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That is one of the biggest tragedies in this genre. I remember back in 1998 or 1999 when I first heard the term, it was for EQ. The "persistent world" thing was quite a cool feature. I don't think anyone cared that much because it was described as, "a world that continues to live after you log...

Vanguard is pretty good these days. Yeah it does have bugs or lag from time to time, some people don't have the lag issue but some say it's a constant nuisance. The problem the game has though is that nobody knows it exists. It's down to just 1 server now and even that is only partially...

Well none of us really know what he did. There was also Steve Clover and Bill Trost but other people involved too. Brad just seems to be the figurehead but I am just sceptical of whether he deserves the bulk of the credit. I would give him more if I liked Vanguard but I just don't. It has cool...

Dire Charm was awesome on an EQ emulator I once played. Not sure how different it was to real EQ though. But it was so good it ended up being nerfed. Yeah as a solo enchanter it was pointless. But what people did was 2 box with a healer (preferably cleric). Then you dire charm something uber...

That's what I think too. I loved it and I still do, still play on eq mac. But I think that half the stuff was designed by other people other than brad, and half the stuff was just 'hope for the best'. Turns out it worked really well and a lot of gameplay emerged out of nowhere like fear...

Rift had way too little content. As fun as the classes and souls and stuff was, it technically only had 4 different classes. Not that it even mattered because there was no replayability anyway thanks to there only being several zones. If you made another character it would have to go through the...

Lol that's only because hardly anyone looks on kickstarter. People are sheep, even the greatest ideas only get a few million on kickstarter and that's only because it gets reported on by IGN or whoever and then everyone checks it out. The problem with games (not just mmos) is that if you had...

I think it would make sense for SOE to buy it for Rift, just in the name of completion and so they can have a monopoly, a full suite of games that nobody plays.

Heheh

I found this interesting: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...for-the-better In the video she talks about completely redoing a lot of stuff blah blah. But especially how 'casual' the comments are after I watched the video. So many people out there who have still never played an MMO...

Just how bad is this game? It's hard to tell when people rage so hard about it. It makes it sound like a totally unplayable piece of shit. But is it? Is it worse than Rift? Worse than Warhammer Online? Worse than Age of Conan with its 10 levels of content? Worse than TSW?

Could u describe it? My friend played UO. He kept trying to get me to play, but I took one look at the graphics and said NO WAY! I was young and I suppose stupid. But it also would have cost me quite a lot of money to play it because I had no modem back then even after buying one I would have...

Stick with the pally, they are more fun than sorc, if you want interesting combat anyway. It just takes some time to get going, but so do all the classes now. Some idiot during the f2p change, nerfed all the classes and moved half of their spells to level 10 and beyond, so that it was easier for...

PVP I never got to play DAOC or Shadowbane long enough to really enjoy the PVP. Shadowbane I kept getting ganked by high level bastards and I did a siege that just bored me because I barely had any involvement personally. Did have some fun on the various EQ PVP servers. But my best experience...

I have no complaint about him wanting to make a custom content game. My only issue is that it will take so long. It's also a bit of a downer when you do play custom content EQ servers because the zones are always the same and all the locations etc.. the only thing that changed is the way they...

Hmm I disagree with most of you. Game runs very well now, so well in fact that I can run the client 6 times on my PC... Without a SSD and a good PC you will probably still get hitching even with only one client running. But how much hitching annoys you will vary. The trinket item that...

That's one of the things I didn't like about EQ. All the mobs drops were completely random so literally any (none raid) item in the game, you could get it in 1 minute if you were lucky. Or 1000 days and still not have it. I hated the randomness, mostly because I never got lucky, every item I...

Yeah that stuff did get fixed eventually. The lag was never there when the game was sub based, it only arrived as a side effect of them rushing out the f2p system. There was lag issues and chunk crashing and whatever else, but I am pretty sure they have fixed that now. But as with everything...

I would give anything to go to bandcamp with alyson hannigan.

Fuck it I'm gonna just blog here This one time in EverQuest: I had a nice item that I used but I really needed the money and someone offered to buy it. I travelled to meet them by the bank and we sat face to face and arranged the price. I then clicked it on him to trade and the trade window...

