I have to say that I sympathize somewhat
with Mr. Satan from AOL. I am still on this
list but my level 26 bard languishes. I have
found I need a game that I can have some fun
in for 40 minutes and then turn it off if
need be. EQ is an awesome, incredible game,
but if you are even a little power hungry
like I am it can become insanely demanding
on your time. I can distinctly recall when
games that offered 100 hours of potential
adventuring were considered great in terms
of entertainment value for the dollar. EQ offers
at least a thousand hours (if you consider
getting 50th an endpoint/goal), and for me
it's just too damn much. Figure that you
spend about 2,000 hours a year working for
a living at 40 hour work weeks and you begin
to see the ridiculously slow pace EQ has.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to get level 50,
slay every monster several times (not 300), and
have a lot of fun. The problem is I can't devote
my life to eq, and if there was a way to cheat
in order to accelerate my adventures/progress
through the game, I would find it tempting to
use.
Anyway, keep up the interesting messages -
I am now experiencing eq vicariously
through your stories.
Berk, mostly retired level 26 bard of Rallos Zek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jjb@... [mailto:jjb@...]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 6:38 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] EQ slang
>
>
> From: jjb@...
>
> Well hot damn, that means when I get lung cancer from smoking all these
> years that I can sue the people who made them! It's not MY fault that I
> bought them in the store, not my fault I lit a bunch of crushed up plants
> held together with chemically treated paper, which the paper is held round
> with glue, then stuck the fiberglass type material in my mouth and sucked
> on it while the opposite end was glowing red. Woohoo, using SaTaN, ahem,
> excuse me, s8n's, logic, I'm bound to be a millionaire.
>
> OR
>
> when you grow up you'll be able to tell the difference between right and
> wrong, between knowing what's the correct course of actions
> without someone
> telling you what they are. Or maybe some other kid wanting to blame
> everyone else for thier bullshit will shoot you (so they can be as cool as
> the "gangsta's") and your parents can sue the company that made the gun.
> (since it won't be the kid who pulled the trigger's fault, no need to even
> put him in jail)
>
>
>
>
> At 06:30 PM 6/28/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >From: MrS8N@...
> >
> >I don't want to be specific about locations but there are
> certain creatures
> >who get caught in walls when you lure them there and then you can slowly,
> but
> >surely, bellow them to death. I haven't done it as much as I wanted to
> >because it isn't worth it anymore as the creatures in question
> are mostly
> >blue to me now but imagine how happy I'd have been to have found
> this spot
> >when they were all red. My point really is--hold on to your helms,
> >RPers--who cares how you get your levels as long as you get them
> and get on
> >to the getting of the cool stuff so you can whip Lord Mistmore? Oh the
> >dismay and anger the purple people showered me with as they watched me
> >"cheat". Far as I am concerned, playing honorably with an object like a
> >computer game is just plain silly. If the bug wasn't there I *couldn't*
> >exploit it so therefore it is Verant's fault, not mine, that
> I--or anyone
> >else for that matter--can use it. It isn't cheating. It is
> using your head
> >to take advantage of an opportunity granted, intentional or otherwise.
> >Bottom line: RPers, generally, are exactly as Shanda said--a
> bunch of wacko
> >powermad control mongers who chastise and harrass
> "normal"--stress the word
> >"normal"--people. They are like the Bob Barrs of Everquest.
> Play how they
> >want you to play or they will contact a GM(the granddaddies and
> epitomy of
> >powermad RPers)and bring legislation against you. This is the only
> problem I
> >have ever found with an otherwise outstanding game. Purple
> people mind your
> >own freakin' business and quit whining to the GMs every time you
> see someone
> >playing the way your dork ass wouldn't.
> >
> >Cooter
> >21st no matter how I got here.
> >
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