Power leveling should be banned.

[Xer0]

But should there not be restrictions? Why should someone get to have several camps worth of spawns, in a zone that can easily accomdate 5+ groups of legitimate PARTIES.. simply because he has the plat to pay a max lvl bard? It's garbage and regardless of it being "classic" it makes the game inhospitable to new players.
Edit:
I get that,a ccording to earlier posts, there are rules against, say, claiming all of unrest. But even something as open as oasis can be a pain when someone runs through grabbing every croc, orc, ghoul, and mummy in the area between the ocean and the sro zoneline, and claims them all for 1 j/o who is paying him for his time. I'ms peaking from personal experience by the way.. had a small group camped at p1 in oasis, killing deepwaters, and the occasional orc.. yet after about 20 minutes some bard rolled through steamrolled everything and delivered it, in a handbasket, to the individual he was powerlevelling.. keeping it all mezzed, ensuring his safety and rapid xp gain and thereby leaving the group that had already established this camp and had been levelling here for a time, with nothing to kill.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Xer0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

attempt at humor failed. OP makes a valid point. cant tell you how much time i've had wasted in Oasis/Gfay because some high level bard is aggro'ing every mob in the zone so his low level friend can kill them.
high post count =/= intelligence

The scenarios you are both describing are already against the rules because they count as zone disruption. Additionally, you can claim camps via the long-established camp rules in most zones. Maybe you'd know that already if you spent less time trying to ruin people's hilarious posts and implicitly calling them not equal to intelligent!! (And more time reading the one or two threads that actually contain all the server rules.)

[Doors]

No. There is more than one zone to level in when you're in the teens.

[Vladesch]

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

A solution would be to eliminate all non-planar loot from the game now, as well as reduce bank accounts to zero for any account more than 6 months old.

wtf are you smoking?

[sox7d]

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

PLing is classic. It has been done since pre kunark days.

Taking it away would be anti classic, and that isnt what the server is about.

Classic also had a more accessible grouping population and 90% didn't have lvl 60 mains.

[Galaa]

Originally Posted by sox7d [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Classic also had a more accessible grouping population and 90% didn't have lvl 60 mains.

pre kunark days, there was already alot of people who reached lv 50 and on non raid days, they were PLing guildies and alts too.

Anyway what I mean is, P1999 is following the classic server rules, with the exception of some things that cant be implemented (night blindness etc).

Changing the rule set to differ itself from classic is not the intention of this server.

[Urbanzkopf]

I powerlevel on/off depending on if I need cash for an item..l what I will say is I prefer to choose zones that are quiet / empty because I know it sucks from personal experience when there is no mobs because some DB has taken them all. I powerlevel in crushbone, sure.. But only if there is noone in the zone / the people in the zone are not high enough to take the throne room, since that's where I handle it almost everytime. Unrest I will only use the yard trash in the morning time (on GMT) because that place is pretty much dead if you'll pardon the pun. Mistmoore I never touch with a barge pole, that place never seems to have less than 10-15 people in it.

[webrunner5]

I PL a lot on my Druid. But I try not to do it if there is a lot of people in the zone. But like it has been said it is part of the game. So we should ban Bards that are pulling 40 + mobs in a zone at a time also?

It is not like this is some constant thing. Get over it.

[gotrocks]

While I agree that there are definitely a ton of pl'ers on P99, I don't think you can make rules against powerleveling. It is a part of the game, and while it can be obnoxious at times, it is always going to be around.

Alot of you have said that if there is someone PL'ing in a zone and they decide to pull all/most of the zone that you can /petition and get it taken care of. is this true? I've had it happen on multiple occasions, including times when my party was already established at a camp when some high level player came through and started pulling everything, and we weren't sure what to do. I remember on live that it was recommended you 'take care of it yourself' because if a guide came with a solution you may not like what they decide, but on this server should we be /petition'ing when smething like this happens? And if my party was there at a camp first and someone started pulling from it, is a decision going to be made in our favor?

Just the other day we were killing in a zone, had a camp set up, were pulling reliably from it with no problems when all of a sudden another player showed up and started pulling mobs from us. He basically told us to eat shit, that he wasn't going to leave, and that if we bugged him about it and/or stole mobs from "his camp" that he would pull even more mobs from our camp. Should we have petitioned for a gm? Again, we weren't sure what to do. I know what the server rules are, but I wasn't sure if we should be bothering a gm for something that I thought should have been possible to deal with on our own (even though it wasnt)

Sorry that this post kind of rambled on, im really tired and didnt think it through very well.

Tl;dr Pl'ing can suck but its for sure a part of the classic experience, people have always PL'd in eq. Also, is it ok to petition a gm when *any* player comes and tries to steal a camp from you? IE. they start pulling mobs from a camp you were already at, or a high lvl player comes and starts pulling everything. thanks in advance!

[Sirken]

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

If I were you, I would've claimed a camp. Power-leveling is allowed, but camping an entire zone isn't unless its all uncontested.

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