I was on Bristlebane and I know Whitemoon and Whitesun! My friend was good friends with them, and they helped him get a manastone in the early weeks after release! They were Asian so there is some lost in translation stuff happening and often the "Love to you all" type things are a none English...

I think another big thing about EQ was when exactly you started. Because anyone who started in 1999 itself, tended to get a much tougher experience. There just wasn't any good loot for sale yet because nobody had reached it, and the few who had, wanted it for themselves anyway. The first 20...

Thanks for all the tips! I'm determined to not give up even though it does start to feel like a grind. There is still so much I wanna do once I reach 55+, so I'm going to soldier on.

Thanks guys Still wanna do shakerpaging the most seeing as I already have a high level warrior. But I need to learn if I can do it ok on PC. If not, I'm going to give AOE a try. I am on one PC but I have a trick that I think might let me do it.

Are they good xp zones? Very kind offer by the way! Thanks for that. I'll hopefully be able to play in about half hour or so.

Yep same. I just need to motivate myself to get a few more levels and then I can move somewhere more interesting and camp an item. But also tempted to start a new 6 box that does AoE craziness. Seems like the way to go, so much faster and just as fun.

What would you say is the ultimate AOE group Torrid? I am assuming Bard, Cleric, Wiz, Wiz, Enc, Enc? Really losing motivation to grind through these 50's now with my current 6 box. It has been so much fun from 1-50 but now I am getting bored, its slow and tedious. I miss grouping too, and I...

Damn I forgot how long it took to level post 50! I think I've played several hours since I dinged and only made about 1 yellow bubble in to level 50. And for me that's a week when I'm playing casually. So like 5 weeks just to go from 50 to 51 It will speed up a bit now I got my groove going...

Ahh lol, thanks for the info. I still don't really know anyone so still trying to get a feel for whats what. Only seen a few bad people so far but I have a little list of cool people. Zakx gave me some cash and a good robe, and I think some other Malignant person gave me some info. And then...

What's the full names for TSE/TR/IB? I have a few shit bags on my naughty boy list but I suspect they are mostly the same few guys.

You couldn't really fake that. Besides the fact its Torrid who is reputable, its not superimposed because there are mobs chasing him. And its not sped up, because everything else moves at a normal pace. Dude was caught red handed. Only problem is that GMs probably dont care to police an...

I wish they would let us run the server ourselves. We could have someone act as GM and just IP ban the assholes, or at least act as Guide and send the player name or something to a real GM. I just hate the idea that a few dick heads could ruin the server for hundreds of other people, just...

I would do hate or fear.

Wow that must be cool. I only have one 20" screen so couldn't do it As for EQplayNice, I spent quite a lot of time trying to get that to work. I tried various old versions of it (including the one Shards of Dalaya host), but none of them worked. And then the newer versions are all combined in...

What's that all about? Do you tile the windows or something so that you can see all characters at once? I thought about doing that but it was too small for me. The way I play is to have a bat file which opens 6 copies of EQ at once. Then I use a macro to input the username and passwords to...

I got screwed out of some Naggy loot by my own guild. I had no way of proving it because back then, the game did not tell you what people had looted. But I am sure that when the guild leaders looted him, they pocketed a few of the items to give to people to butter them up or because they were...

Just run it on your PC! If it gets broken again, then you can buy a mac. But I think this PC breaking thing was a one off, and it wasn't even deliberate.

Well for some reason I thought most were because macs are expensive so you'd need an extra decent one to multi box. But yeah I am probably wrong :P I will have to find out for sure about shakerpaging though, before I go through the trouble of levelling up 2 new characters especially.

Ah that would suck! I will find out. There is a guy on the server called Surron who does it a lot and he is friendly and shares info. I also know he multi boxes so I assumed he was a PC user. But he may be on mac, will have to ask.

I would help Torrid but I reckon I'm several months behind you, maybe a year or more. I love my 6 box but progress is very slow for me, and I plan on levelling up a bard and shaman as soon as I can as well so that I can do some shakerpaging to speed things up a bit. So yeah I got a year or so of...