Some Fun Raid Changes

[Motec]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let's be honest though: The A-Team doesn't do 50%+ of the high-end content.

And lets remember, those things you guys do as the A team, I was doing with less people 18 months ago.

Credit to some of the amazing solo/duo work, but raiding/grouping those targets isnt what I want. I'm not plat rich anymore, but I dont need to nor feel the desire to farm needlessly.

A-team guys have a lot of fun, and reap the rewards of their efforts. But those rewards aren't the rewards the majority of the raiding community on P1999 want. The non raid community, cant break in to the raiding scene due to RL/commitment/whatever issues that preclude them from neckbearding it like the best of us.

And remember there is a shitload of people that burnt out or gave up on P1999, because of the poisoned, fucked and downright disgusting raid scene and attitudes of those of us in the top guilds (or public perception of such, or misinterpretation...the reasoning is irrelevent). How good would it be to have a server where all those people can have a shot? There would be hundreds of people who want to play, but dont want batphones and poopsocking. Why not give them an opportunity to experience what we experience, even if only 10% donate a little, that would cover the costs.

Set the rules up, and remove the ability to have all the bullshit items and overpowered crap and you immediately clean up a lot of the bullshit CSR nightmares and RMT.

People addicted to their pixels and being fuckwits on 99, wont leave those pixels. There are guys here with 30+ robe of the azure sky in guild...Those guys have waited years to get that shit and wont give it up. Others will, to escape the shitfight that is p1999 raiding.

Set very strong rules, enforce them with relentless, immediate and lasting consequences (char deletion, 50% xp loss, raiding suspensions) and weed out those who would flaunt or lawyer the rules. PNP > All, because frankly I'm sick of how it is and EQmac taught me again my love for EQ, in scheduling our raids and moving at our own pace (excepting later on stealing shit like seru which I never agreed with, but everyone else has also been doing seru for 8 years straight).

[Rellapse35]

WTB a server like Eqmac without the Eqmac people

[Splorf22]

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

And lets remember, those things you guys do as the A team, I was doing with less people 18 months ago.

Did you ever post on the solo artist challenge thread? I don't want to dig through 70 pages of stuff looking.

Originally Posted by Motec

EQmac taught me again my love for EQ, in scheduling our raids and moving at our own pace

Exactly. The whole point of EQ is to get a bunch of friends together and gradually progress through the content. Somehow the staff just doesn't seem to think this way, and I don't understand why.

[Motec]

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

This is EXACTLY what I do every single day on p99.

What's stopping you?


Besides, its the flavor-of-the-month thought that the staff will launch a "perfect" server after current blue has run its course through Velious. It'd be pretty dumb to make a new server with Velious right now, on the reasoning that we'd be avoiding a bunch of bugs and exploits and questionable balance decisions, when Velious is bound to introduce all of those things back into the game because it hasn't undergone huge testing (i.e. years of actual use by the blue server). Be easy on the staff and if you're going to demand anything at all, demand repops while thanking them for a badass server, then do the stuff you claim to want to do for a couple more years until you finally get your new server.

Because testing bugs will be fairly ironed out in vel beta, because a LOT more people have first hand experience in velious. And a lot of IB guys just did a classic, true velious, and a LOT of IB guys have been feeding the devs logs, ideas, stats and information from mac for a true reproduction.

But the main thing to remember is velious brings with it a huge oppertunity of returning layers to beta, and a lot more informed playerbase, as such a huge amount of the community experienced all of velious from 35+ from the beginning. Not like kunark when only a handful of people here were 50's on Kunark launch.

But I think you are missing the point, which is predominantly that P1999 is poisoned, and full of cunts.

And I want a server thats legit PNP, and if you dont want to PNP, fuck off to shitsville stare at a wall 200hrs at 4+ raid spawns per week.

[Brut]

Think Ambrotos as reigning raid GM ruled out pulling raid targets out of spawn areas / kiting fear. Made Inny/CT/draco/maestro races alot more tolerable. Made them so much more tolerable actually that the rule was revoked about a week later so we could get back to the neverending training and desyncing.

[runlvlzero]

Best raid change, full pvp, ZERO CSR at level 50+

Also splorff is a secret agent sent to test the waters in a clandestine way to upcoming changes.