Recent content by Torrid

The friction involved in trading was a mudflation hedge. If the friction is removed then most people will end up buying everything they wear and not bother to pick any armor and weapons up; or at least this will occur much sooner in a league. On the other hand the trading experience was...

On Al'Kabor I used to farm Droga to mass produce Forged Deathsteel weapons and price them very cheap on my vendor so new players could get some weapons for near free without my having to interact with them. I may have made some kind of armor too but I forget. It was just very quick to make a...

I would dispute "as possible". P99 was given evidence for classic behavior several times that they choose not to adopt. They also won't remove mousewheel zoom. What happens is these emus get so old that they become their own thing, and radical changes would cause an exodus because the older...

THJ forming an LLC and hiring council says a lot in and of itself. The rest of us emu guys live in our basements and don't have any money. We're not thinking about forming LLCs and we can't fight a legal battle. Most of us are huge introverts and even if the law were on our side, it would...

One reason why I worked on TAKP so hard is because I wanted to see custom servers sprout up from it. The emulators have sophisticated scripting functionality which allows for rapid iteration. It took me just 3 days to script the Ring of Vulak. I'd bet the emus have more powerful scripting...

nobody used my banker anyway

The TAKP guys run the login server for Quarm. (I never had an admin role there) I extremely doubt the current admin would ever entertain the notion of faking the numbers, FWIW

Spending gold to arbitrage the exchange seems like a more profitable use of it to me but I keep doing ships just to experience the game or whatnot. People kept saying to send 250k to Kalguur, mostly in Zanthimums. The last divine I got from doing that was 15 ships ago.

I always wondered why they didn't just make a server with new/different items and change the rare NPC spawns. So like you would enter gukbottom and not know where any of the loot was, and everybody got excited to check the modern equivalent to EQlizer to see this new stuff. That's the custom...

Yeah it's the map mods. Multi projectile wrecked me several times. (including the Niko deposit death) I leaped right next to them ahead of my snake and they shotgunned me. I'm a one league a year or two player so I have to re-learn much of the game every time because I forget so much, plus...

TAKP has all of 45 people online right now and we never advertised our server anywhere because it was a preservation project and not a money making endeavor. TAKP has always had a low population problem which was kind of depressing for me because I thought the project was very successful in...

I have a 4800 armor chest with 8% phys reduction, 10% phys damage to fire implicit on it, my merc has Kaom's Binding, I have 82% all resists, 5.6k life, armor and evasion flasks on a Marauder and I die so much I'm stuck in level 94. I just died to the golem things on a Niko deposit.

I would help Daybreak with a true classic server for free. I would also love to see some kind of profit sharing arrangement with studios and amateurs which allow for an explosion of creativity of game design but I understand that's not very realistic unless the game from the ground up was...

I worked on EQ emus for 10 years so here's my take. I don't blame Daybreak for shutting down emus that are profiting from their IP like this. Some of us emu guys are mad because they're not only profiting from Daybreak's assets but also our emu dev work. They broke the big rule. This brings...