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[Zuranthium]

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

So because something can't be done, one shouldn't try as hard as they can to get as close as they can? Having the whole world at peace will never happen, does that mean that we should stop trying to reach it and start eviscerating each other? Zuranthium, I'm not sure if I should call you a cow with the IQ of a snail, a troll or simply someone who has a massive communication problem and can't get people to understand his point.

There is no communication problem whatsoever, the only problem is the ignorance and lack of effort to engage in complex thought from many posters who are attempting to respond to what I've written.

We of course should TRY to recreate classic EQ. But, as I just said in my other post, "What IS classic EQ?" There is no specific thing you can point at. You can try to recreate a specific moment in time of EQ, but then if you linger there for too long it stops being EQ because the very nature of EQ was that it was changing. That's the whole point of having a living, breathing fantasy World.

What people want is the immersion of the classic EQ experience. They want to literally EVER-quest. In original EQ, new content was added because that was what the developers thought of at the time to keep the game moving perpetually. There are ways that you can keep just the pre-Luclin zones and have the game still moving perpetually. You need to completely mix up item drops so that nobody is ever sure where an item drops in the game and you need to continually change spawns and the way MOBs interact, such that players are never exactly sure what to expect in any given area they ADVENTURE to.

Years down the road on this server, when people have "completed" all the content up through Velious, there will be constant requests for more content. It's going to happen. You can add new zones or you can work on making the game constantly FLUID such that the content of the existing zones is always changing. That was the original point of EQ, the developers just weren't fully aware of how to make it happen. EQ was a first-time thing, after all. They created magic but, like a fledgling spellcaster, they didn't yet understand how to sustain it.