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AG has so much turnover and invites, I doubt they even know who's in their guild half the time. The problem they have is there is zero room for a casual endgame guild on P1999 due to the instagibbing and RMT going on. The endgame on P1999 is just hopelessly broken. It's a lot of fun to go...

I have a 46 cleric and a low level rogue in addition to my 59 Shaman. I have to literally scrape to get groups even though there are plenty of people sitting around doing nothing. I think exploits, power leveling, and over twinking have really hurt grouping at most levels on P99. I saw Nagy...

It zero to do with Lore/RP and everything to do with game mechanics. Death has meaning, but is not zero sum. If you take it lightly, you'll end up gone which personally I like seeing in a game and genre where nothing ever changes generally. It's also balanced in you don't lose everything, but...

I think Lumi needs his own thread to not completely veer off the Velious rumors, and other P99 discussions we've been having. One question that I have is with so many people, why is it so hard to get groups at times 50+? This server has so many anti social, lumi-type merchants it really is...

EQs items taken from AD&D/DIKU were cool. EQ's itemization system itself was not very good. The items themselves were interesting mainly due to scarcity and nerfing. I do dislike the loot pinata system of item development, but I think random items spawning on non camps is far, far better and...

I like the death penalty system and I'm looking forward to no respawns and death actually having a meaning. It's not too draconian, but there should be repercussions. This is really the only thing I like about crowdfunding, in that a dev can create the game he wants without required...

Nah, this too shall pass. Once Lumie leaves, we can get back to discussing the fact P99 Blue is overcrowded and all 10 people on red are badass.

I've not seen a lot of stellar successes from crowd sourcing, and I'm not really a big fan of it. I think Chris Roberts has the opportunity to actually open up the market for it since I think many people view it in the same light as pyramid schemes.

The grinding, the roamers, and the trains didn't make it interesting. It was more pavlovian. The only thing different was the overt danger. I'd rather never do another daily dungeon or camp again, personally. How fucking hard is it to make dungeon contents actually change and to move things...

All they need to do is copy Jump to Lightspeed which was brilliant.

I agree it's still a lot of hype and vapor, but they've been pretty consistent with selling the multiplayer as a 'persistent' world a la an MMO. My point about it being more of an MMO than WOW where nothing really changes is better outlined below: Stick and Rudder Extra: Chris Roberts on Star...

Except they have a lot of design work videos, planning shown, and Chris Roberts has a nice history in this genre. Most of us have a pretty good feeling what this game will be, and for those of us who are huge Freelancer and Privateer fans, it's worth kicking a few dollars towards. I'm the most...

I always thought Bethesda ran a tight ship. Given they are at their core a gaming company, how in the world did they develop a big budget MMO that is so far from their legacy single player games? I agree they'll make some coin back, but do they really want to damage the Elder Scrolls brand?

I'd argue that the old quest system has had it's time in the sun, but the millions of current WOW subscribers as well as many others playing similar games really makes me wonder if that's true. Level's and quests are fine. However, if the loot and gear is generic and not acclimated to...

I haven't played this in forever and I need something new to play. Any primer to get back into things?

The depressing thing is this quote is spot on. I'm bored of P1999, have zero desire to be a WOW lemming, and can't handle doing EVE's spreadsheet wars. We need something new.

I agree somewhat. The problems arise when things become too tedious, or the game itself loses out on fun due to that. It's all about balance. I think if he makes what he originally envisioned with Vanguard on a smaller scale with more immersion and some non standard advances, he'd have a great...

Good for him if he's motivated and wants to earn his rep back. EQ was 15 years ago. All of us give him props for that. The problem is the used car sales routine for his lemon on FOH is fresher in our memory. My other issue is I see no commentary or insights from Brad regarding how he'd...

I posted this three months ago, and my guess is things haven't changed at all. I'll bow out of this thread, as I am bummed they missed the boat on this game, which really just needed to be a multiplayer version of Skyrim.

I think you should go look for an illegal Russian poker club in Jersey or NYC to take their money, Lumi. I hear the stakes are quite high, and you obviously would clean them out. Why stick to the small beans stuff, when with your talents you could retire in a month!

