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Why is there an ad for "promoting your business" allowed on here? I'm still trying to wrap my brain around why there's a many-month old interview posted, but allowing a commercial posted by an anonymous user is rediculous. I paid for my membership to cut down on the popups directly on this site, but I'll likely not renew if this keeps popping up. That goes for close to 20-odd other members of my guild as well (being that they brought it to my attention in the first place)

I think if you took twinking out of the game I would not want to play it. I have a lvl 60 and I only play him to go on a raid every know and then the rest of the time I play lower lvl characters. And getting through the first 25 lvls is not much fun with out any money.

I think that grouping is one of the best parts of the game.

Also to people who think that they should get rid of downtime you must be crazy. Go play diablo if you dont want downtime.

I couldn't be happier this guy has left SOE. I think he's the cause of most of my frustration in the game. He talks about camping being bad. Well if it didn't take forever for the exp to move at higher levels people wouldn't have to camp a spawn. Also, his obssession with having to group. Beyond belief, just because thats the way he likes to play doesn't mean everyone wants or should have to. Some people like soloing. Some people play classes that are hard to get into a group. Which is worse, camping a spawn or spending half your online time running around shouting LFG. Me I would rather be fighting that spawn. Twinking, lvl 5's running around in 60 gear? I've never seen that. The more likely is that lvl 5 running around in 30ish gear. Besides the twinks main toon earned that gear and its his business what he does with it not Brad's. I could go on alot longer about him, but whats the point? He's left EQ and hopefully EQ will be better for it. He seems to have forgotten that the cutomer is right. His job is to design the world and we'll tell him how we want to play in it. It would be a good bet I would never play a game that he is connected with in the future.

Xanasbik
51 Wiz
Underworld Knights
Zeb

I only passed a few items to my "younger" alt. However, my main has many nice items gifted to her by friends. Mind you, not one of these gifts were asked or begged for. A few were gifted from my character's guild. Some were real life savers when several times before I was 10th level, I had managed to died and lose ALL equipment. Without the occassional gifted item I would probably still be 16th not approaching 52nd. On a similar note would be the Powerleveling. I have had assistance, at one point, in getting over a hump, by friends who were considerably higher level than myself. Once again this was something they suggested and arranged, not due to begging or even asking from me.

There is a big difference between getting the help from the kindly older characters, and lamely asking, begging, pleading, whinning to get items or assistance in leveling. And as far as passing items between any one person's own alternate characters, that might be kin to the inheritance that a "real person" might have gotten from a parent or relative. Not all were kicked naked into the streets to fend for themselves. Depending on the patron's wealth and/or power it might be merely an old but serviceable weapon and a sack of rations (similar to the starting weapon and rations). However were the patron rich and powerful, armor and better weapons, even a riding animal might be passed down (similar to a 60th level twinking his alt.) My problem with twinking is that newbies want to twink the under 6th level characters...in my opinion a bad idea, because a death and not enough time to recover the corpse could mean a big loss in equipment. Better to wait until 6th or so and at least have a fighting chance to run naked and collect all that nice equipment before it rots.

On the issue of twinking I beleve it is beneficial and healthy to give a leg up to a starter as long as you dont goto extreem some basic armor, a decent weapon, or even a set of spells.
As a druid I am pummeled by the tells and begs for buffs, money or twinks I generally ignore such request but if I see a starter working hard at the game and making the best at what hes got sometimes I will buy them a set of common armor or spells.
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some things begging to be addresed....
trades and economy trades should have intrinsic value what is the value of taking up a trade that one cannot profit by because other items are far too common baking and rations come to mind. There should be recognition for mastery with a title or a /w baker I have mastered all of the trades available to my race/class and I want people to know it and I want to profit from my work (I never sold a lantern to a player)

begging is a worthless skill and should be removed.

bows are crippled in EQ because of game mechanics making rangers IMHO a nearly worthless class.

