Did everyone turn /rude on? (A rant)Follow

I have a feeling those that have played for a while (Pre-Luclin) will appreciate this.

Inspired by some of the posts here about Old-World guilds, and Old-World style of play, I decided to take it upon myself to create a fresh toon, and **not twink** at all.

Definition: No buffs given to me outside of a group will be kept (can't do anything about drive-by heals).

Not a single cp piece or piece of gear was traded down to this character.

PoK books will not be used.

Everything on this character, spells, gear, etc. is earned by this character. For example, I've been camping the trainer hill for the SBS for 3 days. Pure Old-School, folks.

To clarify this to people in game, I wrote a description basically saying NO BUFFS PLEASE - I'm going for a 100% untwinked character, so I can basically say inspect me to people, so they "get it."

All I have received thus far has been negativity.

"You won't make it far."

"Noone will want to group with you."

"You are basically turning vegatarian."

"You are an idiot."

"You are gonna die alot."

"It cannot be done."

YES IT CAN.

I have other toons. I have my Epic. I have been to the planes. I have twinked from the Bazaar. I have made first level toons and given them stuff they shouldn't have until into their 50's. I've done it already.

But before the Bazaar, there was a thing called QUESTING. If you started your account pre-Luclin, you had to **gasp** actually EARN what you had.

That Centi Longsword that you picked up off a trader? Someone actually KILLED a mob for it.

I personally do not give a d@mn if you have the greatest gear on the planet - I care if you know how to play the game.

Case in point: while camping that SBS, a group formation ooc was called out. I joined in, not knowing what I was getting myself into. The player who called for the group was a 5th level enchanter who had uber gear.

He overpulled. He fizzled. He ran. He didnt communicate to the group. He KSed others in zone. Best of all, he got wiped out about 6 times.

I, in my stitched burlap / newbie armor, swinging my rusty scimitar, gained 3 levels, and almost maxed out skills, once I disbanded from him and formed another group, and didn't die once.

My Points:

1.)All the gear in the world isn't gonna help you if you don't have the knowledge, experience, and skills to back it up.

2.)It is VERY possible to create an untwinked charachter, through and through, and not only have fun, but slowly rise to the top of the totem pole. The character I am talking about dinged to level 12 yesterday.

3.)Don't tell me it isn't possible. The pioneers of this game who have been the ones stocking the bazaar KNOW that it IS indeed possible.

4.) You play your way, I'll play mine, but don't you dare insult me for choosing to play this way.

So, my question is this: why am I getting berated for choosing to play this way, vs. twinking to the depths of the Abyss?

Wish me luck - I'm planning on getting that SBS tonight, and then it's off to get the bear-hide cloak, or the prayer shawl.

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Bravo !!

Kunark Expansion here and I have had to start with nothing and quest items and pp. I turned out fine and twink the hell out of my new toons....cause i think it is fun. I /salute you for what you are doing. I will also go out on a limb here and say that in 3-6 months when you are mid lvl to 50's, you will know how to play your toon 100 times better than most. LUCLIN killed the game from a "know your class" point of view...I mean how many 50+ peeps really know there toons anymore? Ebayers/ Power lvlers if fine....but know your class for peet sakes.

Anyways, good post !

True, it would be easier with a group or guild; but I think the point he's making is that easy is not the point.

My problem is that when I take my little monk to LOIO (and I had to think for a minute to remember the zone name), there's no one there to group with her. So in that sense, yes, it would be much more workable to do this with friends - particularly for a melee character. Some casters and some hybrids can solo pretty well, with varying degrees of success at various levels.

But, yeah. Good luck, and have fun. Sounds like you know what you want, and that in itself goes a long way.

I think you could play like you want these days. I have a young barbarian on Povar (Morden Rasp) and the EF newbie area is pretty empty. There are also usually no more than three people in Blackburrow at any given time. I do miss the days of trains running up the ramp every 5 minutes and waiting to camp the green room. I guess everyone goes to PC now (I can't stand that place).

My policy in a nutshell. Glad to see someone else does this

I understand the frustration, but to lash out in a sense probably wasn't needed. You have to know you're going to get a lot of crap from people about being different. When you do something outside the norm it's what you're going to get, you've got to accept it and know ahead of time it's not going to be easy. Just wait until everything works out for you, you'll be able to tell them that you were right, but until then, people will doubt you.

Edited, Mon Jun 13 17:10:57 2005 by Hiseinen

I have several smaller toons tht I like to go out and just have fun with. Most of them have leather - or the equivalent - and I will ususally 2 box them. And as you said, most of the old zones are pretty much empty these days. Which is why I don't really understand why anyone would know how you are equipped and be able to make rude comments.

As an aside, I was in Nadox the other night with my 50's level guys and got a tell from a 66 beastlord wanting to know if we could help him with the named in the Nautilus room - don't really know why he needed help - said we'd be glad to and ran into the tunnel from the campfire. He pulled the named and we took it down in less than a minute. He then annouces that he's in a "PL Mode" and wants to power level us. Duhhhh.

Why does everyone think that everyone wants to be power leveled??

Excuse me for bumping the thread - just had to get that off my chest I guess.

Have fun and Be Safe!!!!!!!

I'd say good for you! I myself just got my wife playing eq about two months ago and we both have started about three diff characters together. I have my main, but when we started the new toons, we did the newbie quests together. It was a lot of fun to do those. Frustrating at times, but pretty fun and rewarding once we actually completed the quests. Granted we have become temperance crack heads, and we take handouts if someone gives us buffs, and I have given plat to the new toons.

Your idea of strictly "nontwink" sounds very enticing! I do believe though the whole non pok books does not sound very fun to me. LOL that's just me, I'm a post Luclin player so I guess I've never gone without POK. I think I would die without it along without temp.

For anyone that cares, that SBS finally dropped. :-)

W00ts out to Thor!