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I was raiding on live when it went down (I actually still run a live guild as my main EQ thing), but my understanding is both guilds were actually in PoSKy OW when Sev spawned. Faceless was on Bee Island just doing a clear up to get people keyed etc, RI was I believe on Spiroc island (maybe...

When was the last time you actually played a TLP? I can assure you it just doesn't work that way. If your information is coming from these forums, where I think only a few people who really involve themselves in these guilds posts, you just aren't working with correct intel. OW TLP stuff in...

It isn't, actually. Amtrak lost DPS races to us all the time on Selo and it was fine for them, they still won a lot too. You realize when you do more than a couple TLPs that that is how OW raiding works. It is always more respectable to at least show up and try. This rhetoric is like Fippy /...

Not sure what that means. Any target you don't show up for you lose by default. OW guilds lose anytime another guild gets loot, doesn't matter if you "showed up" or not. That has been the governing rule of EQ since 1999.

I think the items are bad for game balance purposes, but I think everyone saying they are bad for server health are dead wrong. The one singular lesson, going back to the first AoC server (Phinigel) to today, is every change that has made the TLP game more casual friendly and easier, has been...

I don't give 2 shits how much coin I can make in an hour, if I ever bother to sell anything in game it is at firesale prices so I don't have to wait more than 30 seconds to leave EC tunnel.

That actually looks like a bug, but probably so few people do the quest that it hasn't been bug reported.

They were introduced a while back, I want to say sometime between 2015-2017. There has always been a few fake claims about them. One is that they always existed and were just never solved. The other is they were basically finished, but never turned on so they had been sitting dormant in the...

Could be a class issue too, I know some classes won't get invited by better pugs, so the ones willing to take them in are often worse players.

I've basically never pugged on a TLP going back to Lockjaw so I can't really get a good feel for that experience, but several of our guildies have mostly pugged up to 60 or near 60 over the long weekend. That would seem to be "good enough" to me, hitting 60 in the first week primarily pugging is...

It is quite bad for the server, obviously you need to do it ASAP as does everyone, because in a TLP environment you can't refuse literally 5 BiS items for free. But for most classes there is no arguable upgrade for these slots until Vex Thal loot, some until PoP. And we will be getting another...

Not to ruin people's fun, but frankly guild drama shit is a relic of a bygone age. Just be in w/e guild you like raiding with, it really doesn't matter. Also if that guild doesn't work out, just leave and join another guild. Everyone on these TLPs has bounced through a half dozen guilds or more...

Anyone who pretends EQ is anything but a cheat infested game missed the boat about 10 years ago, the company's own devs help guilds cheat on both TLP and live. If you personally don't want to cheat, cool, I respect it. If you personally want to cheat, I can't really pretend I'm outraged when...

Nah, the antiwarp is still in, it is just weak af and anyone doing a bit of testing will figure out how to avoid it.

Ice T and Rapaport were weirdly motivated 5 years ago, I think a lot of the cameo celebs back then were a lil more enthusiastic. I saw a Rapaport cameo not too long ago that was super phoned in.

Nah, it is just a dumb person from the forums. Dude named Jeskola on the forums, Pheerie on Discord, joined our new guild Discord and proceeded to say really dumb stuff. Frankthebank actually made fun of him and he left the discord in tears, but against reasonable judgment we invited him back...

This info is a little out of date. 3-4 years ago they did seem to be pretty reserved with real bannings, but now that I've been running a live guild since 2021 I see a lot more of the big picture. EQ Live is a lot different than TLP--Live has a lot of interminable grinds (leveling up evolving...

I didn't main a CLR until the TLP era, but CLR soloing "was a thing" in old era EQ, it typically took a few different forms: Stun / Nuke - Particularly effective against undead since CLR magic nukes were relatively poor dpm, but cycling stuns and nukes they could mostly stun lock a mob and...

I do have some weird nostalgia for my very first trek through High Pass and into the Karanas and exploring those vast zones. But overall it does end up being a lot of empty and mostly useless space.

"Mean man made fun of my website so I started to cry." Talk about snowflake.

This is a good, but pedantic (the best kind) of point. It isn't a dupe, which is an exploit in which you duplicate items in game, but actually obtaining elevated access to the client itself to straight up "generate" platinum that didn't exist at all before hand. But dupe is the word that is best...

