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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...

The reaction to THJ's closure will only encourage companies to crack down harder on all emulated servers so they don't become popular enough to create another PR problem. People react negatively to having things taken away from them, but if there were nothing given to them in the first place...

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...