Thats propably the most ridiculous reply I've seen for ages but luckily this
is the bs-group

BUT, seriously (as seriously as bs can be taken) - if I happen to be a
character who doens't idle, if I idle I go ld or quit - why punish me (and
others like me) with true age requirements ? And if I'm ever to reach 300d age
I'd estimate I'll have totals around 1.4 gigs by then.

\o/

BUT, seriously - if I happen to be a character who doesn't exp - why punish me
(and others like me) with exp requirements ? And if I'm ever to reach 365M
totals (or whatever) I'd estimate I'll have age around 20 years by then.

So, if one is good making exp and doesn't unnecessarily idle (i.e. can and
will quit the game when he's not actively playing) he cannot rebirth ?

Plus for example Zmud doens't have this 'idle' (=screen) option unless you
leave your computer on and that costs plain money,

Now I get it.

\o/

For a lot of people, even some power gamers, it is not. However, that is still
a silly question, since rebirth gets the best caster race in the game
(vampire), the best deftank race in the game (gargoyle), the biggest race in
the game (titan), the best habotank race in the game (demon). And this is
after major downtunes to the original rebirth system.

The ultimate question that everyone involved with this game needs to ask is
what place we have for the highbies. I seem to see that a lot of arches and
wizards think that highbies should be made fun of and harshly downtuned. I
dunno, to me it seems like a mistake in a community based game like this:
"You've played our game a lot...you really suck!"

Rebirth, both in it's super overpowered and current forms, was an attempt to
give old players something more to do besides idle or leave. It was one of the
only attempts I have ever seen made.
The reson midbie areas get raped so hard is that only midbie areas get coded
these days. A highbie area is just a really old area with an eq mob that is
50x tougher than it was ten years ago.

Uh, I lost my point. Actually, looking over my post, I seem to have lost
several points along the way. I could turn that into a metaphor, but I'm gonna
go drink some soda instead.

I was tempted to reply with one word: Conversion. On a more serious note, a
few players might remember that I already voiced one of my opinions on this
years ago, so I'll repeat myself: Massively increase the difference that level
makes, both in monsters and players.

Personal tunes should be based on a comparison of those two factors even more
strongly than by the number of times a monster has been killed, so that people
actually fight what they are tough enough to be fighting. I'm sure I've seen
this same idea regularly in ideas-wanted, it's not a new one, and it's been
implemented in many other games.

For once in the game's history, please be willing to copy an effective formula
from someone else. The problem was never tanks emptying duzelton, the problem
was 200M tanks finding duzelton a profitable place to empty. The current
personal tune is an improvement...but the fact of the matter is anyone can
lead an effective duzelton-like run of small monsters if they know the game's
areas well enough. Just ask any of my usual party members.

hahahahahaha

your a funny person