Just not the same...

[nhdjoseywales]

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

I wasn't the only one that experienced this. As another person said they had gone through the same thing. New players can't find camps, because people who are 50th are powerleveling their guildmates alts. We have distinct rules on who can do what in raids, making sure each guild has a chance to accomplish something, but we don't have any rules regarding how people can camp in normal camps. We don't say, hey if you're 50th you need to not be PLing one person when a group is trying to find a place to level, but rather, you've the game the longest, do whatever you want. I'm pretty sure this was allowed in EQ, but that doesn't mean we can't change these rules. The people who do these things, they don't care about public opinion, more often than not they're from one of the same guilds and their only concern is getting that buddy to raiding level asap.

Then the obvious solution is go elsewhere. A server that has been stagnant for several years is not the place to play if you dont want to run into twinks and people powerleveling. There are numerous other eq emu servers out there im sure one of them will fit your needs. To come here and bitch that the server is what it is and not your idealized fantasy is pretty lame. If you think lowbie zones are bad, then you have zero clue what a shit-show it can be at higher levels and you wont be able to hang. Best leave now and not waste further time. You either accept the server for what it is and love it or get the fuck out.

[FatMice]

Is this a troll? I mean the OP account was made a year ago. Surely by now, the OP understands the nerd capabilities on this server.

[Jimjam]

OP should move to a timezone about 7 hours earlier than his current one.

Most jerkery happens during American prime time (which I assume is due to the highest volume of players, not due to any innate jerkiness of americans)!

[Zenren]

FatMice- Not trolling I played for a couple weeks when I created this account to play with some friends, they left for another game and I followed. Got the idea to come back and decided to stay. This is reflective of my experience since I've come back. (BTW I quit the game when I got trained repeatedly in Upper Guk in the Heart Spider room by a monk that would FD when he entered.)

[Grivyn]

Personally as a new roll on this server I've found unrest and MM in particular to be a waste of time. Full of p/lers and twinks for the most part so myself and a friend duo have basically leveled from 19-30 in uprguk and now moving on to lwrguk. Having said that most twinks we have grouped have been great and sped things up considerably, but we rolled up mainly to relive the guks again so I may have a distinct rose coloured view of them as dungeons to point where i've told my leveling partner should I suggest leaving the guks again to slap me silly.

[burkemi5]

You need to go back to the Freeport area, there's far more places for you to camp, especially in the mid teens to 20s.

Obviously it's lame that someone was PLing where you wanted to group. It happens. Earlier today I was in KC and people were trying to solo a few spawns that were typically pulled by the group (lcy) I was in. At one point, the person soloing pulled too many and trained us. Crap like that happens in every zone at every level. Its annoying but it's part of Eq, just like someone PLing an alt in a popular zone is. I saw that many times on live back in the day.

[stormlord]

I'll admit when I was playing on live later in my playing career I sometimes would be playing a twink and didn't want to invite others because it'd slow down my experience, since they weren't twinks. Most of the time I just stayed silent and went my own way, so it was ok. But there was once in BOT when I declined a warrior or some gnome/halfling and he NEVER forgave me. I tried and tried to make it up to him, but he was stoic. I came to realize he was a jerk or at least as bad as anybody. The odd thing is I've given my fair share of friendliness and helpfulness to others. When I played on p1999, I never levelled past 23. I played with noobs constantly and you wouldn't ever knew that I had ever played selfishly. My point is just because someone plays selfishly doesn't mean they can't be friendly or never will be friendly again. Don't let one bad day or some bad behaviour by someone let that tarnish the rest of their character. If you're going to do that you must claim to be perfect and never yourself act selfishly?

EQ wasn't and never will be perfect. I don't know of a single mmo which can make up for human nature without completely making it single player. When you play EQ you should keep in mind you're entering an open place where good things and bad things will happen more frequently than the norm. That's the expectation you should have. It's a rocky bump road in EQ. As in anything, you will appreciate the good moments more because you had to experience some bad ones.

Please note I played a ranger when I played in 1999 and played a ranger up until 2010. I also played a paladin up to 65. So I was turned away by many groups in my time and judged as deficient. So don't think for a moment I don't know hte feeling. I suffered many setbacks and tough experience droughts. But I was stubborn. It was a challenge. It made me appreciate more how classes can offer different things which we might not appreciate. Classes in EQ really required you to play them to know them. Perhaps that was a source of a lot of the discrimination. I do think people tend to only play deeply a few classes.

[Clark]

Take a deep breath.

Thicken your skin. Don't be so easily flustered.

[Riotgirl]

Spent last two evenings in Unrest: yesterday was full of on the level groups in the CY, so all YT dead. Managed half a level before I went elsewhere. Quiet in /ooc but perfectly civil.

Earlier this evening, there was a bunch of teen players and we grouped in left corner of CY pulling YT: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Ranger, Shaman and myself [Chanter]. Then we moved inside to BR and MR. People levelled, chatted, had fun, FUBARed their UI and hotkeys (that would be me =/), and the only slight sour point was a mis-communication that resulted in a few deaths in the MR. All in all, a pleasant and enjoyable PUG experience in one of my favourite zones.

Had a few higher level players come over to babysit, buff, etc during our sojourn in Unrest. I have to say that my Unrest experience has been night and day to some of the negative ones experienced in this thread.

Special shout out to Loudness [Bard], single-handedly dismantling P99 Bard myths, by training mobs away from the group and to the zone line (calling out the train in /ooc) during an over-pull.

[Hailto]

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

The restaurant is full, you're sitting alone at a table for six. A couple asks if you mind if they sit at the table, do you say no?

I would say no, that's really fucking weird.