Search results

  1. T

    What Made EQ Great? Tell your stories to a filthy casual

    First robe drop off revamped CT in Velious on Druzzil Ro. My guild awards it to me, some dude loots it and does a /q before I can get it. (I two boxed) Of course I was the one doing the news for my guild's website, so I made sure people knew this guy's name. GM gave it to me in a day or two.
  2. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    I've no doubt as to their abilities as players, but they are already decked out in time gear, and for them to kill ToV mobs or farm Lcea with me would be nothing but charity and I have no idea why they would want to put themselves through that. I was hoping to find some people who also needed...
  3. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Because PoP content requires charming, kiting, and handling multiple high DPS mobs at once. What I'm really looking for are some regulars to group with; not just a one-time deal. (although that would be fun too) Maybe have our own IRC channel to communicate in or something so we can alert...
  4. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    So now that it looks like I'll get to stay here awhile longer, and I have several 65 with plenty of AAs, I'm at the point where I'm running out of things I can do alone. I was curious if there were others in my situation that would like to tackle some 1-2 group oriented content. What I want...
  5. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Are you sure it's not the known dual-core issue with Everquest clients? Even the modern EQ client has this issue. If you have an older dual core processor, it can screw up the speed the client runs at or have other weird display problems. The solution is to force it to one core. Try...
  6. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    To those of you getting the "Exception Processing Message 0xc0000135" error when using the new PC client hack: installing theMicrosoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)will fix it.
  7. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    SOE are the biggest board nazis I've ever seen. I've made three posts on the official EQ Mac Announcements board and 2 were deleted. All you have to do is mention 'pc client hack' in your post and you can't count on your post being there in a few hours; made all the more frustrating in that...
  8. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Interesting. In the readme file, he says"MQ2 does NOT contain any active hacks like warp and the likes, nor do we support thoose kind of hacks."If they are serious about limiting MQ2's functionality to a mere in-game map and other features found in later clients, then that would be a small...
  9. T

    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    Yeah, I might prefer a tradeskill exp bar instead of that. My number of combines to 240 from 188 (the end of 'easy' skillups) was very close to expected though. (1000) I was seriously getting an increased heart rate at some points doing fucking tradeskills. That's EQ for you. I do like how...
  10. T

    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    EQ just relies heavily on the random number generator, and true randomness is very streaky. Here is my smithing log on Al'Kabor: Now keep in mind, each COMBINE, not skillup, was about 5 minutes of farming-- and I assure you I am able to farm these mats faster than just about anybody...
  11. T

    EQ Classic? Not really.

    Well I have a suggestion for Yeahlight: make your own custom server, but also make a classic server using Project EQ's database. I just checked out Project EQ's website yesterday, not knowing entirely what it was. It is in fact exactly what Yeahlight needs: he made the server code, they made...
  12. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Even playerauctions only lists 18 items (including WTBs) for all servers, and 81 account offers that are full of 'never been owned' powerleveled accounts. That is still FAR FAR less interest than eqmac or p99 considering the relative user base sizes.
  13. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Sony half-assed their progression servers because of the development costs to do it 'right', I assume. Maybe the growing popularity of p99 and eqmac will convince them to devote more resources to the next one. Incidentally while I was looking at redguides, I noticed that like 90% of the RMT...
  14. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Yeah I was bored not having EQ to play and did some googling to see what the evils were doing and found that thread. Also, they are getting MQ2 to work for eqmac's PC client; and if for some reason they can't get a PC client working, they will port it over to the mac because "the mac client is...
  15. T

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Actually I agree with this in a way; melee and tanks especially need to be supported by the group's other members. My friends and I generally powerlevel our tanks after our other characters get higher. We also work together to gear him. I think playing the game like Diablo 2 and leveling...
  16. T

    The Astronomy Thread

    Actually, at the time, more people were against spending all those billions on the Apollo program than were for it. NASA got the funding it did because lots of stuff NASA does is useful to the military. One reason we had shuttles instead of capsules was because the military wanted the ability...
  17. T

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    I concur with this. Ogre SK is the best tank for group oriented content on p99, IMO. The stat bonuses of Ogres are not trivial in this era; it's not just the stun immunity. He'll also have clarity always available, which is important for hybrids. (standing regen) The exp penalty for that...
  18. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    I couldn't log in to give it to you if I had wanted to
  19. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Now I'm sad I burned out last winter sitting in FG for many hours and camping that stupid ring. One motivation I have to make my videos is to record some memories of a server I might be cut off from at any time. Although the funny thing about EQ, it eats up so much of your time that being...
  20. T

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Extreme powerleveling, at least for first characters, kills the desire to play. Everybody I've powerleveled quit soon after. In some cases every day for the better part of a week to a high level only to see them quit days after it ended. When you get a paladin from 1 to level 20 in a 2-3...
  21. T

