Please just remove boats and put ports in [Blue AND Red]

[Ravager]

I agree with OP, the boat in OOT should be replaced with 2 classic appropriate boats and all the boats should be fixed where the levitate bandaid isn't necessary anymore.

That's what he was getting at, right?

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by Recycleb1n [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah...im not sure how the con color change affects me.

Classic or not.

Im still waiting for an argument as to how ports affect your game play experience. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ports only affect my game play experience when I get them from a druid or wizard. Having instaport hubs would affect everyone. It would trivialize travel. It would water down the overall experience of classic everquest, which is what I thought people played on this server for. It would severely affect two classes in the game that are currently the only means of fast travel. Plus, it just isn't what this server is about. No one cares if it is inconvenient for you to either use boats or get a port. Its part of the game, take it or leave it.

[Haloren]

Originally Posted by Recycleb1n [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nah. It's got nothing to do with hard or easy. It's about it being quality of life suggestion. I am completely uncompelled as to how the suggestion affects you in any way, shape or form. Especially since I can't log two accounts in even though its CLASSIC.

If you've been in EC for more than five minutes you will see someone standing around ooc'ing many times for a port to Lavastorm or Sro. They are 2-3 zones over. Thats lazy and ridiculous. Even for those that are in a hurry to get to a group or a target. By the time you actually get a public port you could have probably already been there. I would almost venture to say the same about taking a boat depending on the time of day given how many times ive used a boat.

As a player who has a 50+ Druid AND ports many people all the time, I take the boats on my other characters. I may take a port here or there but I enjoy the boats too. Sometimes I will get there and to my luck here it comes. Other times i'm like "oh come on, how long does it take" That's classic.

Adding porters do not solve your or anyone else's problems of maximizing your time on when playing. Get a port if you don't want to spend your time using the boats. I choose to spend my time using the boats. no one is preventing you from finding a druid or forcing you to use them.

Quality of life suggestion...hmm. Well, things are always better in the future. But, we have chosen to spend our time in the past. A specific past for better or worse. And as much as I have complaints about things that I wish there was on the server that aren't technically classic. I am happy with the server very much. You could enjoy the freedom on another server but you wont have the classic discipline (yes i know of the caveats) we have here.

Cheers to the folks who fixed the boats.

Okay back to my 1999 coma.

[Buellen]

OP and those who support him

when you started here you did see the title project 1999 right ? you did read the information on front page and the rest of the stuff about this server and what it is about right ? you understood the goals of the server admin are trying to reach right ? (if not see my sig for the quote)

During original release , kunark, and velious THEIR WAS NO PORTING GNOMES. if a boat broke you waited, found a port , and or found something else to do where you was at.

I am also not a raider or hard core I have leveled my war from 1 to 50 and have traveled by boats many many many times. IF you do not like boats and or paying for port then i highly recommend you pick a class/race the starts where you want to level 1 to whatever level you wish to adventure here too, without having to take a boat or paying for a port.

Leveling a warrior i knew i would be running /swimming everywhere I wanted to go. I made the decision at level 14 to set my self up in fiona vie as my main bind point. I did this because i would be take the boat to timorous and swimming to fire pots chamber to port myself to wherever i needed. Ina all the level from 14 to 50 i have done the swim to fire pot chamber many many many …. times and only ever got killed once because i swam to close to raptor island.

—-how to swim to fire pot from fiona vie —
take boat (if you have to wait fish , do laundry , clean your office etc till boat arrives)
when boat zone in jump of the west side and swim south west till you reach neg 10500 the North /south number of LOC command.
swim directly west till you reach positive 4000 in East / West part of LOC command, and start to swim south you will quickly come to the sunken spire marking the fire pot room.
have a handy map of the fire pot room so you can quickly zone to where you need to go or just memorize it like idid after so many trips.

[Crom]

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

OP and those who support him

when you started here you did see the title project 1999 right ? you did read the information on front page and the rest of the stuff about this server and what it is about right ? you understood the goals of the server admin are trying to reach right ? (if not see my sig for the quote)

During original release , kunark, and velious THEIR WAS NO PORTING GNOMES. if a boat broke you waited, found a port , and or found something else to do where you was at.

I am also not a raider or hard core I have leveled my war from 1 to 50 and have traveled by boats many many many times. IF you do not like boats and or paying for port then i highly recommend you pick a class/race the starts where you want to level 1 to whatever level you wish to adventure here too, without having to take a boat or paying for a port.

Leveling a warrior i knew i would be running /swimming everywhere I wanted to go. I made the decision at level 14 to set my self up in fiona vie as my main bind point. I did this because i would be take the boat to timorous and swimming to fire pots chamber to port myself to wherever i needed. Ina all the level from 14 to 50 i have done the swim to fire pot chamber many many many …. times and only ever got killed once because i swam to close to raptor island.

—-how to swim to fire pot from fiona vie —
take boat (if you have to wait fish , do laundry , clean your office etc till boat arrives)
when boat zone in jump of the west side and swim south west till you reach neg 10500 the North /south number of LOC command.
swim directly west till you reach positive 4000 in East / West part of LOC command, and start to swim south you will quickly come to the sunken spire marking the fire pot room.
have a handy map of the fire pot room so you can quickly zone to where you need to go or just memorize it like idid after so many trips.

I'm sorry but you are wrong, they did have a feature (if it was gomes or just guides that played porters I can't be sure) that was used when boats broke down and they chouldn't fix em fast.
they later around 2004 I think it was made static porting gnomes but before that they had ways of dealing with boats being broken for long durations)

[Thulack]

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

I'm sorry but you are wrong, they did have a feature (if it was gomes or just guides that played porters I can't be sure) that was used when boats broke down and they chouldn't fix em fast.
they later around 2004 I think it was made static porting gnomes but before that they had ways of dealing with boats being broken for long durations)

Pretty sure the gnomes werent around during classic or kunark even during breakdowns.

[Nietche]

Originally Posted by Recycleb1n [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol.

It's funny, I personally think it'd make the servers prosper too. Grow a little even.

The server prospers because it is as classic it can be. It is the reason most of us quit WoW. We wanted to play a real game, that is hard, and doesn't pander to pussies like you.

Originally Posted by Recycleb1n [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nah. It's got nothing to do with hard or easy. It's about it being quality of life suggestion. I am completely uncompelled as to how the suggestion affects you in any way, shape or form. Especially since I can't log two accounts in even though its CLASSIC.

Boxing destroys gameplay for people who want to group. It's funny that you decry twinks for that specific reason yet tout boxing which has the same effect.

[khanable]

NO!

[Kender]

i love the boats. makes getting places a journey. I've refused ports when i was travelling for training, preferring to take the boat

[Lagaidh]

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

i love the boats. makes getting places a journey. I've refused ports when i was travelling for training, preferring to take the boat

Ditto.

Sometimes after I /ooc or /shout for a port and nobody responds, I just take off on foot. More than once I've lied and said that I got my ride when a porter finally responded after I'd gotten underway.

Here and in the old days, I've run Lag's tatertot legs into the dirt in journeys from Faydwer to Halas and back, and the only point to the journey was to go.

It's one of the EQ playstyles: meanderer.

There's a lot of lamentation about the hardcore player, to mention one other style. I haven't met too many of a 3rd type I know: true roleplayers. My favorite was a fellow in live. He played a dwarf alcoholic. He would beg coppers and silvers off of players and then run right to the nearest NPC selling booze to drink up the alms.

I guess I'm a meanderer here. I was sort of a meanderer in live, and a time-starved hardcore player at the same time. I wanted to do what the hardcore did, and had the skills, but never the time.

I may just have to log in and start running.