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If you buy on Newegg, make sure you check combo deals. I was going to get a B350 Tomahawk, but saw a combo deal for a ASRock Killer X370 board with the PSU I was getting. 18 bucks off a $145 board that also had a $10 rebate = $117 for a X370 board. Also picked out my RAM. RAM cost me...

I didn't realize the 1600 came with a spire. Thought it came with a worse cooler. I guess I'll just make a judgement call on any sales I see in the next few weeks as to which Ryzen I get. Really wish I had done that 1700 $250 sale. Several coins are desktop minable: Ethereum, Monero...

A lot of sticks won't run at their rated speeds because AM4 mobo manufacturers had to rush a release. Supposedly a May microcode update will resolve this. There aren't many 16 gig sticks on QVL lists from what I can see, either. Samsung B-Die seems to work the best but all the sticks that I...

I'm also deciding between a 1600X + cooler vs 1700 w/ spire. AMD vs Intel right now is a no-brainer because I use my computer as a computer and not a console. Only reason I didn't get a 1700something by now is because I still can't figure out what RAM to buy. 32 gigs is required for me and...

That was from an Al'Kabor log, so it's PoP era. I was able to determine that the PvP spell scaling reduced spells down to 62% at higher levels in that era, so that's already mitigated down to 62% of normal. Emus can easily modify extreme edge case imbalances of course.

PvP in PoP: [Tue Aug 20 23:22:22 2013] An unholy aura envelops Exos. [Tue Aug 20 23:22:23 2013] You writhe in the grip of agony. You have taken 4896 points of damage. [Tue Aug 20 23:22:23 2013] You have been knocked unconscious! [Tue Aug 20 23:22:23 2013] You have been slain by Exos!

Daybreak's server allows boxing. I can't be the only person with 3 computers on his desk.

We have at least 3 raiding guilds last I checked. Alt key sticking and environmental sound volume will be fixed in a future client release. Secrets and Haynar have done some amazing client hacks but it's not ready for users yet. HotKeyNet can be used until then to avoid key sticking. Some of...

What a respectful question. I'll entertain you however. TAKP will be around for years to come. It doesn't matter how many people play it. Our population is still kind of low because the team made some bad decisions. Notably: open sourcing it without a release delay and instituting a 3 box...

Regarding database accuracy: Project EQ has seen significant improvements of late because they've been importing TAKP data. Remember that half of TAKP's staff is also PEQ staff, so sharing content between projects is frictionless. I'm in charge of TAKP's NPC stats and I haven't been involved...

Newegg has the k70 for $85 right now. Slickdeals forum gives it 5 thumbs, so I guess that's a sale. Will grab one of those myself unless I see something more interesting.

They are instanced on Progression servers only. You walk up to a kedge fish-man NPC in an adjacent zone and talk to him to make an instance, which he teleports you into. So there are kedge-men all over the place on TLPs. More specifically, what they did to raid bosses to make them not fall...

I can offer you some finer details. (these are just quickly off the top of my head) * AC was hardcapped until PoP, so it's softcapped on TLPs. The overcap returns are also more forgiving than PoP era returns. Certain loot like Vulak and AoW loot was given ridiculous amounts of AC with the...

Yeah, nothing. Except I told them how to fix slows which were using a completely wrong function. I told them how to fix partial spell resists. I told them how to calculate NPC double attack and dual wield rates. I outlined most of EQ's hate mechanics including how to calculate hate per spell...

Wait, am I dev or do I not have anything to do with it? Make up your mind. There is worthless criticism and there is constructive criticism. Perhaps you should learn the difference. "You're working too slow!" is not helpful. You clearly underestimate the work involved. EverQuest is...

Your thread is akin to whining that the pyramid at Giza isn't being built fast enough when 100 people are working on it. Pitch in or be quiet. Nobody gets paid for this. I saw the state of PEQ after AK went down and started helping out. It doesn't take technical ability to do database work...

Another thing I would like to point out: it's not a simple matter to just 'fix' things in the main EQ Emu branch because so many custom servers derive from it. A lot of mechanics were simply implemented incorrectly and the server databases were developed with these inaccuracies in mind. On top...

I can respond to some of this, since I develop for one of the servers. 1) Project 1999 and TAKP are both HEAVILY modified forks of EQEmu to the point that even merely copying NPC data over back to PEQ is difficult because of all the new fields. Just about everything was modified in some way...

It wasn't from scratch. They copied our database which we populated using custom written tools and taking multiple snapshots of AK zones for the vast majority of NPCs in every zone up through PoP. We then gave these NPCs placeholder stats and loottables imported from Project EQ and Magelo...

The Mac client is the real client used to play on Sony's defunct server. The PC client could be considered a hack job of sorts, but the complaints people have about that client are mostly because of its age and not because it's hacked together. Our PC client is pre-Direct X 9 and was current...

