Good god Agnino, don\'t take my remarks so personal.
1. You\'re right, porting would get you to places much quicker. And The PoP portals would do it even faster. But that doesn\'t change the fact that I think seperate banks are a dumb idea.
2. EQ runs like shit, plain and simple. I\'m assuming you group with other people, and don\'t try to solo it to 65. A couple groups on screen casting spell effects and what not will slow down pretty bad. The particle engine in the game is horrible. The code is a sloppy mess. They can\'t patch the game to fix things without breaking others things.
Have you ever been on a raid? Or how about the ring wars in The Great Divide? Hell, even just running around looking for a camp in Sebilis or Karnor\'s. The game slows down unless you look at a floor or a wall. But what fun is that? Have you ever been the the Bazaar? That has got to be the worst case of slowdown I have ever seen in a game.
You ever wonder why people didn\'t flock to the Luclin zones to get exp? They run like crap.
And FYI, no, I don\'t have a 300Mhz PC. It\'s a 1.2GHz Athlon TBird w/ 512MB RAM and a 64MB Radeon8500. I don\'t know about you, but I think that\'s pretty decent. Sure it\'s not the latest, but still, it\'s pretty far about what the recommended system requirements were for Luclin, besides the RAM, which is equal. Hell, at the time I bought Luclin I had 768MB of RAM, but I had a slot go out recently, so I had to take off 256MB.
Oh well... it doesn\'t really matter. You have your opinion, and I have mine. IMO EQ\'s day\'s are numbered. It\'s going down the john, fast. If EQ2 takes off where the original started it\'s only going to catre to the power gamer, the kind of person who pays for the ridiculous Legends server, and the kind of people who have 3 or 4 accounts to power level themselves up. Not even EQ2\'s beautiful graphics can save it. Of course, this is all IMO, no need to jump down my throat again.