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PEQ already has much of my NPC data. I found some of my parse results on the p99 wiki a few months ago by chance because the wiki people pulled numbers from Project EQ which got them from my work.

funny thing to say considering why he left

It's really all of the reasons I mentioned combined. A lot of the inherited PEQ quests had made-up text in them and omissions. I noticed that when I implemented some of our quests but apparently it's a larger problem than I realized. That's what Elroz has been fixing. He's been going through...

I spoke to the guys today. The short answer is that a release date has been pushed back to an unknown time. I apologize if this makes me a liar but I will try to explain the reasons. In Spring last year developer morale was low when Haynar left, and Rob started talking to me about opening the...

EQ is interesting in that the early game is so much different than the late game. Stats actually do a lot at early levels. Agility provides a large avoidance bonus and particularly at the 75th point. Ogres and Trolls have a massive starting game advantage from strength, and Erudites kind of...

The stuns from behind are still a feature on Live servers today. A lot of this stuff is easy to prove because it still exists. Those stuns are 3 seconds in duration and I parsed the stun chance at around 13% so they occur very frequently. Easily found in old logs because bash stuns are only 2...

it's a pity the Vulak ring event was implemented after Luclin's launch

Just what Star Trek needed, more guns and violence instigated by people old enough to wear adult diapers

EQ did it somewhat. The MUDs they copied hid more. It's why EQ's character skills list shows "Bad, Good, Master" etc along side the the number. Back in the day when you hit a mob, the game would say "Your slash <*><-><*>EVISCERATES<*><-><*> an orc peon!" or some such. I kind of want to see a...

One crazy idea I had was to, instead of having levels in which player power increased in an instant when the exp filled the bar, instead the player getting stronger was extremely gradual and all the numbers and math were hidden from the player, so the only way you knew you were getting more...

Profit motive ruins art. It's a paradox that chasing money often results in getting less of it when it comes to artistic related endeavors (video games, movies etc). You may end up with more money in the short term but less in the long run. I don't want to play the games of people who are...

Never played Dalaya, but it's not the first time somebody has mentioned that an idea I had (I realize it's not all that original but I couldn't point to a game that does it) was similar to what that server did. I'll have to read their wiki. The idea in more detail would be that the absolute...

https://www.firesofheaven.org/threads/monsters-and-memories-project_n-old-school-indie-mmo.12362/post-4234485 Sure, the old roleplay MUDs would be an example of the higher creativity levels back in the old days because creating worlds is much easier when they're text based. I've heard of...

I said that I despise what WoW did to the genre, meaning its influence on other projects, which is not the same thing as despising WoW itself. Although I think modern WoW is utter trash, as I said earlier I consider classic WoW to be a very good game (although not superior to EQ) and I played...

Regardless of whether something very similar was done before, was the term 'layering' used prior to WoW Classic? Anyway, layering is strongly associated with WoW nowadays and that is all that matters for the point I was making, which was not even very relevant point to the discussion to begin...

Huh? Do you not realize what board this is? Good faith? Lolz Omar Gonzalez was literally going around doing interviews calling his solution "new and innovative" and saying "we're calling it layering" so I dunno what Korea has been doing as I never had any interest in any Korean game, but...

I'm calling instance advocates WoW fanboys to be derisive and for brevity. Although when people discuss layering (something invented for Classic WoW) and when instancing is the most significant deviation by WoW from EQ, they're not far from the same group. I spent 8 years of my life working on...

If I posted all my ideas to fix 'pain points' it would result in posts so massive that nobody would read it and it would derail the thread further. I don't like top guilds killing everything for their 5th alts and denying casuals any access to raid content or groups sitting in one spot in a...

This is a passion project. Telling them to instead make what they think the market wants in order to make a profit is a silly. Profit isn't the goal. Tiny studios/teams on a shoestring or nonexistent budget are forced to do something different/unique in the first place. They can't make a...

strange. I didn't expect so many EQ haters to be in this thread. Godspeed to the Niche Cult. Appealing to the mass market is the road to mediocrity

Well firstly, in a true MMOG, there is going to be some amount of waiting on other players before it's your turn. This is unavoidable without turning the game into Diablo. EQ at some point started putting random respawn delays on raid bosses on resets so they would not be up immediately after...

Instancing is a bad solution to the problem of content monopolization. It works, but at great cost. Unfortunately because it does work it's the lazy go-to solution and developers don't even try to come up with better ideas. I give Vanguard credit for trying.

copying the best game ever is a good thing WoW has a bajillion clones. People who preferred WoW's solutions have plenty of options. Give me my EQ clone and take my money

instancing is cancer

The insidious nature of exploitable bugs is players like them and revolt when they're fixed, even if they're bad for the game. Players HATE having anything taken away from them, and they're not entirely wrong to feel that way, particularly after other players have taken advantage of them before...

"maxing people's combat skills by exploiting duels with charmed pets, and no shortage of other shenanigans were hotfixed by the watchful developers." Nerfing charm that way and neglecting summoned pets able to raise combat skills, which is actually far more convenient, is such a Sony thing to...

I'm more impressed at how they were able to find artists animators and worldbuilders to sign up. That was always the biggest roadblock to indie games from what I could see

Well I am Torven so I can speak to this. The source will very likely open sometime this year and the fork has already been made and is being prepared. There is a small handful of things we don't want visible -- anti cheats and CSR messages -- that won't be made available, so we'll still have a...

I am convinced that the showrunners and everybody who claims to like this show are trolls. It's the only explanation that makes any sense to me.

By far the worst show I've ever seen. It was genuinely painful to get through. The cringe was so hard that I had to pause episodes numerous times to recuperate. I just don't have the stamina to play these episodes without interruption. I cannot fathom for a moment how this show got...

I'm guessing that Kwan and her space witches will be used to bring John's mind back. I watched a Picard ep before the Halo finale, which made the latter look like Shakespeare, so I'm not going to complain.

I'm still watching to see the humans die. Never wanted to see humans die so badly. Paramount, please subvert expectations by having Master Chief join the covenant and use the ring to wipe out humanity. I'll subscribe for a month to see that, for reals

Somebody needs to make a 'character that ruins a TV show' meme out of this

this is adorable

The show is watchable if it stays at this level. It went from "watching for the crazy woke lulz but at least it's better than Picard" to "meh, not bad. what else am I gonna watch? TV sucks now" If the writers had any sense at all, they would kill off that super obnoxious asian kid. She's...

Al'Kabor's Plane of Time was the result of Hobart cobbling together mid-2003 era data and mixing it with AK's older data. AK's Quarm was casting spells that were largely unfinished and placeholder. The encounter wasn't even close to complete. Its AI logic probably didn't work correctly...

Thanks. I was wondering when the game lore jumped the shark.

I'm spending too much time on this forum as is, so I'll check out voluntarily

Perhaps I would if I had access to it, although I try not to get too involved with political forum discussions because it's a huge time sink. My post was mostly in response to Rajaah's. I would also argue that the party in power has a large relevance to bitcoin because one is more hostile to...

I'm not the one posting that white people will be put into camps, but sorry