I spent the weekend leveling many chars on several accounts. It was a fun weekend with one exception. That exception was leveling my 23 SK on Lockjaw to 24. To put is simply, it sucked. I didn't have fun, it was tedious (kill, sit for 3-5 min and on and on.) I came away with the impression that the only challenge on the TLP servers was how to deal with the endless boredom. In original EQ there was the newness. Exploring just to explore etc. There is nothing new for me to see on the TLP servers. Same ole same ole at a snails pace.....
On the live servers I had a blast. Buzzing through the levels, getting new armor, actually
seeing progression! Doing the older quests on live servers was fun. There was the frustration of much different spawn situations. The spawns were even different from just a few months ago. At two of my favourite places for low level chars, SoNH and Skyfire, one (SoNH) has way fewer spawns and spawn points. Skyfire had no, zero spawns where I used to sit. This has all happened in the last few months as I had recently leveled chars in both locations. I wonder if the TLP servers are responsible system-wide for this? This severely impacts some of the Iksar quests. Still, I advanced many chars 10 or more levels. All in all a super weekend even though I somewhat burned myself out
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This will be a "lay back" week, perusing the bazaar for deals. With so many chars, on so many servers, platinum is scarce. I need bazaar "steals" at the moment.
Another thing I've encountered as of yesterday is that all the old game cards at EB Games can not be purchased anymore here in Canada. They come up as expired. If I put my credit card on file, then with our wonderful banks up here applying their own exorbitant exchange rate, I am looking at a 35-40% subscription increase. On a very limited pension, it is substantial for me. Every penny counts these days. Eating is not an every day experience any more....
Ah, well, like the man said: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Tomorrow is another day survived!!
Edited, Feb 3rd 2016 11:14am by KC13