Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

Top guilds are usually defined by their ability to accomplish two things, clear content first and monopolize available content. The speed you are able to clear content defines your ability to get a server first. Doing it as fast as possible is a natural progression from this point.

The thing is TLP servers have no competition and really they never have. Sleeper/Combine were barely progression servers and deciding who was the best came down to which guild used the better MQ2 compile at the time. In all subsequent TLP servers the server was over before launch. "Top Guild" advertised, people saw it and most serious players joined it. The alternatives were either casual guilds or the one guild ran by a guy who is on a 19 year losing streak.

What I'm getting at here is that becoming the "Top Guild" on a TLP server is a foregone conclusion. Weeks before launch everyone knows who will be the top guild, they will never face any serious existential competition and they will only fail as a result of internal issues like loot drama, leadership turnover or massive attrition.

Since server firsts are automatic, the only motivation I can find to push my players and continue leading guilds on these servers is just to try to do it faster than the last time. I don't fool myself into believing anyone else cares about that. I care about it, it's what motivates me personally, it's just a goal I have for myself which I then impose upon my guilds.

I applaud you guys who can go into every new TLP server with no other goal other than beating the same content, and beating the same guild that you've beaten on repeat for the last 11 years. Personally, I need to create additional goals for myself to stay motivated and to really enjoy these.

Zaide said:

58-60 was the best I could get from First and Astral, I'd love to have logs or screenshots though, I like to track these things.

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[Wed Feb 01 17:07:34 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>:The barrier to new lands is weakening. New adventures await you when the barrier to the Legacy of Ykesha finally falls.
[Fri Feb 03 21:52:48 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>: Quarm has been defeated by a group of hardy adventurers! Please join us in congratulating Qelyn along with everyone else who participated in this achievement!

So 52hours 45mins, roughly!

Also, confirmed I was the one that finally axed Mealin out of AoS, and I sometimes miss my random spoilers.

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I can confirm that i am not Malaki, although two decades ago when generating a random name I'm sure that one came up but was already taken.

Zaide said:

58-60 was the best I could get from First and Astral, I'd love to have logs or screenshots though, I like to track these things.

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I didn't give you a time at all when you asked me.

Also First isn't around much and has been that way since the server launched. That probably has something to do with you getting all the clear times for Phinigel wrong.

Not that any of this matters. Comparing servers that have drastically different xp rates, mechanics and levels of competition is fairly meaningless.




We're keeping Bobby well fed although he has let himself go lately.

Bobbybick said:

[Wed Feb 01 17:07:34 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>:The barrier to new lands is weakening. New adventures await you when the barrier to the Legacy of Ykesha finally falls.
[Fri Feb 03 21:52:48 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>: Quarm has been defeated by a group of hardy adventurers! Please join us in congratulating Qelyn along with everyone else who participated in this achievement!

So 52hours 45mins, roughly!

Also, confirmed I was the one that finally axed Mealin out of AoS, and I sometimes miss my random spoilers.

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Guess I've been outed.

Korrupt said:

/Salute Othmir General, please keep him full of gas station burgers and tendies. I hope he's still not feasting on Abe bacon lol, we just died laughing about that again in Discord.

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It's true, about half the guild eats like they're still 14 years old. I mention I had a nice piece of fish or chicken and a salad and people think I'm some kind of alien.

Abraham...

a_skeleton_02 said:

Yo V Vise

You got some Recruit necro in your guild suicide training people in the elemental planes. Bonestealer? killing people in BoT Air Sol Ro and others. Just running into mobs and dying.

Think he caught rabies or something.

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He did this in BoT to my group for about 60+ minutes last night. He don' goofed too hard. Not good at accidentally training and worse at hiding his SEQ use.

He's ain't gon make it. RIP him and his 3-4 boxes. We already submitted video of him doing it.

He has been training people like that since classic. We used to deal with him at Magus all the time.

Bobbybick said:

[Wed Feb 01 17:07:34 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>:The barrier to new lands is weakening. New adventures await you when the barrier to the Legacy of Ykesha finally falls.
[Fri Feb 03 21:52:48 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>: Quarm has been defeated by a group of hardy adventurers! Please join us in congratulating Qelyn along with everyone else who participated in this achievement!

So 52hours 45mins, roughly!

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Thanks!

Yea I seem to remember the name bonestealer causing a lot of grief throughout each expansion so far. Really surprised he's still standing. Sorry to hear you guys have had to put up with his shenanigans

Unrelated. I was so excited to get 62 for the mage spell hand of ixiblat(sp?). (Never played PoP before). Figured all my box pets would be doing God's work at 220dmg per proc....nope, maybe like 70-120dmg it seems...