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1.11 and 1.12 were the patches where AV turned into races instead of PvP. Blizzard devs-- because they didn't PvP-- didn't understand that tough NPCs ENCOURAGED PvP because they prevented General races. Tough NPCs died quickly vs. 30+ mobs of players regardless. This got even worse mid-BC...

Nobody does the grimling war. *grumble*

Is the fire staff still incorrectly dropping from male revs here?

While there may be a majority in favor of 2 instead of 3, it's a slim majority, (not that we've polled this, so this is a 'feel') and some of those just want 2 box limits for certain zones or some form of compromise. Most of the anti-boxers left long ago and what remain are the pro-boxing crowd...

TAKP is still a fantastic server if you just wanna do stuff with a small group of friends and aren't concerned about wanting to relive the 2002 PC game era raid game. The boxing allows you do tackle otherwise undoable content. A minority of players highly enjoy the solo boxing experience. The...

The emulated EQ servers have to deal with the boxing issue more than any others because they emulate the older, simpler game which allows running many clients on one machine and slow gameplay allows for easy boxing. The Al'Kabor Project went with a 3 box limit (against my pleas), and four years...

Incidentally the 'Death of a Game' video includes footage from EverQuest for MAC and PC because we use the oldest client of any currently running emulator. It's the PoP era client, but can still be run using the old UI if you change a config file setting because it pre-dates the patch that...

Exp on TAKP is considerably faster: * Al'Kabor had a 20% server bonus. (and so does TAKP) * Sony put in the Ykesha era group bonus on AK not long after they launched it. (+20% for each member after the first) However they screwed it up and gave too much for groups of 4-6, and so Al'Kabor/TAKP...

Groups are somewhat hard to come by here, and are not always available-- particularly at the low to mid levels. Grouping would require your constant attention however, so if you want the freedom to AFK, then you'd probably prefer to box. Just a FYI for new people: Luclin launches in a month...

What's with the ridiculously large buildings fetish?

Well I have nothing against Tyen personally, but from what I can tell he gives p99 admins headaches. It's not like he's involved with running anything over there. I've had nothing but positive interactions with Secrets, so I don't see the issue with him. Regardless he's not in charge of...

Well I've poured thousands of hours of my life into recreating a classic experience, so I guess that makes me extra crazy. After working on an emu myself for the last several years after having played p99 for some time, I'll just say this: people who are banned are fucking liars and want to...

Rolling back 15 years is precisely what the emus are doing, yet the official TLPs get all the play. For the life of me I can't understand this. I'll spend 10 hours to parse statistics on a single NPC while Daybreak could merely pull up anything they need from Al'Kabor's source in minutes...

I became a developer when Al'Kabor sunset and I've been on a mission to preserve EQ ever since. For the last 4.5 years I've been parsing NPC statistics and deciphering game mechanics-- and that's pretty much all I've been doing in my free time since. (although did play Path of Exile for a few...

Bitcoin Foundation is just some large coin holders who want to promote BTC. They have no influence over the developers and haven't been relevant for years anyway. Bitcoin isn't like other coins where boards or 'alliances' have significant influence over the development of the project...

'Worsened by poor technicals'? I'm more excited by the 'technicals' than I ever have

The centralization of exchanges is absolutely one of the larger concerns. However it's possible to buy BTC without using an exchange. LocalBitcoins.com is a service that matches buyers and sellers of BTC locally so you can drive to somebody's house (or meet somewhere publicly or however they...

When you trade, you move your BTC into an exchange, where it's pooled with everybody else's and they keep track of how much of it is yours in their internal database. Trades are instant because it's a centralized database used by all the members of the exchange, so it's not touching a...

I think part of the confusion here is that, in crypto land, trades are extremely frictionless; so traders can be doing dozens in a night, or program a bot to do thousands. Combine that with insane volatility and basically day trading is trading. Certainly you have to very nimble. BTC traders...

Most of the shorting is done on BitMEX, which is a derivatives exchange, so it doesn't touch the actual asset; just facilitates bets on price and matches traders with each other. To short there is to be matched with somebody who wants to long. There are exchanges where you can loan BTC to...

