My suggestion can fix the blue raid scene. Permanently.

[Brontus]

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

Cuz you're comparing a personal project done for free to a paid position at a business.

Most of the actors in GM events were unpaid volunteer guides. They did it because they loved it and wanted to give something back to the EQ community. Seems to me that P1999 is a volunteer organization as well but with little to no emphasis on recreating the dynamic quests and events that were a significant part of EQ live. That is just an honest observation.

On EQ live they had a special guide organization called the Quest Troupe. These were highly skilled and dedicated guides who were experts at acting and role-playing. They helped to advance that notion that Norrath was a living and breathing virtual world. They played the roles of special characters including deities in the Norrath pantheon. This organization of guides went to each and every server doing live events and quests under the supervision of the EQ live lore team and a few GMs.

If you and others are going to make the case that P1999 in its present state is classic EQ then you need to look at the entire picture of what constitutes the classic EQ experience. Classic EQ is much more then emulating the original EQ up to Velious with all of its zones, mob populations and mechanics.

P1999 players are hungry for new content and dynamic content just as the players back on EQ live were back in the day. The OP made a worthwhile suggestion and I respectfully hope that the good people in charge of P1999 would start embracing some of these solutions.

We're all in this together, so let's work together as a community of passionate EQ loving gamers to make things better!

[iruinedyourday]

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

P99 is the GM event.

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[Swish]

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

P99 is the GM event.

Reminds me of the class idiot trying hard to make a smart comment.

[Eugee]

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

On EQ live they had a special guide organization called the Quest Troupe. These were highly skilled and dedicated guides who were experts at acting and role-playing. They helped to advance that notion that Norrath was a living and breathing virtual world. They played the roles of special characters including deities in the Norrath pantheon. This organization of guides went to each and every server doing live events and quests under the supervision of the EQ live lore team and a few GMs.

I was a Guide on EQ from Kunark through Velious. The only thing I was highly skilled at was blasting through a never ending ticket queue while being threatened with a perma account ban if I ever used my guide power to enter half the zones in velious, as well as a few in kunark. We'd hammer away at the incoming petitions, earmarking the GM-only issues for the one or two times a day a GM would actually log into your assigned server.

And when that GM wanted to run an event? Well fuck me now those tickets are going to sit their even longer, because the GM wants to fuck around in Plane of Air (which I'll get banned for porting into) or turn the guides into giants so we can walk around WC till a power guild converges on us and kills us for the retardedly stupid loot we have. Then the GM vanishes again, having checked off the box next to our server event, and we sit around wondering when this growing pile of GM tickets will ever get looked at.

In exchange my EQ subscription was comped. Most guides were gone within three months, quickly realizing what a shit show it was.

That's your "highly skilled actors".

You had to work tickets for 6 hours a week to be a guide. For a $12 monthly sub. $0.50 an hour man.

[Ravager]

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

Reminds me of the class idiot trying hard to make a smart comment.

Reminds me of the community asshole being an asshole.

[Swish]

You're a one dimensional angry poster who'd love another BDA led rotation, getting mad that people are being reminded of what happened last time.

The truth is that if there was another "rotation" that BDA would exploit it and move the goalposts if put in charge of it, or be the first to throw their toys out of the pram if someone more responsible like Cloki/Omni was put in charge of it.

Do try to keep it on topic ^^

Also...

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[snead]

considering the owners of the box state this as a classic server i find it interesting that they add "features" that the community doesn't want nor is classic Everquest. This being the 16 hour poop sock variance. A solution where nobody truly wins or enjoys. Additionally, the owners of the box admit and agree that even though everyone wants repops more frequent (more true to classic Everquest) and allow any "raiding guild" to just login and kill said mob instead of poopsocking it for 16 hours they won't put this up for discussion.

[Swish]

There's enough targets now that removing variance could be interesting if there were earthquakes. When was the last one?

[Ravager]

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

You're a one dimensional angry poster

Quoted for irony. Virtually all of my "angry" posts are replies to correct one of your lies or a response to one of your insults, because it's a flaw of mine that I can't stand letting lies or insults go unanswered.

As for keeping it on topic? You can't post in any thread without derailing it with unrelated "BDA killed rotation" rhetoric. I just reread this thread, yours is the first and only post to bring it up.

I don't know what your problem is, but maybe it's time you have another retirement.

[snead]

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

There's enough targets now that removing variance could be interesting if there were earthquakes. When was the last one?

according to my records december 27th was the last earthquake.