NPC's and quest are blocky and lack the richness that one sees in good fantacy novel's what is so epic about some huge guild going in to camp a mob
so that your soloer can buy the rights to the item
quest should be rich and memorable not got kill mob "A" and get me 4 "thingys"

the AA should have a lower level if even at the same exp price at level 51 I do not feel the NEED to continue on to 60 there is no value in it save the "60" At this point it has rendered down to kill level kill and that has has no apeal to me I seek more ... a hero with nothing heroic to do and no one to tell the story is not a hero.

and quest rewards are much to simplified I honestly wish players could own property and have titles I would love to say.. have my own smithy.
with ally faction I should be able to get a better price than a rogue that has to sneek to
sell.

there should be a new player title of sage or scolar that new people can ask questions of
so guides can do a better job of more important tasks like getting reses done b4 timer runs out

and lastly customer service is pitiful from guides up and all currently have my distrust the super rigid policy's have punished otherwise good and loyal players, like not geting a rez for taking falling dammage from porting into misty thicket because they couldnt proove they fell (i personally whitnessed this)

As a relatively new person to the game after being brought in by an associate at work talking about it I decided to delve in to the world of EQ. Maybe a total of a month online. In that time I have been able to convince another work associate to come online as well. Some observations while online. Like real life there is good and bad and we'd all be fooling ourselves if we believed that EQ could be some sort of perfect Utopia. There are scammers just like in real life, beggars, the ones who take the hard route and the road less travelled for greater rewards and those that take the easy way...or slackers in real life.

Problems I perceive. The economy. If a real world economy was based on EQ, there would be total collapse. Some work it like it should. Create a product then market it at a higher cost...materials...labour...profit margin factored in. However the manufacturing of goods from taking raw materials from say a merchant and then delivering a finished product from the raw materials and selling back to a merchant is flawed. In business, normally the finished product is more expensive than the materials it took to make it. Like cars...imagine if the auto industry sold for below material costs. Collapse.

However in EQ often your doing trade skills at a loss...huge loss. Averages of 20-30%. This should be corrected.

Twinking. Its human. Wanting bigger, better, more, experimenting, wondering if's. My character was twinked to a degree by my friend and in turn I am helping out my friend whom I brought in. So in the right way, twinking to help others is not so entirely bad. If marketed in some way, it can improve upon the game. Its a dicey issue with some and I try and understand both sides of the issues.

Downtime. Huge issue here. HP and Mana should regen faster based on level and XP. If it does already, forgive me. But at lev 14 and wanting to move onwards, downtime is 40-50% of my game. Should be 10-20 at best.

Camping-not a huge fan of it. Good money is being paid by all players for this game. All should have equal opportunity to play where they feel. The same players day after day, night after night, camping the same spawns is a bit much. It is a problem and not easily addressed.

Anyway, my two cents. Other than those things I have noticed so far, the game is absolutely a marvel to play. Only to think but a few short years ago..ok...maybe 20 or more...we all thought Pong was the cats pajamas. LOL

Truda
Level 14 Ranger
The Tribunal

Verant if you deign to read these boards ever, which i believe would be wise, take this to heart-fix the damn customer service aspect of your games. As it stands now its the worst pile of excrement i've ever had the displeasure of interacting with in a product of any sort !
Ok that being said, when the game functions correctly, and is available to be played it is one of the best games i would ever have dreamed of playing. I have been playing since beta 4 and still love the game, I always look forward to new servers coming out and have frequently jumped to the newest server to commence the new "Race to 60"
its a hoot, fierce competition on new servers is awesome. I really like the aspect of putting valuable experience to work on a new server to see how i stack up against others that are doing the same in getting to lvl 60 the fastest. That is however just one of the many side events that keep me hooked on this game. In general the other things i enjoy about the game is the "open-ended" aspect of the game, in other words i choose where i go and what i attempt to accomplish, as opposed to the game dictating in a linear fashion that i must solve this or that puzzle in order to advance to the next stage/level. The game's dynamic economy is also a huge aspect of enjoyment as i can wheel and deal and take a fairly newbie item and through trading/selling come out with a far better item in the long run.

