global chat ?

[Nerrp]

For what it's worth, I am in favor of the pure classic EQ with no alterations. Sure I would change a few individual things, namely adding custom chat channels... but once you start adding one thing here one thing there, it's a slippery slope that ends up making this "EverQuest" like every other game out there... watered down and easy. --> Which is exactly the reason we're here instead of out there playing WoW, SWTOR, or whateverelse game out there.

We like EQ because it was difficult - it didn't give you a map, made you lose an hour's work when you die, you have to find your corpse, which can rot, and it takes forever to level... brilliant.

[Flunklesnarkin]

yep i like custom chat channels... I can live without them though.


Most people use vent these days for raids anyways.


Its just nice to have vent + channel for healers or channel for alpha tank group or w/e.

So people don't get caught up on wrong information in guild chat because not everybody can talk on vent at once.


Usually need more information than what one person is saying at a time on harder fights.

[Fultun]

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

I think he's talking about the xp penalties on certain classes & races.
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Ahh good point, my mistake.

[Visual]

globat chat was a fun time except for ilililllililll and finawin

[mwatt]

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

IMO the "its not in P99 because its not classic" excuse is way overused.

There are many things in P99 that isnt classic as well...so if those can exist, why cant this?

A global chat doesnt even affect the game as much as a gameplay function. Global chats has always been optional to join, if you dont wish to have your chat box spammed, you can just leave the global chat channels.

Using logic like that one might say something like: "Since there are many murders committed in the world every year - why not kill a few more people?"

Risky analogies aside, The intent is to provide as close to the classic experience as possible. Some things are not possible. Some others are possible but simply have not been done yet due to lack of manpower/time. Finally, there are a tiny number of things - less than the count of fingers of one hand - that the devs have decided to do a little differently to resolve difficult issues that were not issues at the time classic was originally underway.

Once we start saying it isn't exactly classic now, so why not deviate, we will loose sight of the target and produce something different. You might want that, but that is not the idea here.

[mwatt]

Originally Posted by Dumesh Uhl'Belk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rogean makes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. There are a lot of people who come here because we want to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

If what you really want is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, hold the jelly, add bananas, honey, cinnamon, deep-friend.... then may I direct you to the eqemu source code on http://www.eqemulator.org/

From there, you can get all the information you need to start your own server with whatever rules and options you want.

Rogean makes what Rogean makes, take it or leave it.

Rogean is undoubtedly ultra important to the server, but you really can't call this Rogean's solo creation. People like Nilborg(!) and Kanras can't possibly be left out of the equation. There is also a whole list of past contributors that helped create what we have today.

I agree completely with the tenor of your post though.

[Hitchens]

Would global chat break the game? Probably not.
Would global chat give staff yet another thing to babysit? Probably so.

[Nedala]

EC tunnel > global chat channels (you cant have both)

[Malrubius]

As others have pointed out, this is an old idea - we already tried global OOC on this server for many, many months.

It sucked. Everyone was bitching about it. Drama queens telling their life story. During peak hours, text scrolled by too fast to be read. Constantly trying to /ignore Iillllilillliiililliiili.

The server improved hugely when they got rid of it. It gave us, among other things: useful and informative local communication; nerfed spammers; and EC tunnel as the gods intended it. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Dumesh Uhl'Belk]

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

Rogean is undoubtedly ultra important to the server, but you really can't call this Rogean's solo creation. People like Nilborg(!) and Kanras can't possibly be left out of the equation. There is also a whole list of past contributors that helped create what we have today.

I agree completely with the tenor of your post though.

Certainly not intended to exclude the other devs... mad love to Nilbog, Kanras, and everyone else that has contributed here as a dev. There are an immense number of man hours in this server, and I'm grateful for every one of them. The rhetorical device just worked better talking about one guy.