Server dying?

[raato]

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

I am in Awakened and I respect the rules and other people.

Raiding in P99 is is incredibly competitive and it takes a ton of resources, especially time and energy. Not everyone is willing to leave dinner a little early to kill a mob, or stay up a little later to help recover your pull team after losing a mob to your competition. Even in Awakened some players really love to clear Plane of Growth for 12 hours for a chance at bad loot, others don't think it's worth it.

I respect anyone who refuses to play the game in a way that is not fun for them. However, I don't think the 'flight' analogy makes much sense and I don't know why if you're unhappy with your current situation you think bashing the staff or more competitive guilds on the forums will help.

Not saying all of the A/A members are disrespectful towards the rules or other people, I know many players in both guilds that are awesome and friendly people when you are communicating with them. But by being member of those guilds it shows that you are not only fine with how some of the members/leadership break the rules and act but also supporting it.

If it were only skills or willingness to log in whenever I would call it fair competition, but it has never been just that. Being suspended on multiple occasions for breaking the rules doesn't happen on its own, and knowing how hard it is sometimes to prove that there has been rule violations you can only imagine how often shady things happen.

And I don't have any slight hope that anything I post here would actually help fix any of the problems I'm talking about. I'm enjoying Agnarr most of the time and just rarely logging in p99 when I'm asked to, because I have realized that this environment is what server staff wants it to be because they would have done something if it wasn't.

[Lhancelot]

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

I don't know why if you're unhappy with your current situation you think bashing the staff or more competitive guilds on the forums will help.

This. ^

Now can we please get back to the server dying? Why is the server dying guys? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Heebs13]

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

Are you shitting me? Do you know how many times and for how long dragons are in in ToV all fucking day that CSG could go get? Once again nobody is stopping you guys from killing anything. Even in the FTE running days, there would be 15 people on the line, 6 dragons in window and NOT 1 CSG running. Yet on the forums, it was whine whine whine or /petition /petition /petition. WTF dude. Take some responsibility

Maybe I've just only been around on A/A poopsock days and I've missed the days where you guys are leaving up all the merbs, but every time I've been in ToV getting timers, I walk in to a bunch of A/A just sitting at the zonein and y'all pull mobs within 60 seconds of them spawning. I'm talking specifically about the more entry-level named in the zone such as Telk, Doze, Eashen - you know, the sorts of mobs a less experienced and less geared guild would want to cut their teeth on. Oh you guys left Vulak up for a few hours while you cleared the rest of the zone? Amazing, can't wait to bring a casual guild/alliance to try to compete on that. Heck, even lesser targets outside of ToV, I can't count the number of times we've tried to rush to the mob within minutes of it spawning and here comes Aftermath with half the people to FTE the mob before we get a chance.

Now look, I'm not complaining. I know some are, but I'm not. I get it, that's just the way the game is. But at least get your facts straight. Don't act like TOV is just asking to be raided and the only thing stopping CSG from rolling in pixels is their laziness or something. Awakened was cool about CSG coming in and doing LTK and Feshlak yesterday during the Aftermath ban, and I'm pretty sure they cleaned up the entire zone in the time it took us to learn and kill those mobs. If both A/A had been there and weren't interested in playing nice? You've got to be kidding me if you think we would have gotten those kills. As others have said, we go for targets where we feel we have a reasonable chance of competing. Are we going to go for the mob that 9/10 times A/A will FTE first, and that other 1/10 we will wipe because we've never done it before and then we lose the FTE anyway? Surely you can understand why not everyone would want to spend their time that way. Or maybe you can't, doesn't matter I guess.

