Poll: PoP Zone Entry RequirementsFollow

/woosh

You a Gnome Wijit?




Edited, Mar 7th 2007 11:18pm by Elinda

I voted Everything except Time. Reasoning being that yes i did do it the hard way back in the day. BUT i really dont want to do it again i spent 2 years of my life going through POP and helping others do the same. I think that the game has gone a ways past the gear that drops in Time. Although i'm still wearing a Quarm drop untill i get somthing better from Tacvi or Anguish. My guild is Currently farming anguish and begining to start the DODh stuff now.

But for goodness sake make it so that all U have to do is kill the Elemental gods to get into Time. POP is wasteland now just like LDON except all of your lvl 65 drops require drops from BOT and higher. Yeah there are still people looking for POP spelz and a Few drops like the Pet procing wepons that are more than worth going into the elemental planes for.

Give our up and comming NOOBS "yeah there quite a few around" a chance to see some of the fun that we now take for granted. As far as VT goes that quest is still a bugger and will be worth having as soon as the fabled mobs start poping up again..... Leave GoD flagging alone thats where U lean "HOW TO RAID" just like POP was way back when.

i 2nd that... My Guild use to hold a bunch of Pop flagging things and we recently got time flagged and just 2 weeks ago Qvic flagged.. but GOMN ( or bonzz) came on many of these raids, or made one himself, and got many people flagged. Also we hold raids usually for loot and junk in TOB and such and he tags along to help because he is such a nice guy. He tries to get many in and because he thinks you should have to earn it doesnt mean he looks down on them and thinks hes a bad person and looks down on others... Geez man



-Hardolmer from Bertoxx....

Edited, Mar 8th 2007 11:11pm by hardolmer

Open it up. You guys act as if Plane of Time is opened up people are going to be in there soloing gods. It will still take a grp or raid to do stuff (at least for the people that can actually use the gear).

Let people who never could experience the zones when it was new content see it now.

I've raided Time on two diffrent chars and I don't see what the big deal is.

Not that I voted, but if I would have, I would have voted to make changes. I went through all the progressions and such, but times change. I would say scaling down the encounters to make them doable by 2 or 3 groups of average geared players would be great. The encounters shouldn't be easy for these people, just doable. There is no reason only hardcore raid guilds should be able to see certain raid encounters, especially one's that are so old. Not everyone wants to spend their entire day/life playing EQ. However, they pay the same monthly fee and should have the option to see some of the same content, especially content mostly forgotten by the majority of the player base. I can easily think of quite a few small guilds that would love to see all of the PoP progression, but cannot because they lack numbers for the encounters. I know that with gear obtainable now required numbers would be less, but finding adequate amounts of the needed classes is hard for some guilds. The so called 'uber' guilds basically have their pick of any toons they want because they can offer more like easy keys/better loot. I say give the smaller guilds the opportunity to enjoy these expansions that have been forgotten about and scale down the difficulty. This would still require progression and work, but with smaller numbers.

Also, there should be quests to open up all of the zones (minus Time) for EXP only to everyone.

I for ONE would like to see these zones
I understand some folks being a lil pissed as they worked hard to get in there and I applaud you for it.
BUT
I can find noone that does it ,i can find no help on anything id like to do in EQ anymore ,If i cant solo it i cant have it ,its my knew look on EQ.
Ive been in a few guilds and not 1 has been worth a crap ,either i have play every day and attend every event(raid )to get anything.

1st Guild had attend ever raid ,had ask for Guild grp daily ( couldnt get 1 tho ) or you lose points and most had 700 or more and needed 150 to get epic help ,got close to 150 and G-leader raised points to 350,was in this guild 5 months not once did i receive 1 item ,let alone get a grp.( wouldnt let me have a drop in PoSky because i didnt have points so it rotted)

2nd guild family was ok got grps ,but no help on epic 1.0 all to busy .

3rd Nice family guild again great folks ,got grps and no epic help.

4th Family guild run by a Friend was ok at 1st and got epic(1.0) help ,but soon we clashed and i moved on( i like respect and show it,so believe i should get it as well)

5th This Guild was prolly the best ,got a few grps made officer than , over RL issues and EQ issues sorta got a lil pissed and ,told a purely MMed( 1 to 60 all MMed in 1 month) toon off and i left in badfaith(burned a nice bridge ,very sorry but what is done is done,cant change it now ,folks dont forgive in EQ )

6th Was a Top guild but the greed was way to much for me ,had a officer who would make the stupidest deccessions ever on loot,got grps often but either as soon as i got there ,they would spilt within 5 minutes or i get killed by a dumb move (not mine) and grp would split or if grp lasted this allways got me ,nobody asked if the loot that dropped was a upgrade all would roll ,1 lady even looged a alt to get a drop and i knew she had it on 3 other alts ,just to sell when it was a nice upgrade to me ,when i got asked to a grp by Leader he had log so he gave lead to a Officer ,officer had 2 guys with him ,he runs off and Druid pulls a named ,he wipes us as we not ready Officer gets mad and Logs ,no word just up and logs,so i just up a left as well.

