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I was the first 60 wizard on my EQ server in 2000 and that was after I stopped leveling to play Diablo 2 for awhile. I was also one of the first 60s on Hyjal and the first 60 Horde on Dentarg. And went to bed every night doing it. This actually brings up the big reason why Classic won't be...

I have no respect for anybody who 'world firsts' just because they played 50 hours straight. Congratulations, nobody else was willing to harm themselves to be first in a video game level race? Also, good luck getting 40 people to do that with you

There will be a delay after we launch Planes of Power and when we (re)open our source. Maybe a year, depending on what the developers decide. I wouldn't have gotten involved unless the project were open to begin with and we only closed because our generosity was taken advantage of. The...

Box limits also require constant supervision. The lower the limit, the more the supervision. FFA/FIF engagement rules require even more supervision. If your server becomes popular, this problem grows even more. This is the big reason TAKP devs didn't start up another server (some of us...

Hah, well that was supposed to be a joke because you're roasting coworkers in these threads and I tended to rub people the wrong way in our little touchy-feely yet surprisingly capable guild. (don't get me wrong, I loved Hoss, but sometimes the guild needed the whip, hence the rubbing the wrong...

What you want already exists. Hardly anybody cares about accuracy because they haven't played the game in 15 years to know what's wrong/missing or if they do they still want their precious mousewheel camera enough to play on a server without the dedication to accuracy. Realizing that was...

Oh sure. The other guild was full of cheaters RMTers and assholes. I'm glad you dominated them

I was in Holocaust for a short time before I quit the server. What genuinely surprised me was just how bad at PvE the good PvP players were. Holocaust would murder the rival guild on the field, then die to AI NPCs because they couldn't seem to coordinate or have the patience. It was like some...

I'm terrified of what Elid would say if somebody asked him about his time in the raid guild we were apart of

Fiat 'has value' because a head of state decrees it so. The same head of state can also reduce the value by printing more of it; or in the case of India recently, just proclaim that paper money is now useless. Bank notes used to be backed by gold, but not for some time now. When the Fed...

Bitcoin mining is a competition. That's why energy use is so high. Only the cheapest electricity can mine profitably. What is the cheapest electricity? Surplus energy that would otherwise go unused. What produces surplus energy? Renewables, which cannot be dialed down to use less fuel (as...

GM stock-- a blue chip stock-- went from $94 to 75 cents in nine years time. Is that a 'serious investment'? The Dow lost 54% of its value from its pre-2009 peak to its low in 2009. Gee lets privatize social security. Volatility doesn't matter nearly as much as the technicals. What matters...

Hah. If I had treated Bitcoin as a 'serious investment' I'd be a millionaire right now

Laugh. BTC crash after Coinbase goes down. I sold a tiny bit at 13,700. Here I come, Steam summer sale

Just sell a little bit every time the price goes nuts, then you can't lose. Even if it's just enough for a video game or three, it'll make you feel better if the price crashes.

I played on a PvE and PvP server in classic era. On the PvE server the Alliance outnumbered us 3:1 or whatever, and pre-BGs it was basically them camping Tarren Mill all day and us Horde basically hiding behind guards and goading them to get too close. I won the tabard contest because I was a...

don't forget timing cannibalize between med ticks

I only went there to kill the runt King, whatever his name was

Bitcoin is digital gold, not digital cash. If you wanna buy shit, you got VISA or Paypal whatever. The unique desired feature of bitcoin is that it is a permissionless (no middle man) store of value that is not centrally controlled and is extremely robust. Nothing can stop you from using it...

I keep a small amount at Coinbase and most in wallets on a mini PC that's rarely turned on and has nothing installed on it except wallets. 'not your keys, not your coins' is a phrase you'll hear a lot in this space. It means that any money you have at an exchnage isn't really yours because the...

I've heard people recommend cash.app to buy BTC because of the lower fees, (Coinbase fees are theft) but I've not personally used it. I think it's Jack's (twitter CEO) business so it should be safe. Still using Electrum personally, but use Exodus for a couple of alts. Both are good for BTC.

