"Classic" feeling shifting?

[Jigawatts]

Daldaen, now I will admit that I spend most of my time with /role on, and a good number of my ports have been from OT, but I can count on one hand the number of times I've been truly stiffed. Usually its 30-50p every single time.

[Daldaen]

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

Daldaen, now I will admit that I spend most of my time with /role on, and a good number of my ports have been from OT, but I can count on one hand the number of times I've been truly stiffed. Usually its 30-50p every single time.

Even with a plat donation, I really don't care about porting. If I were concerned about 30-50 plat donations I would advertise a porting service (something I don't recall ever doing on this server... Maybe many moons ago).

It's the fact that these people are too lazy to run, would rather bother a porter or pay them plat, to avoid having to travel 2-3 zones... Then they also say that PoK books making the world feel smaller was one of the worst things to happen to EQ. They're choosing to keep the small world feel by asking or donating for ports instead of traveling on their non-port class. Just doesn't make sense.

If you think PoK books are terrible, start running around more. Or get a bard to travel with you with selos since player interaction seems to be a huge concern to so many. That would be some actual interaction, running around Norrath with a selos bard. Trying to suggest interacting with porters is anything more than a request for port and thanks/buff requests is nonsense.

[Bodybagger]

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

Even with a plat donation, I really don't care about porting. If I were concerned about 30-50 plat donations I would advertise a porting service (something I don't recall ever doing on this server... Maybe many moons ago).

It's the fact that these people are too lazy to run, would rather bother a porter or pay them plat, to avoid having to travel 2-3 zones... Then they also say that PoK books making the world feel smaller was one of the worst things to happen to EQ. They're choosing to keep the small world feel by asking or donating for ports instead of traveling on their non-port class. Just doesn't make sense.

If you think PoK books are terrible, start running around more. Or get a bard to travel with you with selos since player interaction seems to be a huge concern to so many. That would be some actual interaction, running around Norrath with a selos bard. Trying to suggest interacting with porters is anything more than a request for port and thanks/buff requests is nonsense.

I run unless I need to get somewhere too dangerous for me to cross a zone. I run even without run speed. I will ask any sham/druid along the way for a sow... and I'm a newb who does well to get spells and basic gear so I don't really donate either *shrug* part of the game. You don't have to be generous with your time, be an old mizer and never sow or port anyone, more power to you. Don't blame others for your lack of desire to do one of your classes intended roles though... surely you've benefitted from many many people in groups along the way to the top/wherever you feel you are now, and surely those weren't all mutully beneficial situations...

hell in just the past 2 days I've duo'd on my SK with 2 druids and an enchanter, all basic newbs and all people I was straight carrying, all but sitting there afk (keeping me company while I demolished uguk for us) and I know one day they will be far more useful to other people than me, but hopeful they will remember that and always pay it forwards too. I even went out of my way to get one druid a ress when he died and hadn't bound and was at felwithe, and no druids would pick him up.

....way to betray your own kind! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Grizzled]

The luclin translocator guys were nice. I mean lets face it the boats on live were ALWAYS broken. It was still upto a 15 min wait for each port. You still had some down time for unassisted travel. Luclin its self was all on the moon and absolutely does not fit everquest in any way shape or form.

The bazaar always struck me as a loss for the game. I always thought if people wanted to be merchants in a sword and shield game, the computer should not be doing it for them. I remember hitting ec a few days after luclin was released. It was quiet and it was damned creepy.

Planes and Powers was an absolutely awesome expansion. But in dealing with planes they left out the original planes. A key should have had to of been obtained from a piece from each of the older planes. A key to gain access to plane of tranq. Then resume the expansion from there.

Poknowledge and books/stones. that is a 50/50 split. Made travel easier to get to groups/raids. Most people who hated them back in the day were the people who profited off not having them. Knowledge gave every class access to every spell. I never did like wis casters got almost all their spells from vendors and int casters had to research/ get drops.

LDON was a good concept but poorly implemented ( i believe). Gear modification is a great idea. I just didnt care for instances, with a special currency, and special vendors. Better way is getting a quest box that ignores lore and can only contain a specific item for that quest. this way you can take a specific piece of dropped loot and put both in, combine and get the new fixed piece.

AA was the best part of the game for me. I wanst and still am not a fan of alts. This allowed me to do something beneficial with my toon other than pile more money up or power level someones alt.

my 2 cp

[Master Roshi]

Just be thankful you have your item links and current UI modding capabilities.

Everything else is no.

[Halius]

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

Just be thankful you have your item links and current UI modding capabilities.

Everything else is no.

I really wish we had classic UI, and no item links. I was really hoping when I first started on this and saw the Classic tag that I would have the old UI and people in EC offering to show their bags of wares at T1! But, alas, not yet. It's obviously not a game breaker because this server is still awesome but it would have been great.

[Bodybagger]

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

I really wish we had classic UI, and no item links. I was really hoping when I first started on this and saw the Classic tag that I would have the old UI and people in EC offering to show their bags of wares at T1! But, alas, not yet. It's obviously not a game breaker because this server is still awesome but it would have been great.

exactly what I hoped for when I loaded up p99 first time lol

I truly miss classic appearance like that...just the best... only now my monitor is the wrong shape hahahah

[Stormfists]

PoP's key successes were down to the depth of endgame raiding as Luclin had travel down pretty well. You couldnt just zerg, you had to formulate proper strats in places like PoE & PoT, which was fun - especially back with 10-15 endgame raiding guilds fighting for progression. In comparison, classing raiding is organising a basement dwelling neckbeard zerg fest... although I'm certain none of us play EQ for its intricate raiding difficulty.

Plus maybe devs feel like they're done after Velius and want to move on in RL.

[Itap]

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

Plus maybe devs feel like they're done after Velius and want to move on in RL.

Blasphemy!

[Itap]

Wow, well we all know what Dalds favorite expansion is! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]