Players will always compete for raid mobs; the point of contention is the rules

[Noselacri]

Originally Posted by Nirgon

The raid scene wasn't designed to support thousands

Everquest was not designed to have one server. Failing to account for this when emulating Everquest will lead to the problems at hand.

I have yet to hear any argument based in sound reason that supports the current situation. It's always ignorance of the cause of it and/or conscious desire to deprive other players of access to gameplay.

If this were classic Everquest, people could move to a different server with room in the raid scene, and new servers would open up when the older ones got too crowded. When you don't provide this option or an alternative that sufficiently simulates it, you create these problems and make the server very unclassic.

Defending that is a declaration of idiocy.

[Nikon]

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

You know Platlord was caught and banned? Widespread RMTing? More like under the table shit here and there that you couldn't find out about no matter what you did. It's not a huge issue anymore, I don't think.

Honestly, this is wrong. Platlord's site is back up to selling project1999 plat and items and there are other resources if you follow the breadcrumb trail. It was only suppressed temporarily. You don't think now that the DDoS and 'duping' fire has fizzled, things won't go right back to how they were? With that many posts, I would think you would know better.

[heartbrand]

There's not enough content to be consumed so this will always be a problem. In the interim if you are sick of being cock blocked, red has a 200% EXP bonus as well as scaling EXP bonus and no variance. I'll never understand why an entire blue guild just doesn't move over together, pop begets more pop etc. If two or three guilds did this you'd see 400+ on red in no time.

[Noselacri]

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

There's not enough content to be consumed so this will always be a problem. In the interim if you are sick of being cock blocked, red has a 200% EXP bonus as well as scaling EXP bonus and no variance. I'll never understand why an entire blue guild just doesn't move over together, pop begets more pop etc. If two or three guilds did this you'd see 400+ on red in no time.

Because Everquest has some of the worst PvP in gaming history?

[Tasslehofp99]

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

Honestly, this is wrong. Platlord's site is back up to selling project1999 plat and items and there are other resources if you follow the breadcrumb trail. It was only suppressed temporarily. You don't think now that the DDoS and 'duping' fire has fizzled, things won't go right back to how they were? With that many posts, I would think you would know better.

Doesn't surprise me.

[Nirgon]

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

Honestly, this is wrong. Platlord's site is back up to selling project1999 plat and items and there are other resources if you follow the breadcrumb trail. It was only suppressed temporarily. You don't think now that the DDoS and 'duping' fire has fizzled, things won't go right back to how they were? With that many posts, I would think you would know better.

So where's he getting his prenerf fungi sticks from? iirc 3 went down the tubes, along with many other items that cannot be replaced. If he's selling those again, look for trades involving them. Should be easy to catch.

I'm unsure if he is at full capacity again or what is listed on his site, I do not visit it. Posting here does not help me determine that.

[Nikon]

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

I'm unsure if he is at full capacity again or what is listed on his site, I do not visit it. Posting here does not help me determine that.

While I'm sure they are currently working at a diminished capacity, my guess is that him and his team are working diligently to resupply. I know for a while people were posting that he took P99 off his site, but a quick search shows it is back again. I applaud the GMs for their effort to stop him. I wish there was more they could do. It's a silly cat and mouse game.

[timhutton]

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

While I'm sure they are currently working at a diminished capacity, my guess is that him and his team are working diligently to resupply. I know for a while people were posting that he took P99 off his site, but a quick search shows it is back again. I applaud the GMs for their effort to stop him. I wish there was more they could do. It's a silly cat and mouse game.

Item's are also beginning to show up on Platlord's list of things to sell.. and even worse than Platlord, there was a post on another forum(with colorful name) that indicated a big seller from live that sells on every server was also getting involved in the show.

[Nirgon]

Well, obviously SoE recognized Rogean and project 1999 (unless he just signed up as that on the ticket for "for show" purposes), so they don't care or care as much about what he's doing.

However.

People making money off this server would probably be of interest to them. Maybe he should catch them/reveal their identity and hand them over to SoE. The threat of that should be enough, I'd think.

[Fountree]

What ^ said ...

There's nothing classic about the entire server having the ability to raid VP. We've just gotten to the point where that's possible because of the extended content timeline. At the same time, we have to remember that nothing is stopping other guilds from raiding this zone. TMO is subject to the current ruleset and the trains just like everyone else.