Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

[Vexenu]

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

Everyone? So many assumptions here. Incredibly uncompelling way to look at things. With solutions to imagined problems that look like you are considering a different custom server altogether and not what Secrets has in mind.

Yes, everyone. What is so controversial about that statement? Everyone who plays EQ on a new server would WANT a Manastone/Guise. The only question is do they want one badly enough to go to the trouble of navigating through the gauntlet of toxicity to obtain one, often at the cost of their health (both mental and physical) or by breaking server rules. And obviously, what Secrets decides to do is up to him. I'm just offering my opinion, which is worth exactly what you paid to read it.

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

First off assuming PQ's population will be like Green's is probably more of a goal than a given. PQ would be very happy if that happens. The odds are it won't be THAT successful. At first anyhow. Over time who knows.

This is true. A relatively low starting population would go a long way toward reducing the innate toxicity of limited legacy item availability. Hard to say what Quarm's starting pop will be, although realistically it will probably (hopefully, honestly) be much lower than Green's.

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

If you as a human want to avoid the 'disruption of camping highly desirable items' as you called it. You can literally avoid those camps. This is a choice as single human with his own decision making capacity (in theory anyhow) that you can make. Why create rules for others on a camp that you don't like participating in. Literally pretend they don't exist it won't change the way you play the game.

This is also true, but I'm not thinking about how to maximize my personal enjoyment (or yours, for the matter, or any individual player's) by offering this suggestion, I'm thinking about what's best for the overall playerbase, devs and GMs.

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

I'll call BS on the fact that these items are that great in the long run on a PoP server.
It's mostly epeen in the long run. Eventually adults outgrow caring about epeen.

If they're ultimately useless, why have them in-game in the first place? And surely you've been around here long enough to know that a certain sort of player never outgrows the desire to show off their e-peen. And these are the exactly the sort who go out of their way to turn legacy item camps into toxic shitholes, creating a terrible server environment and demanding an inordinate amount of GM resources.

[Lune]

PQ should be 9 months classic, 9 months kunark, 9 months velious, 2-3 years Luclin, eternal PoP.

Something about years and years of Kunark on P99 was just great. Think it gave people time to enjoy the journey, level a couple chars, raid, gear up etc without feeling like it was all going to be obsolete in a few months.

[Seducio]

Also who doesn't love that super rare random Box of Abu-kar drop off any mob over level 35.

[Evia]

is it really eq tho without legacy items? they almost go hand in hand at this point
trying to obtain one of the legacy items before they stop dropping is part of the new server thrill

if I were playing and someone told me manastones or guises didnt exist on the server i'd probably control +s into control +x because this server is apparently not playing real everquest

[Trexller]

yeah make mana stone and beads no-drop

[Seducio]

Don't be silly.

P99 has shifted everyone's expectation of 'classic.' People want the Titanium client because it is better than what folks had back during live not because it is accurate. Mousewheel was not in era for Velious and wasn't even for PoP for that matter. That and other Titanium client QoL def was not in era. Folks would probably like TAKP way better if they wanted an in era client.

So ya it's about 'feel'. Folks here prefer the feel of Titanium client rather than an era accurate client. And p99 devs got the 'feel' right to such an extent that Old school EQ players prefer the way p99 client does classic rather than to how live actually was.

P99 evolved the player bases expectation of what classic is.

[Trexller]

mouse wheel not classic

[Evia]

I'm glad I dont use mouse look so its not a problem for me.
I just f9 twice, tap delete a bit to pull the camera back, then angle it a bit better with alt + page up and page down until the camera sits nicely behind my character. Sometimes its a bit rough to see whats behind me but i've learned to deal with it by rotating around with strafe in those situations.


and yes, big shout out to Secrets for doing this project. glad someone decided to do it! looking forward to it!

[Trexller]

what about strafe? on titanium you can bind it to any key

but on takp you gotta ctrl+L/R to strafe

can secrets make strafe a bindable key?

[Solist]

I wanna know how many people will get pinged for SEQ on PQ while then loading p99 after.