VampyreKnight is quoted below.
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1. Yes the primary point of EQ IS to have friends and to work together in a fantasy environment to better their characters.
I agree. But "networking" has nothing to do with valor and the networking is the PRIMARY requirement to finish most quests. A favorite saying of members of the mafia is "Its not what you know, its who you know". Getting ahead by "who you know" is immoral.
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older quests have become out of date and easily done by a bazaar bought noob(something your used to?). This game is focused on the group
Yes, but almost NONE of the non-newbie quests (OLDER OR NEWER) that are worth doing, are soloable. And 20% of us solo almost exclusively.
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2. No quest "requires" mega plat. In that time did craftsmen not have to work at their skills and spend money on the materials?
The oracle tunic quest DOES require mega plats. For one thing a firebone notebook or velkators notebook are NEVER awarded to a wis caster. If you dont buy them, you will never get them. On my server they go for about 80k each, and there are 4 more books to get. The PRIMARY requirement of any quest that requires 220 tailoring is not going out and finding the components. Its the cost (or opportunity cost) of 300k plats to get your skill that high. And no, real craftsmen do not end up spending money to get their skills up. In real life, they make a profit.
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3. hmm you seemed to stand by your view of the definition of quest even though the exact thing is laid out for you. Kael armor is indeed classified under the definition:quest.
insert generic perseption insult.
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4.Again the definition alone disproves your beliefs. Should i give another example of how further expansions came out older quests became overshadowed? you seem to forget this.
If you will note: I revised this item from being "not a quest" to being "not a quest worth doing". However, you remain under the delusion that there are a more than a trivial number of high level soloable quests worth doing and that these are "new" quests. THERE ARE NOT.
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5. Seriously though, aparently you have some uber gear thats soloed for because its going to be amazing when you do that stuff on your own.
Almost everything I own, I bought in the bazaar. I have 345wis, FT14, and 5k mana. I have an elysian BP that I soloed lying around somewhere. I am NOT twinked. I did not buy plat. In four years of playing for thousands of hours, I have had exactly 2 drops that were an upgrade for me and I have found exactly 1 soloable quest that would result in an upgrade for me.
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Since you never even play with other classes
I have a high level chanter and monk and medium high bard.
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let me tell you that most other epics do not have what it takes to stand up to that of later expansion gear(and yes, these quests are not soloable either).
Monk and chanter epics are nothing to complain about either.
But this is not relevant to the discusion. I only commented on it because of your comment - "Are you really that dillusional" that you made in regard my comment on THE DRUID EPIC, NOT epics in general.
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6.A quest can never be purely soloable outside of instanced zones.
NOT TRUE. They could do something akin to what they did for the poj trials, but instead of warping a group, they would warp a single person. But this is not that important. If you CAN do it solo, almost everyone WILL do it solo. Is there anyone who did the 35+ soloable pieces of the druid epic with help? If you want to keep a raid of 30s from doing a level 50 solo quest, give the quest reward a required level and make it nodrop.
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7.Hmm it was my implied that EQ did not have many of your "quests". So you are saying you enjoy how the game is made, but you'd much rather not have to deal with other humans because you can't and wont. Diablo 2 costs 20 dollars and has no monthly fee.
Solo diablo 2 is easy (boring). Solo EQ content ranges from hard to impossible. Unfortunatly 85% of it is in the impossible range for soloers and it gets worse with every expansion.
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Your complaints about mouse recognition is very small and is probably clientside because I have no problem running the mouse smoothly across the screen. Animation? obviously your new. I suggest you use a skin from here.
1) Obviously its client side. and 2) are you telling me that your mouse/cursor is as responsive in EQ as it is on the windows desktop? I am a programmer. I KNOW it could be done in EQ if the software were designed and implimented properly.
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As for the scroll on the text windows, have you tried locking your text menues...
Thanks for the suggestion. Still, it shouldn't be necessary. The code to impliment scroll bars correctly can be a bit complex, but the requirement to only scroll up or down one window's worth of data when appropriate is not the complex part.
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8. Why would they focus on this aspect when the entire idea is to enjoy the game with others?
You are correct. They should not impliment such an AI. Its cost would exceed its value.
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"video games dont cause violence.
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IMO video games prevent violence. If a violent person is playing EQ (almost certainly soloing like the sociopath that he is) then chances are he is taking time out from the real world where he would be far more likely to kill someone. I speak from experience. I have attempted murder twice (but not since I started playing EQ 4 years ago). (just in case you are thinking of calling a prosecuter, the crimes are no longer eligable for prosecution).