not a single player has told me to plan on raiding

[maverixdamighty]

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Level up and find out for yourself instead of making your worthless posts over and over.

[Skope]

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

This is from an outside perspective and I could be totally wrong but it'll always come down to your play style and how much time you can invest into the game. I'm not saying it's fair to rule out fully casuals that want to raid but that's the effect of releasing an emulator of an old ass game after a plethora of MMO's with raid content have been released. People are going to be conditioned from the raiding environments of the newer games and it's not going to be the same as it was in classic.

I don't think it's ok, nor am I elated about it but there's nothing that can really be done about it sans GM intervention or if people want to self enforce rotation. If you have the time and the willpower you can raid, but in many of the cases I've found you can't be a top end raider in any game and have a life and a job.

There's a considerable difference between casuals on live and on here. Likewise, there's a significant difference between the extreme and high end here and that on live. P99 is a time sink and forces extreme and idiotic behavior (see RnF) that wasn't seen on live. Those who played in high end guilds on live would need to play (and track) exponentially longer to tackle the same targets or even have a chance at engaging them.

Therefore it isn't an EQ problem but rather specifically a P99 problem. It's the P99 rules and the GMs that have favored these methods for years while pretending to condone it, or at best turning a blind eye. It's gotten so bad that people like Tiggles and whoever the hell else from FE are going so far as to dig up peoples' names and addresses... Seriously? Meanwhile the "casuals" who were at the top of their respective servers on live would need to partake in all of this nonsense and spend an obscene amount of time (that was never required on live) to join in. Why would I want to bother? I've seen VP and NToV and have accomplished more on live with only a fraction of the time and effort that's required here. And what about the hope for reasonable change? Well, you need only ask Rogean why he decides to do a complete 180 when he promises a semblance of reasonable change that was needed years ago. Rather than getting something to address the biggest underlying issues that a vast majority of people agreed with, he decides that applying a bandaid to the problem and screwing over the largest majority of the players on the server is the better route.

Enjoy it and when you're bored just throw it away, because this is the same server and GMs who make changes to classic mechanics that affect every NPC in the game just to keep a few people from abusing third party software at a poopsockfest. If you think you can stomach the bullshit and spend a crazy amount of time on here then, yes, raiding is perfect for you. If, on the other hand, you're only here to have fun then enjoy it while you can and then throw it away.

[Shinko]

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

You should petition the server staff and ask them to implement a server-wide rotation.

[Chloroform]

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

Win or lose, it's fun raiding and being a part of a guild full of great people =)

I <3 Jeremy Irons!

[skeletoria]

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

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Level up and find out for yourself instead of making your worthless posts over and over.

Exactly my thoughts..instead of all the bitching about how OP TMO is, why not attempt to create and build up a force strong enough to compete! Something, anything is better than a post like this :x
Besides, most of the lowbies are probably alts, or new players that have never played EQ before P99.. hahaha at least that's what it seems to me seeing how shitty some of these players are around here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Sarius]

The cost of competition is too high for most people. Hopefully a rotation can be worked out amongst guilds for Kunark content once Velious is released. The fact the TMO and FE still get 90% of raid targets after server repops is just sad!

[Lyra]

When I read these threads, I wonder where you were in 1999 because it wasn't playing end game Everquest.

In 1999 end game bosses were only available to the power gamers. I was there. I was an adult.

Since the average age I have encountered on this server is 28, that meant you were 14 in 1999. You may have dropped out of middle school and were playing Everquest 20 hours a day, but I doubt it. Many guilds required members to be adults.

Now if you were playing in 2003, you could kill whatever 1999 bosses you wanted to kill. We are never going to see 2003 EQ on this server.

I love this server and I love the intent. This is called "Project 1999". It's not called "Let everyone experience end game content like it was 1999"

If you want a to kill 1999 content, you can still do that ....for free....on live.

If you want something not offered on this server, the content is open source. Make the game you want.

But...If you want to fight and scratch to kill end game content almost like it was in 1999....this is the place.

almost = Remove the variance. After reading the forums to better understand the history of this server, I still can't understand how Nilbog went along with variance.

For those thinking the removal of variance will allow all of you to kill end game bosses, it won't. But...it will be classic.

As I've said before, these forums are also "classic" and are quite entertaining.

[this user was banned]

I really don't understand peoples' fascination with raiding.

If different facets of MMOs can be related to sex, then raiding is the anal sex of MMOs. It's difficult to get started with it, once you are in (a good raiding guild AKA anus) it gets easier, it's tight at first but just gets easier and routine after you've been doing it for months, you may get some gratification in the form of loot at the end of it all, but there's always someone that is butthurt over your accomplishment.

In conclusion: the OP needs to get laid.

[Sarius]

A little perverse for server chat, but made me smirk.

[Droog007]

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

I love this server and I love the intent. This is called "Project 1999". It's not called "Let everyone experience end game content like it was 1999"

I always sortof guessed that the intent of this server was to make the classic content of EQ available for people who missed it, or wished to revisit it.

If that experience MUST include a resident/rotating population of exclusionists who seemingly exist to do nothing but monopolize the same content year after year in order to be accurate ... then we're right on target.

Thanks for informing us - I had no idea you were an authority on the subject.

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

If you want a to kill 1999 content, you can still do that ....for free....on live.

You're welcome to go play for free on live as well. Why do people so enjoy lording over this content for extended periods of time? Aren't you bored yet? What does that say about you?