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I've always said that Phinny guilds faced a very different challenge from us. Keeping interest when you only raid 1-2 days a week (which is the reality on a regular TLP after GoD) for 5 years is non-trivial. Selo appealed to people that want to play EQ almost every day. The same cast of...

Do you mean the practice session where me and kith were there with you doing the skips for hours on test? Like seriously dude, I hope you're just misremembering, because otherwise you are blatantly lying. You were given both a slow and a fast horse, I'm not really sure what your complaint is...

100%, and this is why we went to DZ. Our options were: 1. Stay and lose DPS races 2. Train war to keep Amtrak from doing Open World, but in a number of hours their DZ opens and they can just finish there uncontested 3. Start our DZ right away, because if we manage to clear it fast, at least we...

And there is 0 truth to the fact you had begged for horse money for "days", we literally said if we needed to do the skips we'd give you one, when the time came we asked you what horse was needed and you said the one you picked was fine. I'll echo what Dick said, putting the skips on one person...

I mean you can try to rewrite history as much as you want Cuk, the reality is you had a role, you failed at it because you got wife aggro. I have no idea your motivation to straight up lie about the rest of the shit that happened. What actually happened is we went to open world and DPS raced...

True, he came back hours later after our dz timer expired when you guys were getting close and asked permission to train. I said "do whatever you want man." I was tired and over it. I felt 0 motivation to train you guys there, mentally I had already moved on to the next step on Selo. I have zero...

I think I've been pretty honest about this--and I think it's either something I've mentioned a number of times with my guild, and maybe haven't posted here (but I think I've posted it on here before), I was serious about competing for Luclin, but after that my only goal was to reach live. My...

Nah, I mean it could just be it was a mistake like I said it was. Mistakes don't mean you weren't serious, it means you fucked up. Like I said I made two big mistakes with that launch. In truth we should have used Artemesa who the next time in VT did all the skips perfectly. Obviously if I had...

My point was more in regards to guild progression. I'm saying unlike on old era TLPs, there is no meaningful way where open world raiding can meaningfully block another guild's progression. In Kunark / Luclin / PoP you can sorta slow another guild down in OW, but only fairly moderately. Like I...

I mean dude I'm going to talk a little bit of hard truth to you. For one, we did go hard to try to win Luclin. We also did funnel loot, not actually sure why you don't remember that. But we specifically funneled loot to tanks and some healers, and we cleared out the Bazaar multiple times with...

I mean I don't disagree that everything I said was subjective opinion. And I've honestly tried to give you credit in the past for the things you have done, but then you've spent like 2 months posting crazy nonsense on these forums that most people know isn't true, and reduced yourself to a meme...

I'm certainly not saying that people don't have fun on TLPs. That was never the point I was making. The larger point I was making is OW mostly has no real meaning in terms of the game itself, it's literally just something to do because you're bored. I'm saying the consequences for guilds like...

Note that wall of text is from the same guy who thinks Aradune is still a high pop server despite repeated evidence to the contrary. I also believe he was a joke on Mangler and dominated Aradune a server with 0 competition. I may be a back in my day kinda guy Bishi, but I had a day. You never...

I mean it doesn’t allow them to remain competitive longer. It largely renders competition completely meaningless. EQ content up until basically Plane of Time is so non-gear dependent that weekly AoC are more gear than ANY guild needs to beat all available content. The only competitions that...

Right but there is no glory. And to be honest you have never known the glory either. It's always been weird to me the loudest "reee I wanna batphone" people have been veterans of AoC servers. To me, competition in EQ was about taking things that other guilds desperately needed and that you could...

There have not been any DPS races that I've seen and I'm not sure there will be. Anytime one guild has clearly mobilized faster the other guild has called off their batphone, or has just started training. I'm not actually sure there is currently seen as any incentive to DPS race especially when...

I feel like this is one of the lowest quality posters FoH has produced in many years.

It is. Believe on Phinny and Agnarr it came out during Luclin, maybe a month in or something? Because on Agnarr several of those revamped CT items were available on the Bazaar mid-Luclin. But before Agnarr even hit PoP the decision came down it wasn't appropriate for Luclin era, and got patched...

Right, the big stable emu (p99) is pretty professionally ran and clearly not going anywhere. But not everyone wants to play a Velious locked EQ. Many of the interesting alternatives only exist for a few months at a time, and are not professionally ran. That's the short of it.

Most people play MMOs to build and advance a character over time. Emus tends to fall into two categories: somewhat faithful emulations of specific eras of EQ (p99, TAK Project probably being the most famous), or ones that try to do some de novo content creation using the engine (Shards of...

