Must be standing to cast

[Thulack]

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

some serious dickriders in here.

here's my 2 cents, even though nobody asked for it.

i've played for a month. pretty dedicated to lvl 48 cleric.

forced beta happens. fine. i could care less about velious but i understand the need to move to that era.

camp the forums mon-tue, nothing.

log in today, can't see anything. stand to cast. backwards ass changes after 4 days.

well, i understand that it's a free game, but before this weekend the illusion of EQ was real. it felt like i went in the wayback machine and was playing EQ for the first time again. now though, i feel disenchanted and the curtains have been lifted to the fact that this is an amateur team running an amateur server.

gm handholding on raids is not classic. i have nothing to look forward to end game with the nannyquesting that i hear about. i don't think i'll keep playing, sadly.

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[halfskye]

Fairly new P99 player here too (2-3 months) and hadn't played in 13 or so years. I recently and accidentally stumbled upon the auto-stand on cast with ALT + Spell Number and was pleasantly surprised. Prior to the realization I had been CTRL + S ing to Sit/Stand. Combined with my remapping of arrow keys to WASD for movement, I kept accidentally interrupting my spells due to micro backward movements. I had since created the Sit/Stand button to more rapidly Med after a cast. So I guess the new stand prerequisite won't be too painful.

Just wanted to share the sentiment of being surprised about the auto-stand behavior as I don't remember that at all in the old days. I definitely prefer that behavior over explicitly having to stand first though, for what it's worth.

[webrunner5]

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

Because that was some of the thrill in the game.

Going into Blackburrow completely blind as a barbarian was an intense adventurous feeling. Getting lost in the dark woods of Nektulos was frightening as a low level Human who ventured too far.

For many, that immersion is what hooked them on EQ. That thrill or fear brought on by the darkness. For the meta questers who have BIS everything and calculated the hate per swing on their weapons, they will probably just modify how their computer handles gamma -- it's a quick change -- and not have to deal with it.

They admit the implementation wasn't the best, but the goal they were trying to achieve (classic darkness), is something still worth pursuing.

Sit camp and stand cast, just parts of the game. Just like fizzles, gate fails and resists.

I don't think you went into BB completely blind. You went through the tunnel from Everfrost to BB pretty much blind as a Barb. And it depended on what time of the day EQ time wise was. And I think we all have different memories of how it was.

[stakha]

Just map sit to the keyboard. I use wasd and just have x for sit/stand.

[lostcucusPass]

this sux a lot !

[iruinedyourday]

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

Peace out...Would ask for your stuff since your quitting but nothing a 48 cleric would have that i want [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

rekt

[Moodie]

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[SamwiseRed]

hey guys, samwise gamgee here.

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

1. DoTs shouldnt be showing damage, only wore off message should.

2. Scrolling out to 3rd person should not be possible

3. Buffs should not be showing duration even when pressing ALT

4. Buff stacking not working properly here. If you have an empty slot on top, the next buff should fill it. Example you have 2 empty slots then Skin Like Wood then SoW. Someone recasts SoW on you, it could goto the top slot. (being worked on according to dev)

5. When casting a spell from the sitting position it should give you message must be standing to cast a spell and not have you stand automatically. there is more than on design.

6. when camping from the standing position it should say you must be sitting to camp instead of sitting you down automatically.

7. not sure if bug or what but it seems like I hardly see my actual weapon swing while in first person view. if you look at this video i am linking, you certainly see the rangers weapons. this is not the case on here unless ranger epics are different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrOmBUDBS0

8. pretty sure this is client side but user should not be able to see how much mana he has as a number.

9. level up graphic not classic (Fixed)

10. linking items and multiple chat boxes not classic

11. apparently spell book shouldnt be 8 spells per page but a wierd design (dont remember this)
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12. spells take long as HELL to memorize (both to spell book and to spell bar) on eqmaq. not even joking, probably takes at least 5x as long.

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[Faiding]

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

Classic does not mean good. Slavery is classic but we can all agree that is a bad thing. (shut up trolls yes we can agree on that) I am not a fan of the stand cast change but i suppose I can get used to it. I just hope that when the dev team considers making classic changes they also consider if it's good. There are a ton of classic things players hated but still played the game because the rest was good. Bad game changes are still bad whether classic or not.

Paper is classic, too. But that doesn't mean we should be making paper airplanes out of iPads.

[Niedar]

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

Developers do not need anyone to play here.

Nilbog has said multiple times he doesn't care if anyone plays on his box, and he is the head developer.

The developers run this server to see if they can recreate a classic EverQuest box; they do not care at all if we play on it or not. We just get to reap the benefits of it actually being open to the public.

Sorry, but he is full of shit or that quote is not in context. If he had an empty server he would have quit a long time ago.