Ragefire kinda ruined p99(and eq) for me

[PDX0621]

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

I logged into Age of Conan, had all kinds of graphical bugs. The game didn't really seem finished.

I logged out and let my free play time expire :/

It was messed up for a long time. It's worth checking out just to look at the landscape of some of the zones if you ask me. I haven't played since I started P99 but I did play AoC off and on for a couple years. I think wasted potential would be the best way to describe it.

[myriverse]

Meh. Don't blame instancing for people's lack of social skills. City of Heroes had at least as good of a community, and it was completely instanced.

[curtischoy]

Originally Posted by Coridan

When you are using an oculus rift and can identify characters by their facial features instead of names floating over their heads, first person will be the most immersive experience of all time.

On live I always shut off all names while I raided with my guild to increase visibility and I could always pick out every single person Just by how their character looked. Not sure if immersion or I just really needed to spend some time outside.

[baakss]

Lockjaw community actually seems decent. Way better than the p99 raiding community at least. The new zones arent too horrendous.

[Lady Julae]

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

When you are using an oculus rift and can identify characters by their facial features instead of names floating over their heads, first person will be the most immersive experience of all time. Put a mirror in your house lol.

I loved EQ2, and enjoyed playing in progression guilds where everyone locked xp and progressed through content together. I rafequit when they started giving people free high level characters

Will Oculus Rift work for people with only one functioning eye?

[Lady Julae]

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

Meh. Don't blame instancing for people's lack of social skills. City of Heroes Virtue Server had at least as good of a community, and it was completely instanced.

Fixed.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

So I've been playing on ragefire a bit since it released cause it's really interesting to have a new server. It feels "relevant" subconsciously... part of me knows that this server is gonna progress and it's current and what I do there matters, where as on p99 I'm always in locked content and behind 5 years.

However, the longer I play there the more I just feel bad and negative towards eq in general. The community is toxic and selfish. The game feels modern and standardized and no individual player matters. Everything is easy and feels watered down. It has a weird feeling to it and it's really ruining the experience for me the more I play it.

At the same time, it's kinda ruined p99 for me because p99 feels "old" now like it's no longer relevant. Why do corpse runs and play through slower exp when I can go on ragefire and have everything easy mode? Overall, I wish I hadn't tried the tlp servers because they have turned me off of eq as a brand.

try thinking of modern games as linear, where the point is to "progress" and race to content. And yes, you get "left behind" if you don't play that way.

Now try to imagine, that isn't really necessary on p99, or on other emu's. You can race, if you want, but you can also just play in a rather large world, and define how *you* want to play in it. Your gear will not become obsolete largely, you can take as long as you want to attain goals, the same gameworld will be here next year.

It's a place to hang out and play. Ragefire blinded you to thinking gaming = racing. But p99 is only a race when and if you want it to be.

You do realize, there are players on the server focusing on buying and making and selling food right?

p99 is freedom. Ragefire tried to put you back in the old chains. Just chill and hang out, leave and come back. It's a free server.

[Champion_Standing]

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

I logged into Age of Conan, had all kinds of graphical bugs. The game didn't really seem finished.

I logged out and let my free play time expire :/

AoC was a lot of fun, no idea how it is now. FoH was there near release and we would cause so much chaos in this pvpable city zone that every big guild would show up to lock us in on the spawn point.

No idea how the PvE is cuz we all just cheated like scum and AFK PLed ourselves to max lvl in our guild castle zone thing.

[Littlestgnome]

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

Wait, who enjoys corpse runs and slow XP? They're both miserable.

In fact, that misery is what makes P99 fun: anytime you do anything without dying (especially leveling up), you genuinely feel like you've accomplished something. And that's what's missing on Live: it has all the same rewards, but without the avoided misery those rewards are hollow.

Pretty solid explanation really. I'm not the least bit "happy" that it's taking me upwards of a week to plod through level 51, especially after how truly spoiled we all were with the recent double-XP weekend.

Having said that however, I have always believed the game as a whole is infinitely more healthy by having slow XP gains for players as is a game that legitimately punishes players for suffering defeat and/or making bad decisions.

Hardship -- or at the very least the threat of hardship -- is frequently what leads to memorability. If there's no sense of potential failure and/or no penalty associated with failure, there's almost never a sense of pride in the victory. If it doesn't feel as though something is being earned, there's usually not a lot of pleasure associated with grabbing the reward either (outside of the immediate, that is).

[lurok1]

Red 99 is a good compromise if you like to level fast but still want an og eq experience.