I leveled up two mages in classic era. The primary appeal of the class for me is the AoE spells. I had trouble finding locations to AoE grind on because Blizzard liked to grant mobs abilities that prevented pulling large numbers of them. Private/emu server mages are probably in for a wake-up...

Yeah, one thing that is noticeable on EQ emus is that people just tend to abuse exploits and 'tricks' far more often than they once did. I can't really think of anything that our current players actually invented-- what they do is just abuse things much more frequently that were maybe only done...

By the time AV is out I'll have two 60s and lots of 5 man gear. The chance of me joining a raid guild is low. I play WoW to PvP primarily. Large scale PvP is my favorite activity, and BGs killed world PvP, so if AV is dead then my primary activity is dead and by then I've relived the leveling...

Blizzard always was strongly compelled to ruin that battleground. Oh well, if AV ends up shitty races every game I'll just unsub and save myself $15/mo

Don't be silly. It's for reencoding high bitrate AVC porn to HEVC (or maybe AV1 in the future) because why is this shit encoded at 20mbit? it's fucking porn-- or maybe she's not pretty enough for 20mbit. (no I don't have a problem)

Incidentally this is what resists looked like on AK: I didn't have much time to produce long logs (I started collecting data after the shutdown notice) so it's not a very smooth graph, but they basically capped at 196 and allowed for a 2% chance at max resist then bugged out at high resist...

Don't forget the first level 50s outleveling the rest of the server by abusing rechargable wands then using that lead to slow down the leveling process of rivals and camping manastones to RMT by binding at the eye and making guk a no-go zone for everyone else after a certain level because as...

Back in the middle of TBC I was making a Horde AV tricks video because AV was my favorite thing to do in the game and I was sick of losing. Some of you might find it interesting. Just keep in mind that I had abandoned the project because Blizzard changed the BG and made towers pretty much...

Modern EQ and the classic era emus are very different games. I would think the modern game just doesn't accommodate PvP well. I didn't PvP much, but I did play red99 for two months and SZ for a few weeks. PvP in old EQ is really a team game, as the 1v1 PvP is terribly unbalanced. Team fights...

Meh. At least my work won't be made irrelevant any time soon. Amazes me how all these devs think EQ is like, just a bunch of lore or something and don't care one bit about mechanics. Blizzard really is doing a much better job with their Classic server; granted they have 100x the resources.

A lot of my addons/projects were never polished enough to release; that was one of them. Making a UI for that would have taken much much longer than the actual functionality. They disabled it in TBC along with a slew of other addons though, by preventing the changing of button behavior in combat.

The irony was that I queued alone most of the time, so my addon was being used against me and I hated it. I had never wanted it to be used to circumvent the matchmaking, just to get more friends into AV so it would just make AV like the other BGs where you could queue up everybody. Matchmaking...

I was a prolific addon author, and I concur with this. I made shit that was making me say, I can't believe they are letting me do this. As I mentioned, I did not like threat meters and thought they were bad for the game. I tried to make that before others did but couldn't figure out how to...

Yeah, it's a bit confusing/impractical/whatever, but most of the development is world building, art etc, so it's not a huge increase in development cost. Just hire 1-2 more devs to take the content developed by the main team and convert it to 'EQ mode'. Of course then, what do you call it...

I wish developers would just create servers with differing mechanics similar to how they have servers with different PvP rulesets so people can just choose which mechanics they prefer

Wizard hate at 65 with pants is 2740 - 20% subtlety - 400 = 1792 hate per cast at ~5s cast times with max spell haste; add in pants cast time plus some latency you get ~8s between casts ~ 224 hate/s Warrior (w/o augments) with BoW or Darkblade + EoE is going to do somewhere around 125-150...

Rogues had to worry about threat before they popped vanish half way through. Also there were more rogues than just us two. Feint (a threat reduction skill, which requires energy) was used to reduce threat prior to vanishing.