How is "recharging" items not an exploit?

[Doctor Jeff]

Clever use of game mechanics.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Not to be "that guy" but it seems like a hack, there's no reason the game should actually work that way.

If all the things in EQ that were unintended by the devs were changed to fit the devs original intent, we'd probably all hate this game.

There's a pretty fine line between "exploit" and "emergent gameplay" anyways. Yeah it's goofy as fuck the way recharging works... but goofy stuff like that wasn't uncommon to see in games back in the day, and often times they just became accepted parts of the game even though they didn't really make any sense.

[Cecily]

If the devs wanted recharging gone, they would patch it out like they did on red.

[Nuggie]

Hey man. You seem kind of snarky. You either want to come and play on p99 and have fun with nilbog and rogean rules or you don't want to come have fun. There are other servers that operate in different ways. Or start your own if you think your vision will draw more people. Personally, I'm happy here.

[renordw]

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

Hey man. You seem kind of snarky. You either want to come and play on p99 and have fun with nilbog and rogean rules or you don't want to come have fun. There are other servers that operate in different ways. Or start your own if you think your vision will draw more people. Personally, I'm happy here.

Hi Nuggie, there's no need to attack me personally. It's a question. I think you know the "America, love it or leave it" attitude is kind of ridiculous, there's always room for discussion.

[Flashback]

do not pin mobs in the wall's or corners and do not clear the trash mobs before the big boss, just fight them all at the same time. Stop exploiting mechanics, you dirty cheaters, gawd :/

[myriverse]

Even GMs on Live condoned its use, so I don't think it fits being an exploit.

[Matalus]

It's been adjusted as seen fit on this server vs live. Example: Ivandry's Hoop

[Tankdan]

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

Even GMs on Live condoned its use, so I don't think it fits being an exploit.

Average platinum per account was also like 10k (10k was worth $200 in classic) on live so I don't know why we are even comparing the two.

[trite]

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

Not to be "that guy" but it seems like a hack, there's no reason the game should actually work that way.

Recharging is cool as fuck....It means that organized guilds have a system where any player that joins them becomes more powerful by gaining access to an array of potion effects including heal potions, slow potions, agroe etc....

It also means that raidings guilds have to be run like a business exploiting limited server resources, the guilds need to have a system for making platinum to fund their recharge sessions....

Some fights are impossible without heal potions...

Guilds have to budget which fights they choose to pick with what numbers too. You can't run yourself out of money by engaging in fights that cost you 100k to recharge your members for and only give you one sleepers tomb key (like sontolak)....or let your guild burn 50k on AoW when you probably won't get there with 50 people