Um, here here. I would love all those things. The instrument changing
doesn't bother me a lot, but everything else just hits the nail on the head
for me. Mabe the next game....*sigh*

Tszaaz E'Taurguin, 30,Soi Disant Gentry, Povar

> It's unfortunate that the only ways to gain experience in EQ are by

slaying

> monsters and completing pre-fab quests. There's little incentive for doing
> anything else. I spent two hours last night helping some poor soul locate
> and retrieve his multiple corpses from deep in a hostile zone where he'd
> wandered accidentally. In a conventional RPG, the task would certainly

have

> warranted an XP award. Not so in EQ, where one has to be satisfied with
> whatever enjoyment one gains from helping out those in need and from
> roleplaying. Not that Verant makes roleplaying easy, with such things as
> limited emotes and crappy macro capabilities. For instance, I'd love to be
> able to type "/play" to play whatever instrument I have equipped without

any

> magical effects, it'd be nice if I could target a chair or a barstool and
> sit down on it, and I'd like to be able to script a song or a ballad to

play

> during those long boat rides. Everything in the game is so damn

utilitarian.

> Maybe we should just change the acronym to "MMOG".