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I mean for group progression on new expansions we always tried to make sure everyone had help on Selo, and for people trying to catch up on levels. But that was about the limit of what we could feasible, from a leadership perspective, promote. I didn't have the energy or the ability to make sure...

This happened on Agnarr too, someone did a free transfer to Zek, got a few million plat, petitioned saying "I didn't know what this server transfer window was, and accidentally transferred to this weird pvp server", GM moved his char back to Agnarr with millions of plat in like....week 4 of classic.

I mean I have like 100 posts here and check this forum maybe once a week; I've lead two TLP guilds for years and run a live guild today. Most of my time in EQ is spent actually running shit not foaming at the mouth on the forums; I'm not part of the crowd of mongoloids who just spew shit onto...

The only way in which it could be fake is if someone found a way to fake trade window display. Like 3 months ago a friend of mine actually discovered an item dupe over on Aradune, but he said the way it worked, if your character zoned the duplicate item would disappear. I think this item dupe...

I mean like I said, someone showed me proof. I didn't record it myself, I had no reason to. I don't care if there is a plat dupe and the economy of Mischief has literally 0 impact on my life. I never imagined I would even discuss the dupe outside of with a small group of friends, until it came...

People have provided me hard proof in game, I don't really want to out who but I think they're planning to expose it more soon.

What was that pirate PvP that was popular right before Selo launched? I think Atlas or something. My understanding is that game had hilariously prevalent item duping, and they ended up just doing like a full wipe of all the game's items so it rebaselined everyone to zero. That's probably the...

Part of the reason live servers have billions and billions of platinum is largely because of past plat dupes. I think there's been so many over the years, and the devs have so little ability to track them down and reverse their effects on the economy that people ultimately just have to deal with...

I've seen people with hundreds of millions of platinum on Mischief, confirmed by the way. That isn't a GDKP guild juicing up the economy, that's a plat dupe. My understanding is the reason it hasn't caused a Ragefire esque plat market implosion is because on RF literally hundreds of people were...

I don't really think the drama is going to be that significant. Keep in mind both of these guilds launched with the idea of not doing batphones, and then changed their minds. That's because the level of motivation to go foam at the mouth style I think has just died down a lot. Frankly I've seen...

Right but the core issue is not everyone actually plays for plat or krono, hence why a GDKP guild isn't for everyone. Like I personally have 0.0 motivation tied to in game money. Unlike 95% of FoH posters, I am not Mark Zuckerberg (but with a 12" penis) and 3 palaces of Gold in real life, I'm...

I was never involved in FxIV but I honestly assumed GDKP would work fine. I don't really think GDKP is a bad idea, but I do think there's just a lot of players who have 0 interest in it and prefer regular DKP. My perception is that was the core reason for the split, which means in theory it...

Charming was less common for sure, some game changes since then have made charming safer, but the bigger issue I think ties into the thing Kirun was saying as to why people used to do XP groups in Dreadlands. Toleerance for risk was much lower in old EQ, the player base in general was much worse...

Good point--that reminds me, at least on Xegony Chardok was almost never an XP site in era that I remember. I think Chardok got revamped at some point as well and before that it wasn't a great zone. People used to go in there for specific reasons, and usually if they wiped getting back in was a...

Velious is kind of when I feel I hit my EQ stride in the old era, I was too ignorant of what MMOs were and too lackadaisical towards the game to get much into classic. I basically hit 50 on my Necro in Classic solely because my uncle and cousin that got me into the game were good about helping...

Level 70 expansions are mostly bad, DoDH is the one stand out, but even it is rough for casters and priests. Casters because the shitty level 70 raid tier where mobs need to be super debuffed just to land basic DPS spells in raids, and Priests because DoDH has a lot of group content you have to...

I also noticed that the older TLPs (which at this point I'm meaning RF/LJ, Phinny and Agnarr--Fippy actually launched before the Krono era) basically any item you can name sold for more krono in those eras than they did on subsequent TLPs. An econ 101 argument would suggest if prices have...

There's different ranks of Kronolord right, just like in the nobility. You have your Krono Barons who just farm casual group shit for krono. You have your Krono Earls who farm raid targets with a small KronoKrew. And then you have your Krono Dukes who have their own MQ2 compiles, automate plat...

Gear absolutely doesn't matter at all for ages on a TLP. At the same time, I think it does matter, just for reasons unrelated to "beating content." There's different schools of TLPer. Some want to beat content, and for them, gear really is kinda w/e. But a lot of people on TLPs are there for...