Wow, someone who can rant better then me!
I bought Asheron's Call this past week. I'm living there until I can play
EQ again for more then 30 minutes without my SB Live crashing me out... Of
course by then there will be even less places for a level 40 and his two
perpetual group mates (my wife and brother-in-law) to hunt together...
Taneran Dreamweaver
<Clan Jax>
Bard of the 40th song
Prexus
----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Powerleveling doesnt mean L50 + rant
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
>
> Over the last few days, I've met up with some people I once knew
> a long time ago and also people whom I have no recollection of ever
> knowing.
>
> Of the people I knew, I played with them in Permafrost long before
> Brad made his post about 'upgrading' drops in there. Hell in beta,
> I owned that place. Anyway, I started with a regular group in there
> around L14. I often found myself in there alone night after night.
> I could not convince people to come, some people didn't even know
> where or what permafrost was. Around L19-L20, still working perma
> I met a few people who are now (as of yesterday) L32. Seven or
> eight months ago they were my level (L19). And now all of them call
> me a 'powergamer' telling me that I 'haven't enjoyed the game as
> much as they have'. This is where about 10% of my daily humor
> comes from, as it's worth a /chuckle.
>
> Then and again, I get tells from people out of the blue when I'm
> in a zone about 'what does a L50 want in this zone?' I was passing
> through Blackburrow the other day, and had just zoned in and I got
> a tell from some L20 person asking me why I was there. I could have,
> without a doubt, asked him the same thing. These same people also
> are whining to me about 'how bored you must be to come into X zone
> since you powerleveled to 50'. Doesn't everyone realize the only
> way to the Icy North is via Blackburrow? I thought as the server
> populace had become more mature in information that things like that
> would leak out. Regardless this guy hounded me for being L50 in the
> zone. Time to break out Screech and ride a few trains to zone ;-)
>
> /rant
>
> I'm bored as hell in EQ because I want some more quests or some
> more challenges. I don't consider giving a mob 10k more hp or an
> attack which does 900 dmg challenging. That's just frustrating.
> One could argue there are new quests in the PoS, however I cannot
> stroll up there anytime I want to work on them. My boredom stems
> mostly from lack of new things to experience. If I wanted to talk
> and chat all day, I'd irc or something. An integral part of my day
> now consists of learning more mechanics. I timed mana regain on
> my druid medding, standing, and sitting not medding. But that's
> sorta boring too hehe.
>
> They've pushed the expansion back a month. What in the world have
> they been doing? All the excuses I hear on their behalf seem to
> suggest they aren't doing much to the existing EQ, because they
> are hard at work on the expansion. While polygonal streams, and
> better detailed texture maps on giants is cool and all, and while
> making the trees 3d (finally) is neat, Verant needs better thought
> out AI and zone pathing which could drastically improve the existing
> game. I'm not holding my breath for the expansion in April. It's
> going to be the same AI, the same poor pathing, the same mobs with
> ac/hp/atk upgrades. I'm sick of goblins, I'm sick of gnolls, the
> planes are being tweaked so badly that people rarely even want to
> go there anymore. The 6 hours I spent in hateplane this weekend
> yielded one warrior pants and one cleric shield. Six f'ing hours
> over half the zone cleared, and two items. Then the server crashes,
> and the plane is reset. Before that I linkdied 2 times because
> of this constant network code upgrade they've done. My SBLive
> desktop crashes only add to the annoyment. Latest DirectX and
> latest sbl drivers and I cast 'Ring of Desktop' every day now
> it seems.
>
> A GM once visited us in the Plane of Fear. His words stick in my mind.
>
> -- "It's all going downhill from here" --
>
> I've yet to see that proven wrong since then.
>
> Harmonic, the disillusioned.
>
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