Patch Notes: Sunday, April 7th, 2019

[loramin]

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

This is an easy opinion to form for a sideline observer whose only source of raid scene news has been chugging down the RnF Kool-Aid.

I strongly suspect I've been following the drama more than you have, but this is neither the time nor place to compare the respective sizes of our drama knowledge. And, just in general, we all really need to get off the personal attacks on fellow posters outside of RnF.

Suffice it to say there is some stuff on the P99 Reddit that will likely change your opinion, and if you read it you'll find that in fact ToV has been a major pain point.

[jpetrick]

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

I strongly suspect I've been following the drama more than you have, but this is neither the time nor place to compare the respective sizes of our drama knowledge. And, just in general, we all really need to get off the personal attacks on fellow posters outside of RnF.

Suffice it to say there is some stuff on the P99 Reddit that will likely change your opinion, and if you read it you'll find that in fact ToV has been a major pain point.

You've always been a misinformed idiot.

[Hotel]

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

I strongly suspect I've been following the drama more than you have, but this is neither the time nor place to compare the respective sizes of our drama knowledge. And, just in general, we all really need to get off the personal attacks on fellow posters outside of RnF.

Suffice it to say there is some stuff on the P99 Reddit that will likely change your opinion, and if you read it you'll find that in fact ToV has been a major pain point.

LOL

This is great. This is like if someone lived in their room 24/7 and only scrolled through Twitter being able to tell you the current political landscape of the USA.

Pretty amazing someone can be this sure of themselves and this ignorant at the same time.

[rezzie]

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

And, just in general, we all really need to get off the personal attacks on fellow posters outside of RnF.

It wasn't an attack directed at you.

I was simply pointing out that your statement - ToV is a huge issue for the support staff - is often parroted on the forums, used to warn/scare new players away from raiding, and imply that ToV squabbles between the toxic, cheating, scummy top tier guilds are a constant time sink on CSR.

My reply was stating the fact that CSR has had close to no involvement in ToV disputes in months, and as far as I'm aware there hasn't been a ToV petition filed for 8 months.

Ask any of the 400ish active raiders on the server if the raid scene is toxic, and I suspect most would say that it wasn't. Just because things aren't always happy families doesn't mean it's the steaming pile of toxicity that is frequently implied by the non-raiding forum warriors of RnF.

[stormlord]

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

While I appreciate the spirit of trying to make things more difficult in ToV, the mechanics that were implemented in this patch are heavy handed and ridiculously un-classic. All end-game content gets perfected and/or trivialized over time on TLP servers. It's the nature of the time-lock.

Randomly introducing perma-rooted dragons that summon at 100% after several years of guilds farming the zone with classic mechanics is a pretty lame solution to a non-existent problem. The mechanics of the zone were classic as they were. If we're going to throw the baby out with the bath water, let's see some warder loot and clicky mounts.

But it's not non-existent. It plagues the server. I agree, however, with the rest of your post. The biggest problems are the increasingly veteran players, mudflation (top-heaviness included) and the builtin problems from the start. The other issue is it mirrors the patches on live accurately, meaning it inherits everything--good and bad.

My opinion is we won't see real change and real magic without new, fresh MMORPGs. Things like Saga of Lucimia are what we need. Many of them. Not just a couple. However, if a couple is all we get then we have to appreciate it. There's a lot going on. So many choices to be made, and struggles to endure.

Evenso, I'm glad Project 1999 is here. They did a phenomenal job, and continue to do what they think is best. They deserve many thanks. I mean that honestly.

[loramin]

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

How do you not re-read the parenthetical before you hit submit and not think to yourself “that sounds ridiculous and I need to rewrite this.”

Also, the white knighting? Get a hold of yourself sir.

Yikes.

Dude has 18 posts and so is likely somewhat new here. Not everyone thinks about things from the staff perspective ... which is totally reasonable: if all you read are the shouting voices it sounds like the only issue is raiders fighting with one another.

Aso, not everyone follows all the server drama; certainly not everyone who just reads the patch thread. But as anyone who does follow it knows, ToV is a real pain point for the staff.

Why is me saying as much such (and mentioning that the staff volunteers their time to let us play) a problem?

[MikeXG]

Thank you!

[Xaeophi]

Oh.. Spirit wrack cord no longer drops in chardok. Cute.

[loramin]

I've already explained my background (which does include raiding ToV), and my position on your insane idea that only the top-end raiders (which like to think they're the majority but are significantly less than half the server's population) are the only ones allowed to have any say about raiding on this server.

You're just trying to start an RnF fight in the server patch thread, and I won't bite.

[veejur]

Start a kickstarter to raise funds for running 2 new non PVP servers and advertise it on the front page. I can’t imagine there aren’t enough people to pay for this to happen.