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I have a quick question for those more knowledgeable of the post-PoP game: are there any items similar to the Staff of Temperate Flux that allow one to cast a spell many times on an NPC in a short period of time? Or player abilities that do the same?

Wow, only took them 2 years and 8 months.It's not like they didn't have any proof of exploiting or anything.

The team size is small, but there are others. Rob and Speedz are the most visible because of the work they do. (and they do put in some of the most time) I'm sort of a jr. member and most of the work I'm doing isn't really specific to this project as much as it is preserving the classic game...

To clarify, what I meant by p99's hacks are the things like removing target rings, changing con colors, removing maps, and the like. i.e. making it more classic. Also their client monitoring.

Are the zone crashes and run speed issues happening in the later clients? If those can't be resolved we may be forced into a newer client anyway. Hell we'd conserve bandwidth from a client that didn't send duplicate packets I would imagine. I was kind of hoping p99 wouldn't mind sharing...

SOE revamped half the classic zones into less appealing versions, but left Luclin models untouched for over a decade. I'll never understand SOE logic. I hope for the sake of players who actually play the game (I just collect data) that the new loot system makes looting in the modern client...

For a progression guild, I sure see a lot of you using high level characters to get loot or flags for your lower level characters

Project 1999 makes it much easier to swarm than it was on the real servers. Bards do things on p99 that weren't even possible. One thing I noticed immediately on Al'Kabor after playing on p99 was the mobs hit from farther away. (although they tended to have slightly smaller aggro radii)...

It's headed by Cavedude, who is the guy in charge of Project EQ and is one of the EQ Emu devs. Secrets also helps out with some of the hard stuff. The rest of us are other PEQ devs or Al'Kabor refuges looking to chip in. The big difference between eqclassic and TAKP is we not only have a...

Yes, absolutely. Everybody complains about Project 1999 being closed source, and I respect their reasons why, but TAKP intends to go fully open source including database so anybody can set up their own servers using a high quality classic EQ server and database. All of my data will be publicly...

He was three boxing. Only one character (not his rogue) showed a TFO tag and they were all either anon or role. Pneumatic was one of the other two. The third I think was Legoliny, or Sethella. (pretty sure Sethella is a merc) The machine I interacted with wasn't the one logging so I'm...

As I said before, if one person was enough to do it, I'd have begun already. I was implying that additional responses like Tarisk's will only make it tempting. Ignoring someone doesn't make my mobs immune to his damage, either. Just kind of disappointing that the worst experience I had on...

I'm logging hundreds of hours of parses in an endeavor to recreate a more accurate resist algorithm for the emulators. I was parsing a common EarthB mob at the zone in when Slevan zones in and kills it without making any attempt to communicate with me or stopping when I said something before...

Here's a tip: don't grief high level players that have the capability to solo kill your progression guild's raid mobs. Just be glad I'm less of a dick than Slevan is.

Kaesora has a 110 ZEM which is about 1.5 times the standard exp. But yeah if you can handle the zone (big if) it's a fantastic spot. As a 60 druid it was my go-to zone to powerlevel after Unrest and SolA. After that was the southeast corner of CoM although nowadays the server is probably too...

I said it could take you to 40, not that it would be optimal for a full group to reach 40 there. The basement is a fantastic place for the low 30s group though. Upper 30s it's still a great place for soloing or for 2-3 man groups as it's almost all single or double pulls, is outdoors and has a...

Guess my brain sort of assumed you meant unrest from all the posts about it, but unrest can take people up to level 40 or so. A group would probably run out of mobs in the upper 30s though; the basement was prime solo magician hunting grounds in the late 30s. The first evac is of course level 29.

Wizards are terrible, terrible in non-aoe exp groups. If you don't parse your damage and compare it with other classes then you cannot speak to this. Parsers are mature and readily available; get one. Hell wizards aren't even the kings of burst sub level 50, mages are. Wizards weren't even...

I'm sure SOE is thinking something similar to this-- i.e. 'we need to provide premium support for any new servers'. But I would argue that the small, rabid fanbase that a classic server caters to would happily accept a server without premium service. I mean really, I petitioned like 2 or 3...

