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He was ahead of his time then. I'm surprised you guys aren't picketing Zynga for their evils, because what they do makes what VI did seem small time. Games nowadays are copied wholesale down to the color palettes from already existing games; a 3d MUD did not exist until EQ, and they did not...

Mobs had different AI scripts or variables; it's not just undead mobs either. Some mobs you could just train on top of people very easily without FD and others would stay on you when you ran them over people. Earlier era mobs tended to be very trainable, but in PoP they would stay on you. I...

Citation needed. To clarify, when I say botting was more common in d3, I mean at the same period of the game's life. I.e. d3 and launch vs. d2 at launch. Comparing the cheating situations of d2 years after launch, after people had much more time to develop bots, to d3 at launch is silly...

Oh yeah, let me just cite wikipedia for you. At least you didn't call me a masochist or a cunt, so that's something. Assuming you're even serious, I'll respond. Botters were very strongly motivated to develop bots because of the sanctioned RMT, and they started making bots well before...

So your argument as to why d3 is superior to d2 is that d2 had botting? Because d3 doesn't have botting? d3 has MORE botting, and had them much sooner after launch. Botting was rampant and caused massive inflation in the AH because of sanctioned RMT and therefore damaged the game experience...

Not currently; I did for a month shortly after Kunark opened, and I was very actively raiding on eqmac until the recent shutdown though. P99's raid scene is (was?) shitty BECAUSE the server is so popular though. It's simply an overcrowded server full of people who know every detail about the...

I quit raiding in WoW shortly after Ahn'Qiraj opened, although it was mostly due to guild drama. I never raided a lot before that anyway. What kept me in WoW (for a few years anyway) was the PvP, because fighting players was much more challenging than playing DDR with raid scripts. Farming...

I'm not going to speak for everybody who prefers D2 and classic EQ, but what I enjoyed was the feeling of having earned what you had. That's what makes what might otherwise be called tedious, enjoyable to me. You 'work' hard and you get your reward at the end. The more effort required to get...

Because the client is ancient and uses a lot of old functions, and SOE refuses to modernize it. I would guess the client is calling a function to modify the desktop gamma instead of just altering the in-game gamma level. I lowered the gamma slider in-game to approximate what my desktop gamma...

Who says you have to keep your money in an exchange? I sure as hell don't. Anybody who keeps all of their coins in an exchange or online wallet service is a fool. You can transfer over some USD from your bank, buy coins, then send them to your wallet 10 seconds after you buy. Then you can...

This is not true. I've spent a lot of time recently collecting mob stats for project EQ (the most popular emu database), and I still have my old logs. Velious raid content has the same min and max hits today as they did 12 years ago. PoP mobs all have slightly reduced DIs for some reason...

What makes you think they can't? Exchanges need people to sell the coins for buyers to buy them-- exchanges aren't the ones selling the coins, they just conduct the transactions. The current market cap of bitcoin is somewhere north of 7 billion.

Bitcoin has a long way down before I begin to regret my investment. It's funny how when a bitcoin bubble pops and it loses half its value in days, all these naysayers come out and say 'we told you so!' completely ignoring the fact that the value increased far more than it lost when the bubble...

Personally I think the problem is that the exp awarded for trivial kills is too high. (and/or way too low for harder kills) Leveling up and getting AAs, it was just far more rewarding to grind in the earliest expansions I could find that still had light blue cons than it was fighting in newer...

That link does not support your claim of 1.5ppm at 255 dex. It claims 1.5ppm at 205 dex. Either you misread, or you are making the apparent assumption that you gain zero benefit from dex from 205 to 255 dex, then at some point it reaches 2ppm at 305. If you assume a linear function, your own...

My guild was aware of the Vyemm 2h. It was desired for the DPS, mainly. The proc on it does less damage than anarchy and has no stun or hate modifier. Incidentally the reason I tanked Vyemm with a primal 2h was because I wasn't supposed to tank him; the MT died and I took over, but I held...

The proc rate at 255 dex was 2 per minute main hand, 1 per minute off hand before AAs and combat effects. Hitting max dex shouldn't have been a problem with shaman+ench buffs and generic raid gear. You underestimate the hate generated from procs. There was no real hate proc on 2h weapons...

2h aggro was buffed in Velious (I recall tanking Vymm with a primal 2h for our first kill), but if you used a 2h over a Bloodfrenzy in Luclin, then you were certifiable. Guilds farmed Cursed well into PoP for those. I took a break in Luclin so I never got a Bloodfrenzy, but I loved the shit...

The max clip underwater in the titanium client is greatly expanded as well; it really ruins the atmosphere of underwater zones.

