not a single player has told me to plan on raiding

[Sarius]

Refer a friend not rants and flames =)

[Millburn]

Well I stand by my statement damnit! Haha

Refer a friend allowed for the crazy XP gain right?

[Sarius]

Yes and further encouraged people to 6 box

[Splorf22]

The simple reality is that blue is overcrowded. No criticism of Nilbog intended, but the biggest problem we have is the slow pace of releases. Kunark has been out for 2.5 years! On live Velious would have been released, then Luclin, and we would be closing in on the Planes of Power. No one would be bitching about TMO cockblocking VP because they would be busy cockblocking FE over Luclin content.

I have been on record as suggesting simultaneous repops and I think they would be fantastic for the server. But even that won't totally open up the endgame; last repop there were 300+ people online.

Velious would open up a huge amount of additional content and would help greatly . . . except that I guarantee a whole fuckton of players who aren't playing now will come back for it.

Ultimately instances probably are the only way to inflate the content to match the players (and allow all the guilds to progress all the way through Kunark without going nuts tracking/batphoning), but that's very far from the spirit of classic eq.

Again, we just have too many players for the amount of content we have. The staff has chosen to have players compete rather than enforce rotations, and they have selected tracking/batphoning as that method. You can either accept this and play around it (see: The A-Team) or drive yourself nuts making posts on the forums (well, I've done that too).

[kingsBlend]

Plan on doing whatever you want to do. Want to raid? Raid.. Kinda like that game called real life, you know?

[Lyra]

Well I quoted some stuff in the Raid Changes "poll" thread I just bumped. It didn't happen on Rodcet Nife. Rodcet Nife was one of the original servers, and up until much later the only one I played on.

Are you talking about pre-velious? December 5, 2000

[India]

When did you play on RN? I played from early 2000 thru probably 2005 and there were no rotations,, at all.

[Lyra]

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

When did you play on RN? I played from early 2000 thru probably 2005 and there were no rotations,, at all.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...d.php?p=753155

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

For the guy posting about the top guild on rodcet getting 90 percent of mobs before velious you are most defiantly wrong. Eastern keep got some, aod alliance got some, ancient souls some, tul Achron some, arirang some, dragon force some. You had 4 or 5 guilds constantly competing, yes trak was limited to ek, aod, and toward end ascent. Then when velious came ascent and aod alliance rotated ntov and sleeper, and later dol amroth and ek were added to rotation. It was not a forced rotation but the high end guilds worked together to not waste each others time. Rodcet characters were nimamok and later honch

That happened.

Honch was there too. And while I LOVE your teasing about him being a kid, I don't think he was.

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

[October 1999] Brotherhood of Steel formed mostly by BatMUD players with Glayde as the leader. Most Ascent officers will be members at one point or another (Delheru, Honch, Reia, Vesi)

Honch, Xanatax, Morbos etc form Exiled Legion (EL) to do planes outside the domination of AoD/AL

I was a girlfriend during this time fighting EQ for the attention of my boyfriend. I played. A lot. I actually played EQ longer than the relationship lasted. 1999 - 2005 (day the server merged)

[danceparty]

OP, there is plenty of casual raiding to be done...there are several great guilds who are equipping members with planar and epics and having a blast doing it. you can be part of this pretty easily just by getting to raid level.

yes there is ferocious competition among the players making up the uber guilds for the high end content (kunark dragons, vs, gods etc) ..but they earn it by being on-line seeking it 24/7.

that shouldn't discourage anyone from leveling their toon and joining a guild that is clearing planes.

[India]

If you want me to read my own post, I know what was posted. Otherwise I am not sure what you're trying to show me with that link...not being difficult, I really don't know what you want me to read [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And to be straight to the point (about rotations)

[?] AoD/AL/EL and AD/DK negotiate a rotation, but the terms favor the more hardcore AoD/AL/EL and soon the rotation turns in to their domination

Rotations were negotiated once, and didn't last long enough to even be a blip on the history that is RN