So yeah, someone asked why the server is "dying"? Most people came back with the intention of revisiting (or seeing for the first time) old content from back in the day. A lot of us, not all - but a lot, now have jobs/families/responsibilities and don't feel like poopsocking for 16 hours straight. A lot of those people reach a certain point where their options are neglect their real life for pixels or stop progressing their toon / roll an alt to do the 1-60 grind again. Some people choose the poopsock life, some roll alts, and some just get bored and stop logging back in. This isn't something new: every MMO reaches a point where people stop playing until the next expansion comes out because they've done all the content they can and they're bored. Maybe if Luclin came out that would help but I'm pretty sure the staff has said they aren't doing that and I know some people just aren't interested in Luclin - and if they are, they've probably swapped to Agnarr where Luclin is a guaranteed thing within a few months whereas on P99 you'll most likely never see it at all.

[Legday]

Originally Posted by Heebs13 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Awakened was cool about CSG coming in and doing LTK and Feshlak yesterday during the Aftermath ban

Do you know why Awakened let you guys kill Fesh? They needed somebody to kill him for them so they could kill Vulak. They conceded 2 Feshlaks because they trained us with him last week and were going to possibly eat a 10 day but weren't going to concede 2 because that is how petty things are at the top. They only conceded 2 once we got our 10 day and quite literally needed you guys to kill it for them.

[Legday]

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

Do you know why Awakened let you guys kill Fesh? They needed somebody to kill him for them so they could kill Vulak. They conceded 2 Feshlaks because they trained us with him last week and were going to possibly eat a 10 day but weren't going to concede 2 because that is how petty things are at the top. They only conceded 2 once we got our 10 day and quite literally needed you guys to kill it for them.

Very cool and charitable to let you guys kill LTK though.

[Heebs13]

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

Do you know why Awakened let you guys kill Fesh? They needed somebody to kill him for them so they could kill Vulak. They conceded 2 Feshlaks because they trained us with him last week and were going to possibly eat a 10 day but weren't going to concede 2 because that is how petty things are at the top. They only conceded 2 once we got our 10 day and quite literally needed you guys to kill it for them.

I figured there was a less-than-charitable reason (and if I'm not mistaken, letting us have LTK was part of this deal - you kill Feshlak for us, we let you have LTK), but the point remains. We would have never been able to kill Feshlak if we had not been ALLOWED to kill Feshlak.

And that's the simple reality for all of ToV right now. Paul had it right when he said even if a mob is "left up" in ToV, that mob is no more available to the lower guilds than if it was already dead. If we formed up to try to take a ToV mob, A/A would be there immediately and would have that mob long before we were able to figure it out.

[Tenderizer]

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

Do you know why Awakened let you guys kill Fesh? They needed somebody to kill him for them so they could kill Vulak. They conceded 2 Feshlaks because they trained us with him last week and were going to possibly eat a 10 day but weren't going to concede 2 because that is how petty things are at the top. They only conceded 2 once we got our 10 day and quite literally needed you guys to kill it for them.

True facts. Many more to be sure and with this little glimps it doesnt make it worth it for a lot of people to deal with stuff like this or worse everytime they turn around. Some put up with it some don't.
Dont white knight AM though all are guilty of this server being ehat it is regardless if people refuse to see or acknowledge it.

[botrainer]

I would much agree with a instanced classic server. It would make raiding much easier and more fun. I mean to have a night or two to clear a few raid events then have the rest of the week off would be nice. No more poopsocking, tracking, "train outs", DA pulling, cluster fucking. It would be great to keep Velious inside the instance structure, and keeping Kunark/Classic non instance.

[Skew]

Wait , theres no FTE/Camp priority on Agnar/Phinny? Its straight DPS races?
Oh im sure per capita there are far less assholes on those servers if thats the case.
hoho

[Arkanjil]

Well, i actually love the feel of classic EQ in P99. I might not see all the content, but being able to play with friends and just enjoy the classic mechanics and zones will always been fun. I actually enjoy leveling and doing it with toons that aren't twinked. There's a challenge in this game that you don't find elsewhere.

That said, I don't plan to leave until Pantheon releases, and even then I'll still play here one in a while.