Being realistic about getting Jboots?

[Lojik]

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

Explain how you think the ancient cyclops worked on live.

Nilbog still rustled from getting waxed by PoD (thanks Fansy)

[spectrefax]

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

Explain how you think the ancient cyclops worked on live.

Going to pass. I've already said what I dislike about the rewrite. The spawn is what it is.

What it isn't, is a big enough deal to me to get into it with staff and jeopardize my ability to play on a newfound server I enjoy immensely--particularly when it's over a couple salty posts I made because I missed an AC.

Gonna bow out now and get back to leveling, see y'all in game--and yes, Hasten is up. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ikon]

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

Explain how you think the ancient cyclops worked on live.

According to Prathun-Dev:
There's one spawn in South Ro with a 30.66666666 minute repop time that has a 10% chance of being the ancient cyclops, but he has to spawn at night. He's on the same spawn table with a_desert_madman, a_dervish_cutthroat, a_sand_giant, and a_mummy.
Truth is stranger than fiction:
ENCOUNTER_DESCRIPTION SROHusamAncientNightfall
MONSTER_1_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_1_NIGHT_NAME an_ancient_cyclops
MONSTER_1_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_2_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_2_NIGHT_NAME a_mummy
MONSTER_2_PERCENT 20
MONSTER_3_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_3_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_4_NAME a_dervish_cutthroat
MONSTER_4_PERCENT 30
MONSTER_5_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_5_PERCENT 30

AC didn't spawn only in the one spot though, I camped him repeatedly on FV (the ring was droppable on FV) for my guild members. He could spawn like Pyzjn in a number of places.

It was definite not just between 9pm - 10pm.

Also because the exact PH's and timing was never known, it was always a mystery in original EQ the timings and ph's should probably be changed so they're unknown again. Some would argue its not classic if the technical mechanics are different but its even less classic if the technical aspects are identical now they're known. The classic part of the South Ro AC was that it was a mystery.

[Lhancelot]

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

Yes, I believe you're correct, which is part of my gripe. Why this spawn was rewritten in this fashion is beyond me. I mean, it basically made it such that this camp is now nothing more than a snipefest with a static, 3 minute window that encourages bad player behavior. The lack of forethought here is just mind boggling and doesn't mirror the classic experience p99 prides itself on because the spawn never operated in this fashion during launch-velious era on live.

I'll concede that the spawn event of yore was in need of a rewrite, but the rewrite that was implemented is just beyond awful.

I like the randomness of the SRo AC spawn location, I just wish it popped more often.

Then again, if it popped every night people would constantly park in SRo.

Guess it's working as well as it could be all things considered.

[Baler]

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

Nilbog rewrote the script so that the S RO spawn is now basically a free-for-all clusterfunk at 9pm. My primary gripe with this entire thing would be the rewriting of the AC spawn in S RO...

^ Join Date: March 2017

Something doesn't add up here... anom alt?
That change is long before OP joined.

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Word on the street.. the cyclops seems more probable to spawn in OOT rather than South Ro.

[spectrefax]

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

^ Join Date: March 2017

Something doesn't add up here... anom alt?
That change is long before OP joined.

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Word on the street.. the cyclops seems more probable to spawn in OOT rather than South Ro.

I was comparing the rewrite to my experience with this camp in classic 18-19 years ago on the live servers. I have only recently discovered and joined p99.

[Cecily]

In the end (with the exception of intending to use it as an outdoor junk buff), Jboots are just a convenience item. SoW pots, while better, run out. Jboots are good enough and will last until a laggy trananon poop sock in BDA makes you destroy them instead of the rabbit meat you meant to and Ambrotos laughs at you leading you to get a charity MQ from Gats who will tease you about them for 3 years until you MQ one for his friend, Laboomer.

[skarlorn]

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

In the end (with the exception of intending to use it as an outdoor junk buff), Jboots are just a convenience item. SoW pots, while better, run out. Jboots are good enough and will last until a laggy trananon poop sock in BDA makes you destroy them instead of the rabbit meat you meant to and Ambrotos laughs at you leading you to get a charity MQ from Gats who will tease you about them for 3 years until you MQ one for his friend, Laboomer.

Laboomer who later main changed to Hufen, the Halfling Warrior and competed with me for gear. Chest and the Loot Council decided to award a CoF off of that red outdoor dragon in Skyfire to Hufen, even though I was there and was a true main, not some false main of an already epic'd wizard (Laboomer). Then Gats and Boomer and Cloki said fuck you to Chest and Anthrax and formed <Omni> and it became clear the Loot Council was a system of Idiots. They later gave* me a CoF. Being a righteous hobbit I returned it to Chest on one of my long hiatuses. I later quit the game and allowed Nibblewitz to pilot Filbus when they needed a tank. Somehow Nibble managed to score an RBB and keep it on Filbus, despite him wearing the RBG, but I have long since disbanded from BDA, so now I have two haste belts with a shade of difference, one stolen from BDA, in revenge for the CoF they awarded to the scumbag Hufen, and may Anthrax never enjoy another day of Raiding.

[mickmoranis]

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

In the end (with the exception of intending to use it as an outdoor junk buff), Jboots are just a convenience item. SoW pots, while better, run out. Jboots are good enough and will last until a laggy trananon poop sock in BDA makes you destroy them instead of the rabbit meat you meant to and Ambrotos laughs at you leading you to get a charity MQ from Gats who will tease you about them for 3 years until you MQ one for his friend, Laboomer.

yea well I got a mage with a druid epic in his bank cus of eqluck

[Cecily]

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

yea well I got a mage with a druid epic in his bank cus of eqluck

That's kinda cool though. I've always wanted to collect all the epics on one character. Have a necro sky cloak and bits of a pally epic so far.