He sent it to me. Thanks for this. I got logs from a bunch of users recently so I'm pretty happy with my logs situation now. (more is always better however) Only thing I'm really missing is a good Ring of Fire (Acrylia Caverns) log.

I agree. Secrets doesn't do a lot of GM work though; he mostly does technical work that very few people are capable of. However it's less of an issue here because we have mandatory rotations if and when guilds start to become uncivil. (not enforced currently)

Not all of us. I've only played the emu for a week 14 months ago. There's just too much work to do. Several of the devs don't play much or at all, really. A few of us need to eat the dog food though, to find and fix QoL issues.

The reason why they can even push a semi-functional Velious is because TAKP staff (Cavedude) created automated tools to mass import data from AK. The tool generated SQL data from showEQ which created most of the NPCs in the game and set their locations. They were then given error riddled...

I in fact proposed a merger not long ago. It was flatly rejected and ridiculed. Granted it's not a popular idea on our side of the fence either for numerous reasons, not the least of which are that one server has had Velious equipment available for months. If they really cared about the...

The differences aren't 'petty'. I'll let you all try and guess which one of them sent me a hate filled (one of several he sent to Haynar and myself) PM to me which included these lines: The public has no idea of the history between us, because if I outlined it all in a massive post, what...

It's not classic. We have a 20% exp bonus on top of the late PoP era group exp bonus, which is a significant increase over the classic group bonus.

I most certainly did not. I merely pointed out that you were TOLD a lie. If unknowingly repeating a mistruth officially makes one a 'liar' than every non-mute human being on earth qualifies. Responding to a claim that the difference between p2002 and TAKP is that TAKP is somehow corrupt and...

(Slithzor is Wharhogg, aka Boragar) #takp:18.02.2015 16:13:43 <xate> Slithzor tells you, 'yes its very bad' #takp:18.02.2015 16:13:56 <xate> Slithzor tells you, 'they banned 12 of our people' #takp:18.02.2015 16:13:56 <xate> Slithzor tells you, 'and they grouped them into eashan.....but...

That's a lie. Armed leaders also wanted a rotation. Destiny wasn't #2 at the time, Starvald was. Starvald beat Armed to kills, which angered Armed who started poopsocking in revenge, hence the desire for rotations. The community as a whole voted for rotations-- it was a public vote. It...

I've thanked them before, but seeing them post again here just made me want to repeat it. Nester's log was INVALUABLE for my database work on TAKP, (it's a very good log) and Fifey letting me use his account for VP really helped tremendously in getting that zone right. Project EQ is...

Well, I'm glad at least some of my work meets with your approval. Not sure why you guys care so much when you don't play here anymore. Even if it were not a rule, Stairs could easily remove it. I made it a rule not just for you, but for us. It will not remain as-is in fact. Lets not...

The launcher seems to have a bug in it. I've been editing eqhost.txt and changing Host=lvseq-live-l01.everquest.com:15900 to Host=lvseq-test-l01.everquest.com:15900 and the reverse. Curse this tiny SSD or I'd just copy the entire folder.

As I said, we disabled some items to prevent raid drops from becoming worthless. People are wearing their planar armor and they'll be wearing their kunark sets and they'll be wearing their ToV armor. Melee are currently using yaks and bloodfires and not the Kithicor weapons. The Kunark...

We do disable some items. Kithicor Dark Elf drops were disabled for example. The crafted armor added in late Luclin were disabled. I'm disabling a few of the revamped Chardok loot as I do those tables. I certainly don't want weapons as good or better than VP ones dropping from Chardok named...

Haynar put in new melee mitigation code months ago. I'm still collecting data for a final revamp, but because it takes multi-hour logs for each data point, it's taking months. (I've generated about 1 gig of logs so far) Harnar's code is actually mitigating too much, but the hit rate of NPCs...

Haynar keeps tinkering with things, so I'm hopeful he'll figure out how to make the client more stable. He recommends using a wired connection (as opposed to wi-fi) and ensuring the connection is uncongested. Apparently even p99 has desyncs in zones with 200+ players in them and wired...

We're aware desyncs can happen, but they tend to be rare and happen most often in large raids as far as we know. The problem we have is that nobody reports them. We can only assume that it's a rare phenomena when people don't bring the issue up. Reports are important to distinguish between...

You'll have to be more specific regarding 'shit that doesn't work'. People are playing and raiding, and there are workarounds to particular issues. I used to 8 box raids on Al'Kabor using the PC client, including two clients on a netbook. Stuff like no target rings and no mouse zoom are...

Policy wise the biggest difference is that TAKP has staff mandated rotations for the major raid targets. (just nag/vox right now, not planes trash) We have a 3 account limit, but that may be relaxed in the future if people make enough noise about it. (don't hate me for saying this Speedz)...