My encounter with Slidein

[Zuranthium]

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

Kind of silly that this debate is continuing when this is how it's been handled by the staff for years.

How "the staff" handles something varies, and policies can always change.

More importantly, p99 is supposed to be as close to classic Everquest as possible. It's absolutely not anyone's responsibility to run in an opposite direction from where another player is sitting. That was never an EQ policy or an intent of the game designers. It was exactly the opposite - nobody owns any space within the game world. It's all there for everyone to inhabit as they see fit.

If player A is constantly following player B wherever they go and pulling MOBs on top of them, then sure, player B has a right to complain. But otherwise, no. Anything else is player B's fault for sitting in the path of MOBs and not moving.

[cd288]

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

How "the staff" handles something varies, and policies can always change.

More importantly, p99 is supposed to be as close to classic Everquest as possible. It's absolutely not anyone's responsibility to run in an opposite direction from where another player is sitting. That was never an EQ policy or an intent of the game designers. It was exactly the opposite - nobody owns any space within the game world. It's all there for everyone to inhabit as they see fit.

If player A is constantly following player B wherever they go and pulling MOBs on top of them, then sure, player B has a right to complain. But otherwise, no. Anything else is player B's fault for sitting in the path of MOBs and not moving.

For anyone reading this comment, please just disregard it. This is this player's personal opinion and feelings and not what the staff rules.

If you're quadding or swarming, be careful. The staff will hold you responsible if you run your train over someone sitting and medding up or fighting mobs that aren't part of your quad/swarm.

[Duik]

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

Bluntfang, I have to hand it to you—fourteen years of forum posting about a 17-year-old emulator for a 27-year-old elf simulator is a level of commitment most people only achieve in careers or long-term relationships. At this point you’re not even part of the community, you are the legacy system. If someone archived the forums, historians would probably assume you were a built-in NPC designed to explain why nothing should ever be updated.

What’s fascinating is how every thread somehow loops back to you explaining, again, why the most inconvenient, brittle setup imaginable is actually the “correct” one. It’s like watching someone defend dial-up internet because the connection noise builds character. You don’t just resist improvements—you treat them like personal attacks, as if smoother performance might somehow erase the last fourteen years of muscle memory you’ve mistaken for expertise.

Honestly, the wildest part is that you’re still arguing like there’s something at stake here. This isn’t a competitive scene, there’s no prize pool, and nobody’s taking your title as Grand Arbiter of Elf Simulator 1999 Emulation Fidelity. The only thing on the line is whether new people bounce off immediately or stick around—and you’ve been doing a stellar job making sure they don’t.

He has like 151 posts. Relaxamifacate.

[OriginalContentGuy]

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

i'm using AI to construct threat matrices and collapse all alt forum accounts into single entities of all users.

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I'm the p99 Palantir, and Kaia has given you all a social credit score

spoiler alert, it ain't good.

Kaia makes detailed notes anytime company comes over while she hides under the stairs and sniffs their socks. Spoiler alert, she likes Taylor Swift.

[Ekco]

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doesn't seem to be a swiftie

surprised there isn't a A24 horror movie yet with a LLM Agent hooked up to a family's smart house spying on them through the cameras and killing them with a Roomba and other appliances yet

[Zuranthium]

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

The staff will hold you responsible if you run your train over someone sitting

Says who? There's no rule anywhere stating this and that's obviously not what happens anytime sometime runs a train to a zoneline. Anyone sitting there who dies, it's THEIR OWN FAULT. It's no different anywhere else in the game world. Nobody is privileged to have a protected space that no other player is allowed to run through.

The current p99 rules simply say that you may not intentionally train someone. If you're clearly capable of killing a group of MOBs and trying to do so, and someone else causes aggro on themself because they are sitting too close, that is their fault. To prove someone is intentionally causing a train, it would need to involve either running in a very strange way (aka, gathering MOBs and running to a completely different area where someone is sitting, for no apparent reason) or repeatedly following someone around.

[OriginalContentGuy]

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

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Kaia's takes on music still shit despite hanging out with you Ekco.

[Ekco]

Yeah, gotta do some post training for sure. I remember asking for recommendations before and it was just random stuff

[kjs86z2]

I did 20-22 out at gargoyle island and I didn't die.

Not sure what OP's issue is.

[Defo]

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

More importantly, p99 is supposed to be as close to classic Everquest as possible

To this point, I have a question:

Does anyone remember Sergeant Slate constantly being trained through EC Tunnel back in the day?

It was harmful for an evil race to AFK in tunnel- because someone would always be bringing Slate there to grief AFK toons.

I don't recall bans / suspensions being handed out for these types of trains - does anyone else recall?