My suggestion can fix the blue raid scene. Permanently.

[Ravager]

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

Just make ToV and VP NonCSR zones again. What ever happens happens. Oh you want it easy? Then man up... I guarantee things will be a lot easier. Oh and DPS races. No more yellow text or nothing. Just whoever can out dps the rest.

It'd be more fun if mobs summoned at 100% than getting trained everywhere without consequence to the trainer, imo.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is great if things would stay how they are, but they wouldn't....You would have 600-700 people in nToV crashing and desyncing the zone. Variance is the only thing keeping the bad guilds (BDA) out of the picture in nToV.

BDA still running a tight timer on Corflunk and Zarchoomi. They did the double getting FTE against Veloci Shift the other day, was impressive - check their website for screenshots and pats on the back all round <3

Well done lads.

[Colgate]

i think you people just don't actually like everquest

i don't blame you - it's an awful game from a design perspective, for the most part

the only reason it worked in 1999 was because hardly anyone knew what they were doing

[manguard]

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

What does that have to do with staff intervention? Only people that call it toxic are the ones that aren't even in ntov. We have a certain level of functionality of it. Disagreements come up with who trained who and was that a stall?

It tactically evolved out of whom ever clears the trash mob looses the intended target. You would be clearing some of the trash in the way, and the opposing force would simply pull out the main target while you would still be engaged in say flurry drakes. Nobody liked loosing shit, so it became train all that shit away, pull out the raid target.

Uh, players agreeing on something without GMs having to enforce anything special is the definition of no staff intervention.
Massive trains running through zones so you can get pixels is most certainly toxic.
Do you really have no concept of playing well with others? You realize this is a carebear server right?

[snead]

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

Uh, players agreeing on something without GMs having to enforce anything special is the definition of no staff intervention.
Massive trains running through zones so you can get pixels is most certainly toxic.
Do you really have no concept of playing well with others? You realize this is a carebear server right?

well if you saw sirken's new implementation he's going to murder the whole zone after fte. guess nobody can do arena or plate cycle or be in kael at all for that matter. have fun.

"An agreement has been made between Europa, Aftermath and Awakened (which is enough for me to enforce it as rule for now) that King Tormax will be a Foot Race from the Wakenening Lands zone line, at the beginning of the snow. Once King Tormax spawns, whoever wins the footrace (gets the FTE message) their guild earns 1 attempt at him.
This means when the FTE message goes out, everyone will die and King Tormax will reset. The guild that won then can clear all trash up to him and kill the guards linked to him before engaging. This will eliminate any training away of trash mobs.
Same should apply for statue as he'll be in window on thursday."

[Alanus]

I am more surprised that so many people are willing to be on call 24/7 for pixels in an emulated game.

[zanderklocke]

"Once Velious is released, all of the problems in the raid scene will be fixed because you can't just mow down mobs with more than 32K HP." [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Raev]

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

I am more surprised that so many people are willing to be on call 24/7 for pixels in an emulated game.

I think very people are actually on call 24/7. My phone goes into silent mode overnight, and if a batphone would be inconvenient for my RL activities (such as they are) I ignore it.

And yeah, I knew that Velious wasn't going to solve shit in terms of raid 'competition', but I think the staff is just tired of dealing with the raid mess (conveniently forgetting that they created it) and was hoping for a pony.

[RDawg816]

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

I am more surprised that so many people are willing to be on call 24/7 for pixels in an emulated game.

Unfortunately that's how most of the raiding is done. I certainly don't share that mindset. If I'm online and the mob is up, cool. If I'm not, oh well.

I have had friends message me on FB or text to get me to log in though. It's usually to help with a transfer, rez/port someone, etc. Stuff I can do while eating, watching TV, etc. and not be a liability.

I enjoy the game, but for me it's more about the journey and the social aspect. I would rather brag/talk with my friends about how I soloed a named, kept the group alive with my awesomeness, etc. than camp in TT for 12 hours waiting on a dragon that's "in window." YMMV

[Vallanor]

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

"Once Velious is released, all of the problems in the raid scene will be fixed because you can't just mow down mobs with more than 32K HP." [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd argue Velious did fix a lot of problems from the casual-for-p99-but-not-really-casual raider's perspective. Sure the highest-end Velious mobs are a shit show, but guilds like CSG and Anonymous and Paradigm Shift are actually seeing content without an enforced class system. It still requires a lot of neckbeard even on the lower end, but I think it's hard to say Velious hasn't made things objectively better.