We've done this song and dance a few times and Ut swears he has no 'personal' issues with anyone at Zenimax Online. Then he goes apeshit on Matt Firor, for some bizarre reason. Evidently he raped his childhood or something. I didn't like the game not because it was a train wreck, but simply...

Fair enough. I think I'm lacking a positive opinion because Brad has actually given us nothing. Setting the wayback machine to 1998 does not really do much for my enthusiasm. Indeed I'd like to hear features, support, and how's about a demo or actual design goals and plans? I think Star...

This seems revisionist to me. Vanguard was a train wreck at release and six more months would not have made that much of a difference. Also, according to reports wasn't Vanguard released despite Brad being mostly MIA? At least with Garriott's Tabula Rasa game he was there peddling away to the...

That is the elephant in the room, yes. Also, what did he do in his return to SOE? Jacobs had a concept and sales pitch. Garriott has a ton of really good games and a decent background in programming. Both of them seem to have planned out their return and are dilligently working, even if I don't...

Which is why it blows me away to see people contribute to his kickstarter, or even Mark Jacobs who also got a boatload of money from EA for selling out to the man. However, both of those guys will probably release actual products. I really don't think Mcquaid's will ever make it to the design...

Well, they could but then it wouldn't be the 'classic' experience. Ignoring the fact classic only lasted 6 months and not years. There are a lot of guilds that could take down endgame bosses, but the server admins really have taken a poor stance in allowing the 'first engaged' policy instead...

Only if he hired Romero. Too bad it's not April 1st. A Mcquaid-Romero 'We're making you our bitch' kickstarter campaign would have infinite potential. I'd set the bar low on a Mcquaid Kickstarter campaign, but look how successful Garriot's one was. That surprised me, and his game actually is...

FTFY, chief. I could care less about another server. I tried to play on Red, but leveling once through EQ was fun for nostalgia's sake. Doing it again does not interest me much. I think it'd be better for the community. I don't play to endgame raid and my Shaman has his epic so I'm mostly...

The game has potential, but after playing it I'd definitely recommend waiting until they release a pretty big patch to fix all the glaring issues. The campaign itself is just awful. Really, I don't know if that's fixable. What were they thinking with this? I don't regret buying it, as they...

I'm not following the logic. Currently EVERYTHING endgame is locked down pretty much by one guild who has absolutely no need for any of the loot. If one wants anything from the endgame bosses, they are stuck RMTing for it. If they release Velious and add another server up to that, they'll split...

Really pleasantly surprised by this game. That's all I'll say. Still not a fan of the graphics, though, but they grow on one.

This game actually comes with built in 360 controller support, which is nice for me. It never was an issue before, but lately I've been using my controller more and more on my PC games. None of the previous X ones have controller support. There will still be a learning curve, but if you check...

So roll out Velious on day 1 with stable code. Anyways, I like P1999. I'm just realistic about my expectations, and right now it's a shit environment due to the silly length of time it's been out on just Kunark.

I really hope that's not the case, but I've heard similar stories. I live in Ohio, though, and every time I hit a water park with my kids most of what I do is sit in the Hot Tub. I'm hoping to get quite a bit of use out of mine. On a different note, does anyone have a good FAQ or link for...

This is exactly why we need a fresh blue server. That and people with multiple alts in full VP gear sitting at spawn points waiting to kill critters for the 50th time, for god knows what reason, although part of me wonders if I'm way off base and there really is mass RMT going on here...

Knights who say Ni are a pretty n00b friendly guild. I'd just focus on leveling and saving enough for your spells initially. Throw me a tell on Ledd and I'll give you a Green Silken Drape and a few coin

I disagree. It's as much an MMO as half the other games in this forum.

Once they release Velious, a fresh P1999 server would be fabulous. Hopefully when they wipe one of the mostly empty red guys, they'll do a clean new blue one.

The problem is sometimes those things can become tedious. There's a smart balance between fun realism and just being a pain in the ass. I like the idea of a rested bonus, or fishing/hunting enabling a stat bonus but I never was a fan of the EQ food/drink design. I do like the idea of weather...