We are getting some pretty intense arguments here, aren't we?

Well, of course, nothing is as good as an MMORPG to get the
passionate words/arguments flowing. =) With a few exceptions, of course.

On the whole debate of twinking, note, that I take no side in this
argument, and if someone flames me, I shall ignore them. Here are a couple
of OPINIONS of mine. I am not pushing them on you, and if you do not wish
to read them, fine by me. I am not foolish enough to call them fact. If
you do read them, and whine, you will recieve no response:

Now, since you have thousands of people playing this game at once,
it would be a delusional dream to convince EVERYONE to play the game the
way you want them to. If it is against the rules, I will bet you many
people are doing it, and if it is on the edge of the rules (twinking) I will
bet you 3X as much people are doing it. I saw 3 people duping rubicite
yesterday. I don't know how, I don't wanna know how, they weren't telling
anyone, and no GMs were on. I saw a level 6 warrior in full steel plate.
People are going to play this game the way they want to if it is within the
rules (and many times if not) and there is hardly anything you people can
say or do about it. This is much similar to religious pounding!! Look at
yourselves: "Wicca is evil, come to Christianity or you will burn in hell
and be shunned by fellow humans for the rest of your life" "No, I will be
wicca because it is a better and different way to live!"/ "Twinking is bad!
Stop twinking or, or, or, I WILL TELL THE GMS ON YOU AND YOU WILL BE
BANNED!" "No! Im twinking because it is a better and more enjoyable for me
to play this way!".

People, opinions MAY sway some, but until verant "fixes" this, just
like they "FIXED" the DoTs (I play a druid as well, and my enjoyment of EQ
has dropped tenfold because of this retarded patch), people will play the
game with a level 6 warrior decked in steel plate and duel weilding
langseax! Many will just because they can! Many will because they are
bored! Many will because they want to be a different character but don't
have half of their lives to waste on it!

Stop bashing people because they twink! It is just like me calling you
some vulgar thing just because your a buddhist or a jewish instead of a
christian! You may see me defending twinkers here, but how many twinkers
have you seen bashing people who don't twink? I haven't seen any! And if
you bashed them first it doesn't matter!!

"Twinkers interfere with my playing time!" Deal with it, this is an
MMORPG, and in buying it, you just invested in all the hassles, jerks,
idiots, fools, immature 12 year olds (I myself am 13, so I will not say
plain out "12 year olds"), opinionated idea bashers, and so forth. You
can't eliminate assholes, EQ is so much like life in the fact that you will
have to deal with all of the undesireables as well as the desireables. I
bet many of you complaining about twinkers played UO long enough to get
Pimpslapped all over the place by PKs before you left (Kudos to you if you
weren't and played the game). I will tell ya all one thing: That game
taught me to stop whining, hunker down, and fight back. If twinkers are
annoying you so much, annoy them back. If they are making you miserable,
try to find a way to make them miserable in turn. Worried about Higher
levels taking YOUR kills? How many of you visit stratics? Brad is
releasing a new Yield policy stating that all high levels must yield all
lower leveled creatures to their appropriate hunters, if this is not done a
GM can be called and the situation solved.

So, my advice is that you people stop bashing the hell out of
eachother, my mailbox is getting so flooded with useless flame wars that Im
thinking of quitting this list. Too bad the sensible good informative posts
would go with the flames.

I twinked my druid once (Only a suit of leather, and an RTS, and 25
plat emergency money), and if I actually COULD twink, I bet I would, because
I'm sick of making a new char, then having it nerfed by Verant. (I've
gotten my necro to level 19 before Verant did those DoT changes, thereby
killing alot of the class, druid hit 15 before they nerfed him too). Im
thinking of making a wizzy, or getting my desperate monk back on his feet.
Or then again I may quit this game, and head back to UO, where I don't have
to worry about annoying little kids, because I can just kill them instead.

--
Darkblade, or Darkanano, or Dakkonan, of Xegony, and Darkblade of the Ultima
Online community, old veteran, previously famous but now long forgotten.