Recreating the classic experience: item recharging

[stakha]

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

I'm pretty sure it's because they can see us form the outside and are like dude, no...

interventions by RL friends for us all is imminent.

and that's classic.

haha

[Kekephee]

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

What's not classic is that none of my RL friends will stick with p99 with me. Dirty fucks.

"THE GRIND, WAHHH!!!!"

Nothing more classic than getting your friend to play, giving him a full set or bronze of black iron, starting an alt to play with him, and then after a week he's gone forever

[indiscriminate_hater]

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

What's not classic is that none of my RL friends will stick with p99 with me. Dirty fucks.

"THE GRIND, WAHHH!!!!"

seriously. you need to find untainted people who have never played an mmo before to appreciate this game

[Tecmos Deception]

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

seriously. you need to find untainted people who have never played an mmo before to appreciate this game

They played on live with me though! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fastboy21]

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

seriously. you need to find untainted people who have never played an mmo before to appreciate this game

in a way, i think one of the reasons why folks are generally so nice to newbies is that we are trying to vicariously experience their EQ virginity through them.

having actual new players around (double points if you are entirely new to mmos) makes EQ so much more fun for everyone. there aren't a ton of folks like that here (I think i recall a poll once showing only on the order of 5% of players here had never played EQ before p99. more if you count folks who never got to max level or played end-game in classic), but there are certainly more folks like that here than on live---for many many years now. p99 isn't perfect, but its the best classic eq experience anywhere.

[Lictor]

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

seriously. you need to find untainted people who have never played an mmo before to appreciate this game

Unemployed gamers seem to excel here as well.

[iruinedyourday]

I remember an old girlfriend of mine was into wow - I took that opportunity to re-install EQ to show her how awesome it was! Ill never forget the stink face expression she had on her face while she said, "ugh this looks terrible".

KICKED THAT ONE TO THE CURB!

[Messianic]

The logic is completely valid, but the fact is boxing is unique. It does a lot of damage to the social aspect of the game, far and above anything else.

[iruinedyourday]

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

Personally I don't think being able to duo with yourself would pose all that much of a problem, but at the same time I do. Everyone who solos would almost definitely duo with themselves to level two characters at once and be able to take on that many more camps.

However, shit like item recharging when we've been on Kunark for close to three years, is completely out of line with any resemblance of the word "classic". The majority of players were never recharging their items daily or even weekly. Either we can recreate this project for the 1% of players that made up the EQ population that make up 90% of the population here, or we can actually be sensible about things, and draw the line somewhere. Why not just up the charges on some items and remove recharging all together?

Recharging is an exploit of merchant mechanics, just because they didn't fix it on live during this time frame doesn't mean it should be available now. Was the biscuit giving quest in FP available the first week of P99 and then removed after people got level 50 already? That happened live, and probably as many people that knew about recharging vs. not on live were just as equal when that biscuit quest was around.

I want to know more about the biscuit quest, in case I do ever get my hands on a time machine.