The chat conventions used in the game lead me into many lucid interactions with others about myriad topics sometimes related to the game, but often times about real life issues, thus lending not only a roleplay element if you wish to explore that realm in chat, or a sense of belonging that sometimes is lacking in my day to day world. I have met in-game many fascinating people and have shared numerous experiences with so many others that i might have otherwise never interacted with in real life.

Graphically speaking, the game has never disappointed me, since the very beginning i was impressed with the graphics, but silly as it might sound, one of the little things that i would've liked to have been able to do is actually sit in one of the many chairs graphically depicted in the game , as opposed to sitting through those same chairs, actually sitting indian style on the floor next to a chair is a bit odd i think. In a similar vein the act of lying down on the ground is an ability denied to all save those with the ability "feign death", or to everyone briefly right after you see the message "loading please wait". :) Overall those are fairly petty concerns as the game as a whole doesn't suffer in any way due to those odd conventions. One aspect i wish they had instituted is the ability to push or pickup other characters or simply to grapple with other characters. I have often been in a situation where my character was horrified to watch a newbie unable to figure out the basic swim commands only to drown, with me right there impotent to save them, as not all my chars can cast "water breathing", Now if i could somehow have grabbed that character perhaps i might have saved them, and become heroic in their eyes at that moment, of course the implications in pvp are enormous but with the advent of no experience lost due to drowning i believe that aspect would not prove too problematic. Wrestling/grappling as a whole is completely left out of the game, I personally find this kind of humorous, as in real life i have witnessed many actual physical disputes being settled, and very few had no grappling aspects involved. Enchanters can cast a spell called "choke" but my warrior cannot get behind a gnoll and strangle the slimy little bugger. Oh well overall the fighting graphics work for the most part, i especially like the kick abilities monks have, they are at least a deviation from the standard "i slash you, you slash me" type of fights. I would really like it if in the future verant were to implement a push command, that way on bridges or narrow ravines or on high sheer surfaces i could seriously injure or be injured by a simple tactic called the shove, again deaths in this manner still would cause no "experience deaths" by themselves, and would allow for more strategic use of the high ground in fights, besides all the fun it would create amongst friends hehe.I do like the panoramics of the gameworld, although an almost exclusive lack of visble birds in the sky is a bit odd at times especially in Fironia Vie, where they clearly exist in noisome abundance, but again a fairly petty concern. The "mobs" as a whole were wonderfully illustrated in all their glorious repugnancy/splendour, though the use of insults might have been varied a bit more, i do find it a bit funny that filthy gnolls would have such an affinity for the world as a whole being a ravenous race and accuse the player characters of ruining their world.:)

Leveling characters in game is at times a bit slow, and finding mobs to hunt at times is a bit problematic, though this has gotten a bit better recently. Overall the game is well balanced at this point, not perfectly balance of course, but fairly close. I do remember the time, especially in pvp when Necos were the only class to consider, and the era of the naked bind rushing casters hehe, but these problems have been addressed for the most part, although i still find it somewhat annoying that occasionally i will die to a mob, lose experience, and respawn with absolutely no mana, instead of full mana as is supposed to happen, but as i said its a rare thing. I believe in general that all the classes are reasonable viable up to certain levels, but as of yet verant has not finished their tweaking of the melee classes, or addressed the aspect of wizards being fairly useless at higher levels due to being unable to deal commensurate damage compared to the tanks in the group, in my opinion this needs to be fixed to some degree.

Well guess that about sums up my rantings for one night, take care all, and if you play on vallon zek beware the de sk that lurks in black burrow he will get ya.:)

when Blizard made Diablo 2, they put in a mild anti-twink system of having a level requirement on aobut 10% of the items, and 75% of the worthwhile items.

if everquest were to put a level minimum on everything (yes, your bronze long sword that level 30 gave you when she killed a guard counts too), then twinking would become almost impossible. another way of doing this, as mentioned in some other post, is having the minimum requirement based on a stat (you must have a level 180 in 1hs to use a Wurmslayer, or something like that)

this would eliminate twinking to some degree.