Scout Quest is Going Away (Woot)

[Trexller]

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

I mean other posters already pointed out the mechanics are all classic. If you are arguing for the behaviors of players not being classic well people do what people want, and in this case they chose to work together and not waste everyone's time.

There are a whole bunch of non-classic things that happen because of player behavior, not game mechanics, and this being a 20+ year old game. I don't think there is a lot of interest in enforcing classic player behavior, and this wouldn't be the first thing to look at if there was.

Sorry No

There is only one right way to play EQ and it's whatever Loramin says it is

[loramin]

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

Sorry No

There is only one right way to play EQ and it's whatever Loramin says it is

I think most people would agree that there's only one way to play classic EQ ... and it's not "my way": it's however people played it back in '99-'01.

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

Delete all characters after time locked Luclin expansion is released and start over.

That's classic.

Agreed. Or better yet, just do what the staff said they would do: no one gets deleted, but after you've gotten to play on a classic server for a classic amount of time, you get sent to the unclassic server (ie. Blue).

[shovelquest]

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

Agreed. Or better yet, just do what the staff said they would do: no one gets deleted, but after you've gotten to play on a classic server for a classic amount of time, you get sent to the unclassic server (ie. Blue).

yea...

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[shovelquest]

Luck doesn't exist, the universe is cause and effect, and everything is determinism.

[Ciderpress]

I think loramin is just mad at losing scout roll or something. It's completely fine and good and IS classic, for the simple reason that it's emergent behavior, and emergent behavior is classic.

Sometimes devs step in to intervene against emergent player behavior, and sometimes they allow it to remain, which is also completely classic behavior by the devs.

There will literally never be an emu server where people take action within the game the same way they did in 1999, even if the client and game mechanics are identical. That's kind of what makes mmo's interesting as a genre in the first place.

[cd288]

I mean, in the classic era plenty of people solicited non-guild help to help with certain things like certain epic fights that only need a group or two, etc. Not sure where this idea that it was guild only comes from or that it's not classic because you get to show up and have people who are not in your guild help you.

Seems to me like requiring people to join a guild and have guild members present in order to do the scout quest would just result in basically having to join the top guild in order to do the quest rather than having a chance to do it with other people, which doesn't seem classic to me nor does it seem beneficial to the community.

[Jimjam]

It is a lottery* as to whether Nathan will help on a black dire kill for an unguilded young shaman.


* it is actually one of those claw machines that let you keep playing til you win. What a legend.

[shovelquest]

When I die in an FPS I say, "damn bad RNG".... if that guy that was around the corner wasn't playing that night I'd be alive. Bad luck!

An FPS is bad luck....

That's how schizo gaming makes you.

Luck is not real.

[Jimjam]

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

Luck is not real.

Nothing is real, my friend.

[shovelquest]

Me dying of the same thing literally everything else does:

"Im telling you it's all fake!"