Well since I still visit these zones I can make some corrections. eqlog_Torrin_52.txt 829810 [Thu Oct 17 20:45:17 2013] You have entered The Burning Wood. eqlog_Torven_52.txt 458486 [Fri Jan 04 02:40:55 2013] There are 2 players in Burning Woods. eqlog_Torven_52.txt 458622 [Fri Jan 04...

Dumar, you make it far easier for me to not keep up with this thread, because you keep fighting the arguments for me. I wholeheartedly agree that the game should be challenging from day 1 hour 1 level 1. EASY GAMES ARE BORING. I originally started up on Project 1999 just for the...

Ask just about anybody on a classic EQ forum what the worst thing about PoP was and you will get PoK books as the #1 answer. I hate teleports. The fewer the better. I would prefer zero of any kind (exceptions perhaps for a fear portal or similar) but of course I won't get what I want in...

That map was the reason I did not subscribe to the game, period.

The most sure-fire way to spawn a MMORPG with classic EQ gameplay is to kickstart or otherwise fund artists to release a generic high fantasy asset library with a commercial use allowable license. Art is the largest barrier to open source and indie games. Every popular multiplayer game has...

If I had known it would be so difficult to find 13 year old raid mobs available to parse, I probably wouldn't have bothered leveling up some characters. Who the fuck kills Mithaniel Marr anyway?

You ain't kiddin'. I developed a dozen addons for WoW, and a few times I discovered some broken API functions. When I tried to contact somebody at Blizzard, I realized I had absolutely no way of talking to a UI dev. The best I could do was report it in the bug forum and watch the post sink...

I was thinking more along the lines of males getting more strength and females more dex/agil.

I'm very pro-realism. Were I to make a game, I would deny female characters from being knights/warriors to begin with. I'm not sure the 'lifetime channel crowd' can use the realism card against boob armor. It's a small concern for me, though. But just to make things interesting (and to...

That's just it, it doesn't solve the problem. Not getting good loot is the result of the game having no item sink, not because int items drop on your barb. Crafted BoAs are a good example of this. I made my current shoulders after like 50 crafts, and I haven't been able to beat them after...

He criticizes live's MP system, but personally I think it works rather well. I think monsters scale well with the current player damages; granted I play using the most OP builds. Beats me why Blizzard decided to go with this automatic scaling crap. Ever since WoW, Blizzard designers have...

That thread just says he makes 250m/hr doing solo crypt runs. It doesn't make exp/time comparisons with VSORCS. You can't compare that exp/hr with the values in the thread I linked because they were from non-typical runs only done to compare exp per unit time on an individual map basis with...

I would be interested in reading any analysis that factored in time to search and prep when determining exp per unit time. I can see act 1 being the best in 4 mans with 4 people trying to find a crypt; but for solo I have a hard time seeing it beating act 2 when it can take upwards of 6-7 games...

Or you could just not use a hellfire ring. At mp10, a hellfire ring gives you 5.6% more exp, and a 31% ruby in helm only gives you 5% more exp. As soon as I saw how exp was calculated, I dropped both immediately. They are more powerful at lower MPs though. See this...

I'm not sure how small the minority is that doesn't like the removal of any form of trade in the game. I've seen more than one 'I'm going to quit the game over this' claim over it, although certainly most of us will just continue to play even though we dislike it. I will however end up playing...

Get rid of auction house Get rid of BoA flags on items except for hellfire rings Set up ladder system like D2's to act as a pseudo-item/character wipe Police spam, RMT, and botters as much as possible Create some sort of trade post game type that can have a lot more than 4 people in it, with...

Killing the franchise begun long before the BoAs. As terrible as no drop loot is in Diablo, I was just thinking how it wouldn't be worse than it is now. The combination of sanctioned RMT, AH, botting, and no item sinks is what really killed the game. I came back to the game 2-3 weeks ago, and...

Yeah, I did that before entering Oceangreen

Yeah, I am now. I was powerleveled from the mid 50s to 81 in a few hours, then tried to kill a light blue in Oceangreen with my monk+merc and got destroyed. I have to kill light blues in PoP to advance right now. I barely survived killing a dark blue in Hills of Shade with 2 tank mercs (one...

I went to the back area of PoFire and it was a hell of a lot easier than doing later expac zones. Got 120 AAs in a few hours using exp pots. Sony should probably make players get some AAs before leveling after a certain point, otherwise people will end up not being able to kill anything that...

Yes. 2 AAs. My monk has the three pieces from the quest the hot zone NPC in PoK gives (the only armor pieces people sell), mostly the level 59 req defiant gear, and a few slots with lower level defiant. Found a couple level 80 weapons in the bazaar though.