Can you bind at firepots still?

[BiG SiP]

you’re in our world now!
(LOL)

[Xandria]

They knew it was going to happen. They could have blocked that before opening kunark.
Once again it sounds more like it was left on for three days so their friends could go bind and then fudge the rest of the server or anybody that wasn't around yet.

[Disease]

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

They knew it was going to happen. They could have blocked that before opening kunark.
Once again it sounds more like it was left on for three days so their friends could go bind and then fudge the rest of the server or anybody that wasn't around yet.

Everybody was waiting for kunark to drop so they could bind every alt there. It was in game for 3 days on live and 3 days here.

[Videri]

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

Everybody was waiting for kunark to drop so they could bind every alt there. It was in game for 3 days on live and 3 days here.

Exactly.

However, it was a full 4 days. Kunark opened on a Friday night and firepot binding was removed on Tuesday night.

[Zoolander]

I just don't understand why verant created the pots if ppl where not allowed to bind there.

I mean, who goes to oasis, waits for boat, and runs afterwards the whole zone south to the pots if he could get a port within 5 mins from a druid or wizard?

Mc`Quaid: ok, we got one dev. whos bored! go create the firepots noone will ever use!

[Knuckle]

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

I just don't understand why verant created the pots if ppl where not allowed to bind there.

I mean, who goes to oasis, waits for boat, and runs afterwards the whole zone south to the pots if he could get a port within 5 mins from a druid or wizard?

Mc`Quaid: ok, we got one dev. whos bored! go create the firepots noone will ever use!

I imagine the original intention was a easter egg for people that had to journey out to bumfuck nowhere for epic npcs or faydedar and didnt anticipate players binding there at the time.

Edit: neriak pots I think were stated as an idea for evil races to easily get to faydedar and completely unrelated.

[Danth]

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

I imagine the original intention was a easter egg for people that had to journey out to bumfuck nowhere for epic npcs or faydedar and didnt anticipate players binding there at the time.

Even more than that, EQ was made during the 1990's "world simulator" era, not the newer "theme park" video game era. Norrath's supposed to be a high fantasy world where if you go far enough out into the wild areas of the world you'll find strange and wondrous things. There are deliberate enigmas. EQ was severely limited by its era's technology and was unable to fully realize the ideal, but the firepots represent one such remote point of interest. The notion that everything in the game has to have a clear purpose is a paint-by-numbers theme-park notion at odds with the world simulator concept.

Danth

[Videri]

People, please.

The original EQ devs created the firepot room as a cool little curio, not intending it to be a game-changing self-port machine. They didn't think "Everyone will bind here." When they found out people were binding there, they made the zone un-bindable.

The P99 devs follow the exact same timeline. It was nerfed on Green after 4 days (96 hours), just like it was on Red eight (?) years ago and on Blue ten years ago.

It is not some attempt to give favors to their friends and exclude others. I'd estimate thousands of characters were bound at the firepots on Green in those 96 hours. No one was excluded.

However, I do think they should have made an announcement on these forums at the moment of the opening of Kunark. I know some people were standing by waiting for Kunark to open so they could bind at the firepots, but they didn't get the memo. It's too bad.

However, the game goes on. I had a lot of fun on five different EMU servers before Green99 without binding a single character at the firepots.

[Zoolander]

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

They didn't think "Everyone will bind here." When they found out people were binding there, they made the zone un-bindable.

so they either have been naïve or just trolls

[Videri]

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

so they either have been naïve or just trolls

Oh yeah, original EQ devs were indeed naive. It was one of the first MMOs. Game designers weren't familiar with the way the player population would swarm over the world and find every possible way to exploit everything. I really think they didn't predict people would start to bind themselves at the Firepots - and only when players started to do so did the devs think ahead and realize eventually everyone would.