Event? It was more a madhouse. I spent a week in EK trying to get a some things with my lvl 26 Druid only to have kills stolen when I got them down to 51-55% down in HP, high levels whining about low levels, low levels whining about high levels and the stupid lazy method of some people of paying mega-plat for looting rights which spurred on the higher levels to knock out everything in sight to get that money.

What was even more rediculous was the "events" in the newbie zones (like QH) where the high levels would show up and blast everything in sight then whine because the drops were so pitiful. It's a newbie zone, what'd you expect?

They really need to have a GM at these event sites to help control the situation and keep the various zones at certain levels with that lvl of player in them. I pretty much lost most of my respect for the higher levels after watching thier behavior for a week.

I finally did manage to get a few things but I earned them by fighting and killing for them the way the event was supposed to be done, not by paying for looting rights and KS other players.

Ok,
read all this above.
Well i am from Germany and there`s not much more disapoiting than run home from work, start EQ and read "currently not avaiable, please try later" (the thing with 3am your time). Would be nice if (only!) some downloads could take place on other times than during US Nights.
But on the other hand i wanna say thank you for the so called GM event which gave me and my alt chars items i only could dream of before.
My main is a 45 WAR (who didn`t got sword btw) who nearly hunted all down in the most event-areas.
I think it was a bit unlucky for those guys who spended hours (months) to make a good jeweler and now a INT3 ring is worth the same than a rusty sword for a while.
But it was a big chance for newbies to get a bit higher to the ones who got this game since 2 years and are well equiped (well, they had to fight hard for it for sure).
So, the events where ok for me, i agree in the point that the role-playing was a bit low.

Bad things on event:
1) Northern Ro- event ended mostly after 3 minutes, cause some people killed the priest fastly (he was a lev30 NEC) and everyone (also the "high" levs who wanna kill him again) has to wait another 3 hours. Why not keep the event for 20 minutes longer AFTER priest died, cause priest was only killed by some to get the noobs angry?

2) Cause of the immense interest on event (i counted til 220 people in East Karana; over 200 in Rath Mounts) there was a looting and aggression between players which was not nice. During the weekend, I learned the word "ninja looting" which sounds nice but if ya saw it you would think otherwise :)

Enough written for now, lets go back to "normal" EQ again.

Cheers,
Bunguk (Povar)

After participating in an Event repelling Ice Goblins in Misty Thicket a month or two ago, only to discover that all of my factions in the Rivervale area had been set to Indifferent (mostly from Ally) after the event, I will work Very hard from now on to avoid any such event, run by poorly trained and obviously immature GM's.

Thanks for spoiling my gaming experience. BTW I was in both OOT and North Karana during "Events" yesterday- I invised up and left for parts unknown.