A ghost of Christmas past message to upcoming guilds

[Slathar]

i find it amusing gongshow and terpentine have scheming 'cool' bad guys from pop culture TV shows hat hey believe to fit their position of power of a 26 year old game about being allies with dragons


diabetes

[compulsion]

I never realized this until r99, but guilds like Empire are why devs have been forced to shift away from open world content. Not only do they ruin content for their own members by trivializing it with over-participation, they ruin it for everyone else who would like to experience the content as it was intended.

Why do you think Rogean ridicules you guys? Instead of being able to enjoy 15 year old content for what it is, you just throw so many people at it that the whole event takes about as much concentration as watching TV. No wonder this server feels like it is full of the emotionally disabled, drug addicts, felons, unemployable, as this whole recruit literally anyone who can click the "accept" button only appeals to and rewards those players.

EQ should be like taking a roadtrip with friends, not packing 13 people into a '93 Sentra and blockading the parking lot of the Circle K til you have eaten them out of the $0.25 hot dog promo.

[Uuruk]

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

I never realized this until r99, but guilds like Empire are why devs have been forced to shift away from open world content. Not only do they ruin content for their own members by trivializing it with over-participation, they ruin it for everyone else who would like to experience the content as it was intended.

Why do you think Rogean ridicules you guys? Instead of being able to enjoy 15 year old content for what it is, you just throw so many people at it that the whole event takes about as much concentration as watching TV. No wonder this server feels like it is full of the emotionally disabled, drug addicts, felons, unemployable, as this whole recruit literally anyone who can click the "accept" button only appeals to and rewards those players.

EQ should be like taking a roadtrip with friends, not packing 13 people into a '93 Sentra and blockading the parking lot of the Circle K til you have eaten them out of the $0.25 hot dog promo.

Plenty of people get denied from Empire. Shit post 1/10

[Uuruk]

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

i find it amusing gongshow and terpentine have scheming 'cool' bad guys from pop culture TV shows hat hey believe to fit their position of power of a 26 year old game about being allies with dragons


diabetes

Everquest came out in 1989? You are fucking retarded.

[Kergan]

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

I never realized this until r99, but guilds like Empire are why devs have been forced to shift away from open world content. Not only do they ruin content for their own members by trivializing it with over-participation, they ruin it for everyone else who would like to experience the content as it was intended.

Why do you think Rogean ridicules you guys? Instead of being able to enjoy 15 year old content for what it is, you just throw so many people at it that the whole event takes about as much concentration as watching TV. No wonder this server feels like it is full of the emotionally disabled, drug addicts, felons, unemployable, as this whole recruit literally anyone who can click the "accept" button only appeals to and rewards those players.

EQ should be like taking a roadtrip with friends, not packing 13 people into a '93 Sentra and blockading the parking lot of the Circle K til you have eaten them out of the $0.25 hot dog promo.

Your argument has been posted by dozens of people over time and it all boils down to "most other people aren't playing the game like I want them to". You make statements like:

EQ should be like taking a roadtrip with friends

That is opinion stated as fact. I don't want EQ to be like a roadtrip with friends, I came back to do the progression content (VP) I missed the first time around. I wasn't here to make friends or hang out and chat with people, I wanted the guild to do the content as efficiently as possible so I could see what it was like. I'm sorry that I (and many others, if not the majority of others) don't really care how you want us to play.

Instead of being able to enjoy 15 year old content for what it is, you just throw so many people at it that the whole event takes about as much concentration as watching TV

Do you really think the recent AoW server first was a huge zerg of nobody paying attention? The toughest mob in the game sets the baseline for what you need to bring to the table as a progression guild, not the mean or average difficulty of raids. So now you've built a 50+ man raid force that is needed to take out the toughest mob in the game, you're supposed to tell half of those same people not to bother showing up for a raid that takes 25? That's retarded.

The amount of sour grapes that gets posted on R99 forums about how other people play the game is really incredible.

[Drakaris]

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

I never realized this until r99, but guilds like Empire are why devs have been forced to shift away from open world content. Not only do they ruin content for their own members by trivializing it with over-participation, they ruin it for everyone else who would like to experience the content as it was intended.

Why do you think Rogean ridicules you guys? Instead of being able to enjoy 15 year old content for what it is, you just throw so many people at it that the whole event takes about as much concentration as watching TV. No wonder this server feels like it is full of the emotionally disabled, drug addicts, felons, unemployable, as this whole recruit literally anyone who can click the "accept" button only appeals to and rewards those players.

EQ should be like taking a roadtrip with friends, not packing 13 people into a '93 Sentra and blockading the parking lot of the Circle K til you have eaten them out of the $0.25 hot dog promo.

Pretty good analysis.

The truth is once you control the flow of pixels it is impossible to stop the apps. The guild will keep snow balling.

This is why empire members worked with a GM to guild disband nihilum. Needless to say the items in the guild bank and on characters found their way to a famous online site and the staff member was ousted.

Since then shady shit after shady shit has happened involving the #1 guild. The server pop for velious launch on r99 was lacking and now the peak red server pop sits between 10-15% of blue.

This is a lower ratio server pop when nihilum was the top guild.

You have more raid targets, more content but fewer players. Empire have made this server an unfun place to play by over recruiting and slandering any guild that tries to pvp against them and does not willingly become a feeder guild.

The problem with the server pop is empire.

[Kergan]

The first day I logged into R99 there were 40 people online and who all Nihilum was cut short.

[Drakaris]

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

The first day I logged into R99 there were 40 people online and who all Nihilum was cut short.

What Timezone where you in? Server pop off peak is down to 31 according to the graph and that doesn't use the /who all count, which is even less.

[miraclegrow2]

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

i find it amusing gongshow and terpentine have scheming 'cool' bad guys from pop culture TV shows hat hey believe to fit their position of power of a 26 year old game about being allies with dragons


diabetes

I think its funny too considering how unemployed both of them are

also can I get an update on the tunare challenge?

[quido]

If the server owners don't want the game played as it currently is, they have the power to change it. They haven't, at least in any meaningful way. Their policies have created a cutthroat environment where plenty of people get "left behind." Four years of 96-hour variance (on blue) - two or three years of legal training in VP - years of experience loss and legal corpse-camping on red. If they wanted the gameplay to be different here, they could make it so; they choose not to. The rules need to support the desired behavior; you can't have a barebone set of rules and then be like "cmon guys" when things don't pan out as you'd hoped.

Also, Drakar will agree with anything that is anti-Empire, even if it completely contradicts how he previously felt on such a subject - zero credibility.