Global ooc - what's the hold up?

[Jirr]

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

Jirr, we can keep making the red server wear a blue dress and we can see how that goes. Polling is a very fair method of measuring what players want. Go look at the global OOC poll results as they stand currently. This isn't even up for debate.

Someone trolls OOC, you /ignore them or just /filter ooc (to get the exact same experience as we have now, which is nothing)

It is no different than these forums or IRC. You arguing against this is like saying the forums should be turned off.

Turning global off is not an option on a pvp server as it deprives you of necessary pvp information. Sadly leaving ooc on forces you to attend a 24/7 klan rally where sad lonely people flood the server with their vitriol. Global ooc will only work if there is a dedicated staff to monitor and police it, and that just isn't feasible. Even Blizzard has given up on policing their chat channels and limited chat instead.

[oldfish]

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

The bottom line is this: I have 40+ hours played already on my current toon. I can count on one hand the number of lines of OOC I have seen since I started. I have not seen a single auction.

If you are all up in arms against the mere idea of global channels, then you tell me how we fix this problem.

Thats a consequence of the low pop, not much we can do about it.

Auction, that is solved somewhat by the trade section of the forum.

To me the biggest problem with this wouldnt actually be the spamming, its how it opens up a big can of worms of people getting easy access to intel they would have a harder time getting their hands on without global OOC.

For example, if someone says on an IRC channel that so and so is leaving the zone, has anyone seen him, the chances are that people wont see whats on IRC as immediately as they would on global OOC. Also less people would be logged to IRC than global so that the chances of abuses of this would be lower.

[Ragemaster9999]

We need global OOC... im tired of soloing and never being able to find any groups because everyone is /anon. Even /whoing people your level wont work. Im about to give up tbh if I cant find some partnership soon. This would be a simple fix and you could opt out of it I dont understand why it isnt implemented yet.

[SearyxTZ]

232 people voted yes for it

99 against




The 99 can easily turn it off or filter it to their own desire.

[Ragemaster9999]

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

Thats a consequence of the low pop, not much we can do about it.

For example, if someone says on an IRC channel that so and so is leaving the zone, has anyone seen him, the chances are that people wont see whats on IRC as immediately as they would on global OOC. Also less people would be logged to IRC than global so that the chances of abuses of this would be lower.

Thats a good thing, isnt the whole point of a PVP server to facilitate pvp? I would love to know where the fights are going down at, so I can either avoid it or jump into the chaos. We rolled red cuz we wanted to PVP, yet most of the people against it are complaining ooc will have PVP related side effects. WELL DOH.

On a side note, one of the things I really miss about previous iterations was the xxx has killed yyy in <insert zone here>. Used to love the KILL/DEATH messages and you knew players were actively killing eachother every night due to the global server chat. Granted, it wasnt classic, but it made the server seem more active, and thats what P99 lacks atm... an active community

[Flowz]

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

Also, 100 people is not this server's average nightly population, it's closer to 150 (as it has been for the past few months).

lol no its not, the average is 100, 125 at good times and usually 39- 40 in the mornings lol.
1) u can turn off ooc so, so if u dont want to see it u dont have to
2) they can put a lvl 5 or 6 lvl limit on ooc and also make it where u can only say like 3 or 4 lines every 15 20 seconds so u cant spam spam it.
3) there needs to be some way to interact with the rest of the server, if not global ooc, make a new channel thats optional for poeple to join.
4) ooc does not lead to greifing, thats YT, if the guy is going to greif you, you are gonna get greifed anyway global ooc or not, YT now thats different.
5)

There is truth to this, what is the fun in killing someone 257 times in a row while they are afk at work if you have no audience to brag to?


Global OOC will only promote more griefing

. This is not true, if global ooc was in, someone could of possibly told that guy he was still logged in if they started to brag about it, which is the oppsite of what you are saying. NO Global ooc probably made him get killed 257 times, or just had no effect on the situation at all.

[Jirr]

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

232 people voted yes for it

99 against




The 99 can easily turn it off or filter it to their own desire.

232 accounts voted for it. 9 or more of which are Little Gyno... Voting doesn't work when those who cannot behave acquire the resources to vote more than once to evade forum bans.

[oldfish]

Originally Posted by Ragemaster9999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats a good thing, isnt the whole point of a PVP server to facilitate pvp? I would love to know where the fights are going down at, so I can either avoid it or jump into the chaos. We rolled red cuz we wanted to PVP, yet most of the people against it are complaining ooc will have PVP related side effects. WELL DOH.

On a side note, one of the things I really miss about previous iterations was the xxx has killed yyy in <insert zone here>. Used to love the KILL/DEATH messages and you knew players were actively killing eachother every night due to the global server chat. Granted, it wasnt classic, but it made the server seem more active, and thats what P99 lacks atm... an active community

I would rather that they implement hot zones with xp bonuses and better coin or loot to bottleneck PVP rather than this shoddy mechanic which would more than likely be abused by zergish group of gankers more than people like you lookin for a fight.

[Flowz]

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

Thats a consequence of the low pop, not much we can do about it.

Auction, that is solved somewhat by the trade section of the forum.

To me the biggest problem with this wouldnt actually be the spamming, its how it opens up a big can of worms of people getting easy access to intel they would have a harder time getting their hands on without global OOC.

For example, if someone says on an IRC channel that so and so is leaving the zone, has anyone seen him, the chances are that people wont see whats on IRC as immediately as they would on global OOC. Also less people would be logged to IRC than global so that the chances of abuses of this would be lower.

Lol really ur scared about someone knowing your location on a 100 person server? what are you even playing here then? its not like there are lots of zones u can goto anyway higher up, solb, guk, perma, ct, if ur not in one of those zoneswho cares where u are. For someone to go all out in ooc and try and find someone, he must of did something to them. People dont just go all retarded because they got killed in pvp, mabye u should stop training the guy, or stop trying to scam the guy and mabye he wont be looking for you in ooc.

[SearyxTZ]

The biggest benefit of having it on is that it might actually make the server seem active.

EQ is a very lonely game when you are playing here without a guild and killing newbie shit by yourself without seeing another player or line of chat for hours. Having a guild should not be a barrier to entry to play here.