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Reddit isn't FoH. My main account has been warned / suspended 3 times then permabanned for "glorifying violence", I was able to reverse the permaban with repeated filing for appeals but that account is now back to just being on its "last strike." Reddit uses AI to do a lot of its rule...

Just randomly hosting in countries that don't have reciprocal enforcement treaties with the U.S. would not have protected THJ. The judge's order enjoins the devs as individuals, they would not be protected if the servers were in Russia or Cuba or some place, because the devs live in the United...

The first TLP with fully instanced raiding was released less than 1 year after she said that. I'll also note--a lot of FOHers who dick ride games like Pantheon, M&M, etc specifically cite instancing of content as one of the worst things ever. While I've always thought that's stupid AF, Holly...

I never got into the WoWC stuff but Holly's job with WoW is a lot easier than her job with EQ, due to WoW just being a much more profitable / successful game. If a random person ran Microsoft for a year I doubt they'd do a good job, but it also wouldn't cause the company to bankrupt because big...

Back when I was TLPing on Lockjaw, Jchan was known as the "good dev", because almost all their devs were crap. We'd have SOE/DBG tell us "we can't create a login queue you just have to suffer through nonstop login server crashes." Then Jchan posts "actually I can probably make a login queue."...

Yes, I work in commercial insurance, surety bonds are regularly sold for court cases to companies involved in litigation. My company will write $3m and lower bonds for companies pretty liberally (above that are subject to stricter review), some extremely high percentage of court surety bonds for...

Not really. The law of nature states that the animal that can consume the most resources is "winning", just like the fattest bear is the most powerful in their area. Fat people are the alphas, skinny people are actually the sheep that exist only to work in service to the fat kings.

Not a good day for THJ.

Imagine thinking I leave my house.

Says someone who doesn't know me at all. I've infamously been raid logging min-efforting TLPs for years. I'm the opposite of someone who time sinks a TLP. I never do any of the autist group stuff, barely keep up with AAs.

That was my understanding but when I said that in Discord the other day a THJ player told me they haven't changed the boss powers, the bosses just don't have MOTM, but player power is higher because of the THJ hyper-itemized gear. No idea which is true just going off what I heard. Since I'm...

The main innovation being "host a server that's free to play." Because that is what is most important to about 90% of emu players, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. If you ever talk to emubots, they will often admit they play emu specifically because it is free. Now, some of the emus are...

The devs who have worked at SOE/DBG all say EQ2 is much easier to dev for and work with than EQ1. It may be a worse game but it's a more maintainable engine for sure.

That definitely isn't discussed enough when people opine about the EQ code base. The world EQ launched in was the world of shrink-wrapped software. Games had to launch at a specific time to make the money work, and by and large future maintainability of the project didn't matter much because...

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The thing about the Quarm deal capping players at 1200, I feel like if the eq emu login server didn't report client numbers, DBG is never going to know how many people are on an emu server unless the emu operators intentionally broadcast it. I can't see Daybreak spending time trying to prove how...

Copyright law is a little different than a normal damages case. A typical civil suit for damages the actual damages that occurred are important to demonstrate. In a copyright case, if you can prove the infringement, you are entitled to what is called "statutory damages" per infringement, the...

Yeah, personas almost certainly live on your "character file" which that file being large is a major contributor to zone times. That being said, early era personas are likely to not meaningfully increase zone time--the character file has to get pretty "fat" before it really slows zoning down...

I do notice the guy so concerned Faceless was going to implode from bad morale because we lost OW Sev the other day doesn't seem to have similar concerns about a guild that socked Trakanon for 6 hours only to lose it. Weird huh.

The thing is, at some point are you a guild or are you a gear farming crew? They aren't 100% the same thing. I can't think of an MMO guild scenario where my goal would be to not at least clear all the raid content. Maybe it makes sense afterward to do things like deeper splits of Kael where you...

Yeah that could be true, I hadn't considered it since I am about as anti-ST 1.0 as it gets. I think it is stupid. The loot is stupid. The waking is stupid. Everything about it is bad / dumb. I would literally get erect if DPG said "hey we consider ST 1.0 a special event back in the year 2001...

