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I could be wrong but I remember starting an Erudite necro in vanilla EQ and if I wasn't thrust immediately into darkness I was thrust into it pretty quick. In early EQ Erudite Necros had a trainer in the middle of Tox forest. If it was night when you generated your character, it was pretty...

I'll let someone else pull out the statistics, but I think your view is overly optimistic. We could argue about the definition of "failure" all day, I suppose. There are catastrophic failures, like 38 Studios, and then there are slow, lingering failures. I suppose if you want to set the bar...

For every thousand strikes at the leaves of evil, there is but one strike at the root. This is the root of many of the mmo industry's woes- sustainability (or lack thereof). People often cite the "leaves" of failed mmos- incomplete content, lack of polish, half-baked mechanics, and inability...

Sober up and then reread. You have mistaken him.

The competitive nature of mmo's drives vertical progression at the expense of lateral exploration; at the expense of everything really.

Whether they realize it or not, people want toearnheroic, they don't want to behandedheroic at the starting gate- otherwise, it's not heroic, it's just... standard.

Have they said if they are starting at Vanilla and opening the other expansions slowly? I might have to come out of retirement for this one.

Haven't played P1999 in some time but would be interested in a fresh P1999 pvp SZ style server. Is that what we are looking at and is there an ETA on when it will come up?

It's funny, I started in 99 on a pvp server and it was pretty standard practice to ask before inspecting. When I moved to a pve server people thought I was bizarre for asking to inspect, but it was habit by then. A lot of pve people didn't realize that randomly inspecting someone in early EQ...

Yes, I think our disagreement can be distilled down to your edit. Listen, I'm not suggesting that game devs do bizarre things that make no sense and needlessly jeopardize shareholder stake. I understand that there is a very necessary business end to this industry and you have to act...

I understand what you're saying and I really don't want to get into a protracted argument on the internet, but... I'm not arguing that players don't have "different expectations" or that certain elements of mmos haven't become "established" and I agree that the "reception to those ideas...will...

Sorry to double post, but I want to make this clear. I don't mean to deify EQs game designers. They had their faults like everyone else and they made their fair share of mistakes. But to dismiss the entire game as luck and coincidence is just foolish.

No doubt luck played a role in EQ- it plays a role in any great game. Lots of stars have to align for something like that to happen. It's also true that a fair amount of experimentation went into the game's creation. Frankly, the 'balls' I'm talking about largely have to do with the...

You've hit the nail on the head here. You've described exactly what?s wrong with the mmo genre. Things like ?genes? and ?expectations? are precisely what?s watered down the genre and what has allowed terrible design ideas to proliferate from failed game to failed game. ?Modern conveniences...

That's what I was thinking too, but before I jumped on him I wanted to make sure. Precisely etchazz. "Modern day conveniences?" That makes it seem now we have indoor plumbing when we used to have to shit in the outhouse. Don't think for a second that most of the "modern day conveniences" are...

What do you mean by 'current day conveniences'?

TecKnoe talk to your doctor about having your adrenal gland functionality tested, your thyroid checked, and your DHT levels checked.

Wiping to Naggy with 90 in Vanilla EQ is very, very possible. With that many people and 1999 internet connections, I'm sure there were scores of LD's and massive lag for those that didn't LD. Without the organized buffing, healing, and tanking strategies that guilds eventually learned to...

Is there no Eq windows for eqmac? I.e. what's the best way to box three accts on EQ Mac. Going to start soon and need to know

Pathfinder team just came back from a convention where they outlined their plans and why they feel they will succeed where others have failed. He didn't have video of the presentation, but posted his power point, which actually has some pretty good projection/summary...

I missed out on Nehrim and frankly don't think it's worth going back for it at this point so, no offense, I hope you are wrong about the Skyrim mod.

I thought it said it put teleport stuff in place to prevent total travel monotony.

I never played the Nehrim conversion for Oblivion by I heard really good things. I found thishttp://www.moddb.com/mods/enderal/ne...hards-of-order. I am guessing it will be another couple years in the making though, if it took four years for the original Nehrim conversion. Sounds really...

I was solo exping on SZ with my 50-something Shaman in Traks Teeth when my gf at the time seriously cut her hand. I /q'ed out and took her to the Emergency room. I didn't get back to the game for like 3 hours. Turns out I didn't actually /q out at all and just left my char sitting there...

The WoW influence is palpable. Despite an mmo graveyard littered with corpses of those who have attempted to out-WoW Wow, they are STILL attempting the same; they are simply trading the gimmicks of their predecessors for voxels and parkouring.

I'm basing this completely on gut instinct (ok, and 15 years of mmo market obsession), but I have a feeling that what you just described isexactlythe illusion EQN wants to present and will beexactlywhat EQN fails to actually deliver.

Of course they make the black guy a troll. Ha.

I'm really hoping that they will push a bug fix patch soon and that the modding community will offer some alternative options for the campaign builder in some of the areas where the game is really lacking.

I haven't even gotten a chance to play the game yet so this may not be the problem, but just remember: MANAbolt against armored targets and POWERbolt for Mage types.

The SR world is probably my favorite original IP. There is a lot to know though. If you want a brief synopsis of the universe look here:http://old.shadowrun4.com/resources/timeline.shtml You can also look in the Resources tab up top for a page on slang.

That tool set looks good. I did extensive work with the NWN 1 toolset (some, but less with NWN 2) and the SR toolset looks easier to use than both of those. Very excited. Can't wait to make some of my home made campaigns.

Yeah, let us know. Trailers and youtube videos don't mean a lot, but I am liking what I'm seeing so far. I could give a shit less what the game was 3 or 4 years ago if its good now.

-Going to reiterate Slizia's first point: "The most important thing is understanding that being the DM is not about winning against the players, but about crafting a good story for them (a good story is not them being crushed by insurmountable odds nor them saving the world despite acting...

This argument depends greatly on which version of SR everyone is referencing. In original (1st ed, 2nd ed) SR, burnouts were an archetype that was technically viable, but few people I knew were ever willing to play one. I saw exactly one burnout in all my years of playing and the guy who...

I probably missed it, but has it been confirmed this will be FTP station store pay to win bullshit? Somebody please save my Friday and say no.

I could be wrong, but it just looks like one oversized spaulder.

It tells you something about the power of the IP. Besides, hope springs eternal. There is so much interest in the game BECAUSE of the lack of information, not in spite of it. To paraphrase Wilde, interest in Vanguard was the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Interest in EQ Next is...

Fohguild had some screens of some of the ugliest characters I have ever seen that were made using Vanguards original character creator (before it was changed to disallow the creation of characters that looked profoundly handicapped). I suppose those are lost forever, which is a shame because...

We could speculate about the intent behind the original mechanics all day long. Frankly, it doesn't matter. What it comes down to is that many of the core mechanics were tossed/changed over the years and that long series of changes is how we got to what EQ is today. Pretty much anyone...

Totally agree that any changes are a slippery slope. I have played on many emu servers that quickly went overboard. That said, I can think of maybe 4 or 5 absolutely crucial changes from classic that should be implemented immediately and ditching the hybrid penalty is one of them imo. I...