What attitudes and philosophies do you hate in P1999?

[Danyelle]

Is it bad i just give everything away?

Partly cause I like to help people, and also I'm way too lazy to sit there and sell things.

Although i do always feel like shit when i get multiple people chime in for an item and i give it to the first responder and have to tell the other's it's gone =/

[Whirled]

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

Is it bad i just give everything away?

Partly cause I like to help people, and also I'm way too lazy to sit there and sell things.

Although i do always feel like shit when i get multiple people chime in for an item and i give it to the first responder and have to tell the other's it's gone =/

I do this too. No big deal really unless you are in it for the "economic gain"
Gives a fellow player a better chance & opens up a bag slot. win/win

[Mentathiel]

This is more an irk than a thing I hate, but I once tried to give away a load of mixed small chain / banded armour and a forged spear. It was not a full set, but I know I was very happy to get them when I was a low-level rogue just starting out and a passing dwarf donated them to me.

But... Nobody needed them. Nobody would take them even for free. The only characters low enough level to appreciate it were already twinked with stat-gear and/or bronze plate, so I think I ended up vendoring it to free up some space in my bank. That made me sad, wondering if I had been the last untwinked chain-wearer in Greater Faydark...

[Teneran]

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

This is more an irk than a thing I hate, but I once tried to give away a load of mixed small chain / banded armour and a forged spear. It was not a full set, but I know I was very happy to get them when I was a low-level rogue just starting out and a passing dwarf donated them to me.

But... Nobody needed them. Nobody would take them even for free. The only characters low enough level to appreciate it were already twinked with stat-gear and/or bronze plate, so I think I ended up vendoring it to free up some space in my bank. That made me sad, wondering if I had been the last untwinked chain-wearer in Greater Faydark...

It was just bad timing I think. There are actual starting untwinked players (like me!) out there who would have gladly taken that gear.

[Mentathiel]

Sadly, I was getting ready to head back to Unrest (which is the source of the small chain armour) and needed to shift as much weight as possible so I could stay there as long as I could before heading back to sell stuff.

[Sajuuk]

Another thing I dont like since day 1 10 years ago is how the looks of armor doesnt change. Let me explain.

This game is massive and obviously took lots of man hours to give us the original package we got before. With how many zones, tons of different classes, tons of different items, tons of different things... yet when I equip a helmet that says *Black Skull Helmet* (yes im making the name up) Its just the same looking helmet, probably not even dyed black. Got some epic plated chest item? Guess what? Looks like the crap fine steel armor. The armor never changing gets boring. Even luclin models didnt do anything about that annoyence that I have with p1999 and classic EQ in general. I scratch my heading wondering how EQ was created with so much stuff yet when it came to the look of items that have discriptions indicating that this helmet or piece of armor should look drasticaly different than what your wearing now. Always bothered me as a non cloth wearer. With all the work they did with expansions I feel like making certains item look different shouldnt of been too hard for them.

I apologize for terrible spelling and grammar.

[kaev]

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

Another thing I dont like since day 1 10 years ago is how the looks of armor doesnt change. Let me explain.

This game is massive and obviously took lots of man hours to give us the original package we got before. With how many zones, tons of different classes, tons of different items, tons of different things... yet when I equip a helmet that says *Black Skull Helmet* (yes im making the name up) Its just the same looking helmet, probably not even dyed black. Got some epic plated chest item? Guess what? Looks like the crap fine steel armor. The armor never changing gets boring. Even luclin models didnt do anything about that annoyence that I have with p1999 and classic EQ in general. I scratch my heading wondering how EQ was created with so much stuff yet when it came to the look of items that have discriptions indicating that this helmet or piece of armor should look drasticaly different than what your wearing now. Always bothered me as a non cloth wearer. With all the work they did with expansions I feel like making certains item look different shouldnt of been too hard for them.

I apologize for terrible spelling and grammar.

I can't speak to later, but early on it was simply a limitation of the texture memory on video cards. Everything about every player-character's appearance had to be part of the global textures that were always loaded in the video card's ram, while zone specific terrain and NPC features could be more varied as they are loaded on zone entry and can be deleted (from video ram) on zone exit. That same limit would apply today, just would allow for higher res and more variety due to much larger video rams, but you still need to make PC appearance global (imagine PvP if approaching somebody could force you and/or them to swap video textures, or consider the possibility for griefing people doing PvE content by having toons with rare textures approach them during difficult encounters to try to cause their video to lag.)

[Pint]

Hybrid hate

[Swish]

The LFG meta

[simpo]

I can't find much to complain about, although I'm fairly new to the server (46 enchanter 30 monk), but there is one thing. It's min/max people in regular groups who are anal about potential groupmates.... I was in a group where one guy left because a ranger was invited. Not only did he leave but he threw a hissy fit over it. Had groups whine and moan over getting the perfect class. I'm perfectly aware of group setups and certain classes being necessities in certain areas but I feel like if we're looking for a misc class and a ranger or druid is there, we should invite them. I feel like everyone should play the class they like and not be discriminated against even when we're looking for something that fits their role.

Overall though people are great here and the attitudes have mostly been really good and from what I've seen, the "unwritten" (or actually written) rules seem to work exactly the want I would like them to.