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Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server
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What is the point of the game if you don't enjoy your character and try to get into the atmosphere of the world?? PvP adds to that, you can kill someone that offends you instead of sending them nasty /tells
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The joy of accomplishment has to be tempered with some kind of investment in it. A "thank god this is over" feeling only goes so far. People feel good about finishing allying a faction, but feel a lot more accomplished at completing a long quest or getting a rare drop.
Skillups, being amongst the least interactive, prove among the least satisfaction. An exception is something like a tradeskill - more involved, tangible outputs, feels good man. Tedium IS useful but should only be used heavily as a gating mechanism when it also is either interactive (tradeskills, and thats gonna get me some backlash even here) or it has tangible outcomes (a casino type game with a rare random chance). Raising sense heading by binding to left arrow? Lame.
yerm
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I can't enjoy a good game of axis and allies unless I can hear the shower running and smell the oven on.
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Exactly my point. Slow xp and slow skill ups are the barrier to overcome for increased power. PLing circumvents this. afk automated powerleveling (or afk automated skill ups) corrupts this. Now another barrier has been removed, all hail the trivial skill ups that give the player EVEN LESS reason to actively play.
I distinctly recall people playing alts, lowbie alts, actively because they did not want to deal with the painfully slow skill ups later on.
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Axis and Allies was very different in the early versions when the Brits only had 1 infantry unit in Africa. Germany could quickly shitstomp Africa and build up large stockpiles of resources. Later versions fixed it.
yerm
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Earning xp is far more interactive than skilling up. The actions that result in xp also result in other outcomes, either quest completion or a dead monster to check for loot. Skilling up is the result of a simple action, often a single button click. Tradeskills, being the result of investment and with outout, fell more in the xp camp as a result. People could enjoy skilling them up and feel accomplished rather than just relieved when complete. In short, most skills are boring tedium.
Using skills as a stick to punish plvling is just stupid.
Role playing in a non-personal setting is fucking stupid and you are proof. Our resident furries are even fine, but no. Not the roleplayer.
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Are you sure you are remembering right? I could of sworn UK always started with a infantry down in South Africa too.
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I play the 50th anniversary edition. Germany is fine in 1941. Ive only ever played where the UK had its dudes in egypt and also in SA and your homeland.
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I enjoy the roleplayers when I get a bacon wrapped turkey leg and play archery tag at the ren faire. They're fun. In everquest, roleplayers are generally horse shit at the game and/or deliberately playing poorly on purpose as an act.
On paradox plaza "roleplaying" is the term used for people who self-handicap themselves for whatever reason. Fine for a huge single player game. Garbage in a cooperative multiplayer context. Roleplayers are the worst.
I should walk back my previous posts. For a roleplayer, clicking a button repeatedly might actually be challenging enough to give a real sense of accomplishment, and skillups actualy made you feel good.
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So to bring this back on track ...
I could have sworn i read this somewhere, but can't find it now. The rate of exp on selos will be comparable to the exp rate on live?
I could have sworn i read this somewhere, but can't find it now. The rate of exp on selos will be comparable to the exp rate on live?
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They said it's going to be about twice of what it was on Ragefire and Lockjaw which is a little slower than Live. There's also the expectation that during the anniversary that there will also be a period of bonus exp.
Is the anniversary that weekend? I saw the expectation about the bonus since it has happened before.
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Tranny Chaser
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Yep, the actual 20 year anniversary is March 16th so all the times would line up. I don't know if there has been an official announcement regarding bonus exp though.