Please Change the Two Boxing Rule

[Razdeline]

I remember my early EQ days; I gamed with 4 RL friends and between the 4 of us we boxed a shaman. We brought the shaman everywhere we went while leveling, and when it came time for us to start raiding we just put it aside. These were some of the best experiences I have had with my friends, and since they can not box on this server -- they have decided not to play.

Our social interaction with the server was never lacking; I was in one of the best raid guilds and made a ton of friends while playing. Some of the people I have played with 10 years ago are why I am here now.

During the Kunark/Velious days we rarely even had to box for doing groups in the premier dungeons, since there were plenty of players there anyways.

That being said, I do not think boxing a single account will effect anything, but actually boost the player base here and create a happy medium with the people that want boxing, and people that do not. HOWEVER, there are powergamers out there that want to box 5 accounts and run their own entire group. I felt this was unecessary and a bit overboard.

I personally feel that a single IP exemption wouldn't be a bad thing at all, and wouldnt cut into a classic playstyle where this was allowed anyways.

[StinkyGreenBud]

FUCK NO.

[Ganthan]

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

FUCK NO.

Couldnt have said it better myself.

If you box your less inclined to want to group with anyone. So i dont see how people are saying "itll make the server more social and player base increase" all that jazz. I dont want anyone two boxing 'cus then they wont group with me and my SK will be left out to dry!

[Omnimorph]

What i think the pro-boxers fail to realise is just how destructive it would be to the server.

For every 1 person who has no time for groups, is a rogue and can't solo. You'd have THIRTY idiots, PLing their twinks with their 50 druid / mage, in a zone where there's barely enough mobs for 2 groups to exp.

Every decent loot camp would be locked down by someone boxing. Raids would be even more of a clusterfuck than they already are. And hell, the really organized guilds would have PLed their alts to 50 and camp them at every boss spawn for faster mobilisation.

and let's say there's 30 people in solb, with boxing there would be 50, imagine the amount of drama.

[Alkorin]

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

FUCK NO.

[astuce999]

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

I just think that people don't want to play on the beta, because they won't keep their progress and all their "work" will be gone.

I don't know if you misread or misunderstood what I wrote, but again, I don't see why once kunark comes out on p99 the beta server has to be shut down. There was a p99 test server before kunark, and there should still be one after, so that they can test code fixes and encounter tweaks.

cheers!

[astuce999]

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

I don't play on Beta because on 'Live-P99' my necro is *almost*49. On beta hes like 17.

On beta your necro gets 500% xp bonus wherever he goes, and you can get all the camps you want, never have to wait for anyone to leave.

think about it!

[Razdeline]

Think about it, there are people that wont play because they cant box. I have 3 friends, good people, and good players that wont come here because of this.

How would the server be more social from non-boxing when ultimately there will always be less players?

[Razdeline]

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

What i think the pro-boxers fail to realise is just how destructive it would be to the server.

For every 1 person who has no time for groups, is a rogue and can't solo. You'd have THIRTY idiots, PLing their twinks with their 50 druid / mage, in a zone where there's barely enough mobs for 2 groups to exp.

Every decent loot camp would be locked down by someone boxing. Raids would be even more of a clusterfuck than they already are. And hell, the really organized guilds would have PLed their alts to 50 and camp them at every boss spawn for faster mobilisation.

and let's say there's 30 people in solb, with boxing there would be 50, imagine the amount of drama.

1.) Every guild thats good already has trackers that are sitting in a zone for mobiliZation.

2.) Thirty idiots?

3.) Most zones do not have all camps locked down. I have never ran into any sort of cluster since ive been here.

4.) Boxing is classic, although I beleive there needs to be certain restrictions.

[Razdeline]

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

You cap the amount of boxes people get, allowing 2, wouldn't kill the state of this game, it would help it. Groups would be full, and be able to do more with it, yes people can duo more, but it means more people will be apt to play because TBH, when I came back I played a solo class because I don't have 15 people I know playing with me. With kunark coming, and more zones and more people being SPREAD OUT.

You people on this server are kidding yourselves if you don't think its already going on anyways, with these exemptions, the GMs are stretched thin trying to watch for people who do it, but its done. People find work arounds to it, and the list goes on and on. I play usually late night hours, when theres 300 and less on, and I can tell you, if I played anything but a necro, I'd probably have quit by now, I really think allowing just 2, would bring more people to the server who wouldn't be scared to start here because they can play 2 classes that compliment well and help them get started. I personally would have liked to play a group class like a rogue, but knowing my playtime, during leveling it just wouldn't be possible or efficient in any way.

Most of you don't know what doing this would do to the server, you are assuming. Most of the people who aren't complete egotists understand that the best XP groups in this game require a full group, not 4 people. All this will do is help that be achieved.

You guys are entitled to your opinion, we are entitled to ours, the bottom line of the situation is this, you want a classic EQ experience? Just like in 1999? GUESS WHAT? People boxed back then too, on 56k and i think the game was fine back then so do you obviously if your playing here now.

^^ This.