"Fair and legitimate chance at a target" (cont)

[Raev]

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

it all a matter of cattle vs wolves.

The biggest problem this server has is people like you intentionally distorting the picture into an R/K type imbalance. The vast majority of casual players would be fine with a competitive system that didn't revolve around poopsocking, cheating, etc. The problem with EQ is that the mechanics are just straight up terrible for direct same-zone player competition (see Troll's post).

[maskedmelonpai]

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

The biggest problem this server has is people like you intentionally distorting the picture into an R/K type imbalance. The vast majority of casual players would be fine with a competitive system that didn't revolve around poopsocking, cheating, etc. The problem with EQ is that the mechanics are just straight up terrible for direct same-zone player competition (see Troll's post).

No, most casuals are perfectly happy playing the game casually like me. And no, the hardcore/casual schism is not an r/k thing. That not the analogy I was going for. Cattle are generally speaking docile, peaceful, which is what I like about EQ and why I don't like most modern games, they too frenzied.

[Pokesan]

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

No, most casuals are perfectly happy playing the game casually like me. And no, the hardcore/casual schism is not an r/k thing. That not the analogy I was going for. Cattle are generally speaking docile, peaceful, which is what I like about EQ and why I don't like most modern games, they too frenzied.

who made you president of the casuals??

another self-appointed tinpot dictator like "Mayor" Nemce (believe me, that vote was rigged BIG TIME)

[Skew]

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

Brad McQuaid himself said during one of their Pantheon streams that EQ was never meant to be competitive.....And neither will Pantheon be. They're designed as games with the intended purpose COOPERATION not competition.

This was in relation to numerous questions they received about Pantheon's fully-open-world nature and how they plan to prevent specific examples of the problems related to the P99 raid scene.

Hi Metal hows it going.

Brad McQuaid should have done a 101 course in Human Behaviour before making a game based around having lots of Humans playing it at once.
Its like we dont have 10,000 years of recorded civilisation to study.

[Tankdan]

Classic EQ felt like cooperation, not competition, to me. Our server rotated mobs with virtually no incidents, some servers were more cutthroat. Expansions came and went so fast that the top guild generally had the hardest zone(s) to themselves.

[Skew]

Theres competition everywhere in everything but sure, its relative.
I was on The Nameless and the competition there in the first few expansions was to have server firsts.

[kotton05]

It's easier than ever to be a raiding guild. In kunark it truly was about the top 5% that saw targets. Now guilds in rags are getting shots at top end mobs due to current rule set.

[arsenalpow]

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's easier than ever to be a raiding guild. In kunark it truly was about the top 5% that saw targets. Now guilds in rags are getting shots at top end mobs due to current rule set.

Go on

[Daldaen]

Launch Luclin. Make it a one-way trip for the first 6-12 months. So that once you're in Luclin you may not return to Velious or Kunark.

This way the neckbeards would rush to Luclin for AAs and new raid content and the casuals would have their opportunity to experience Velious raids unmolested.

[Whirled]

ITT: nerds argue over not sharing a game made in 1999.