Must be standing to cast

[Veleria]

Classic does not mean good. Slavery is classic but we can all agree that is a bad thing. (shut up trolls yes we can agree on that) I am not a fan of the stand cast change but i suppose I can get used to it. I just hope that when the dev team considers making classic changes they also consider if it's good. There are a ton of classic things players hated but still played the game because the rest was good. Bad game changes are still bad whether classic or not.

[Daldaen]

Good/bad is relative.

I won't argue your slavery point... But that's an entirely different animal. Comparing the enslavement of another man to forcing you to press another hotkey... Is some slippery slope straw man stuff.

I may consider the druid track cap being changed from 125->50 cause classic a bad thing. Since I'm a druid. But I'm sure people that now find up named mobs I would've sniped with my higher tracking skill has I known they were up, would think its a good thing.

Who is it that is the final arbiter who decides what's good and bad in Classic EQ? You? Me? Nope... The Devs and in this case when given the evidence they thought that's pretty classic and it may make people stumble a bit more (which is super classic), let's put it in.

[SamwiseRed]

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

You use the mouse to click the spell bar???

[Whirled]

Must be standing to cast

Now that'd be some shit, floating/lev sitting & casting @ same time

[Wrench]

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

Developers do not need anyone to play here.

Nilbog has said multiple times he doesn't care if anyone plays on his box, and he is the head developer.

The developers run this server to see if they can recreate a classic EverQuest box; they do not care at all if we play on it or not. We just get to reap the benefits of it actually being open to the public.

your not really this dumb r ya?

theres a reason theres a bug forum

theres a reason theres was a forced beta

theres a reason nilbog will start threads asking for community research

theres a reason he takes volunteers for his dev teams

you honest to god believe any of that would happen if no one played on this server?

[indiscriminate_hater]

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

Slavery is classic

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

Slavery is classic

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Slavery is classic

out of context quoting for the win

[Brocode]

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

some serious dickriders in here.

here's my 2 cents, even though nobody asked for it.

i've played for a month. pretty dedicated to lvl 48 cleric.

forced beta happens. fine. i could care less about velious but i understand the need to move to that era.

camp the forums mon-tue, nothing.

log in today, can't see anything. stand to cast. backwards ass changes after 4 days.

well, i understand that it's a free game, but before this weekend the illusion of EQ was real. it felt like i went in the wayback machine and was playing EQ for the first time again. now though, i feel disenchanted and the curtains have been lifted to the fact that this is an amateur team running an amateur server.

gm handholding on raids is not classic. i have nothing to look forward to end game with the nannyquesting that i hear about. i don't think i'll keep playing, sadly.

if you hit 60, you dont hear a ding, you hear Game Over!

[Daldaen]

Would've loved to have heard your comments on classic EQ devs screw ups back in the day.

People will acclimate to the sit to camp and stand to cast changes very fast. They did with the map removal. They did with compass removal. They did with removal of 200 starting sense heading. They did with the removal of target circles. They did with the removal of con color in target box. They did with the removal of light blue cons. And so too they will with this change.

The gamma change can be circumvented easily if you don't care about classic immersion.

[Brocode]

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[salimoneus]

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

some serious dickriders in here.

here's my 2 cents, even though nobody asked for it.

i've played for a month. pretty dedicated to lvl 48 cleric.

forced beta happens. fine. i could care less about velious but i understand the need to move to that era.

camp the forums mon-tue, nothing.

log in today, can't see anything. stand to cast. backwards ass changes after 4 days.

well, i understand that it's a free game, but before this weekend the illusion of EQ was real. it felt like i went in the wayback machine and was playing EQ for the first time again. now though, i feel disenchanted and the curtains have been lifted to the fact that this is an amateur team running an amateur server.

gm handholding on raids is not classic. i have nothing to look forward to end game with the nannyquesting that i hear about. i don't think i'll keep playing, sadly.

I think the gamma change has been beaten to death, and even the devs have admitted in some fashion or another that it didn't get implemented quite optimally (asserted from the fact that a subsequent patch was already released to address some issues related to it). Give them a chance to make some further adjustments, I'm sure they did not intend to have the game be unplayable for anyone, assuming that is even the case as I haven't really confirmed it for myself yet.

And if the stand/cast is classic, nobody should really have any issues with it. Surely it won't take but a few minutes to adjust, even as a spell bar clicker I managed to get the feel for using a key bind to the sit/stand button in just a few minutes.

As for the raid rules and such, those are all valid points of contention and are still being debated by many. Even if you disagree with some of them as I do, it's somewhat understandable why the rules were put into place, the reasons being nobody's fault in particular. It's just the circumstances of having limited development and GM resources. As far as I know nobody on the staff is drawing a salary to sit and work on content releases or do support work 12 hours a day.