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Note that wall of text is from the same guy who thinks Aradune is still a high pop server despite repeated evidence to the contrary. I also believe he was a joke on Mangler and dominated Aradune a server with 0 competition. I may be a back in my day kinda guy Bishi, but I had a day. You never...

I mean it doesn’t allow them to remain competitive longer. It largely renders competition completely meaningless. EQ content up until basically Plane of Time is so non-gear dependent that weekly AoC are more gear than ANY guild needs to beat all available content. The only competitions that...

Right but there is no glory. And to be honest you have never known the glory either. It's always been weird to me the loudest "reee I wanna batphone" people have been veterans of AoC servers. To me, competition in EQ was about taking things that other guilds desperately needed and that you could...

There have not been any DPS races that I've seen and I'm not sure there will be. Anytime one guild has clearly mobilized faster the other guild has called off their batphone, or has just started training. I'm not actually sure there is currently seen as any incentive to DPS race especially when...

I feel like this is one of the lowest quality posters FoH has produced in many years.

It is. Believe on Phinny and Agnarr it came out during Luclin, maybe a month in or something? Because on Agnarr several of those revamped CT items were available on the Bazaar mid-Luclin. But before Agnarr even hit PoP the decision came down it wasn't appropriate for Luclin era, and got patched...

Right, the big stable emu (p99) is pretty professionally ran and clearly not going anywhere. But not everyone wants to play a Velious locked EQ. Many of the interesting alternatives only exist for a few months at a time, and are not professionally ran. That's the short of it.

Most people play MMOs to build and advance a character over time. Emus tends to fall into two categories: somewhat faithful emulations of specific eras of EQ (p99, TAK Project probably being the most famous), or ones that try to do some de novo content creation using the engine (Shards of...

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I mean for group progression on new expansions we always tried to make sure everyone had help on Selo, and for people trying to catch up on levels. But that was about the limit of what we could feasible, from a leadership perspective, promote. I didn't have the energy or the ability to make sure...

This happened on Agnarr too, someone did a free transfer to Zek, got a few million plat, petitioned saying "I didn't know what this server transfer window was, and accidentally transferred to this weird pvp server", GM moved his char back to Agnarr with millions of plat in like....week 4 of classic.

I mean I have like 100 posts here and check this forum maybe once a week; I've lead two TLP guilds for years and run a live guild today. Most of my time in EQ is spent actually running shit not foaming at the mouth on the forums; I'm not part of the crowd of mongoloids who just spew shit onto...

The only way in which it could be fake is if someone found a way to fake trade window display. Like 3 months ago a friend of mine actually discovered an item dupe over on Aradune, but he said the way it worked, if your character zoned the duplicate item would disappear. I think this item dupe...

I mean like I said, someone showed me proof. I didn't record it myself, I had no reason to. I don't care if there is a plat dupe and the economy of Mischief has literally 0 impact on my life. I never imagined I would even discuss the dupe outside of with a small group of friends, until it came...

People have provided me hard proof in game, I don't really want to out who but I think they're planning to expose it more soon.

What was that pirate PvP that was popular right before Selo launched? I think Atlas or something. My understanding is that game had hilariously prevalent item duping, and they ended up just doing like a full wipe of all the game's items so it rebaselined everyone to zero. That's probably the...

Part of the reason live servers have billions and billions of platinum is largely because of past plat dupes. I think there's been so many over the years, and the devs have so little ability to track them down and reverse their effects on the economy that people ultimately just have to deal with...

I've seen people with hundreds of millions of platinum on Mischief, confirmed by the way. That isn't a GDKP guild juicing up the economy, that's a plat dupe. My understanding is the reason it hasn't caused a Ragefire esque plat market implosion is because on RF literally hundreds of people were...

I don't really think the drama is going to be that significant. Keep in mind both of these guilds launched with the idea of not doing batphones, and then changed their minds. That's because the level of motivation to go foam at the mouth style I think has just died down a lot. Frankly I've seen...

Right but the core issue is not everyone actually plays for plat or krono, hence why a GDKP guild isn't for everyone. Like I personally have 0.0 motivation tied to in game money. Unlike 95% of FoH posters, I am not Mark Zuckerberg (but with a 12" penis) and 3 palaces of Gold in real life, I'm...

