Recent content by Torrid

I'm not saying that ez-servers shouldn't exist or are bad. I think the multi-classing stuff is interesting. The MUD I played the most up until EQ's 1999 launch had a remort system where you could delevel your character to level 1, add another class to it and the experience per level was...

I once played a MUD 30 years ago where groups had no limit on the number of people inside them and experience was granted to everybody without being split. The result was the entire population of the server grouped together, which was comical. It didn't last very long. These ideas aren't new...

Calling any variation of these solofest servers "classic EQ" makes no sense to me. EQ's hallmarks were interdependence between players and forcing players to make risk vs reward decisions on what content to take on, including a real risk of permanent corpse loss or simply dying too frequently...

Not to be pedantic here but this is my area of expertise. Mob HP in EQ ramps up considerably around NPC level 40. LDCs have a non-trivial amount of hitpoints. On live servers it's ~5550 and in old EQ it was a little less at ~5250. On top of that, melee DPS in classic era was rather weak...

What better way to show how not racist they are by having two very distinct skin colors inside the same society that refuse to intermarry with each other for millennia

AI will make everything pennies eventually, particularly digital things

Making a client is a lot harder than making a server. Programmers are willing to work for free but artists don't. The artists and world builders need a unified vision for a game world so it's less likely that some anonymous artist will drop in an asset to use in the same way a programmer can...

Melee combat in EQ does do a d20 roll. For NPCs this was known 25 years ago. While researching for the emus we discovered that player hits also roll a d20 and work mostly like NPC hits, but with another random multiplier done on top of it to produce more than 20 outcomes. Old EQ warriors came...

Old EQ boards didn't have the combat formulas. I figured them out in 2015 with the help of another EQEmu dev (Mackal) and a few pieces of it were leaked over the years, i.e. from Sony forum posts. This was harder than it sounds because OG Sony deliberately kept it hidden and obfuscated. What...

Yeah that's true. MotM is a massive buff in the earlier eras. I'm a purist however so I prefer hyper accurate servers but I understand that it's not very feasible for Daybreak to make them, and the quick fix is just slap a buff on raid bosses to counter the all the power creep the game has...

I regret that my post may have given the impression that I was bashing custom servers. I like custom servers and would like to see more of them. I'm sad they may no longer exist. A goal of mine for TAKP was to provide a solid and accurate foundation for custom servers to fork from, so...

I said I don't understand the appeal, I didn't assert that THJ was garbage. Clearly people found it enjoyable as evidenced by the fanboyism here. I just don't get THJ's massive popularity when other emus had done similar things before and there are so many other games to play. They've broken...

I don't get the appeal of THJ. Ez-mode emus have existed for a long time. In fact all of them are to some degree. You're not really beating the real content solo-- you're beating a fake mob that is using the model of the real NPC but with much weaker stats. My primary task for TAKP was to...

Daybreak should just hire the Lantern guys

People should make local copies of EQEmu, Project EQ, TAKP and my Google Drive just in case. The Internet is NOT forever as everybody says it is. If it were my job would have been much easier...