GLOBAL ooc/auction. Poll time.

[darwinain]

Why don't we drop global ooc/auction for a week or two on a trial basis and then have another poll to see if anyone has changed their minds?

--Dar

[stormlord]

This poll should have had a 3rd option:
"Yes, if and when the population is higher (ex: 1000)."

That was what the last poll did and it was more representative. I haven't even voted in this one.

Nilbog made a post that when it was 200, people wanted 500, and now that it's 700, people still want more. He implied we'll always want more. Well, servers during live had 1500-2500, maybe 1000+ average. That's an absolute. My thinking is 1000 would be a good number to shoot for because these days it's easier to use forums, network, we have item links and people have more knowledge of the game that they can share with others. So I don't think we need 2000+ max or 1000+ average to have a sufficient population. Furthermore, a lot of people playing at project1999 came here explicitly because this is classic, this is THE game! Global auctioning is not their top priority. In other words, the loss of it would not be a huge gamble or huge loss.

Like someone else here said, global chat is to conversation as pok books are to travel. They trivialize elements of classic eq that helped to make it unique, despite how controversial the elements are in other games. We have a tremendous advantage compared to 1999 because of global chat and auctioning. I tried to find a middle ground by making a thread about filtering global chat (while allowing people to still use global chat) to remedy this in the meantime until we have sufficient population to approximate the conditions of that era.

Have to also give attention to the spam in /ooc and /auction (when everyone on the server is using them, it fills up the window fast) and the auctions that are on the other side of the world (people don't say where they're most of the time and you might not be able to travel that far). A filtering mechanism would address this.

[President]

Please take out tells while people are zoning, and item links too, those aren't classic. They totally ruin my immersion.

[nilbog]

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

Please take out tells while people are zoning, and item links too, those aren't classic. They totally ruin my immersion.

This is a poll about global ooc/auction. Take your other topics elsewhere. I'm sure people have a lot to say about them as well.

[President]

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

This is a poll about global ooc/auction. Take your other topics elsewhere. I'm sure people have a lot to say about them as well.

I'm obviously not requesting those to be removed. I am just making the point that the "it's not classic" reason is invalid.

[Cevel]

the polls are starting to even up....the idea that 1 person is creating many accounts to try and swing their poll is a bit sad...

Why can't we just have the mentality... "if it's not broken...why fix it?"

The server continues to grow more and more every week with global /ooc. Everyone is enjoying themselves.... everyone has benefited from from /ooc and i will call any of you out saying you have NEVER used /ooc to find a group.. /ooc has been very helpful for finding groups...no it's not the only way but yes it is useful

[eqdruid76]

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

the polls are starting to even up....the idea that 1 person is creating many accounts to try and swing their poll is a bit sad...

Why can't we just have the mentality... "if it's not broken...why fix it?"

The server continues to grow more and more every week with global /ooc. Everyone is enjoying themselves.... everyone has benefited from from /ooc and i will call any of you out saying you have NEVER used /ooc to find a group.. /ooc has been very helpful for finding groups...no it's not the only way but yes it is useful

The question is not its usefulness. The question is why set out to emulate Everquest, as it existed in 1999, with a chat system that emulates changes from 2002.

Spoiled brats.....

[Cevel]

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

This server is to duplicate what was Classic | Kunark | Veilous.

All of these were part of the game, aside from global ooc/auc.

Get a grip and stop being an annoying tool.

And wrong...

[ulrich]

A bunch of trolls mad that they might not be as famous because they spam ooc all the time.

[Phallax]

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

A bunch of trolls mad that they might not be as famous because they spam ooc all the time.

Lol so true