would run around with bright green armor

The dyes went in along with the luclin armor models, which are fairly universally accepted as being downgrades to the armor textures, particularly compared to the amazing armor graphics that came with velious. People really hated a lot of the new helms when luclin came out. Half Elf males went from having the coolest helms in the game to looking like space-age dildos with that one change, for example. As an aside, many of the Luclin character models were arguably improvements over the old ones, but many vehemently disagree on that as well.

The other thing is having a certain armor look is an earned thing in EQ. You have to make choices sometimes: Looks vs. stats. To get both is a big deal. As is having a full matching set of something. Look at the uber raiders in their planar armor now. They get to look cool and have the best armor in the game at the same time...Because they earned it.

Being able to dye armor makes it impossible to know what people are wearing by looking at them, and requires standardized textures that many feel are inferior to the older ones, basicly. I have no doubt that many of the Luclin-haters probably don't like them just because they are part of Luclin, too.

[Savok]

Dyes came in with LoY expansion - link.

[Weekapaug]

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

Dyes came in with LoY expansion - link.

Yes, but they require the Luclin models and were considered by many a continuation of the same downgrading of the toon graphics that came with Luclin.

[eqdruid76]

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

Yes, but they require the Luclin models and were considered by many a continuation of the same downgrading of the toon graphics that came with Luclin.

Dyes don't require Luclin models.

[Taluvill]

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

what was so bad about the armor dyes? all it did was change the color of your armor. just to be funny i would run around with bright green armor

for an example, you take away the cool effect that rubicite has. I personally think the red look is unique and sweet, and it's why people will pay upwards of 100k for a full set as they don't drop anymore.

[Bubbles]

Basically armor dyes drove poop sockers insane because their shiny armor could be seen on level 1 twinks.

Kinda like how when the silly sol ro Mages robes came out everyone with a CRoA nerdraged.