Hard Coded Vs Soft Coded Teams Discussion

[Zade]

Try to keep the convo to actual arguments and not attacks on guilds or other subjects not retaining to OP, please.

Elderan, I feel like you want a soft code hard coded. Its either one or the other. Either its hard coded and you have to work with what you pick for your team if you want your guild to stay intact, or you choose soft coded.

[Elderan]

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

Try to keep the convo to actual arguments and not attacks on guilds or other subjects not retaining to OP, please.

Elderan, I feel like you want a soft code hard coded. Its either one or the other. Either its hard coded and you have to work with what you pick for your team if you want your guild to stay intact, or you choose soft coded.

No, soft coded teams would be terrible. It would allow extreme greifing in pvp.

What I do want is when/if the merge happens and it goes from red to teams then I want my friends not be split up.

Lets be honest this server is just to try and break Nihilum up to allow more guilds into high in content. The entire idea is flawed as one high end guild will dominate teams 99 as well.

All I want is for promises to be kept. If the merge happens allow red people to choose their team or offer race/class changes.

[s1ckness]

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

No, soft coded teams would be terrible. It would allow extreme greifing in pvp.

What I do want is when/if the merge happens and it goes from red to teams then I want my friends not be split up.

Lets be honest this server is just to try and break Nihilum up to allow more guilds into high in content. The entire idea is flawed as one high end guild will dominate teams 99 as well.

All I want is for promises to be kept. If the merge happens allow red people to choose their team or offer race/class changes.

i agree with soft code would be terrible.

i dont think this server to try and break nihilum up, i do think its is to bring more competition to red99

but it is to help bring more people to the server, including all the EQmac players.

Nihilums problem is that they never stop recruiting, not saying its a bad idea but if u want pvp on the server, u gotta learn to say NO sometimes. if u want 150 people in TOV with you on a 200 population server, u should just go play blue99 .

vztz had good competition becuasse the best guild on the server did not just recruite every body they could find... no one wanted to farm uncontested dragons.

make as many vztz jokes as you want but the population was normally over 300 with maybe 50-100 2boxing and was 3 or 4 guilds always fighting over content.

[Zade]

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

Lets be honest this server is just to try and break Nihilum up to allow more guilds into high in content. The entire idea is flawed as one high end guild will dominate teams 99 as well.

I assure you, the teams server is not being created with any one guild in mind. I am sure that if Nihilum feels like this teams server is solely built to destroy them, they wont play on it.

Teams99 will happen whether or not Nihilum plays on it or not. Its your choice to make supportive arguments on why you prefer certain rules/codes over others, not to QQ about poor nilly. Im sure you will all be fine either way.

[Elderan]

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

I assure you, the teams server is not being created with any one guild in mind. I am sure that if Nihilum feels like this teams server is solely built to destroy them, they wont play on it.

Teams99 will happen whether or not Nihilum plays on it or not. Its your choice to make supportive arguments on why you prefer certain rules/codes over others, not to QQ about poor nilly. Im sure you will all be fine either way.

My comment about how hard coded teams are needed is only common sense.

I only care about teams99 because of the potential merge. I care about red99. I would rather never have to deal with team99 but you guys have pretty much thrown it into my face at this point forcing me to take notice of it.

Since teams99 effects red99 you have to take the potential merge into account when setting teams.

Allow the player to choose team a/b/c on character creation... Its so simple.

[Technique]

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

Allow the player to choose team a/b/c on character creation... Its so simple.

Given that P99 can only indirectly modify the EQ client (and in a very limited fashion at that), it wouldn't be a simple matter to divorce team choice from character creation, where the selection of race/class/deity would normally determine it.

Instead they'd need to create custom quest NPCs (a la Priest of Discord) through which you could choose your team in-game following creation. They could even expand this by introducing quests that enabled you to change your team by leveraging pre-existing mechanics such as faction and whatnot.

[s1ckness]

hardcode should include u cant send tells ingame to different factions. good and evil should not be able 2 talk too each other.

unless its in ooc

[Zade]

Originally Posted by s1ckness [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hardcode should include u cant send tells ingame to different factions. good and evil should not be able 2 talk too each other.

unless its in ooc

I would be all for this. Although, doesn't belong here ATM titty. And as far as global ooc, I hope its not going to be around for teams.

[s1ckness]

btw is velious coming out on red99 when teams99 opens zade

[Zade]

no comment. keep it hard code/soft code related. there will be a time and place for that.