Must be standing to cast

[hammertime7795]

You can just hot key all you spells with /stand /cast 1-8 so it really does not change anything except a UI mod to get extra hotbars.

[Daldaen]

No...

It's so you could med while you were casting.

In classic you could cast a spell, sit, then stand just before the spell finishes and channel just fine. This wasn't changed until Duck interrupted spells mid Velious.

Changes should be made to make things more classic. And extremely rarely to fix broken mechanics that trivialize the game (see hoops). Fun or Challenging, meh. You could make EQ more fun for yourself adding all these custom changes if you want I guess, but it wouldn't be EQ.

Sitting to camp and Standing to cast puts a little delay between actions and slows down have quickly people play (albeit slightly if using hotkeys). This is classic.

[hammertime7795]

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

No...

It's so you could med while you were casting.

In classic you could cast a spell, sit, then stand just before the spell finishes and channel just fine. This wasn't changed until Duck interrupted spells mid Velious.

Changes should be made to make things more classic. And extremely rarely to fix broken mechanics that trivialize the game (see hoops). Fun or Challenging, meh. You could make EQ more fun for yourself adding all these custom changes if you want I guess, but it wouldn't be EQ.

Sitting to camp and Standing to cast puts a little delay between actions and slows down have quickly people play (albeit slightly if using hotkeys). This is classic.

We dont play classic eq we play p99 eq. Doing silly things like this does not bring more people to the game, It does not enhance anyones game play, it does not help anything. It was changed in eq because it was stupid to have it any other way. This change goes back to a silly way of doing things. Its an easy work around with hot keys but just a pointless waste of time.

[Erati]

Everquest = time sink

you figured it out hammertime !

[hammertime7795]

I mean the devs time. I would think they would have better things to do then go back to broken, absurd, and mistaken mechanics. Like the gamma change that the eq devs themselves say was a mistake. Even at recent SoE live events they talk about that being a mistake. Boggles the mind why devs would waste their time trying to go back to that.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by hammertime7795 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mean the devs time. I would think they would have better things to do then go back to broken, absurd, and mistaken mechanics. Like the gamma change that the eq devs themselves say was a mistake. Even at recent SoE live events they talk about that being a mistake. Boggles the mind why devs would waste their time trying to go back to that.

Because the devs are working to recreate classic everquest, whether or not you play here.

[hammertime7795]

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

Because the devs are working to recreate classic everquest, whether or not you play here.

Recreating broken, absurd, and mistaken mechanics? And yes they do need me to play here and they need you to play here.

[Bboboo]

Originally Posted by hammertime7795 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We dont play classic eq we play p99 eq. Doing silly things like this does not bring more people to the game, It does not enhance anyones game play, it does not help anything. It was changed in eq because it was stupid to have it any other way. This change goes back to a silly way of doing things. Its an easy work around with hot keys but just a pointless waste of time.

I think the Devs/GMs have stated that they are interested in recreating classic EQ and don't much care if people like it or not, they can leave. Could be wrong on that.

Also with that in mind you should know that any little thing that isn't classic right now, that is something you enjoy, will potentially be changed down the line if it can be.

It's the reason why I keybound sit/stand when I first started.

[Daldaen]

Because that was some of the thrill in the game.

Going into Blackburrow completely blind as a barbarian was an intense adventurous feeling. Getting lost in the dark woods of Nektulos was frightening as a low level Human who ventured too far.

For many, that immersion is what hooked them on EQ. That thrill or fear brought on by the darkness. For the meta questers who have BIS everything and calculated the hate per swing on their weapons, they will probably just modify how their computer handles gamma -- it's a quick change -- and not have to deal with it.

They admit the implementation wasn't the best, but the goal they were trying to achieve (classic darkness), is something still worth pursuing.

Sit camp and stand cast, just parts of the game. Just like fizzles, gate fails and resists.

[hammertime7795]

This particular mechanic was changed during kunark anyway. So seems pointless to change it but you're right it does not affect me at all because I can /stand /cast macro all my spells. Just a pointless change and not correct with our current time line.