EQ superstitions thread

[sinnycool]

The "about to level" mechanic.

If you close to leveling or just leveled everything will go wrong.

The thing you been fighting for hours will now feel like an undercon, it will resist more, run straight to its friends, a
Pather you never saw suddenly shows up etc.

I swear the game trying to prevent the ding

[red_demonman]

Killing all of the bunnies in Eastern Wastes causes an uber bunny avenger to spawn and come murder you.

[Jimjam]

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

Killing all of the bunnies in Eastern Wastes causes an uber bunny avenger to spawn and come murder you.

but it drops the lucky rabbit foot!

[sammoHung]

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

The "about to level" mechanic.

If you close to leveling or just leveled everything will go wrong.

The thing you been fighting for hours will now feel like an undercon, it will resist more, run straight to its friends, a
Pather you never saw suddenly shows up etc.

I swear the game trying to prevent the ding

I think this is actually a thing - but not coded into game mechanics - rather a psychological trick we play on ourselves.

Scene: You've been grinding for 2 hours straight. You had 20% left of level 55 when you started, and now you're at 95%. So close you can taste it. You are getting weary, but things have been going smoothly. So you take slightly more risks. Play a little more hurriedly. A little less focused. Almost there.

That's when your charm breaks. And when it does, your root also breaks. But you were hurrying so you didn't cast Manaskin before you started this fight. You also haven't stopped in 30 minutes so you're low on mana and far from full HP. You aren't quite as focused because of the long session - so you don't stop moving completely before trying to cast a stun on your hasted pet. Spell is interrupted. Can't get a cast off. You die.

I've noticed that at the end of my sessions, especially when I was trying to ding before I logged - that's when the turmoil happened. It's easy to attribute it to the game's secret mechanic of ramping up the difficulty when you're close to ding -- but I posit it's a shared experience that many people have - we take more risks in end of level situations like this. And more risks == more things going wrong.

Nevertheless, your original sentiment hits so very close to home.

[Lifebar]

There are unfound, hidden zones.

[cd288]

Don't recall feeling this way on live back in the day necessarily, but my P99 conspiracy theory is that certain things are coded to ensure that the rate of the event happening remains around its standard percentage chance of occurrence over a period of time.

The simplest example being when you're killing the same mob over and over for an hour or so, and then randomly you get one where the RNG is just awful for you (high spell resist rate, landing more attacks on you and a lot are at the top end of their damage range etc.), just to bring everything closer to what the code says it should be if your RNG has been in your favor too much over the past hour.

[sammoHung]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't recall feeling this way on live back in the day necessarily, but my P99 conspiracy theory is that certain things are coded to ensure that the rate of the event happening remains around its standard percentage chance of occurrence over a period of time.

The simplest example being when you're killing the same mob over and over for an hour or so, and then randomly you get one where the RNG is just awful for you (high spell resist rate, landing more attacks on you and a lot are at the top end of their damage range etc.), just to bring everything closer to what the code says it should be if your RNG has been in your favor too much over the past hour.

I think this also is coded as part of loot. Spent a long time in the crypt in Seb and sure enough it took about 30-40 hours before a Hiero had a cloak.