Post from a "casual scum"

[Fountree]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Buying an account with plat is in no way RMT. So you can't throw down a blanket statement like "anyone who has their characters spread across multiple accounts must share account info and or RMT" =p

Unfortunately this is something I hear all the time hurled at players who paid legit plat for chars before the ban. Usually accompanied by: "DIRTY RMTer" or "TMO douche" etc. even though most of the high end accounts ppl paid 200+k for , which would effectively pay for a PL to 60 and pretty amazing gear on a new char. Yet another example of entitled crybabies who are jelly they were late to the party.

[fastboy21]

the idea of "winning" EQ is not only borderline insane, but it represents a philosophy so diametrically opposite to what I think online gaming is all about that it makes me feel sick in my stomach.

it is a disease that has plagued EQ since...well, kunark release on live really. stop trying to win EQ and gather pixels. get into the beauty of a shared fantasy world with several thousand other people.

[Shinko]

why cant you guys just bat phone and log in quicker? we need **Raid Discussion** Sub Fourms For Officer/Leaders of Raiding Guilds

[Laok]

I played on live in the "Classic" Era. I was Casual Scum and I was raider. I've never seen anything like this. There wasn't all this poopsocking. Did we park a ranger in a zone to check for spawns? Sure. Usually when someone needed an epic piece, LOOOOOONG after what is considered Classic. On Tribunal, I remember a dragon rotation, so quit whining and bitching that it's not classic. How many people here actually played in 1999-2000? I wonder how many of the people screaming that this or that isn't classic were even around to know what is or isn't classic?

On live you had the guilds full of uneployed basement dwellers, raiding 5-7 nights a week, you had the guild like the ones I raided in that raided 3 nights a week, and you had the casual scum. We didn't call them casual scum. They were just the people that didn't give a shit. They enjoyed the game at the solo or group level and it's social aspect. They weren't here to win. If you wanted your epic, you joined a raiding guild. You didn't join the only guild that could raid your epic loots, you joined A raiding guild. because most of the raiders could handle it. I haven't been on P99 terribly long, but I've only seen one bard epic. How many different guilds have killed trak in the last 6 months?

You dont want every raid mob on a rotation? Put only the epic raid mobs on one.

[Atmas]

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

I found this server about 6 months ago. I spend a lot of time forum lurking (while procrastinating at work). Been having an awesome time playing some good ole classic eq (played a lot from 99-03 or so). Lots of ideas are bouncing around, some good, some bad but I don't have enough first hand experience to say what'll work. Just thought I'd add my two cents from a "casual scum" and maybe some others feel the same..
I don't want anything handed to me. Y'all wake up at 3am and put in tons of work to get your pixels.. If you wanna do that go for it. I could care less about loot. In the end what does a piece of loot really mean if you're not having fun getting it? I just want to have a chance to kill a few mobs. I want that feeling of "are we gonna wipe?, ah #$!$, we're gonna wipe!...nooo we made it!" Classic eq. Classic eq didn't have people with tons of accounts with multiple 60s camped out at targets. I don't understand the point of zerging a mob that is no challenge whatsoever for loot that will probably just go to a 7th alt or something.
One thing I have noticed in the 6 months I've been playing is people have seemed the happiest and most optimistic over this last week or so and seem to be having fun. Isn't that the point of this whole project? All this work done to recreate classic eq? This is by far the best classic eq simulator out there and the developers have done an amazing job.
If someone is so focused on "winning" this server maybe they should move to a game that is well..actually new?

Enough of the bullshit. Casual Scum was a term made by people to try and add propaganda. You want to talk about classic EQ? You know what percent of people had epics in Kunark? You know what percentage of casual players had epics in Kunark? The problem is there is content available for a small fraction of people because at the time that was the percent of people who were in the high end. P99 has a different population breakdown and it puzzles me why people don't see that and exclusively blame the most active guild.

[Clark]

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

Should be no account sharing whatsoever

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

One character per ip, gestapo points for turning in known multi character users o_O

I support this