P99 is a custom easy mode server

[Secrets]

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

Because Secrets wants to make another closed source garbage box server with Uthgaard whereas I want to make P99 better or create an open source community collaboration server. Secrets has posted for years now about wanting to run a server. I don't want to run a server it's a pain in the fucking ass and I don't blame P99 devs for walking on this community I only blame them for not admitting it and telling everyone.

Watch out for server admins desperate for power and to "run it all from behind the curtain" it never ends well. Uthgaard himself is already a notorious power tripping hack as a GM so it speaks volumes they're teaming up.

Project Quarm will be fully open source, as is TAKProject. I hope P99 benefits from it in some way.

"Power" doesn't really get you anything tangible like you think it does, by the way. I don't get anything out of running this. It's a massive burden on peoples' personal lives to run something like this.

[BigPlays]

Would be nice to get a PvP server as well. One with limited rules aside from hacking/cheating etc.

[Seducio]

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

I'm extremely appreciative of Rogean's, Nilbog's, and any many others' efforts to let everyone play here.

This is my general stance on the server. Although I would never volunteer my time here based on way too many observations of seeing folks not get appreciated for their contributions. So I get you OP.

P99 really should be open source for what it is offering. The fact that it isn't is something that gets more and more indefensible over time.

OP in the long run the server you wish for will emerge.

The tools exist now if you really wanted to build your Field of Dreams.

Cheers

[mycoolrausch]

Harder doesn't mean more challenging. It just means more limited. More limited in what classes are effective in a certain situations, more limited in how many people you need to bring for a certain encounter. Etc.

Modern MMOs "nerfed" "easy mode" things like pack splitting into single pulling. Nobody think it made those games more challenging. You just have to fight the packs a specific way with a specific number of people. It's more limiting and more boring. The channeling nerf seems much along these lines.

[Naethyn]

EQ isn't hard because of the environment. In fact that is what EQ is probably at its weakest. What makes P99 unique and hard is the other people.

[Seducio]

The number of high level people doesn't make it hard rather it creates scarcity that didn't exist on live. Scarcity doesn't make the game hard. It makes it so everyone wants the same crap once they are 60. This creates the guild structures that currently exist, raid rules, UN discord etc. On live this was never an issue due to new expansions and increased level caps.

Basically p99 just extends the Velious end game indefinitely and the longer you stay the more RNG will favor you. However just like a casino that hooked you. The house always wins. What did you gain? A gaming experience. What did you lose? Time forever. Yet, you keep coming back.

[Trexller]

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

This is my general stance on the server. Although I would never volunteer my time here based on way too many observations of seeing folks not get appreciated for their contributions. So I get you OP.

Rog-Bog aren't running this for appreciation

[Seducio]

Trex that is less than half a thought. What are you saying.

"Our goal is to restore the magic and difficulty of the original Everquest game, including the mechanics, interface, and challenges of Original Content, Kunark, and Velious. Project 1999 is the most popular and most accurate reincarnation of Old School Everquest."

[Trexller]

yeah what part of that statement suggests anything like

"Please give us praise and appreciation"

the ass kissing plebs around here are always like, "DURR I appreciate the work they do"

as if the P99 devs actually give a fuck whether you live or die

They don't

back in like 2008 a group of nerds on ventrilo were like, "Hey I wonder if we could emulate the live EQ servers, specifically the classic EQ game"

then they did it

that's it

[Seducio]

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

Project 1999 is the most popular and most accurate reincarnation of Old School Everquest."

Your right they don't care that p99 is the most popular server. They don't care at all. They care so little about that fact that they even put it on the front of their site advertising the server.

Since you are so brilliant though go ahead and continue to show the world that you figured it all out.