Sirken's Custom Content Rumors (Custom Epic 2.0's!?!)

[stebbins99]

I vote for some sort of boat out of the dock at Stonebrunt

[Leiker]

Please no AA's.

People will just grind em out as quick as possible and then start complaining again until more AA's are added and then we are back to square one

[zodium]

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

Here's the thing: currently custom content would make no sense, I 100% agree.

But in the hypothetical future, Green will be released, and Green will be the "true classic" server. That will leave Blue as the "sort of classic-like, but not really classic" server.

By definition, at that point the dev team will have nothing left to do, because once Green is released the classic coding will be over. So when you have devs with free time, and both a 100% classic server and a classically-themed server that's not actually classic, having the devs add more classically-themed content to Blue starts seeming a lot more reasonable.

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[loramin]

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

Loramin knows more about the Green server than the Dev team

fun thread would browse again 10/10

Everything I post about the Green server is based on things the staff have said in this forum, except when I specifically say that I'm speculating. For every non-speculative thing I say you can find a staff member (more or less) saying the same thing somewhere in a previous post ... but while the staff posts infrequently I post entirely too often [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

I don't understand where people think classic is up to Vellious. I would dearly love to see Luclin released, as Ten Mnts were one of my favorite zones. We almost lived inside the Gothic little castles killing vamps and such.

There's a high-level philosophical answer to "what is Classic EverQuest", but there's also a very simple answer: Brad McQuaid. Love him or hate him the guy was the most important person (or at least one of them) in the development of classic EverQuest. He left before Luclin, and so the people behind P99 consider "Classic" to have ended when he left.

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

The real question is, what is the actual definition of classic?

Adding guild tools, mapping, and a better way for buying/selling doesn't affect anything in the game, other than alleviating headaches.

This gets to the high-level philosophical answer, which I can unfairly shorten down to "Classic Everquest was hard and modern MMOs (modern EQ, WoW, etc.) aren't." All the things you want, in order to make the game easier, are very much like saying "why not make it so death doesn't make you lose experience?"

No on likes losing XP when they die; that's 100% true. The game would be more convenient for everyone if there was no death XP loss. However, I think just about everyone here would agree that XP loss from death, as un-fun as it is when it happens, is a critical part of what makes Class EQ overall more fun than modern/more convenient MMOs.

Things like maps, guild tools, and the bazaar are similar in that they fall onto a spectrum of classic <=> non-classic, which is also the spectrum of hard <=> easy/convenient. So what you're fighting against is that classic EQ's difficulty is part of its charm, and navigating via 3rd-party maps (even with a second monitor) or having to organize guilds with very limited resources is also part of that difficulty.

And the bazaar is really on the far end of the spectrum, because not only would adding it make selling easier, it would actually change the world itself (the EC tunnel would disappear overnight).

[loramin]

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

Please no AA's.

People will just grind em out as quick as possible and then start complaining again until more AA's are added and then we are back to square one

The possibility has been floated that one form of custom content would be adding certain specific AA's for each class. However, this would not be the "everyone needs to grind a million hours to get their run speed up" like in Luclin. Instead, only the really special AAs (or possibly even just a single AA) for each class would be added, and instead of grinding to get them you would have to complete an epic-ish quest. For instance (and this is 100% speculative), there might be some quest that pet classes could complete to get that "pocket pet" AA power that involves killing a bunch of mobs with pets and looting rare drops off the pets.

But again, that in no way has been promised, just floated as an idea.

[Bordsythenewb]

No

[fortior]

The only AAs which I'd welcome would be stuff like letting priests summon race specific foods and drinks.

Also rotate ZEMs thanks

[ScaringChildren]

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

Also rotate ZEMs thanks

This I can get behind.

It's like bonus EXP weekends, sort of.

[Phenyo]

Originally Posted by NecroP99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only thing in all this garbage that is worth addressing is basically rotated zones for more ZEM

AND MAYBE THE LFG TOOL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

[fortior]

Rotating ZEMs are basically the most un-Classic thing ever but you're also extremely lame if you complain about that