Sigh. When I said 'short term' in my post above yours, I meant brief in time, not short selling. In my post yesterday, I mentioned that I shorted bitcoin, which is to bet on a price decline, which I did briefly after I ended by long as it became obvious that the rally was failing

Apparently I shouldn't have mentioned it since people still don't understand that it was meant to be a short term trade. (hours) Trader sentiment is a factor price movements. Particularly in bitcoin, which is a small community compared to traditional assets, with a younger audience. Nerds who...

So when traders are all talking about 8k on social media, and there is a mountain of buy orders at 8k, and the price just fell considerably, my thinking that there is a better than 50/50 odds of a lot of buying at that price level is equivalent to the gambler's fallacy? I'm going to have to...

I think there is some confusion since I didn't explain that the futures contracts on BitMEX settle in BTC, not dollars. So when I say I'll buy at 3k with USD, it doesn't mean I'm not currently already holding BTC and I'll be opening longs around 5k using my existing BTC equity which I will...

Huh? I made several hundred dollars worth of BTC yesterday

Lots of salt here. One reason I haven't been posting much here in recent years I think the naysayers equate Bitcoin with traditional assets far too much. The reason why I'm nowhere near rich or retirement even when I bought my first coins years ago is because I spent very little on it to...

We are now at mid November levels. The horror 5k is mid October level 3k is mid September level I'll buy with USD again at 3k, but I really doubt it drops that far

I'm not changing my story at all. I said it would bounce at 7.8-8k, and it did. I said that I would only hold it if it rallied hard, and it did not. It's not unusual for derivatives traders to hold a position for hours or even minutes or seconds in crazy moments. Failing to survive 8k again...

Price bounced at 7.8 as expected. Made profit from it but sold it too late, so not much. Got frustrated and opened a short afterward, which was more profitable. Shorts are safer than longs in this bear jamboree. Get ready to buy lots at 5k if it makes it there

Actually there are two large buy walls: one at 8k, and one at 7.8k. I'm betting on a strong bounce 7.8-8k. I'm guessing that traders are letting this fall until then to get in lower. We'll see

Honestly I treat this like another game. I've already sold way way more than I've invested, USD wise. BitMEX is kind of addictive. I certainly hope nobody is betting the farm on anything I say here. It's fun to make money playing a game. Selling EQ gear didn't pay this well.

OK, you could say I use a tiny amount of it then if you want to be pedantic about it. I certainly roll my eyes at the triangles and dead cat talk though, and I'm not drawing lines on candles. All one has to do is look at the depth chart right now to see how much humans like round numbers. The...

I don't use TA, which I also believe to be 90% bullshit. I would however say that there is some merit to the resistance/support methodology for the simple reason that humans like round numbers; compounded by traders acting in unison by their own independent conclusions in a self fulfilling...

Triple top at 9.5k followed by whale dumps in a market already very skittish. Bulls are unusually traumatized after last month's bloodbath. Not at all confident that 7.5k was the bottom anymore. My longs are all closed and I'll reopen them lower since I'm intent on losing all my money. Edit...

I at least wager considerable amounts of money on my predictions. It's easy to be a naysayer while wagering nothing. Open a short position if you're so certain

I wrote that 5 hours before the price spiked upward 17% in the span of an hour after some whales did some massive market buys. Also I wrote this two weeks ago: What the price did: all exchanges except Bitfinex (the largest) went down to 7.5 or so, and as soon as Bitfinex went under 8k, boom...

Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies Bitcoin will really start to get fun when anybody can receive micropayments of a fraction of cent and fully automate payments for online services without any middle man after setting up operations for new services overnight. If content creators could get...

Why do people who don't bother to read about the tech chime in about how bitcoin is toy fake money that offers nothing of value every time it crashes? Most believers started out as skeptics before learning about it. It's not even anonymous because it's a public ledger and the IRS is...

Not gonna lie. I lost non-trivial amounts of BTC. Although I had long since sold more than I had bought with USD. I did a tiny short on ETH at 0.12 though and exited at 0.116 an hour later. Felt good to short the world computer and profit. Was easy money; should have shorted more. Going...

Bitcoin fees now at 5 cents and Samsung about to sell mining hardware