Yeah, I really wish SOE would get a little creative and figure out some sort of way to involve the hobbyist/EMU crowd so we could both profit from a classic server. They just aren't that kind of company though. Of course it's mostly their loss when the EMU guys are making steady progress...

Well keep in mind that P99 has a TON of ex-players that quit because they hit the level cap and basically had their fill but you can only play around in the same expac for so long before you move on. If they launched a new server, it would be crowded as fuck I'm sure. When red launched, some...

It's still an important issue I don't see discussed enough, really. Even for groups though, I really can't agree that (all) other players are the enemy. Idiots and/or amoral players are the enemy certainly, but if you're capable of playing nice with others, you should have strong allies to...

I agree with the 'EQ is full of bloated crap and is way too complicated' argument but not this: That is essentially an argument against multiplayer in general. In Starcraft and Quake, 'other players are the enemy' there as well. EQ was just designed in a way that put players in competition...

And now you know that I'm not alone in my opinions. I always liked you Elid, so I take no pleasure in telling you that I hate your game (really), but I do you no favors by lying to you. You wanted honest feedback. I assume this thread started because of my PM to you. Regardless, not...

What you're really asking is why people want to play classic EQ vs. modern EQ since the vast majority of EMU players play a classic server. I'm sorry but I pretty much hate everything SOE did to the game post PoP. Literally everything minus shared bank slots. Classic EQ was a challenging...

I saved a lot of showEQ screens of revamped zones on Al'Kabor before the shutdown. Have a look. https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Ek&usp=sharing

I haven't played in a couple of years but unless they've changed it, then the sro camp is a much longer wait. The camp in OOT averages out to something like 90 minutes from my experience, but sro is many hours. The sro cyc is easier to kill though. Not sure a rogue can even solo OOT's camp...

Level 70 and 1 rift later and I've replaced two armor slots with very minor upgrades, plus a new rare weapon on my 200m wizard. Total of 4 slots replaced since loot 2.0. Glad this was worth removing trading for. Removing lifesteal altogether had the predicted effect. The good old days of...

Ok since they are giving out free level 85s, I have a question. Which non-progression server is the least populated? Or if anybody possibly knows the answer to this, which server is the server most likely to have raid bosses from PoP and earlier unkilled?

My friends won't be buying the expac and I probably wouldn't if it were not already gifted to me as a holiday present. I can play maybe 2 hours at a time before getting too bored to continue. The fact that people are getting upgrades and the game is fun again to them because of that is...

No, they do not have a crystal ball to tell them how well their titles are going to do. Games and movies bomb and lose money all the time. Greenlighting the XCOM remake was seen as a gamble to the people who fund these things, even though it's obvious to serious old school gamers that XCOM...

Yeah, nobody ever talks about the good ol' days of EQ. Never happens.

Bitcoin is an experiment. It's only until recently that it's even been taken seriously by its own developers. For years bitcoin.org labeled it 'experimental' right on the front page. If they were truly serious about bitcoin taking over the world from day 1, they would have premined a lot...

This is factually incorrect. There were multiple MMOG releases between EQ's launch and WoW's launch. The 'average' gamer nowadays plays candy crush on their ipad. Trying to lump everybody who plays any sort of computer game together is absurd. It isn't the 1990s anymore. The X-COM remake...

I've went from paragon 95 to 100 and have yet to get an upgrade on my wiz which had something like 200m in gear

China and Russia banned it. Bitinstant blew up. Silk road blew up. Gox blew up. Feds trying to regulate. Yet my coins are still worth 6 times what I paid for them less than a year ago. If Bitcoin is dying, it's taking its sweet time about it.

Yeah, a couple months ago I bought a source with +ap on crit, +crit%, and +crit% to arcane orb, plus a hat with AP on crit and a socket just in case frozen orb turned out to be good. So with 19 AP on crit and 56% crit rate on orb with all the resource reduction runes and paragon lets me spam...

So happy to see frozen orb doesn't suck

No, Blizzard just copied it from a game that copied it from a 'non-profit community driven game' and then failed to credit Sojourn