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I just started mining it so I'm far from an expert, but I can tell you a few things. The currency's hash algorithm (scrypt) was selected specifically to allow CPU mining to be viable. However apparently the designer of the protocol used bad parameters which allowed people to figure out a way...

I wouldn't bet against bitcoin hitting $500. Few people thought it would hit $200 a couple years ago and yet here we are. Consider that the number of potential bitcoin users is virtually unlimited. The more people that begin using the coin, the more motivation new users have to use it as it...

Really kicking myself for not investing in bitcoin sooner. I've been interested in it for the last couple of years and expected its value to rise, but never got around to putting serious money into it. I did turn $34 into ~$200 though. I mostly used it to pay for my VPN. Thanks for the...

I didn't list anything from Luclin or PoP because the argument was over Hoss's competitiveness when Seekers/Vindication was still around. Hoss had virtually everything first from Luclin on through GoD. It was practically a one uber guild server from VT on up. Shit, I didn't even remember...

Two people came in here and bashed my guild with their nonsense posts. I am merely responding in kind as anybody else would.

And who the fuck are you? Your memory is terrible. The Hoss forum still exists and has every post going back to June 2001, so I can say with absolute confidence that the following is accurate as I just went back and took a trip down memory lane. First of all, Seekers imploded in the middle...

We left Solusek because it was overcrowded as shit-- even in the middle of the night because a lot of Europeans decided to make it their home server. HOSS was originally a small tight-knit guild with highly skilled players who originally played Quake together prior to EQ, and they had to team...

Sure. Blizzard pretty much committed themselves with WoL and missed the opportunity for more radical changes, that much is true. Although they want to try and sell these expacs as separate games almost to get more profit from them. Ok, I'll use the best example: spawn larva. Why is this not...

Blizzard's target audience is apparently 12 year olds. Their games look like cartoons with stories having about as much depth and logic as a cartoon. I actually had some hope for Zerg in multiplayer after doing the campaign. Wow, did they really get rid of that fucking lame as shit spawn...

The problem with NPCs eating items and handing items to the wrong NPC is a UI mechanics problem and not really a gameplay problem. I doubt you would find many advocating for no safeguards to prevent this kind of thing. Some NPCs did in fact return items that weren't part of a quest they had...

This server is in fact as popular as it has ever been. Population hits up to 1k during prime time. I've seen arguments over trash exp mobs being pulled.

Because WoW's existence makes the game once nicknamed 'EverCrack' suddenly terrible, obviously. I'm not the deluded one for thinking an EQ1 classic clone would be viable; the deluded ones are the people who think WoW's success was entirely due to gameplay. As I mentioned earlier, I still...

The problem with modern EQ is that it is so old, it binds the hands of the developers that work on it very tightly. Removing features from a game (or any product really, but games in particular) is difficult to impossible, so EQ is burdened by all the crap they added in the last 12 years. Any...

The hack is hardcoded to use that directory, so the only way around that would be to make a symbolic link to another drive. try mklink /D C:\EQMac X:\path\to\EQ

I needed a dwarf cleric to imbue rubies

Sony is just administrated by cowards. And I mean that literally. They are afraid of a hobby project a few dudes made in their apartments (project 1999) to the point where even mentioning the name of the project is instant post deletion. No mere blanking out the two words; they have to full...

Thispost doesn't give me much hope in that. Of course I respond with a post that included the line: "With all due respect, playing on progression servers is nothing like classic. If it was, project 1999 and the PC client hack wouldn't be so popular." And it was almost immediately...

The test client is just a couple of simple fixes like beastlord MGB. Hobart said in chat that he was going to implement more substantial changes later. If he is changing network packets, then I would assume he is going to do something like add eqmac to their new login infrastructure. He could...

Perhaps you missed this in the flamefest back there: For those unaware, Elidroth is a developer for PC EverQuest.

It's silly to want to race to the end game on here anyway. Al'Kabor is content locked. There is nowhere else to go after Quarm and everybody is decked in time loot. Why not just adhere to the guild rotations and prolong the journey so the ride is more enjoyable and longer lasting? Play other...

As far as I know, that depends entirely on your machine's hardware. OSX won't run on just anything. It may work on my new ivy bridge, but my old Athlon XP and Zacate netbook sure won't run it. So I get to kiss 6 boxing and AoEing goodbye. It's a shame too, because I know a trick that...

