Overpopulated

[magnetaress]

i atually had a gm come to qeynos aquaducts and do the whole dispute thing over the smugglers down there on bertox on live on my lvl 15 pally soooo ymmv

[cd288]

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

i atually had a gm come to qeynos aquaducts and do the whole dispute thing over the smugglers down there on bertox on live on my lvl 15 pally soooo ymmv

The period that guy is referring to is the period right when the game was released. There were no rules in place because it was the first game of its kind really and the CSR staff had no idea about how big of dicks people on the Internet could be. They didn't conceive of the various ways that people would abuse the game's mechanics and grief others because griefing as a concept didn't even exist yet so they didn't think about it.

So what happened was you had GMs on different servers enforcing things different ways for a period of time. Some were more stringent than others. However, the rules/play nice policy were quickly put in place and guided how we resolved disputes in game from then on.

So that person's claim that there were never any rules in classic EQ is just completely false.

[Mblake81]

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

The period that guy is referring to is the period right when the game was released. There were no rules in place because it was the first game of its kind really and the CSR staff had no idea about how big of dicks people on the Internet could be. They didn't conceive of the various ways that people would abuse the game's mechanics and grief others because griefing as a concept didn't even exist yet so they didn't think about it.

So what happened was you had GMs on different servers enforcing things different ways for a period of time. Some were more stringent than others. However, the rules/play nice policy were quickly put in place and guided how we resolved disputes in game from then on.

So that person's claim that there were never any rules in classic EQ is just completely false.

Maybe he wants it to be like the brief period where there was no rules, coming hot off the heels of UO and the ways in which people 'griefed' each other in that game. A precedent was already set but perhaps it wasn't complained about as much. EQ picked up a bigger playerbase.

College PKers on their campus T1 connections.

[Jimjam]

I got the impression GMs only seemed to be online during social hours for Americans. There were volunteer guides active in broader time zones, but it was common to hear ‘wait until a gm gets on’z

[Thrombosis]

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

I got the impression GMs only seemed to be online during social hours for Americans. There were volunteer guides active in broader time zones, but it was common to hear ‘wait until a gm gets on’z

My impression also. Even after Antonius Bayle opened I don't think I ever saw a GM in euro-prime time.

[Christina.]

I played here to see what all this talk was about and it is not overpopulated. I had a blast

[magnetaress]

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

I played here to see what all this talk was about and it is not overpopulated. I had a blast

Best sentiment ever. I enjoyed my troll time there so much. I am torn between warrior, sk, or cleric for some actual hardcore group grinding. As an alt.

Possibly another rogue. Or even ranger or bard. Classic tradeskills got me hooked deep.

[Bigsham]

1500 on right now but only because of covid

great time to release red 2.0

[kaizersoze]

Consider blue.

[Evia]

Green (and to a greater extent, teal) were incredibly fun for a few months but I was slowly but surely becoming incredibly turned off by the community. I guess when you pit a bunch of hardcore eq players together(face it, casual or not...if you’re playing here you probably really really like this game) with the possibility of legacy items you should expect that. I just started enjoying my time on the server less and less and stopped logging in all together.

Came back to blue tho and have been having a real good time. The community feels more like eq to me and I find myself logging in once again.