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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    A crash just means it's a good time to buy in, which I did. I was going to buy litecoins since BTC was so high, but the crash allowed me to buy into BTC. Sellers can't seem to break through the 2+ million dollar $50 wall so far. Even at litecoin's current $1.50, I still mine at a rate of...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Short litecoin mining guide. Even at current prices, litecoin is more profitable mining with GPUs. 1. Buy one or more voltage unlocked ATI video card(s). 7950 for the most khash/watt. nVidia cards don't mine well at all. 2. Install the AMD APP SDK 3. Sign up at a mining pool or use...
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    Well I'm certainly guilty of bringing up EQ in other game threads, but I only do so because I consider EQ classic to be the best MMORPG ever released, and I see modern games as a step backwards gameplay wise. I'm not the only one who thinks this, which is why people keep bringing EQ up. You...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    You're right, those are big problems right now, but they are so easily fixed. Mtgox is the biggest right now because it's simply the best exchange. When people handle this much money, they want to give it to the most reputable sites. As bitcoin gets bigger, you'll start seeing more...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Bitcoin DOES have intrinsic value though-- as a service. It's free to transfer funds to anyone, anywhere. The world shares it, so if your country blows up, bitcoin will remain about as stable as it normally is. (which will get better over time) It's fast. It's convenient. It's private. No...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Other exchanges had a massive sell-off while gox is down. btceBTC was down to $55 and btceLTC was down to $1. Killin' me that I can't buy in right now. Bitcoin needs an easy way to buy in, badly. Whoever figures that out will get rich.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    How are you guys buying your coins? It seems the old Dwolla -> MtGox way is now full of delays and sending ridiculous amounts of identification. I expected this to get easier with time, not harder. And here I was all ready to buy in after my ridiculously long 5 day bank transfer to Dwolla...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    If I'm reading this right, some dude set up a buy order for 9073 coins at $212.12. That's a 2 million dollar buy order.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I can only repeat what I've read as this stuff is over my head, but supposedly FPGAs and ASICs will at least be far less effective miners. Litecoin was supposed to be the CPU friendly coin when it was developed. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?to...502#msg1256502...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    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...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    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...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    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...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    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...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    Two people came in here and bashed my guild with their nonsense posts. I am merely responding in kind as anybody else would.
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    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...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    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...
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    StarCraft 2

    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...
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    StarCraft 2

    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...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    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...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    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.
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    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...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    I needed a dwarf cleric to imbue rubies
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

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

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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.
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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'...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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.
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    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...