Are you kidding me?

[thufir]

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

Be thankful you have something in your life more important than EQ and let the people whose life situations allow them to play 24/7 enjoy their pixels.

[Tuljin]

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

We've been running the server on a TR? / IB model FTE sock model for the entirety of the server's history. That's not how all live servers worked and it's time to try an alternative. Sharing content would mean almost no staff intervention required versus our abomination of a raid system. I know how you feel, Aviann, but when the casual scum are just as capable of killing anything your top teir raid guild it's silly to feel superior.

Thanks for fucking up the server guise

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

its a flaw in your idea that a starting gun and a race has anything to do with everquest

you make rotations and fuck them up

then you come up with retarded ideas like foot races which should be reserved for lvl 1 gnome GM events and ..


SHOCKER

its a retarded idea with a retarded outcome, look at this thread

step away and look at this shit, you think you are solving things with anything other than a rotation? its a blue server. you share as a community. you cannot "fight" for raid targets no matter what in the hell you think qualifies as that without pvp being enabled.


this is the only thing worse than my post count, which isn't even as high as others now. seriously.

Yes

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

EQ has never been about skill or being able to kill something, it has always been about time commitment. It takes forever to level, then gear out, then join a guild, etc... a trained chimp could probably figure it out.

I understand your sentiment and yes it takes a ton of time to play EQ however unlike WoW and carebear MMOs if you die, you lose XP. If you keep dying, you keep losing XP. If you dont get a rez, the XP is gone forever.

EQ is designed such that in order to be successful at the increasingly challenging content and get your levels, you have to learn game mechanics and get better. This is unlike carebear MMOs which pull you right on along. I'm pretty sure a chimp couldn't play a class with a charmed pet or pull/split rooms without getting wrecked.

This is why Chardok sucks. There are people in EQ who get to their 40s maybe 50 and then just start a new character or quit because the game is "too hard." This is by design. We shouldn't have a bunch of wannabes crank their way to 60 without learning the game just to fuel this bullshit machine.

I never thought a bunch of 30-somethings could be such absolute fucking take-my-ball-and-go-home crybabies who refuse to play a videogame without Game Genie.

[Ciroco]

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

EQ has never been about skill or being able to kill something, it has always been about time commitment.

Yeah, except that time was spent actually playing the game instead of staring at it.

[Gimp]

Rumor has it a certain AM tracker has a script that watches his screen while bind sight tracking and when it detects a mob spawned it automatically fires a sound through speakers/headset and starts running his character forward. I don't have proof of this but have heard it from more than 1 source. Not quite as elaborate as editing zone files but its def thinkin outside the box and squarely in "Would totally get you banned if ever caught" territory just like editing zone files.

that sounds amazing, where do I get this

[jcr4990]

Also something to keep in mind. Even the so called "casual" raid guilds on P99 are significantly more hardcore about raiding than pretty much any guild was in classic that I can remember. So when I say casual take it with a grain of salt. In P99's case casual tends to refer to everyone below the top 2 guilds. At least its been that way since I started playing in like 2012.

[Nibblewitz]

Yes, we all have to mince words and use doublespeak to even convey the situation that is Project 1999: Classic Everquest.

[JurisDictum]

to clarify my second point, if we want a completely organic non-GM structured raid fight, it would like this:

No Variance

Damage racing each mob at the spawn point

Training each other

Nice and lazziez-faire for you all. I'll tell you one thing, there would be a guild emerging that makes us all look like disorganized casuals.

[maskedmelon]

That's a good solution, not sure why I didn't think of that.

[AzzarTheGod]

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

to clarify my second point, if we want a completely organic non-GM structured raid fight, it would like this:

No Variance

Damage racing each mob at the spawn point

Training each other

Nice and lazziez-faire for you all. I'll tell you one thing, there would be a guild emerging that makes us all look like disorganized casuals.

This. I'd want legalized trains to make this system work as best as possible though.

[JurisDictum]

You could do a Lazziez-faire server without training. I'm sure there is some evidence somewhere the training generally was against the rules and punishable by GMs. You could even put in a 2 hour variance to avoid server crash issues.

I thought no one would want to play that server but w/e....maybe it would be better.