Is the fun slippping away?

[fadetree]

Fah-det-ree, actually. And yeah, it was rude, but this thread irritated me.

[skarlorn]

you are only posting here because the fun of red slipped away long ago.

[Meep]

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

Woah! I thought it was fa-DET-ree. fadetree can you please clarify? I feel stupid now calling you fadetree all this time if your name is actually fadetree...omgosh this is so embarassing...

I'm gonna say it rhymes with "loose-lin"

[fadetree]

lol

[maskedmelon]

Well, I don't feel so horribly embarrassed now. I was pretty close....probably just sounded a little retarded.

Anyway, still hav in' fun OP (and I'm not even able to play right now! D: )


(^ 。~)v



*EDIT* try whacking yourself in th head with a big rock a few time (not too hard!). In elfsim (and in life too!) fun and seriousness are liek inversely proportional; more serious = less fun. Just how it works.

[Oscillate]

Originally Posted by Dreenk317 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I completely disagree. You must have played on the same server as rogean and friends if your classic experience on live was anything like it is here. I can't believe some of the crap people pull here and then try to argue that it was "fair" or "not against the rules". Rules are great, and necessary, but there is also something to be said for just being a decent and nice person. Seemed to be a lot more decent and nice people on live back in 1999 then there are here.

I remember recieveing a random tell on my level 52 shaman, shortly after velious came out, asking if still needed the tear from plane of fear for my epic. When I replied with yes, I was invited along on another guilds raid JUST so that the tear would go to someone who needed it if it dropped. As there shamans online all had it already apparently. There was no thought of saving it to sell as an MQ. Just /who all shaman 50-60, and invites to the raid as a tag along.

Has this ever happened on p99? Or anything like it? Because it has not, to my knowledge. And ya, there are the rogue nice people that drop fungus on lvl 6 monks and 30k pp deposits into a lowbies coffers. But I, personally, have never heard of a guild playing nice on this sort of level, on this server. I mean come on..... We can't even set up a fair, and simple mob rotation system?!? Instead we're really just gonna poopsock and argue wether or not ogre body blockers are legal in foot races? Or wether or not class A is allowed to use ability Y because the person playing class B doesn't have ability Y and there foot racing to a dragon?!? The variance between class abilities is one of the many things that makes this game wonderful. When certain abilities and spells are being lawyered out of end game content, YOU NO LONGER HAVE CLASSIC EQ. Never in my life on live did I see a gm tell a player they were not allowed to use an ability or spell they had at there disposal, UNLESS said player was intentionally glitching the game. But telling a mate they can't coth, or a Druid that they can't use spirit of cheetah or a bard that they can't pull with lull resists through walls..... never happened in my experience. (These aren't necessarily against the rules in all raid zones, but I've seen enough arguing back and forth about the use of tactics like this that it makes me sad.) And it most likely didn't happen because people would recognize there OWN behavior as being not cool, or unfair, and stop themselves. Not push it and push it and then argue that it's ok and fair once they've been found out. Or it didn't matter because it wasn't an advantage as NO ONE foot raced to mobs, ever, in my experience on live. It was always clear to the mob, kill it where it spawns. No training the whole zone and picking the boss out of the train of 90 trash mobs. Stuff like this just didn't happen on my server, ever.


But then again, I never heard of raid lawyering till I came here either. So maybe that was the norm on whatever server you and rogean were playing on. All I know is my classic end game experience from live was nothing like it is here, except the zones, the zones are pretty similar.

This is so true. Sad, but true. I feel when I first started on P99, it wasn't as bad, but now, its just ppl racing around to get theirs, even if they need to walk over some others.

[fadetree]

I remember recieveing a random tell on my level 52 shaman, shortly after velious came out, asking if still needed the tear from plane of fear for my epic. When I replied with yes, I was invited along on another guilds raid JUST so that the tear would go to someone who needed it if it dropped. As there shamans online all had it already apparently. There was no thought of saving it to sell as an MQ. Just /who all shaman 50-60, and invites to the raid as a tag along.

Yes, lots of things just like the guy quoted above is talking about have happened on P99. Lots of times. P99 is not any worse or better than any live server I ever played on in that regard. Maybe better, in fact. People just remember the bad stuff, and they get together on the internet to complain, so all you ever see is complaints and that makes you think that it's a shit show when it's not. It's like watching the news; they concentrate the bad stuff and mostly ignore the good stuff because it doesn't sell. In a similar fashion, an outrage thread gets lots more attention than a 'hey this guy helped me' thread does.

[feanan]

Eh, watched some twink in my group with 300k in gear deny "need" to some newb wearing leather, over a 200pp item.

Fuck people on this server sometimes.

Since there really isn't anything to do with all the pp and gear drops, I can only assume that most of this has to do with RMT

[fadetree]

Ok you're right, because you saw somebody do something bad, it clearly means that whole server sucks.

[fastboy21]

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

Yes, lots of things just like the guy quoted above is talking about have happened on P99. Lots of times. P99 is not any worse or better than any live server I ever played on in that regard. Maybe better, in fact. People just remember the bad stuff, and they get together on the internet to complain, so all you ever see is complaints and that makes you think that it's a shit show when it's not. It's like watching the news; they concentrate the bad stuff and mostly ignore the good stuff because it doesn't sell. In a similar fashion, an outrage thread gets lots more attention than a 'hey this guy helped me' thread does.

This is well said and I agree with you about the state of the server being "not any worse or better than any live server I ever played on" in almost all regards.

I do think that the "high end raiding game" is, in reality, a shit show on p99 though. Then again, it was on live also---there were just much fewer people experiencing it at the time.