Recycle/Starter Server Badly Needed - General Review of P99

[Taminy]

Farm tailoring crap, sell it, buy bang for the buck gear. Not difficult. Or farm other tradeskill crap. Or farm rare pain in the butt quest items that people use for epics. Or do plat running for people killing guards. Or loot trash off guards that people leave. Endless possibilities to make your first few plats [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] also, sell rather than turn in orc scalps, goblin ears, etc. When you get higher level farm dwarf or giant heads.

In fact it's much much easier as a noob now because it won't take that much time to get a a jade mace, snare whip, staff of battle, cobalt gaunts, hp rings, and other random crap for a noob warrior for example. So you're going to be grouped with rogues with epics and monks with cof/fungi. Just makes your leveling easier. Many people will probably even pass down more bang for the buck stuff in a group (or at least once you get to know them) or let you do main loot. Just don't be a stupid/bad and play bad or spend money on obvious bad/overpriced gear. I'd rather group with someone with cheap bang for the buck items than some dummy who spends all their money on one BiS / near BiS item.

The information contained here was for warriors. For other melee classes, similar applies. For casters, no one really cares. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trust me, if I started over here with no twinking it would be much easier than launch day of this server (crowding, no economy, no resses or high level buffs, wearing banded/bronze armor with 6/22 weapons, etc)

Also for your epic, depending what class you play this may end up being easy (rogue, shaman) that you will probably get for free once you get into a high level guild. The monk epic, I think doesn't have a major bottleneck, just pain in the ass camps (never done it). The ranger and druid (and wizard??) epics are going to get less bottlenecked. The shadowknight, warrior, magician, and cleric epics will of course be a pain in the ass still, but meh.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

OP: your immersion level is dangerously low

[wormed]

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

Not agreeing or disagreeing, just seeing what you were trying to say. I think your concerns stem from another issue you addressed, which is the vast knowledge and accessibility of the game now vs then. More high level characters don't create more camped mobs, op items, etc; the knowledge does

this differentiation may be pedantic though /shrug

Knowledge is definitely a large factor but you don't think gearing out your whole guild, and many others, in PoSky/BIS Kunark gear over the span of 4 years didn't lead to a problem?

Velious was released 6 months after Kunark. Think how many people were actually level 60, VP keyed, and farming Trakanon/VS/CT/Inny/etc compared to how many guilds were cycling these mobs over the span of these years. There was clearly a huge differentiation between what P99 is and what live was, regardless of knowledge. The amount of gear is exponentially greater on P99 than it ever was in Classic. If P99 restarted a server on a normal Classic -> Velious timeline, things would be massively different in terms of how many people could actually compete over the Velious bosses.

I think a recycle server would be excellent but I'm also one of those people that LOVED Planes of Power so stopping at Velious hurts a bit.

[indiscriminate_hater]

A+ troll thread. Anything that can rustle 4 pages worth of jimmies is fine by me

[Gustoo]

I think a new fresh server would be great.

[Messie]

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

A+ troll thread. Anything that can rustle 4 pages worth of jimmies is fine by me

Seems any thread that gets posted with serious intentions only to be torn apart eventually turns into a "LOL TROLLED" because there is no where else for the OP to turn. while some people took this thread as an opportunity to bash a lowbie, it was initially reasonably pointed out as to why he was wrong.

Eventually, as with most threads that stay near the top, the the forum bottom feeders came in, read people disagreeing with the OP, and decided to post garbage bashing OP instead of giving constructive criticism.

[indiscriminate_hater]

The law of Internet forums. Given a large enough time scale, all threads degenerate into RnF

[Messie]

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

The law of Internet forums. Given a large enough time scale, all threads degenerate into RnF

Not the CoF / AoN giveaway thread!!! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Huggz]

Swish,

I love that you took the time to post an image response to my opinion of the server [fucked] (clearly you are strapped for time and live a busy, full life - since you are all over every thread on this message board, every single day of the week).

The timeline is wildly stagnant. I have a shitload of plat banked and well geared toons. Does it improve the experience of the actual immersion and server? Not really. In fact, it makes the experience more hollow than anything.

Like I said, will gladly cash in toons for a clean server. Support it 100%.

Then again, I love the game for the journey, not the destination.

[Swish]

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

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

Swish,

I love that you took the time to post an image response to my opinion of the server [fucked] (clearly you are strapped for time and live a busy, full life - since you are all over every thread on this message board, every single day of the week).

Do you know how long it takes to look up an image on the internet? Not long. Sorry to burst that bubble... and please calm down, it's just an elf sim forum.