GLOBAL ooc/auction. Poll time.

[orielberyl]

This comes down to people wanting a hardcore classic enviroment. The people who want ooc to be zonewide only do not want to give up their channel but do not want it to be global. I feel the population needs to reach at least 1000 active players during peak before we have starting cities populated enough for low players to recieve help. At that point I would vote for removal of a global channel. However I do not want players to have to give up their ooc or auction channel by disabling it to get the immersive feeling they desire. I think a fair compromise would be to implement a global general channel and make auction and ooc zonewide. So the players who want the closest to classic experience can disable the global general channel but still have access to their zonewide ooc and auction channels. Those who want the global channel can enable general and communicate with the rest of the server who choose to do so. Once we consistantly hit 1000 online during peak hours for a couple of weeks in a row there should be no vote or contest just remove general. the 736 pop on one monday night is really nice but cutting off the global channel wouldn't only happen during that time. We have hundreds of players who only play early mornings (American times .... Late night their time) or mid day. With their schedules playing during 200 population hours global is critical. I do agree with many on this thread about the non classic authenticity of gobal chat, and it does in many ways ruin the immersion and the community of the game. However all your memories of wonderful old classic where with 2000 people playing at any given moment. We do not have that luxury. it wasn't uncommon to have 70 people chilling in Gfay and a newbie could log onto a level 3 form a full group in 10 seconds and head off to crushbone. Along the way they would probably see a 40 druid who was bored and came in with the group to pl them. We do not have that. Not yet anyways. I have 100% faith in this server and believe the population will reach numbers even the devs do not dream of. Until that happens some type of equalizer needs to remain in the game for the good of the server. What if we take global ooc out and all our daytime players quit because they can't find groups and all the people who voted no quit because they really wanted ooc. Then we lose a good chunk of population.

[Phineas]

Leave it as is.

I hate change.

Almost as much as I hate the promise of change with no follow through *cough*democrats*cough*


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[utenan]

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

Leave it as is.

I hate change.

Like all of the changes that occured post classic eq, that slowy destroyed the game we love? Like global channels, etc.etc.? If that is what you mean then yes, I hate change as well : D

[Beau]

Chat channels? Seriously? If people want all of those nice non-classic features then that is their own personal preference, and they have every right to want to use them. Lucky for them, there are plenty of non classic servers that are available, why compromise on this one?

[eqdruid76]

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

Leave it as is.

I hate change.

Almost as much as I hate the promise of change with no follow through *cough*democrats*cough*


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Yeah, I hate that almost as much as intentionally starting a war to eliminate the forces your father made an alliance with and weaponized 2 decades ago.

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[eqdruid76]

@nilbog

serverwide chat = not classic.

chat channels = serverwide chat.

chat channels = not classic.

Is Project1999 going to be a classic server, or not?

[Varlos]

I'm a new player to the server and haven't played on eqemu in at least 4 years, and after about 5 minutes of listening to the trash talking and children whining and crying in OOC, I'm 100% behind returning it to zone-wide...

EC tunnel/gfay just aren't the same with server-wide OOC/auction. Part of the fun of selling/buying items was meeting the people face-to-face. Convenience=/=classic EQ...

[Stickyfingers]

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

I'm a new player to the server and haven't played on eqemu in at least 4 years, and after about 5 minutes of listening to the trash talking and children whining and crying in OOC, I'm 100% behind returning it to zone-wide...

EC tunnel/gfay just aren't the same with server-wide OOC/auction. Part of the fun of selling/buying items was meeting the people face-to-face. Convenience=/=classic EQ...

You still have to meet them face-to-face in order to give them the money and get the items.

[Varlos]

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

You still have to meet them face-to-face in order to give them the money and get the items.

Yeah, still not the same. I guess the bigger issue is I don't want to put up with listening to dumb people bickering all day to get a good deal etc.. If I wanted to do that I'd sit in World of Warcraft trade chat.

[uraniumrooster]

If trade chat, and lack of the classic EC Tunnel are the main issues, why not make Auction local and keep OOC global but disallow selling/trading? Perhaps disable item-linking in OOC?

It is after all out-of-character and it makes sense that everyone playing in the game should be able to interact with one another. Not to mention with the fairly small server population (relative to when EQ Live was still classic), finding a group will be much more difficult w/o global chat and I imagine a lot of people would be frustrated by this and stop playing altogether. Driving players away in the name of being "classic" seems counter-productive.