Some variance ideas

[Thulack]

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

I don't know how people can realistically expect p99 to perfectly emulate the experience they had on live - as perfect as it could get now, it still wouldn't be the same. Tell Rogean and Nilbog to open another dozen servers, recruit about 100,000 more casual clueless players, DDoS Allakhazam and EQAtlas and take down the wiki, and brainwash every Everquest player ever, and then we might be a little closer to replicating the experience you remember.

As if the fact that this diverse collection of players is crammed into a single server isn't enough - add to that the extremely extended timeline and relative ease with which people can inform themselves of all content-related knowledge - and I think you have a recipe for drama. It's like you went to a Journey concert last night and decided to bitch about the fact that Steve Perry wasn't singing, knowing full-well the whole while what you were getting yourself into.

No one is asking for it to be perfect. People are asking for a chance to either relive raiding or experience it for the first time here without having the clusterfuck at the top we do now. Honestly you not having playing on live in classic really you have no reason to talk here Jeremy. What p99 raiding is is nothing like it was on live for me and many other people that play here. I'd think making a majority of the people on the server happy by using "classic" features would be something that would be at the top of the list for Dev's.

[Rhambuk]

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

I'd think making a majority of the people on the server happy by using "classic" features would be something that would be at the top of the list for Dev's.

Player happiness not in the devs minds when working on the server
Recreating a classic experience is supposedly the #1 goal, yet they've gone completely off the deepend with variance its so far from classic its not even funny

[quido]

Not having played live myself doesn't exclude me from this conversation - I know all about what happened among the servers. I just think you people are retarded to not realistically look at what will be happening if you get what you want (straight up eliminating variance). I personally have always been behind adjusting the variance to be less brutal, but given the number and the sorts of people here, I think you would eventually see how fruitless, futile, and stupid it would be with static spawns if they ever did decide to change it. I think it will be different in Velious with tougher mobs - static spawns could be a good thing then - but at this point now with this ridiculously extended timeline, putting 200 people or whatever on a spawn every time would be fucking retarded. In short, barring a GM-imposed rotation, you're never going to get what you want in Kunark, no matter how hard they try to fix it.

Velious is everyone's salvation.

[fullmetalcoxman]

If that's the case would you mind clarifying them for us please?

[fullmetalcoxman]

No one is expecting 1999 again, but the goal of this server is to get as close as possible isn't it?

They had a decent compromise that would make the server more classic and it was tossed out of bed like yesterday's one night stand. For no particular reason as far as I can see. Everyone seems to think repops are a good idea, but they were shelved after three or four of them.

[Sarius]

I'm curious, Sirken, what would your method be for taking 3 Traks a month with your 20-30 people total guild? That's quite a boastful claim...

[Rhambuk]

He doesn't want to hold our hand, we need to figure it out for ourselves....

[Sarius]

I could solo Naggy as an epic Mage. How? Figure it out.

[Sarius]

Everything will not be solved by eliminating variance, but smaller guilds would have a better chance to get the mobs they want.

[quido]

Except it wouldn't be as they remember. It would be 100-200 people killing the mob in about 5 seconds. You people are just going to have another basket of complaints if that bridge ever gets crossed.