Strange question, bear with me.
Some quests, events, etc. Have a bad habit of making the progression vanish and reappear after a few minutes (hours?) So most times I’d see people either mob the item or form a queue.
You ever been in one? What’s your story.
Mine was Classic. Gnome starting area, the amount of shouting line cutters would get was hilarious. Think we even had someone mentioning how long it would take to queue.
lmao.
I had fire blast, why would I wait in a line?
WoD launch.
We formed several lines. The one I remember the most is to click on the telescope to inspect the Garrison.
in Classic it happens. Not on retail. Retail has group tags and individual drops/ground loots, and rare respawns within 1 minutes.
Classic has personal tags, loot is not even shared group wide, and respawns are longer.
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Yeah, WoD launch in recent memory.
People waiting to kill the ogron, people waiting to chop the trees, people waiting for pretty much anything.
Everything was contested because the sharding tech failed.
It was a nightmare but glorious at the same time.
In EverQuest I had to wait in line for 19 hours once for my turn to camp a mob.
Like actively. In game. There was a physical line.
The camp took me 72 hours of being at my PC .
I had to wait in line at Costco this morning for them to check my receipt for just one case of water. This is ridiculous.
shudders
I don’t like to talk about the dark times…
Did you actually get the mob after 72 hours or did you just hallucinate getting it by that point?
“I can’t remember” is a totally valid answer to this question.
Did you carry it on your shoulders the entire time.
Nothing impresses more than a completely numb shoulder.
lmao.
I did get it. This was for the long winded epic quests. It would be like a legendary quest in WoW, that involved basically the secrets discord type quest lines. With 2 raids that you had to get a guild to run specifically just for you.
I didn’t have to be constantly active. The mob spawned something like “every 9 hours +/- 3”.
So once a spawn happened I knew I had minimum 6 hours to wait. My character couldn’t log out. I couldn’t leave the zone. So I’d grab a bite to eat, nap, then etc.
During that time period MMOs were a lot smaller.
EverQuest didn’t have sharding, so you most likely personally knew the people farming it. People didn’t try to jump the line.
The times when one’s reputation actually mattered.
Man. To get into my last serious EverQuest raid guild was harder than most jobs.
I had a 2 page application. I had a 2 hour interview. I had a 90 day probationary period. During that period you had to get a sponsor, a full member to vouch for you. Sorta take you under their wing. Mentor you in different raids, etc.
Then a 30 day voting period where you had to get 75% of general membership to vote yes for you, with out getting 3 no votes.
There would be follow ups with officers from previous guilds, etc. wanting to know about you, if you were a guild hopper, etc.
You should have seen the test I took to become a Guide in that game. Those were the days.
I waited in line to get Cliff Avril’s autograph in 2015 (he was a DE for the Seahawks at the time).
Shook his hand.
It was pretty cool.
A hand that had been grabbing other sweaty players and smacking backsides only then to be shaken by the unwashed masses covered by beer and nacho cheese.
Took me 3 years of meticulously following up on guides and their events. Then to even win an event. To get my unique title.
EQ guides were the best.
My favorite line was on the Team PVP servers in Everquest.
It was the last night that the Journeyman Boots were going to be on that mob in the Lavastorm Mountains, so everyone was there to get them. EQ’s Play Nice policy meant line jumping was arguably against TOS and could get you a suspension. So there was a long, long, long line of parties waiting their turn to get this guy and get their boots.
My wife and I and our 3 friends at the time were Dark Elves, we roll up and see all these humans and elves and erudites and whatevers in this line, all waiting patiently. Interspersed here and there are other evil species on our team, Trolls and Ogres, etc, in their own parties.
We’re like, forget this. Jumped the last party in line, annihilated them. Nobody helped them. So we jumped the next guys in line. Went the same. Everybody was so worried about losing their spot they pretended nothing was going on, or just yelled at us.
When we got to a friendly party, they just lol’d and waved us ahead of them. We continued doing this, must have killed a few dozen parties. All the parties on our team were laughing and just waving us ahead.
A GM came by because people were complaining, saw that 5 of us had murdered (as I recall, though I am likely inflating numbers 26+ years later) hundreds of people who all refused to help each other, laughed and told them “PVP problem, PVP your solution.”
I don’t think we ever bothered to get the boots, just hung around killing people while other friendly parties on our team got theirs. Was the best line ever.
The epics took forever to get, but so worth the time spent. Most required one, I think, was the cleric epic. Fun times!!
They sure were. I was down in a dungeon “patiently” waiting for a rare drop when a guide disguised as an imp joined me. He stayed with me a little bit telling jokes and making conversation. The time passed much quicker and soon the item dropped and we parted ways. I really appreciated his being there, and often wondered if he was able to make it drop quicker. Those were the days of really good customer relations in game.
MoP beta for the pandaren starting zone with burning the edict.