EverQuest is ez mode

[Elfminster]

Here are some ideas to make the game more challenging,

• Remove multi-questing.
• Remove trading.
• Remove floor transfers.
• Remove racial perks.
• Remove lowbie buffing/ports.
• Remove pre-nerf loot.
• Remove Bard swarming.
• Remove fungi tunic.
• Remove level 1 weapon procs.
• Remove epic weapons.
• Remove Torpor spell.
• Remove SoW.
• Remove Clarity.
• Remove Lich.
• Remove Cannibalize.
• Remove instant invis items.
• Make charm more unreliable.
• Increase mana cost of spells.
• Increase mob damage.
• Increase mob health.
• Make mobs smart instead of dumb.
• Increase faction requirements.
• Hardcore mode only.
  

I'm not sure how you can fix EQ being an evironment in which you waste your life working for nothing of value.

[Elfminster]

I gave a torch and 2HS weapon to a L8 enchanter pet.

The pet was slashing for 67.

It was soloing Blackburrow.

EZmode.

[magnetaress]

EQ is easy. That it's not a twitch game and has downtime and organizational aspects is its main selling point.

[magnetaress]

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

EQ is easy. That it's not a twitch game and has downtime and organizational aspects is its main selling point.

And is more sandbox. In modern games like wow if you want to earn gold... you're streamlined into a carefully psychologically crafted gold per hour activity pipeline with a daily or weekly cap. That needs to change.

Also unnerf platfarming through pottery and mail quests and stuff. That's not currently classic and p99 funnels ppl deliberately into raid content and degenerate list camps for making plats.

[mycoolrausch]

I think a hard mode custom server could be cool as a gimmick.

I'd do most of the nerfs you mention except i'd ++XP.

[realsubtle]

EQ feeling too easy for an elite gamer like yourself? Whenever the game seems like you're breezing through, hit yourself as hard as humanly possible in the crotch with a ball peen hammer so you have to struggle through enormous amounts of pain in order to do the tasks that the game requires. Your irreparably bruised, necrotizing genitalia are a small price to pay for those sweet, sweet bragging rights! >[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Elfminster]

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

EQ feeling too easy for an elite gamer like yourself? Whenever the game seems like you're breezing through, hit yourself as hard as humanly possible in the crotch with a ball peen hammer so you have to struggle through enormous amounts of pain in order to do the tasks that the game requires. Your irreparably bruised, necrotizing genitalia are a small price to pay for those sweet, sweet bragging rights! >[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What bragging rights are those?

What you're doing now somebody did 22 years ago and did it better.

[Videri]

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

EQ feeling too easy for an elite gamer like yourself? Whenever the game seems like you're breezing through, hit yourself as hard as humanly possible in the crotch with a ball peen hammer so you have to struggle through enormous amounts of pain in order to do the tasks that the game requires. Your irreparably bruised, necrotizing genitalia are a small price to pay for those sweet, sweet bragging rights! >[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

+1. OP should follow the helpful instructions above!

[Elfminster]

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

+1. OP should follow the helpful instructions above!

The reward for playing EQ isn't good enough to warrant violent self harm.

It wasn't good enough 22 years ago and it's certainly not good enough now.

[Elfminster]

My experience of P99 so far...

Random army of moneygrabbing Druids/Wizards say out of character, "Dial A Port porting for plat, 1pp per level"

Pikertrading auctions, "WTS absolutely everything, WTB absolutely everything"

EQtrader shouts, "DON'T TRAIN SLATE TO NORTH RO ZONE"

Infallible Wiki loot values

No /ooc Ding

No /duel

Error 1017

Soandso tells you, "Stop stealing my giants"

Soandso tells you, "You're too high level for this area please leave"

"Your client might have crashed"

No high value long lasting reward for working hard and being stressed out