Eliminate MQ

[loramin]

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

Regarding EQ websites, people of course knew about the major ones, but most people weren't able to be on the internet at work, and then when they came home from work to play the game, they couldn't be on EQ and a website at the same time. EQ took up the entire screen back then and there was no way to switch to the desktop (not to mention the extra lag even if you could do both at the same time). People were mainly only visiting EQ websites when the game was down.

There's such a clear difference between the people who actually remember classic vs. those who don't.

[cd288]

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

MQing was not known by most people during classic. There absolutely is evidence to back it up too, like all of the forum posts and quest/item writeups that existed. Not to mention those of us who played back then and have said it wasn't known.

Regarding EQ websites, people of course knew about the major ones, but most people weren't able to be on the internet at work, and then when they came home from work to play the game, they couldn't be on EQ and a website at the same time. EQ took up the entire screen back then and there was no way to switch to the desktop (not to mention the extra lag even if you could do both at the same time). People were mainly only visiting EQ websites when the game was down.

Guess your server experience was different. On both my play and CSR server people were MQing in early 2000 for instance. Not really sure why quest writeups mean MQs weren't happening, as I said before there are plenty of quest pages on Allakhazam where you can go into the comments and see people saying things like "just MQ this part" or something like that.

Again, the part about classic that people seem to forget is that your experience was largely dictated by the other people on your server.

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I said before there are plenty of quest pages on Allakhazam where you can go into the comments and see people saying things like "just MQ this part" or something like that.

There are more pages that show people didn't know about it. Even among top guilds it clearly wasn't known about to the extent it is now, otherwise more epics would have been getting completed. Show links from before 2001, btw.

[Jimjam]

You learn about MQing the first time you hand in bone chips and the person before you dumped their spares…

[cd288]

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

You learn about MQing the first time you hand in bone chips and the person before you dumped their spares…

Lol too true

[Rimitto]

You know what's classic.... being able to drop money and being able to put bags inside of other bags.
p99 doesn't offer either of these features.

I'm prosing that the issue of MQ isn't solely about being classic, because clearly there's not THAT much care about being 1:1 classic.

[Jimjam]

I don’t remember empty bags inside bags. Not saying it couldn’t happen.

The most classic thing I miss is being able to give uncharmed npcs items. People would bling up the priests of discord in newbie cities!

[cd288]

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

I don’t remember empty bags inside bags. Not saying it couldn’t happen.

The most classic thing I miss is being able to give uncharmed npcs items. People would bling up the priests of discord in newbie cities!

you don't remember it because Rimitto is someone's AI chat bot they are testing

[Rimitto]

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

I don’t remember empty bags inside bags. Not saying it couldn’t happen.

The most classic thing I miss is being able to give uncharmed npcs items. People would bling up the priests of discord in newbie cities!

bags inside of other bags was 100% a classic era thing. I specifically remember trying to figure out the whole "size" issue because I kept putting smaller bags inside of bigger bags and filling those smaller bags. The encumbrance of walking back from blackburrow was the real struggle.
It wasn't just "empty bags" though, you could put items in other bags that were inside bags. It was bag-ception.
P99 is vastly different that you can't put containers in other containers.
I assume because it probably caused some sort of glitch or problem that they didn't have a solution to.

With how long it took them to fix boats and their workarounds to fix boats I can't blame them. The minor illusion spell also seems like a quick-fix on p99. Actually, MOST of the illusion spells seem to be a bit of a quick-fix. They probably don't have some type of server files or something and can't replicate them.
Minor and Tree are most noticable.

Just a heads up about the bag-ception thing... looking back, it didn't really offer all that much benefit. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
At least, it didn't when I was a newbie, since it took so long to get back to town to sell stuff. It granted more inventory slots, sure, but at the same time, it really weighed your character down HARD.

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

you don't remember it because Rimitto is someone's AI chat bot they are testing

is this the second account you're gonna get banned on for harassing people trexller? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Trollhide]

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

bags inside of other bags was 100% a classic era thing. I specifically remember trying to figure out the whole "size" issue because I kept putting smaller bags inside of bigger bags and filling those smaller bags. The encumbrance of walking back from blackburrow was the real struggle.
It wasn't just "empty bags" though, you could put items in other bags that were inside bags. It was bag-ception.

This is absolutely incorrect, you could not put a container inside another container in classic EQ. It wasn't until much later that this was added, and only allowed empty containers. "Bagception" sounds like a fever dream you had.