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06-02-2010, 02:28 PM
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I'm a classic fan, no doubt about it, but I had my reservations about removing /ooc this soon. If it were me, I would have done it when peak was 1000+. Nonetheless, I'm a classic fan. Now that global chat is removed, I play the game that way. There's the /who command, which I try to refrain from using, and then there's irc and the forums for auctioning, both of which I've also refrained from using. Why? Because they don't feel classic to me, even though they were available in 1999. It's not the way I want to play the game. Still, it would help me to find what I'm looking for if I did. Lord help me! You can't treat an old dog new tricks. Don't pity me.
So I have sat in EC for a long time. I never went to EC in 1999. In fact, the only trading zone I knew in my career on live was the bazaar. So being in EC these past couple days was a completely new experience for me. My thoughts are mute. I don't know whether I hate it or like it. I suppose it has opened the door for people to try new things to keep others entertained. It's boring sitting in a zone trying to find what you want because you refuse to use irc or the forums. One options for me is to adventure in other zones and try my luck at finding the items I want. The other is to stay here and either: a) attempt to find ways to entertain myself in-game b) browse the web. So far, I've mostly browsed the web with "/log on" for searches. However, the opportunity to create new amusements in EC so that people don't get excessively bored is there for enterprising souls. I almost wish EQ had a card game or something that we could play in EC while waiting, but that's not the only thing that could be fun. Honestly, there's no rulebook on how to create an mmorpg. Nothing says we have to kill things when we're logged in or play card games when we're not killing things. D&D is combat-oriented, but mmorpgs could be anything we want them to be. They just have to be interesting. Personally, I don't think EQ was developed for non-combat related fun. So people have to get clever to make it fun. I wish sometimes that the new mmorpgs would revisit some of the things EQ did, but add a framework that's more friendly to creative people so that they can create new forms of entertainment to occupy us when we're not in combat. Imagine a new mmorpg that had corpse runs, but did it in such a way that it's fun. Corpse runs don't have to be automatically a bad idea. It's all in how you implement the idea. Same for everything else. Nothing necessarily has to be boring. There just needs to be a developer ready to make it fun. Which costs money. Things I can think of off the top of my head to fend off boredom in EC: 1) Tell a story 2) Gamble 3) Make a game for people to play 4) /duel someone or manage a series of matches and reward the champion 5) Tell a story, but this time use actors (players) and a scene that exists in the zone 6) Find a creative way to reward new players I'm sure there're many others. It's a pity that we have to invent ideas though. It'd be so much easier if they gave us a way to create new card games, or new games for that matter. There're many players who have the skill to accomplish something like that. An arena in EC would be a nice attraction for duels and fights, but it's hard to manage something like that. You get what I'm saying? There's no limit to what could be done to occupy people while they wait for a trade.
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Raiding: http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...&postcount=109 P1999 Class Popularity Chart: http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=48 P1999 PvP Statistics: http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=59 "Global chat is to conversation what pok books are to travel, but without sufficient population it doesn't matter." | ||
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06-02-2010, 02:31 PM
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06-02-2010, 02:44 PM
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hmmmm was actual sitting 3 hours sitting /LFG today. and yes, i did /who all lfg and /who all *Zonename*..... and tried up to build a group
during the peak-times, this would work, but when only a few people in the range of lvl 20 - 30 are LFG - u ve no chance to build up a group. as a casual / player with familiy / player with long working-times the actual situation is realy disappointing. oh yes, "its classic" - how could i forget that - so it must be gold, or? btw. we r doing lots of polls - may be, we should do a poll, how many time each of us can play per day during a normal week - than we would see, if 1 or 2 hours time to find/build up a group, like today its often the case, is the thing we should working for... Greetings, maggok | ||
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06-02-2010, 02:57 PM
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06-02-2010, 12:18 PM
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It's really too bad that global ooc/auction was ever active in the first place. If people hadn't gotten used to using it, they would have nothing to complain about. Oh well.
From my perspective, the change is awesome. My main on the server is a 20th level Dark Elf warrior. Not only do I have absolutely nothing to help me travel, but to top that off I'm also evil and KOS in several zones. I can't even walk from 1 side of High Pass to another without either causing a huge train or ending up dead. Yet still, I am happy to see global OOC/auction gone. First of all, people actually LOOK now and see who's on LFG. If they need a tank and they see me on that list, they'll send me a tell. I get those tells all the time, in fact I haven't really had to wait more than 10 minutes for a group since I dinged 15. For selling, again from my perspective I think this change is actually useful for me. I cannot compete with the loot farmers. I already mentioned the travel difficulties. Removing global /auction actually gives me a zone full of people who might actually buy my items, rather than a bunch of folks who I can probably never make it to anyway. All I have to do is make it to the tunnel. I have also noticed more frequently that items are being auctioned in the zone where they drop, meaning I can get them for real cheap. When your main character is a warrior you take whatever opportunity you can to save plat because it doesn't come easy.
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06-02-2010, 01:11 PM
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06-02-2010, 01:08 PM
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06-02-2010, 02:03 PM
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Ahhhh. The silence is golden.
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