"We want people to obtain their levels naturally via kills" --Rogean

[kaizersoze]

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

57 in under a week? How many people playing that account?

probably just one. Probably a cleric duoing bear pits...

[cd288]

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

probably just one. Probably a cleric duoing bear pits...

Yup. People automatically assume account sharing but I don’t think they realize how fast you can level in terms of total days if you simply care more about the game than being healthy.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yup. People automatically assume account sharing but I don’t think they realize how fast you can level in terms of total days if you simply care more about the game than being healthy.

On Tunare server, live back in the day, the first char to 60 was a Ranger who killed BBM dwarfs about 16 hours a day while supported by a rotating crew of out-of group guildmates. (The term "powerlevel" was not in use back in the days of stone knives and bearskins, I guess we weren't cool enough.) It took him 2 weeks. I do not recall if he was first across all servers, or only on Tunare.

I cannot see how that differed in any meaningful way from Mannastone's scheme (i.e. develop a plan in advance to hit 60 as fast as possible using commonly available knowledge and current ruleset pushed to an extreme.) He could've saved a couple days had he been a Rogue instead of a Ranger, but I always thought it was cool that the server first L60 was a hybrid even if he did cheese it with ungrouped support.

[magnetaress]

Can we please naturally turn in bone chips at a normal human input level of rate and flow so that we may naturally attain levels from mobs we killed and items we collected by naturally killing said skeletons.

I have a dream, and that dream is to hit level 20 on bone chips some day while wearing raw hide and using a bronze rapier. Please help me achieve that dream, naturally.

Amen.

[Castle2.0]

Negative Nerd: "No free acounts in 1999!"
Castle2.0: "Ok I corpse em all!"
Negative Nerd: "Hardware in 1999 couldn't handle that many corpses."
Castle2.0: "Okay, I spread them out across Antonica."
Negative Nerd: *rage*
Castle2.0: ""Don't worry, I won't hurt you...I only want you to have some fun"

Originally Posted by Vaarsuvius

Kudos to you Castle for coming up with that one and managing to get enough quest iems to ding 60 😁 can't wait for you to do so and to watch your video

Gracias, hombre.

Originally Posted by Fooljin

"Exploiting" modern conveniences 20 years later is....an "exploit."

"Exploiting is exploiting, therefore you must be exploiting." Tautology + non sequitur = winning? Elf logician at his peak!

Originally Posted by Tooljin

go ahead and thank players like Manastone for why you can't have nice things

I have already been thanked enough for inspiring a generation of elves to seek out the ancient quests and hidden secrets that our forefathers have missed. But in regards to the overreaction that brought the "Exp Quest Moratorium of 2020"... I didn't string that bow, I didn't pull back that arrow. I was the target, that is all.

Originally Posted by Baler

Castle2.0's only goal is to exploit P99 so he can record it happening and get the game unclassicly changed. Then he will hold his achievement up high like a trophy and laugh at anyone who suffers due to his actions. His signature is proof of this to begin with.

Incorrect. I seek to explore the unexplored in a world of mass delusion where everyone has been fooled that there is nothing left to explore.

Manadancing. Soloing PoD in classic. #1 DPS'ing. And I am not done yet.

I will inspire millions (of pixels) in the form of thousands of digital-elves to seek the apex of Norrathian exploration.

The exploratory spirit... always finds a way

[Tuljin]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Exploiting is exploiting, therefore you must be exploiting." Tautology + non sequitur = winning? Elf logician at his peak!

I mean....I'm pretty sure this is how the highest elf court justified the turning XP moratorium, you should take it up with them. I'm pretty sure they'd tell you the same thing. I'd say they are pretty peak elf logicians. Correct me if I'm wrong.

And addressing bardp1999 - no, quests turnins are not exploits. Even if you were to spread tons of corpses all over norrath, GMs in classic would probably get hip to it somehow, just like the GMs today. So, actually, tautologically....."classic."

And yep, the GMs -are- winning lol you're the one sitting here bitching about it and still playing here. They are gonna do whatever "unclassic" things they want and people are still gonna play.

You're not "winning" any argument here now. The quest nerf is done. There won't be a reopening of Teal because....there wasn't a huge population explosion in Kunark. That's because far fewer people "came back" than anticipated because.....many people on P99 (and lots of people that don't play P99) actually -dont like- classic EQ.

[Castle2.0]

Tooljin gonna tooljin lol.

Pure argumentum ab auctoritate. Sorry, might doth not make right.

I don't believe GMs in classic with the classic GM tools available would find 100 corpses stacked on each other (which look like 1 corpse) hidden in a zone somewhere.

Maybe the GMs should stop tracking which computer you're logging in from and any other such modern tools to make the GM'ing "classic" as well *eye roll*

I'm not the one "bitching." You're the only one mad in a huff. I'm just basking in the awesomeness of what is possible along with my fellow elves. At the same time, I am making a point about the sledgehammer reaction we saw from Devs.

Keep pretending classic is what you think it is, and keep imagining many are against that caricature. I don't think either is quite true. Good day sir!

[Hrothgar]

Castle is like an unironic Chortles.

Idk which I despise more.

[Zipity]

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

Castle is like an unironic Chortles.

Idk which I despise more.

What if Castle = Chortles

[Ashenden]

Ha I said Telk. Talendor*