Splorf on Everquest skill

[Tecmos Deception]

Bah. Too many people think skill is some magical thing that only professional athletes have and then laugh at anyone who talks about skill in any other context.

Dictionary definition of skill: the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice.

Guess what we all do basically every time we play p99? Yeah. We're all training ourselves to play p99, practicing playing p99, and experiencing p99. Some people here are more skilled at playing p99 than others, probably because some people take the "training, experience, or practice" more seriously than others and/or put in more time doing those things.

[Splorf22]

Well for starters, its clear that you don't know what the word tautology means.

Anyway I think you are blowing my post way out of proportion - certainly there are other facets of EQ skill, and social skills are definitely one. The point I was trying to make is that FE in general and Unbrella/Sloan in particular have been trying to claim that their willingness to get up at 3AM to faceroll their keyboards to kill boss mobs in a giant zerg makes them some sort of gods of classic everquest. And reality is, the current raid scene is 95% effort and 5% skill.

P.S. Does having a thread about me in server chat mean I win forumquest?

[CodyF86]

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P.S. Does having a thread about me in server chat mean I win forumquest?

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[Pint]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

P.S. Does having a thread about me in server chat mean I win forumquest?

you win forumquest when you achieve planar protector status, sooo you already won.

[Tann]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

P.S. Does having a thread about me in server chat mean I win forumquest?

for today only, new winners announced nightly @ 7pm PST during the week and 3pm on weekends. cheers~

[Lojik]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

P.S. Does having a thread about me in server chat mean I win forumquest?

You can add this to your solo challenge thingy

[Pint]

also skill is eq is tied directly to winning the random number generator game!

[Hitpoint]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well for starters, its clear that you don't know what the word tautology means.

Anyway I think you are blowing my post way out of proportion - certainly there are other facets of EQ skill, and social skills are definitely one. The point I was trying to make is that FE in general and Unbrella/Sloan in particular have been trying to claim that their willingness to get up at 3AM to faceroll their keyboards to kill boss mobs in a giant zerg makes them some sort of gods of classic everquest. And reality is, the current raid scene is 95% effort and 5% skill.

P.S. Does having a thread about me in server chat mean I win forumquest?

You have no idea the kind of strategy it takes to get VP kills while a larger, more experienced guild is allowed to train you and KS you. I didn't know what it entailed until I saw it, and Sloan wasn't exaggerating at all when he described it in raid discussion forum.

Everything from hiding groups of players in different parts of the zone, moving around without being seen by the other guild, how to train another FD class or an entire guild properly and keep yourself alive, training mobs with a very low agro range and very high melee damage away from your raid and not leaving any stragglers, counter training when someone's trying to train your group. Knowing when it's safe to even have your raid enter the zone or engage a dragon. One unchecked tmo monk/necro/sk can potentially end your entire night there, and turn it into many hours of CR. There was even PVP when our monks started going red so that the other trainers couldn't bracer them and soulfire/rune themselves to steal the train. Their necros started going red to just kill our our monks, and that added a whole new dynamic that I won't even get into here. You need to use your resources wisely, you can't just batphone when a dragon is up. You need to know that you can get a killforce online and hopefully mobilize to VP before the other guild realizes you are. Or else they log the trainers on before you even get there.

I could go on for a half hour probably. Bottom line is, you sell our raid leaders very short in this respect. If you told me you one grouped bee queen, I'd be less impressed than I was after our first Phara'dar kill. There's a reason many people were actually sad when VP went completely csr.

[myriverse]

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

There's a reason many people were actually sad when VP went completely csr.

People who are punished for their bad behaviour usually are sad.

[Hitpoint]

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

People who are punished for their bad behaviour usually are sad.

It was absolutely encouraged by staff. Idk how you can call it bad behavior. It was just a very different zone with very different rules that made it unique.