Secrets keeps mentioning that she regrets releasing it in the first place, so I wouldn't bet on her releasing another one. When Hobart patches this client out, I will no longer be playing any games at all for the forseeable future; with the possible exception of p99 Velious if that ever comes...

I love it when GMs aren't useless and care about the server. Also, everybody pretty much knows who I am in-game and that I wrote this how-to guide many people follow to use the hack. I never got shit from anybody for it. The community here is pretty nice.

Actually it does. How likely do you think it is that Secrets will release another version of the hack with a fixed bazaar search and no lag after this? This griefing also serves to encourage Hobart to disable the hack as well if he is on the fence about it. That is why Relapse kept 'thanking'...

Yes, it's called sadism. Never in my 20 years of online gaming have I encountered more sadistic players than those in IB/TR from P99, aka TSE on EQMac. Sociopath isn't strong enough of a word, really. Being sociopathic (aka psychopathic) simply means an inability to feel shame, guilt, or...

What are the chances Hobart will reset the zone to a pre-awoken state? I'll defend classic EQ gameplay till the day I die, but perma shutting down a raid zone was one of the dumbest things VI ever implemented. It's like they made the zone for sociopaths and sadists.

Well I certainly don't do that on just one physical machine. I use 3. There is no way to send commands to inactive/background windows short of VMing each EQ instance as far as I know. And trust me, people have googled the hell out of this to try and find a way. For boxing software, I...

Well good, because I'm too addicted to stop playing. I totally need to become a halfling tailor and give people more reason to love me. Also most likely going to roll a tank in the future. Kind of hard to do zones like CT or PoP without one. AoE is fun as shit, but it is limited to only a...

Not the server, but the PC client hack. Secrets indicated that she would help Hobart disable it if Hobart didn't want it working. So far Hobart hasn't said anything (to my knowledge) that he wants it non-functional, but I'm not about to raise tradeskills to 200+ without some assurances that it...

I didn't start replacing most of my level 1 store bought cloth and leather until my 50s. I just started gear farming mode at 60 since I intend to stay 60 awhile. Trying to do my part for the newbies by selling the junk I picked up while leveling for cheap on the trader. Sells out fast...

Caller event. That was 4 kegs of mobs from one cave. And yeah, I have some glands. I knew they were valuable (I was a hardcore raider and MT after all) but the demand for these things seems to be going up by the day. I had three people ask me about them one morning just from my announcing...

Heh, well I played a wizard from 1999 to 2004. I also started up a warrior in late Kunark/early Velious period, that eventually became my guild's MT, but I kept boxing the wizard. So I had a raid geared tank + wizard to do PBAoEing with. The thing about wizards is, the better you are at the...

I'm so addicted to classic EQ. This is what a free to play classic server that allows boxing seduced me to do: That was before I got a Jyll's spell on my wizards. (or even color slant on the enchanters) I hit 56 last night for the 2nd Jyll's, and mobs are melting. I'm raking in the...

I hashed keyboard.txt on my problem machine and a machine that doesn't have the problem, and they were identical. I checked for the file in the fresh titanium install folder that I kept a copy of, and it wasn't there. Nor was it in the EQMac web install folder. Looking at the file date...

Also, can somebody try recording video of the game using MSI afterburner and see if the audio is also captured? I tried everything but can't get it to record the game's audio. However when I run another game at the same time as EQ, it will record EQ's audio along with the audio of that other...

So I have a little problem with the PC client that's been bugging me since I installed it. My apostrophe/quotes key, left bracket, and equals keys do not work in the game; my backslash outputs a right bracket when I press it; and my right bracket outputs a left bracket when I press that. It's...

The titanium client has target rings, a frame rate limiter, and buff timers to name a few big ones. Even EQ Mac's client doesn't have those. To be honest I've felt that Project 1999 provided a superior game experience because of things like these. I'm all for the old school gameplay, but...

Speaking of clients, I was just thinking that (and don't hate me for saying this) Tyen might not have had the worst idea in the world to try and get an EverQuest client recreated. If the goal is to keep classic EQ alive, then the next step is to recreate the client after the server is done...

The green proximity aggro level was/is actually around level 18 or 20. Also, non-undead can be trained on people as well; Fansy can attest to that fact. I've had my non-undead pulls aggro on people on EQ Mac and had to heal them off.