You Can Not Claim It All - Page 4

Tuurin · #1 10-29-2018, 12:49 PM

On an era-locked nostalgia emu, I have to say PLing is one of the weirdest phenomenons. I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would want to get PL'd on a server like P99. Different strokes I guess.

stebbins99 · #2 10-29-2018, 01:10 PM

Hey Tuurin! The main reason that I believe many "normal" folks get PL'd is to get caught-up (level-wise) on a certain character so that they may group with their friends.

For instance, if you and your buddies were all around level 30 and a new friend wanted to start a cleric, the new friend would have a difficult time "quickly" soloing the cleric up high-enough to be able to group. He'd likely have to group with strangers via PUGs and would still probably be lagging behind in levels for the foreseeable future.

Thus (or "instead"), if the buddies all pitch-in and PL the new cleric, everyone will be able to group-up sooner. My example is pretty specific to playing with real-life friends and/or people that you played with (on live) back in 1999 that are just now getting into p99.

Basically, the nostalgia that my buddies and I are specifically going for is being able to *group up together,* just like we did as zit-faced teenagers. But yeah, in my opinion, PL'ing should never disrupt the zone and/or get in the way of normal EXP groups and individuals

shuklak · #3 10-29-2018, 07:24 PM

Petition99 working as intended.

Champion_Standing · #4 10-30-2018, 11:29 PM

Your biggest mistake was not petitioning him as soon as you got in the zone.

jakerees · #5 10-30-2018, 11:53 PM

OP made this entire story up holy cow I can't believe you all got caught up in it like seriously did some of you just start browsing rnf yesterday the whole thing was full of holes and inconsistencies like it was crying out that it was a troll post

Hibbs · #6 10-31-2018, 02:14 AM

Camp Disputes: At the time of the dispute it's best to petition in game. There's a lot of confusion about what constitutes a "camp", but if you feel your camp is being invaded whatever you do, don't KS another player. Do not touch a mob someone else has already engaged, this looks really bad for you. We recommend all players to run OBS/FRAPS and record your dispute in action then post it on the petitions / exploits forums.

OP here's this too.

shuklak · #7 10-31-2018, 12:04 PM

P99 should just include fraps in the installer.

Ruhtar · #8 11-01-2018, 11:30 AM

The way I see camps is whatever the name of that camp is. If you're camping throne room in CB, you have the mobs in the throne room. MM pond is the mobs around the pond, unrest MR is just the mobs in the main room, stables in CoM are just the mobs in the stables, etc. Anything a group gets beyond that is considered FFA unless someone decides to actively camp those other spots.

We're a bit spoiled on this server, especially when it comes to camps. I remember being in groups on live where our camp was only 2-3 mobs and in really crap situations, you have 1 spawn to your name. Here, people expect the whole zone to be open to them and end up screwing over others just trying to get one more sliver of a blue.

Next time someone does that, just tell them to pick a spot to camp and you'll take the other. If they can't follow the rules, fraps/logs/steal their identity and petition.

Ghostly · #9 11-01-2018, 11:35 AM

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The way I see camps is whatever the name of that camp is. If you're camping throne room in CB, you have the mobs in the throne room.

So you're saying that if someone calls Throne Room, then i can take Emp Crush Room? Because to my knowledge, that is all 1 camp. But your explanation says its not. Same with your other explanations. Unrest MR is only mobs in MR? Because normally it includes the mobs that are in the surrounding hallways.

Danth · #10 11-01-2018, 11:59 AM

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So you're saying that if someone calls Throne Room, then i can take Emp Crush Room? Because to my knowledge, that is all 1 camp. But your explanation says its not. Same with your other explanations. Unrest MR is only mobs in MR? Because normally it includes the mobs that are in the surrounding hallways.

Under a strict interpretation of the server rules--yes to both. It should be noted that doing precisely that sort of thing was how a small zone like Unrest could support 40 people or more in the original game, where it feels overcrowded with half that on P1999. The modern, WoW-influenced gamer no longer tolerates downtime between waves of monster spawns and instead expected continuous pulls.

On P1999, I've personally witnessed cases where a guide ruled the two very-near-each-other (and, indeed, actually in line of sight of each other) frenzy spawns in Velketor's as separate camps, contrary to the community norm of treating them as a single camp. In general the server rules seem to encourage groups making way for additional groups as zones become more crowded.

Danth