Raid Suspending best idea GM's had in a long time

[Daldaen]

You're welcome for suggesting 10 day entire raid bans for raid infractions during the last nerd summit!

The timeline on P99 is almost complete. Just the big October patch left and a few smaller patches. Once it's done they can go extremely non-classic for purposes of appeasing the mass raiding population on the server.

I haven't been online P99 in a few days in any meaningful capacity... Have any of the guilds crawled ToV or have they all submitted to peer pressure and zone-pulled to LTK or Entrance? Was kinda hoping one or two of them would crawl into North but dunno if that happened or not.

[Fifield]

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

I haven't been online P99 in a few days in any meaningful capacity... Have any of the guilds crawled ToV or have they all submitted to peer pressure and zone-pulled to LTK or Entrance? Was kinda hoping one or two of them would crawl into North but dunno if that happened or not.

I have no idea, all I know is casuals killed shit.

[Kagey]

casuals will not clear cause they dont want to "stare at walls for hours" and clearing tov would be multiple hours.

[Vallanor]

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

I haven't been online P99 in a few days in any meaningful capacity... Have any of the guilds crawled ToV or have they all submitted to peer pressure and zone-pulled to LTK or Entrance? Was kinda hoping one or two of them would crawl into North but dunno if that happened or not.

It was all zone pulls from what I saw. I can't speak for everyone, but a lot of people in AG would have loved crawling through. It just wasn't really feasible since we were sharing the zone with several guilds/alliances who were also killing things from deep in NToV. Everyone would have to agree to clear and coordinate to make it feasible without a "your week your ToV" kind of set-up.

It's not quite as fun to sit at the zone-out and wait for a dragon to magically appear in camp, but we still had a great time.

[Danth]

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

...but we still had a great time.

Some folks, maybe, and in public. Quite a few of the AG on my friends list (and there's a lot of 'em--it has become the top destination guild for rising casuals) were privately complaining about how dreary and boring it was. As you said, there was a lot of disappointment with the zone pulls. Perhaps it'd be worth working out that proper clear next time you get the chance.

Danth

[Trollkarlen]

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

I think the worst part of this suspension is having to see all the neckbeards getting SoulFire so they can prepare to take back raid scene

any guild using soulfires to trivialize raid encounters and ruining the game should be dismantled and its members banned. We should also all laugh at these losers.

[mattydef]

The server this weekend was by far the most fun and healthy I've seen it in a long time. People in tov were literally doing a conga line and partying with the absence of A/A. Everyone got to enjoy content without any drama. We're all nerds here on p99, but once you take out the beardiest of neckbeards, it's amazing how great the atmosphere becomes. Unfortunately it will end too soon, A/A members took their shower and are ready to get back into their extremely competitive everquest pve mode.

[Maner]

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

Anyone else agree that suspending Aftermath and Awakened was the best thing ever!?! And this is coming from someone who is in these guilds.

All these other guilds finally got a chance to kill some of these dragons. Enjoy some classic velious content. good job staff, and whaaaat they did a repop too? /clap

As far as the rest of you who won't leave up some mobs for the lesser guilds once in awhile. These guilds killed them all, they were able to kill them all. They just don't want to give their lives away to raid on a emulated server.

All these dragons were killed without you being able to be there, life went on, everything will be ok, your characters are still there. Maybe you could share some spawns with these guys who don't want to "Race" each week more often.

I don't even know a reason for this post, i just think its fucking awesome that all these guilds came together and got to enjoy some new fun content and by the sounds of it, had a ton of fun. Well done


TLDR: Learn to share, its just a game.

Actually CSG wiped multiple times on vulak and gave up before the repop. I believe that means they wasted a vulak spawn

[Maner]

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

any guild using soulfires to trivialize raid encounters and ruining the game should be dismantled and its members banned. We should also all laugh at these losers.

Kinda like bringing 130 people for telk or gozz? Or 150 people for CT?

[Ravager]

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

Kinda like bringing 130 people for telk or gozz? Or 150 people for CT?

You can't fault them for this. A/A would be running 150 deep each if they had a scheduled raid too. The only reason they can field 30-60 at any time of day is because their roster is just as deep. The fact that casual guilds bring 150 to a scheduled CT and A/A has just as many on call just shows how crowded the end game is.

In reality, there needs to be 2-3 more blue servers if you want any semblance of classic raiding.