I don't think I"m better than anyone... it's my playstyle and it's the ONLY thing that keeps my accounts open to this day... I offered the alternatives... they can spawn some big boss once a month and satisfy that and separate the "drop" from the story event... and let those that like the story enjoy the story... that's all I was saying... but nevermind you see what you want because you like to bash me and put words in my mouth... fine... don't like RP that's your business...
Oh please, you constantly flounce around here being conspicuously aggrieved that the filthy masses only want their fights and prizes and dirty pixels with the implicit attitude that hanging around "for the story" means your farts don't stink. Like yes, today's
particular Stupid Roleplayer Idea To Ruin EM Events happens to include an alternative activity that generously allows the non-roleplaying 99% of the population to continue to participate, but let's not pretend as if you haven't been one of the loudest voices perpetually complaining on this board that rare drops should be turned into worthless commonplace participation trophies, or made shard-bound, or whatever kooky thing you think will finally put those dirty pixel-hoarders and their non-gimped templates in their place that week.
But then why are you playing an MMORPG if you don't want the RP part?
Because I want to kill monsters and get loot and otherwise amuse myself in a persistent multiplayer environment. If the only people that played these games were people who wanted to live alternate lives as elves, the genre would have never gotten past the text MUD stage.
But even with a decent connection and computer, and graphics card.... I crash all the time at EM events... And it still takes almost a full minute for the "death" graphic to take effect... which in a situation like a boss fight with a mob that drops an item... that's precious seconds ticking away... that shouldn't be... and why are they doing that? Well it's not because we haven't complained about the excessive time it takes to die in the EC to the DEVs... it's because despite them saying "it's been fixed" it hasn't been... while it's shorter now from the full 2 min it used to take... it's still TOO long. And still can't loot the public corpse of most the mobs..
The UO client takes a giant dump when there's too much crap on the screen, even with quantities of bandwidth and processing power being thrown at it that were science fiction when it was originally created. It's just plain badly optimized, the EC is built on the same framework, and it's always going to be this way because it would probably take a complete client rewrite to fix and I guarantee that isn't in the cards. I like yelling at our little five-man dev team as much as anyone, but this isn't one they're going to be able to fix.
That's because a ton of people who used to come for the event and the fiction don't anymore because there are too many people there who spoil it...
Yeah instead of four roleplayers there used to be eight. Look, Great Lakes RP jumped the shark like 12 years ago when Highland Guard disbanded and left "Yew Militia death squads vs Society of Shadows scrubs" as the sum total of RP on the shard outside of whatever effete closed-door nonsense the self-proclaimed cool kids got up to, with RKR occasionally showing up to a big fight when YM twisted their arms to make them do something besides talk about themselves in meetings. Even when it was good and you could put three dozen roleplayers in the same place at once, god, that was back when the game was rocking like a quarter million subscribers. If they tried to hold something like a modern EM event back then the servers would have exploded.
In any case I don't know how they do it on GL now, but on Atlantic they have roleplay-only EM events regularly and practically nobody shows up to them. I went to the last Atlantic governor's meeting and live attendees were outnumbered by the one guy logging on ten accounts to roleplay his own bodyguards.
Occasionally I consider if you can't beat them join them attitude but the game means more to me than a stupid drop. And following the ToS as best as I can is my way of showing that I do care about the game...
OH GOD YOU'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE FILTHY MASSES.
Why don't you do all that stuff but try using a real template while you do it, learn to suck up a bunch of lag deaths, and just deal with the fact that you won't get drops that often. When you do get one, consider selling it and buying a real suit instead of putting it in your house to hug and lick for the rest of eternity. The majority of the game would feel less closed-off to you if you tried actually playing it.
thats all. I was just clarifying a bit for you nothing more. BTW i like both systems top damage and random drops so im not picking 1 over the other