Point of order: killing AoW at day 12 is actually fairly bad, the only real scenario I can imagine for it is if a raiding guild in that era simply had like 2-3 warriors and no others. Most servers I have done even some of the fairly casual guilds get an AoW down in the first week. Now certainly...

Zaide already posted a pic of your batphone, you guys phoned a sock before we did. It isn't really in dispute. Jokert also has openly said you guys "sock everything." No reason not to own it, you guys want to sock shit we've killed uncontested for 10 days (and then lose dramatically), more...

Vulak is canonically the end boss of Velious, because Sleeper isn't a boss you kill, just one you trigger by killing 4 dragon warders who aren't particularly hard, and lore wise Vulak is positioned as the Velious boss. On a weird server where a lower tier guild kills the first Vulak but then...

This is the way frankly, the # of people I have seen burn themselves out and even develop weird real life problems trying to attend every batphone is high. No guild should be based on you individually making every batphone. Attend what you can IMO. Where I'm running a guild on live and not...

I'm coming from a place of experience running multiple TLP guilds (I notice you refused to answer which Teek guild you are in, telling.) I actually never got more grief from my own guildies than when I decided not to batphone something. Not 100% sure how your "15 years experience on WoW" inform...

Where is the "over and over", dude? How many events do you think have happened. You realize you are talking about 1 60 second incident, right? There is virtually no impact to morale if you're trading off OW kills, I assure you. When was the last time you were actually in an OW raid racing...

I was raiding on live when it went down (I actually still run a live guild as my main EQ thing), but my understanding is both guilds were actually in PoSKy OW when Sev spawned. Faceless was on Bee Island just doing a clear up to get people keyed etc, RI was I believe on Spiroc island (maybe...

When was the last time you actually played a TLP? I can assure you it just doesn't work that way. If your information is coming from these forums, where I think only a few people who really involve themselves in these guilds posts, you just aren't working with correct intel. OW TLP stuff in...

It isn't, actually. Amtrak lost DPS races to us all the time on Selo and it was fine for them, they still won a lot too. You realize when you do more than a couple TLPs that that is how OW raiding works. It is always more respectable to at least show up and try. This rhetoric is like Fippy /...

Not sure what that means. Any target you don't show up for you lose by default. OW guilds lose anytime another guild gets loot, doesn't matter if you "showed up" or not. That has been the governing rule of EQ since 1999.

I think the items are bad for game balance purposes, but I think everyone saying they are bad for server health are dead wrong. The one singular lesson, going back to the first AoC server (Phinigel) to today, is every change that has made the TLP game more casual friendly and easier, has been...

I don't give 2 shits how much coin I can make in an hour, if I ever bother to sell anything in game it is at firesale prices so I don't have to wait more than 30 seconds to leave EC tunnel.

That actually looks like a bug, but probably so few people do the quest that it hasn't been bug reported.

They were introduced a while back, I want to say sometime between 2015-2017. There has always been a few fake claims about them. One is that they always existed and were just never solved. The other is they were basically finished, but never turned on so they had been sitting dormant in the...

Could be a class issue too, I know some classes won't get invited by better pugs, so the ones willing to take them in are often worse players.

I've basically never pugged on a TLP going back to Lockjaw so I can't really get a good feel for that experience, but several of our guildies have mostly pugged up to 60 or near 60 over the long weekend. That would seem to be "good enough" to me, hitting 60 in the first week primarily pugging is...

It is quite bad for the server, obviously you need to do it ASAP as does everyone, because in a TLP environment you can't refuse literally 5 BiS items for free. But for most classes there is no arguable upgrade for these slots until Vex Thal loot, some until PoP. And we will be getting another...

Not to ruin people's fun, but frankly guild drama shit is a relic of a bygone age. Just be in w/e guild you like raiding with, it really doesn't matter. Also if that guild doesn't work out, just leave and join another guild. Everyone on these TLPs has bounced through a half dozen guilds or more...