Classic / Kunark state of the union

[wrxBRAH]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Aside from the raiding scene, everything is awesome on p99.

I just wish non-classic mechanics in the raiding scene were removed such as variance and training as well as enforcement of basic PNP-type rules. Feel like in the last year I've seen too many people break rules/get caught and have no actions taken against them.

Particularly training, I really think that shit needs to be fixed. You may not think of training as a big deal but as someone who most of the time logs in for 20-30 minutes at a time to kill a raid mob and log off, CR'ing for an hour after some dickhead trained a raid is not fun and very unfair to players. Perhaps we can come up with some player-enforced anti-training punishment, if the GM's don't want to enforce it.

Idk, im just tired of logging into EJ/TT zone line and having sev trained onto me...or logging into VS pit and having every mob from entrance of zone to the pit trained on me, or logging into trak's lair in a safe spot just to have trak pulled onto your unsuspecting raid. If shit like that is going to happen, logs need to be checked to find out who it is and that person needs to be banned for like 1 month for each incident.

Other than the shitheads who train, kite, killsteal, etc. I love p99.
Perhaps my live server just had nicer folks playing there, because this place seems so cutthroat compared to there.

The raiding issue could be solved by weekly server repops a la patch day. This emulators high end raiding scene doesn't reflect my original server as well. We had mature guild leaders that would work together for the most part.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Once you got past level 25 there was barely a zone you could go into without having to deal with teams of perma charming farmers cherry picking everything that can drop loot. It was lame as shit. Sorry that you decided to invest all of your time and energy into something that was clearly a project in ongoing development.

If you want to replay EQ in 1999, you probably need to spend your free time scoring some hallucinogenic drugs rather than playing P99 or waiting for a new P99 server.

[t0lkien]

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

Pretty sure its been stated that there will be a new blue server launched following an accurate timeline.

And while it may be overrated to you, its not for the majority. Kunark was and still is a pretty weak expansion IMO, let alone having to toil in it for years.

On the contrary, Nilbog has stated there won't be another blue server, ever. As has Sirken multiple times on his stream. I'm not sure what you guys are going on about - are we playing hypothetical?

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the contrary, Nilbog has stated there won't be another blue server, ever. As has Sirken multiple times on his stream. I'm not sure what you guys are going on about - are we playing hypothetical?

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...d.php?t=117415

[pharmakos]

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

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...d.php?t=117415

bam

[t0lkien]

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

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...d.php?t=117415

Well that's weird, unless things have changed since. In the past month it's been said there will never be another server. Sirken's words were "there is zero interest" on the p99 team for one. Nilbog was also either quoted as saying there will never be one (by Sirken), or it's elsewhere - can't quite remember.

I hope I'm not misrepresenting Sirken here, but that's as I remember it.

[pharmakos]

did he say "no current interest?"

if this hypothetical server does ever get opened, i'm fairly sure it won't be released until like 2016.

[Weekapaug]

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

That would happen on a new server as well. Good players can handle the content with low numbers - sorry if that doesn't include you. A new server will just change which set of neckbeards are at the top.

Are you smoking the same thing Swish is? I already said, it's not about farming. It's how it was done. Which, here, wasn't remotely classic. There was no PERMANENT CHARMING in classic EQ. Or in-game maps that, you know, show those alleged "good players" where the namers are. I was in lguk one day while a trio of casters with perma charmed pets were spam /ooc-ing for somebody to come show them where all the nameds popped because they had no clue. Ponder the irony of that a moment considering they could have had maps if they'd wanted them. Not like an actual experienced player from Classic EverQuest would need them. And these are the people you hold up as "good players." They were typical of that era on this server.

Nor translocators to/from the cash spots in OoT. Nor were accounts allowed to be sold for plat. Nor was a lack of exp penalty for hybrids. Etc etc etc. A book could be written about everything non-classic that was taken full advantage of by a significant portion of the playerbase during the "classic" era on this server. With the addition of exploitable bugs. Not to mention boxers everywhere.

"Good players" my ass. This server was full of clueless noobs who exploited every non-classic mechanic and bug concievable. People who were 8 years old during live classic, if they even played at all, and finally got to play for real now that they didn't have a bedtime....exploiting every zone. It had nothing to do with player skill. If you weren't around when they finally fixed the charm bug, you should have seen the crying on the boards. I didn't quit because I couldn't handle the content. I quit because it was lame.

Again, none of this is a slam on the server or the devs. It's a work in progress and that's where it had progressed at that point from a technical standpoint. It's a slam on the idiots who think that the classic era we had here was even remotely like real classic. All of this has been fixed and continues to be. It will be much better next time around.

For the record, I kind of dig low pops, if they are healthy enough. And I don't care who is "at the top." I care about playing through the content legit.

[Obsidus]

Honestly, to me it seems like Nilbog just wasn't being extra careful with his choice of words, and was speaking hypothetically. Nothing about that post implies that they are thinking about adding another server some time in the future. Yet people in this post are raging/flaming over the idea like it is gonna happen. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[t0lkien]

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

Honestly, to me it seems like Nilbog just wasn't being extra careful with his choice of words, and was speaking hypothetically. Nothing about that post implies that they are thinking about adding another server some time in the future. Yet people in this post are raging/flaming over the idea like it is gonna happen. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's how I interpret it too. It's simply good coding practice to do what he's doing. I guess he hasn't completely discounted the prospect of another/a new server in the future.