How to enable Luclin Graphics

[Overcast]

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

Another post burned up by the haters. Do we need to start a who's more classicer thread?

I think it's pretty cool he figured out a way to do this.

Was trying to get mine to look more like this.

Just taking FOREVER to download the client at 300 baud on, I think the handset on my rotary phone is all full of static.

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[dallammarr]

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

Dang, dude - have me beat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My first copy of EQ was on 8-Track.

Got ya both beat! mine was on a wax victrola cylinder!

[guineapig]

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

Got ya both beat! mine was on a wax victrola cylinder!

Mine was on papyrus... copied verbatim off some cave art in Africa.

[Damaja]

We play on a classic server so why on earth would I want to see the new models over the old ones? Thanks for the post though I am sure others want to know this.

[Slayde]

Basically I think it boils down to this:

The folks who don't care about the models and the aesthetics of P99 are just here to play a game. Just like any other MMO, just here to play it and that is fine.

On the other hand, the folks who do care about the models and aesthetics are here to live in a fantasy realm. To feel like a part of the world no matter what it may look like.

Back when EQ came out, the genre was called MMORPG, because there was a very heavy Role Play element built into the game. But these days, they are just called MMOs because very few people Role Play in them anymore. Most people are just there to play, and acquire items and power. Not really caring about your "characters" background, personality traits, etc...
I put the word characters in quotations because without the role play element they are just a collection of crude polygons representing what you've played to earn. Not a character, an entity with feeling and purpose behind it.

Sorry for the long post just thought I'd share my perspective on the whole Classic/Luclin models war hehe.

[mimixownzall]

why would anyone enable these models? wouldn't be so bad if the animations weren't so horrible.

it makes my eyes bleed

[fastboy21]

the human male bug was on live for a long time after SoL models were put into place...point being, that it took sony a long time to figure out how to fix it too.

obviously, it is a matter of taste as to whether the models are good or not. personally, i think some of the models are okay, and some of them are better than the classic ones. elementals look MUCH better imo. classic elementals remind me of the ghosts from pacman.

the bugs are the big turn off...but it is a good job by the OP.

[soup]

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

Basically I think it boils down to this:

The folks who don't care about the models and the aesthetics of P99 are just here to play a game. Just like any other MMO, just here to play it and that is fine.

On the other hand, the folks who do care about the models and aesthetics are here to live in a fantasy realm. To feel like a part of the world no matter what it may look like.

Back when EQ came out, the genre was called MMORPG, because there was a very heavy Role Play element built into the game. But these days, they are just called MMOs because very few people Role Play in them anymore. Most people are just there to play, and acquire items and power. Not really caring about your "characters" background, personality traits, etc...
I put the word characters in quotations because without the role play element they are just a collection of crude polygons representing what you've played to earn. Not a character, an entity with feeling and purpose behind it.

Sorry for the long post just thought I'd share my perspective on the whole Classic/Luclin models war hehe.

I disagree completely. Just because I don't roleplay doesn't mean I don't have some kind of attachment to my character beyond "Polygons with lewt lolol." It's -my- character, and I still have an attachment to it beyond -your- perception that it's nothing but polygons without a roleplay element.

[firesyde424]

I loved to role play. I have very fond memories of RP'ing with the other DE newbies in Nektulos, shunning the trolls and ogres, and behaving like I was better than most of the other DE's because I was a member of "The Dead." It was a lot of fun. I vividly remember "calling" the dragoons at the Neriak gates to help the guards at the bridge in Nektulos because they were being slaughtered by "light siders." Of course the GM's frowned on that, but it was still fun nonetheless.

[frefaln]

Originally Posted by firesyde424 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I vividly remember "calling" the dragoons at the Neriak gates to help the guards at the bridge in Nektulos because they were being slaughtered by "light siders." Of course the GM's frowned on that, but it was still fun nonetheless.

What the heck, man, I just got perma-banned for that. Well, replace Nektulos with "Freeport" and "light siders" with "a troll" and there ya have it.