7th guild Friend starts it up want me to help build it and help lead,I say cool and than we never speak again LOL all he did was run with his Higher lvl buds (piggy into Planes to get gear and link it to me)wife does MMS all day and night ,wanted me do every thing for guild <think just thought they would get rich ,is only reason for the guild.

8th I am hesitant ask lots of questions and they answer all very well and seems be like my last stop ,so i think, i forgot ask about loot distribution ( know 2 other rangers that just joined within days of me)and all loot goes to them ,i asked how do you hand out loots ,she says oh you ask and link your gear and i decide who gets it and you wont be receiveing any loot till you are with us a few weeks ,I say but Ma'm i know both the other rangers very well and no im but 2 or 3 days behind them and youve awarded 5 loots to them in 3 days and not once offered to me and i asked the Officer he never once replied to me ,well next im in tells with her Husband and other members saying im not seeing it right they were in guild longer and as 1 is an officer so he naturally gets 1st pick.so again i left ,didnt seem right to me .

Ok so i would more than happily do these Planes access's the right way ,but ive yet to be treated fairly in any Guild or receive help from anyone when i really asked for it Ive made plans with some and when that day comes like 4 or 5 show up for my epic hit(1.5),so if i cant get a simple group together for my Epic ,Ill never get any grps to help me access Planes.
SO i vote lighten it up a bit I dont want a hand out ,but sence this game is so damn greedy anymore and if it dosent benefit ( i had pay a grp to get SEoC 1k a peice) the 1s helping they not gonna help ,how can i access these planes.
The 100 or more epics ive done did not benefit me in anyway and all i wanted is for them to remember i helped them and do same for me ,But there is no Karma in EQ its all me me me me me and My epic dosent benefit anyone else,nor does my access to Planes benefit anyone else ,so if it dosent benefit anyone else how the hell am i gonna access the planes or my epic.

Oh and to those that will say Epic's suck and there is better weapons out there ,( I want the pride of haveing my epics and like to have the pride of accessing Planes the correct way as well)True there is but than again it come's down to finding a grp to help me get those and than hoping that the grp isnt full a GREED before need or i can buy pp,which is why the economy sucks in EQ anyways hell you have have 250k to but some spells now above lvl 70 why ???????? so The guy can sell his plat to a plat seller,to farther mess this game up .
Rant off and Good day to you all and God blesss those that do help , you are far to few in a game that requires help to accomplish anything.
Im a casual player,so i dont have time to say ill be on every night at 6 pm to attend that mandatory raid or ya drop me from guild,work is also preventing me from playing at this time.

Have to say I voted to open up planes, atleast give alt groupable access but to think that you will ever get back even a part of what you give is just a dream. I the years i have played I cannot tell how many different quest/raids I have helped with so that a person can get whatever they were looking for. I am certain that in many cases the favor has not been returned but it is not worth the time to dwell on it. If you want total fairness in a MMORPG you may be waiting a long time. Best thin I can suggest to you is start your own guild and establish your own set of guidlines for how the guild cnducts itself and then go from there. I do not think the game is 100% me me me, but it is a game where you gotta look out for yourself. If you are expecting others to to do it you will be disappointed I suspect. I have several friends in this game who have helped me along the way and many I have helped as well but I don't think I would still be playing if I measured you my success by the amount of return I got from time I spent helping others. It is just a fact of lfe I believe. Remember these people you play against are just toon on a screen nless you know them outside the game how well do you really know them?

Dolathon
70 Zerker
Tunare

Edited, Mar 13th 2007 11:22am by Kenitz

Leave your rule sets alone, EQ. There are so damned few really difficult things left in the game that cannot be bought on Ebay or the likes, as was said in previous posts. I might consider an alternate way of becoming flagged, as it has become much more difficult to find others to join you in becoming flagged; however, it should remain very difficult and fraught with peril.

No, I am not flagged. No, I don't think I ever will be. Yes, I will have survive my meager existence having not seen PoT. Relaxed rules will mean only that it is no longer something for which to strive. Kinda like any quest in WoW.

EQ is slowly and constantly shrinking. these zones, along with 95 percent of the rest of the game are completly abandoned for the most part..

there is no good argumentfor leaving them difficult to access unless you really just want to game to die and no one else to see any of it before it dies.

and they shouldnt stop at the flags. look around ingame people. no one is grouping much. dropping the flags wont get people into those zones either. mabe some one might try going in for a looksie, but it will take a hell of alot more than dropping the flags if you actually want to see people in them.

how about a poll asking if they think SOE should revamp ALL of the pre level 65 content to solo content. ALL of it. soloing is what 9 million people are doing in WoW, and what most players in EQ1 are doing too. you want to see people in those zones, dropping the flags isnt going to do it, but its a start. its going to take some serious "vision tm" changes to get people back into EQ.

If I wanted soloing I would play WoW, and not Everquest. If SOE turned EQ into a simplistic solofest by tuning down all the difficulty, EQ then becomes an old, outdated version of WoW. Which, in my opinion, would kill it faster than anything else.

You seem to have no grasp of how many of us players that actually (gasp) enjoy EQ the way it is nowadays, would be alienated by such uninspired changes.