    What Made EQ Great? Tell your stories to a filthy casual

    Not only were cracked staves 1pp+, but some rusty weapons and all cloth armor pieces from level 1 decaying skeletons vendored for 2g. Level 8 spells cost over 4pp each after all, so a plat wasn't that much. Level 8 wisps could drop greater lightstones that vendoered for 4pp and could be...
  22. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Ladar Levison is a freedom fighter and a hero. Men like him, Snowden, andNicholas Merrillkeep this country from dissolving into what the founders rebelled against. Respect is due. All the liberals who don't criticize Obama because 'he's our guy' can go fuck themselves.
  23. T

    What Made EQ Great? Tell your stories to a filthy casual

    He either boxed a cleric out of group/logged one in to res or he's a liar. You don't do repeated large AoE pulls without dying, I don't care how good you are. Since I still play the game, and actually did this last week, I can speak to this. First, 4 wizards is redundant. 3 is the most...
  24. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    I know that. I said you can opt out ofGooglescanning your email by using something like Lavabit. Incidentally Lavabit's main selling point was that they encrypted user email with keys that included the customer's password, so even Lavabit themselves could not read customer email without it...
  25. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Actually the reason why the Gazughi ring and Mosquito boots are so expensive is because charmers use them to instantly break charm. Instantly breaking charm is important when you don't perma pet and you charm stuff to low health, break charm, and kill it. Also, they are rare. I don't know of...
  26. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    There is a difference between algorithms scanning keywords in email to better select the ads to deliver, and algorithms scanning email for keywords to determine weather or not a human is going to read it or if it should be archived in a database somewhere. Furthermore Google tells users they...
  27. T

    What Made EQ Great? Tell your stories to a filthy casual

    Many of my favorite memories of EQ are really simple stuff. Watching it rain and listening to the thunder as a newbie; watching the high level mobs roam islands while on a boat; people getting excited to buy sharpening stones off of other players in Qeynos since the nearest vendor for it was in...
  28. T

    EQMac Now Free to Play

    I made a new video. If you liked the previous ones, you'll like this one; I put a lot of effort into it. This will probably be the best one I ever make for EQ.
  29. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Storming a terrorist compound in a foreign country (that we're not already occupying) would constitute an act of war if I'm not mistaken. America loves its double standards, but imagine our reaction for a moment if a foreign power we didn't like very much sent armed combatants into our...
  30. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    If anybody took my statement to mean 'gmail uses SSL so nobody can read it!' then God help them. I merely said that employing SSL increases the privacy level and that it shows a DESIRE (desire being the point I wanted to make) for privacy, not that you'll be 100% safe from powerful entities...
  31. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    You're the one who replied to me, dude. And ethics and law are not the same thing, but morality is the driver for what becomes law and what gets repealed. Ethics matter. I want the government to have to get a 'super warrant' as the eff put it to wiretap INDIVIDUALS BY NAME and then serve...
  32. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Dianne Feinstein is the most dangerous woman in America and my least favorite Senator. I say this as a liberal. Her attacks on the first amendment aren't new. Ever more knee-jerk laws passed after a tragedy that don't even solve the problem. It'll be gone if it ever gets to the SCOTUS though...
  33. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Yes yes, I know SSL isn't some magic bullet that makes email unreadable by all third parties. It DOES, however, make it unreadable to your ISP when you access your gmail. ISP might also include wifi hotspots and such. My point was that using SSL is basically saying 'I desire privacy and...
  34. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    This is long. I only visit once or twice a day because I have shit to do. Think of it as multiple posts. There is lots of whitespace. I did not claim it was illegal in the post you replied to. I said it was 'wrong' and 'abusive'. I realize that you're a lawyer-in-training, but try to...
  35. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Making 'radical' changes to the FISA court is essentially admitting wrongdoing or at least gross incompetence. What Obama said he wants to do now is make it an adversarial process because... it currently is NOT. There is a term for courts that aren't adversarial-- kangaroo courts. The 'no...
  36. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Christ, I actually used a lavabit account to register at tracker sites with. They shall be celebrated as martyrs in the privacy war.
  37. T

    Art Bell returns to radio!

    I used to love this show as a teenager. This stuff tends to lose appeal the more science educated you become, but it can still be entertaining. Hah, I still have this
  38. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    Putting "everyone but me is complicit!" in my mouth is a silly way to argue against me. And there are a small number of people who deliberately live off a small enough income to not pay income tax so they don't have to help pay for the wars. It's rather extreme but I can't help but admire...
  39. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    I'm not just talking about about the NSA, I'm talking about people who sign up for war after it has been made clear that our military is doing nothing but fanning the flames of resentment toward the United States. Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo, Drones-- ALL of it made us LESS safe. Blows my mind we...
  40. T

    The NSA watches you poop.

    The cynic in me wants to think that the administration cannot possibly be stupid enough to believe that what they are doing is ending the problem of terrorism, and they know full well that their campaigns perpetuate the threat they supposedly aim to eradicate. Obama is either incredibly naive...