I was never involved in FxIV but I honestly assumed GDKP would work fine. I don't really think GDKP is a bad idea, but I do think there's just a lot of players who have 0 interest in it and prefer regular DKP. My perception is that was the core reason for the split, which means in theory it...

Charming was less common for sure, some game changes since then have made charming safer, but the bigger issue I think ties into the thing Kirun was saying as to why people used to do XP groups in Dreadlands. Toleerance for risk was much lower in old EQ, the player base in general was much worse...

Good point--that reminds me, at least on Xegony Chardok was almost never an XP site in era that I remember. I think Chardok got revamped at some point as well and before that it wasn't a great zone. People used to go in there for specific reasons, and usually if they wiped getting back in was a...

Velious is kind of when I feel I hit my EQ stride in the old era, I was too ignorant of what MMOs were and too lackadaisical towards the game to get much into classic. I basically hit 50 on my Necro in Classic solely because my uncle and cousin that got me into the game were good about helping...

Level 70 expansions are mostly bad, DoDH is the one stand out, but even it is rough for casters and priests. Casters because the shitty level 70 raid tier where mobs need to be super debuffed just to land basic DPS spells in raids, and Priests because DoDH has a lot of group content you have to...

I also noticed that the older TLPs (which at this point I'm meaning RF/LJ, Phinny and Agnarr--Fippy actually launched before the Krono era) basically any item you can name sold for more krono in those eras than they did on subsequent TLPs. An econ 101 argument would suggest if prices have...

There's different ranks of Kronolord right, just like in the nobility. You have your Krono Barons who just farm casual group shit for krono. You have your Krono Earls who farm raid targets with a small KronoKrew. And then you have your Krono Dukes who have their own MQ2 compiles, automate plat...

Gear absolutely doesn't matter at all for ages on a TLP. At the same time, I think it does matter, just for reasons unrelated to "beating content." There's different schools of TLPer. Some want to beat content, and for them, gear really is kinda w/e. But a lot of people on TLPs are there for...

Not to out Foaming (but I am), me and him speculated years ago that if they ever did a free trade server, a GDKP/plat guild would be the way to go for various reasons. It made a lot of sense on paper. I wasn't involved in FxIV (have been casual on the server, just hit 60 the day before Kunark)...

Yes the Urn is more common. Drusella's random table is shared with all the Chardok royals and several epic 1.0 raid mobs (dragon Zordak, Ixiblat, the 5-6 Dark Elf guys in Kithicor forest.) So instead of being locked to a single mob who you could either kill 1x a week in DZ or I think 2ish times...

I don't think it's so much that there's rumors, but you've always been able to have a single ring that a group of people pass around to make multiple SWCs. Now that SWC itself is tradeable, well it's obvious the possibilities.

Keep in mind I'm pretty far removed from the "MQ2" dev community, I read the Redguides forums and Discord. It seems like a lot of the non-Mule dev community now views claims Mule made about his meeting and "deal" with Daybreak with a great degree of skepticism because it was discovered his MQ2IC...

I haven't followed Aradune lately but there's little reason for most top guilds to be farming OW shit after a couple months in PoP. The last two guilds I've taken through PoP the value of the Ele God loot drops really fast due to just the sheer amount of loot that falls out of PoTime, and while...

Stick (a command in MQ2MoveUtils) is kind of old school at this point. I think most serious Macroquest users use MQ2Nav or MQ2AdvPath for moving boxes around instead, both are generally better. There's some niche scenarios where stick is still more useful though.

That doesn't affect anything I said.

Most of the people (including in this very thread) who are complaining are infamous RMTers, e.g. Elderan who has been automating SG on multiple servers for years. I do think this ruleset probably undermines the sort of economy those guys thrive on, although as valuable as plat will be their...

I just hope Zaide is aware we'll be doing drug testing of every member of his static once they hit 50. No Lance Armstrongs here, if any of those degenerates took cocaine or meth the people will know about it.

It's actually a really big upgrade in many ways. For one the current paradigm with MQ2, using any of the "Macro Language" macros, you can only run one concurrently. Incredibly complicated stuff like KissAssist.mac can be run and do a lot in that paradigm, but it limits you in many ways. Lots of...

I've also been told a lot of the plugin authors of really popular MQ2 plugins are privately distributing Next compliant .DLL if you private message them and provide proof that you're paying for an active license of it (these are all the plugins on Redguides that aren't free), my understanding is...