It’s Time to Go Home

There is no reason for a costume on halloween when you just can be naked.

Well, in my case the all the dark matter in the universe would coalesce if I did that and it would be most unfortunate for all of you.

Just like offline traders there could be offline porters that do use the bazaar architecture to offer their services for a fee and which can be placed everywhere. Of course they would not be kos when doing so.

-> 88. Offline porter function

Thank you for the inspiration.

Blizzard's WoW had functional boats when it released in November of 2004. It's 2024 now and the boats still don't work on EQ?

Even in WoW today, you still have to spend a few minutes traveling in a gryphon or bat to reach your destination. That's a good time to go AFK, take a bio break, get a snack, invite your group or simply marvel at the beauty of Azeroth.

EverQuest ports via a druid or wizard are instant. WoW is a mass market MMO that has millions of players with longer transportation times versus "hardcore" EverQuest with shorter transportation times? That math is not adding up.

(Sure Blizzard has made mistakes as well. Flying mounts was a catastrophe. Blizzard devs have remarked on many occasions that it was a terrible mistake as it shrunk the world and allowed playes to skip content.)

I understand the allure of the books in PoK and the books that take you back to PoK, but that convenience came at a great cost: forever shrinking Norrath as travel was trivialized. The sense of class interdependence and social cohesion was also eroded druids and wizards were marginalized.

I don't think its healthy for EQ to have the Plane of Knowledge as the headquarters for every race and every guild in perpetuity. I think there's a bit of the cost sunk fallacy at work here. PoK seems like a sacred cow.

How does EQ2 handle this? Do they also have a Plane of Knowledge with insta-portals?

Like for everything there a sweet spot for travel speed. If it is to fast it does reduce immersion and does shrink the world to much. If it is to slow it does get annoying.

I have been thinking for a long time that it would be better to revamp run speed (velocity). There is a such a huge difference between the slowest walking (20), slowest running (30), and max velocity (88?). Nobody ever used the walk mode at all for moving around. It only does get used for very special occasion. Run speed is fine until SoW but after that it got boosted way to much. It should cap out at about 65 velocity for the fastest mounts and bard speed, which is nearly twice as fast as SoW (36) with factor 1.8. The temporary ghost rider briddle has to be excluded because else the quest would have to be revamped also. In addition the run mode could use up endurance points so that it would be limited and having a price. Mounts could drain endurance points half as much.

Not sure how that is different then PoK stones that you don't seem to like, if they are going to add more travel options to players it shouldn't depend on people using a feature to turn themselves into offline porters leaving some servers without the travel options.

It's been a few years since I played last (Altar of Malice) but EQ2 has guild halls similar to EQ1 with tons of clickable portals and "hub zones" like Freeport with dock "bells" that you click that basically act as a fast travel point to navigate to most zones. EQ2 also has flying mounts that shrank pretty much the whole game. So you can get to most locations in a couple minutes if you know the optimal portal route and have access to flying.