Raiding in P1999 is nothing like raiding in classic.

[Tasslehofp99]

I mean, Poopsocking was a stratedgy employed by many guilds on the more popular live servers.

I highly doubt that the dev's added variance with their main consideration being that it would prevent poopsocking. In essence, it does nothing to prevent poopsocking. If people are determined enough to kill a mob, they will still sit on/near it's spawn.

I think that a more logical explanation of why variance was added would be that Classic/kunark lasted ALOT longer on p99 than they did on live. Which leads to oversaturation of the server with high end items/loot/plat/etc, and would make velious far too trivial compared to what it should be on release. In otherwords, the variance was put in as a counter to the fact that our timeline is quite extended.


Autotune -- Do you have any proof that variance was added to prevent poopsocking or are you just assuming that?

[Tasslehofp99]

Morgander for GM!

That is all.

[Morgander]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Morgander for GM!

That is all.

I'd do an amazing job.

You've got my vote.

[JayN]

we need LDON! what a wonderful expansion

[Tiddlywinks]

Cool, got links to the patch notes?

[Autotune]

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

Cool, got links to the patch notes?

I don't need it, I was here. If you want the answer from a source other than me, you find it.

[Tiddlywinks]

But it's not for you. Its for tassle/myself. So if you expect us to believe you we are asking for a bit of proof. I've searched. Found nothing.

People don't just take your word for it because you say so, sorry.

P.S. I was there too, aren't we special?

[Autotune]

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

But it's not for you. Its for tassle/myself. So if you expect us to believe you we are asking for a bit of proof. I've searched. Found nothing.

People don't just take your word for it because you say so, sorry.

P.S. I was there too, aren't we special?

If you were here, then you should already know that what I said is correct.

[Tiddlywinks]

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

If you were here, then you should already know that what I said is correct.

For what it's worth I think you most likely are correct. Although, similar to training in VP I think it had more to do with cutting down petitions to GM due to all of the first in force, and 15 man on spawn rules that exist prior to it than to actually eliminating it just because poopsocking exists or isn't fun.

Basically, I think there isn't a reason for it anymore. FTE shouts take the work out of having to GM poopsocking events.

Anyway, proof is always better than what someone recollects or says they remember. I don't even trust myself to be correct and would love to see some proof.

[Kika Maslyaka]

IMHO, you can't have both:

-plenty of raid content for everyone
AND
-classic EQ

These two are mutually exclusive.
This is how it was from day one till instancing was born.

Because classic EQ raids are mechanically simplistic, the most fun was achieved by getting to the target at all, rather than "beating the encounter".
When raids finally evolved, and instancing appeared, everyone happily forgot about the "getting there first" and concentrated on "killing it".

Since this is a classic server - there will NEVER be enough content for everyone. Not even for a quarter of everyone.
Accept it. Move on.