The Top 4 Most Depressing Facts about the Titanium Client

[Reguiy]

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

You'll be pleased to note you can still open your spellbook while meditating. I assume you'll always do this from now on.

^ ^

[Raavak]

Originally Posted by shuklak

I still remember the day and zone that I did my first no-book meditate. Talk about episodic memory...

Me too (CT, in the courtyard, prolly Aug of '99). I sat down and meditate skill went up and I asked my group what that was all about. I didn't know you didn't need a book open after 35.

[shuklak]

I still remember the day and zone that I did my first no-book meditate. Talk about episodic memory...

[Tecmos Deception]

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

I still remember the day and zone that I did my first no-book meditate. Talk about episodic memory...

Same here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Aeolwind]

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

I still remember the day and zone that I did my first no-book meditate. Talk about episodic memory...

Sol B, it was a Saturday, King Room.

[shuklak]

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

Sol B, it was a Saturday, King Room.

lol

"The air was heavy that day... but soon I noticed a sort of a shift. As if the sky cleared up... I seemed to breathe deeper.

And my mind, it was quiet.

I reached a new level of consciousness at that brief instant in time."

[susvain0362]

Stinkum consistently great with thiS style of thread

[kaev]

No, nightblindness for 3 of 12 races did not slow the game down. Players who wanted a faster game dumped their nightblind characters and were not slowed down at all. Players who started as one of the other 9 races because that's waht they wanted to do out of the box were not slowed down at all.

Some of the players slowed the game down. Others took down Nagafen & Vox within a few months of server up despite all of the limitations of the UI & mechanics. I still recall the GM's serverwide shout when Vox went down the first time on Tunare server (26 players from 5 guilds, imagine that nowadays, lol.)

Dunno what kind of nostalgia's filtering your view, but it's pretty skewed from how the game I started playing in July of '99 went down.

[Weekapaug]

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

No, nightblindness for 3 of 12 races did not slow the game down. Players who wanted a faster game dumped their nightblind characters and were not slowed down at all. Players who started as one of the other 9 races because that's waht they wanted to do out of the box were not slowed down at all.

Some of the players slowed the game down. Others took down Nagafen & Vox within a few months of server up despite all of the limitations of the UI & mechanics. I still recall the GM's serverwide shout when Vox went down the first time on Tunare server (26 players from 5 guilds, imagine that nowadays, lol.)

Dunno what kind of nostalgia's filtering your view, but it's pretty skewed from how the game I started playing in July of '99 went down.

And? I started in April 99 a couple of weeks after the game went live. Played with my best friend who was in the beta.

This isn't about nostalgia. It's about getting the server as close to classic as possible. Not just the parts you or I may or may not have liked.

They actually went to the trouble of reinstating the hybrid group exp penalties here on p99, arguably the stupidest design decision of original EQ....even the man himself Brad McQuade admitted later that it was one of the worst design choices they ever made....And it flabberghasted me at the time, just like you are in this discussion. Why break things that later got fixed, right? And the exp penalty is much worse for hybrids here than it ever was on live. But in the long view, it totally makes sense, if what they are doing is trying to create the most classic possible server here. And I respect that.

Point being, if they are going to actually break classes knowing full well that it was pretty much universally accepted that it was a bad idea to begin with, then everything is on the table. Make it as classic as absolutely possible, including no item linking and night blindness.

If you want a classic-ish server then go to another EMU. But things are either classic or they are not, regardless of what you or I have to say about it. You may not, but there are a lot of people who would love to play classic EQ again exactly as it was. Myself included. If that's a fucking problem for you, then that's your problem.

You have no argument when the entire point of the project is to be classic. Sorry.

[Kika Maslyaka]

Night blindness - back in 99 every sane person upped their gamma, all the smart ones played a char with infra/ultra, like say insanely "casual" halfling with xp bonus on top of ridiculously good stats.

Classical "box screen" - before I discovered F10 mode, I always thought that tiny image with giant border on the side was a retarded waste of space. Once I discovered F10 - I never went back.

Item Linking - you got to be shitting me. If you don't like item linking, perhaps you want to buy my Celeron 300, with 16 MBs of ram and 32k modem thats sitting in my closet? I will sell it to you at 1999 price too, to keep it completely classic.