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Old 01-08-2023, 02:45 PM
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Why do the "fixes" only go in one direction?

People just love to nerf others, it's obvious.

Making channeling more reliable, less interrupts, less fizzles, and other issues being recalled here, they were what were nerfed.


Nerfing here, means making the game easier. Later on it came to mean changing the game so something wasn't overpowering, like the Whithered Twig fiasco. SO nerf. It has two meanings. One means to make easier. The other means to make less powerful.


In the olden days, it was a shower of nerfs in the first sense. I still say endurance was like a neutron bomb. It killed every form of life but left every structure standing intact as if nothing had changed. ELE. Now we all pretend we aren't all living a total lie. A fiction. A mockery. We are all dead. We have no endurance, yet we live. How does that which not endure, live?



Oh. I eventually can't jump up and down or walk. Encumbrance mechanism is not endurance. Endurance should make autorun unwise if in a dangerous zone. Unless you are a small race.



It stands to reason those tiny little legs can just keep going.
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Old 01-08-2023, 03:09 PM
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Making channeling more reliable, less interrupts, less fizzles, and other issues being recalled here, they were what were nerfed.


Nerfing here, means making the game easier. Later on it came to mean changing the game so something wasn't overpowering, like the Whithered Twig fiasco. SO nerf. It has two meanings. One means to make easier. The other means to make less powerful.


In the olden days, it was a shower of nerfs in the first sense. I still say endurance was like a neutron bomb. It killed every form of life but left every structure standing intact as if nothing had changed. ELE. Now we all pretend we aren't all living a total lie. A fiction. A mockery. We are all dead. We have no endurance, yet we live. How does that which not endure, live?



Oh. I eventually can't jump up and down or walk. Encumbrance mechanism is not endurance. Endurance should make autorun unwise if in a dangerous zone. Unless you are a small race.



It stands to reason those tiny little legs can just keep going.
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Old 01-08-2023, 03:55 PM
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edit: Moss covered Twig fiasco. Hey you kids, get off my yard trash.
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Old 01-08-2023, 04:23 PM
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clearly op read the wiki
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Old 01-09-2023, 05:17 AM
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Classic is kind of a Vague term anyway. At what point in timeline is EQ still considered "Classic"? The original game, no Kunark? Kunark? Velious? Which Patch? What about Hot fixes? Temporary Bugs? What day? What Hour is EQ still classic? Things were changing so often, that there is no to tell perfectly how the game was actually functioning to perfect accuracy at anytime. P99 is good enough to be considered classic. Perfect reproduction of everything is unnecessary and not really possible at this point. The original source code is lost to time. All they have available to rebuild the original "Classic" game is random anecdotes from players at the time, patch notes, and the few developer comments. It's also kind of a strange rant. There may not have been a wiki and all the other stuff you listed, but people still shared information online as it became available. If "Classic" means perfect reproduction of some arbitrarily defined point in the development timeline and the web as it existed in time, then "Classic" is impossible to create. This seems more like a troll rant.
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Old 01-09-2023, 03:33 PM
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The original game

yes. For the purposes of this thread, clearly yes. p99 is "as close as one can get" is more a concession than a statement of what is possible.


So, we got this vision, this no cats on the moon vision. We've now got two servers of it. To beguile my leisure, I need to go back further. Trying to imagine what EQ could have been if stamina/endurance had not been nerfed is a noble cause, and potential future for this so-called project 1999.



Weapons, fight length, haste and speed buffs, should all interact with this missing mechanic. The fact is this entire path of game mechanics (stamina, the stat STA, and endurance) got neglected early on, finally jettisoned into the junkheap in 2003, and it still sits there on the interface. Yellow bar. Why not try to calculate how to fold it into the now-established "classic" of p99? A true un-nerfing. It would mean doing something with a foundational rpg feature, that the original game had, did not spend time on.


We need young blood to nourish the Archons, however. And we cannot afford any.
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Old 01-09-2023, 06:43 PM
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sounds like technology happened

OP must be at least 70+ years old
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Old 01-10-2023, 07:22 PM
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Old 01-10-2023, 11:52 PM
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URL: https://wiki.project1999.com/Magi_P%60Tasa

This page reads like a personal blog from an agony aunt and mind reader.

"...Like any rare drop, the RNG can make this extremely rare so don't get discouraged if you don't get the staff right away...for the more hardcore players who couldn't acquire a Staff during the classic era, you can one group Magi if you know what you're doing. He is even soloable by enchanters, much to the dismay of most players. This route is problematic, and I'm not going to go into detail on this, because I feel that farm crews ruin this awful grind and make it worse than it should be. If you're serious, and you have friends who are skilled, you can definitely kill mini's with small crews. Be aware of the server rules, and your reputation if you decide to go this route.
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URL: https://wiki.project1999.com/Klandicar

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"Klandicar suffers from clinical depression"
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Old 01-11-2023, 12:00 AM
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sounds like technology happened

OP must be at least 70+ years old
P99 stops evolving after a few short years so it's permanently stuck in the stone age.

Hint: You should be playing retail with that progressive mentality of yours.
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