Yeah I mean virtually any TLPer would take 10m plat in Kunark if handed to them, with the only hesitance being a fear of getting banned (in which case they may try to accept it on a burner account lol.) The big take away from this video is the people who were saying there wasn't a plat dupe on...

Gear checks I think are reasonable as long as they don't become obsessive or stupid. I think like having people regularly scan every raiders gear to make sure it is up to par is annoying, often seems to just produce guild drama, and isn't very productive. I also think a lot of individuals who...

I can't wade into all the autism here but I do tend to agree w/Bishi, as a long time TLP Cleric and someone who has made and managed CH rotations for all TLP content and managed the rot for a almost naked-guild Emperor Ssra kill, I just don't know of any realistic situation where 10 Clerics in...

Poopsocking kinda hit its peak on RF/LJ, the last big TLPs without AOC. The incentives for socking just weren't there after that, the way subsequent (AOC) servers went down is you had a clear top guild that very aggressively tracked a bunch of targets--SEQ helps with that because you can have a...

I don't really know anyone serious who doesn't think MySEQ is cheating, but not-using MySEQ is literally akin to being a 1990s baseball player and refusing to use steroids. Every top TLP open world guild since Ragefire/Lockjaw, has absolutely used MySEQ as an integral part of tracking open world...

Yeah, I think at the most, and we're trying to stitch things together here from what Redbot has been willing to say (he was one party that did also have discussions with Daybreak back in 2015) + what Mule has claimed, back in 2015 Mule may have been told something to the effect of "make it so...

There was never an agreement. That is something EQ Mule essentially fabricated. Redbot who runs Redguides has posted about this openly on their forums in the last few months. It's possible Mule (who has severe autism--and I don't mean in the way we bandy that term about, I mean he actually has a...

I see a lot of DPG simping in this thread. I've never had any of my own accounts banned/suspended for cheating, and I have actually cheated (allegedly) in the past. The idea that it's cool to have complete shitbag communication because a bunch of neckbeard mouthbreathers "know what they mean"...

Most other MMO companies navigate this problem fairly easily by laying out features that are disallowed in third party programs. DPG will not even commit to that.

Right, I long ago concluded this company is complete trash, ran by trash, maintained by trash, corrupt, incompetent etc. They don't deserve my time or money. But, I'm a cuck so I keep playing. I would frankly love it to come home one day and find all my accounts were permabanned because it'd...

It's weird whatever they are doing, they locked it and ninja deleted a good % of the posts, but a ton of the "controversial" ones (including several of mine) are still there, and they've unlocked it again.

Lol. No-troll I suggest actually using Kizant's EQ Log Parser if you're still using GamParse. GamParse is actually maintained by someone who (secretly) works at DPG, and is closed source, which honestly should make people uncomfortable that it might be getting leveraged in ways you don't think...

I'm pretty fine with them going after MQ use, MQ is not a positive force in EQ and never really has been. Some uses of it, particularly on live by solitary boxers, is probably near-harmless and lets a bunch of boomers who can't get groups keep playing. I think there's a lot of people who never...

Yep, Yerm knows the pain. Every TLP guild wants Clerics for days, but most do little to help / accommodate them. Honestly on Selo we kinda lucked into our Cleric situation, I massively over-recruited Clerics, and we got lucky in that a core group of them stayed for almost 2 whole years. Most of...

Of everyone I knew to get hit in the last wave all were admitted MQ users (as you yourself are saying.)

Interestingly within a few hours of this conversation a GM appeared in my live guild hall (something I've not ever seen in 2+ years of having the guild hall):

Nah, leaking customer data or putting your thumb on the scales for various guilds is worse than having cheater programs lol. We the playing customer base shouldn't have to tolerate rogue devs on the hope of getting cheat software banned.

Yeah, I don't think anyone in this thread is really talking about SEQ use. While that is obviously a form of cheating, it's kinda w/e and almost all the serious TLPers use it. The reason we know they aren't actually targeting SEQ use in these ban waves is the numbers affected would be like...

As someone who was on the "wrong side" of cheaters essentially abusing the game for competitive advantage on TLPs before there is a part of me that would love to see EQ cleaned up. But as a developer myself and a former dev manager, the idea of using access to customer data that you have...