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    EQ Classic? Not really.

    There was a reason why exp penalties existed to begin with. Warriors were garbage until Kunark proc weapons + disc defensive, and even after those I'd still rather have a knight for a tank for all non-raid content. Hybrids and large races were more powerful and paid for it with exp penalties...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    His namecoin pump worked and made me 20% on top of my investment. Of course I am playing around with all of 1 BTC for this so I gain or lose little. I just wanted to see what would happen. If his scheme is to buy in before announcing then sell instead of spiking the price upward then I would...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I bought in a day after his recent namecoin announcement and made money, but today's TRC pump has been a waste of time and money for me. Actually it looked as if Fontas lost money himself, since he put up a 500 BTC buy order at 0.0053 which was partially filled, then dumped the price down to...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I bought in again at 96 two days ago. It already went back up to $115 this morning. Fontas doing a TRC pump and dump in 5-6 hours or so. (22:10 UTC)
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Made 20% profit from his namecoin pump today and was asleep when he did it. I just set some sell limit orders at different price points a couple of days ago and sold the remainder for about as much as I paid for them after the dump.
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    Defiance (Syfy April 2013) TV Series and MMO

    And I'm done. Was getting serious SGU flashbacks with episodes being played out with emo music. Why is good writing so uncommon anyway
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I doubt ASICs will have much affect on bitcoin prices, really. The rate at which coins are created will remain the same. Buyers won't care how they are created. I also made the mistake of not buying a GPU to mine with back in 2011 because even back then, it was barely worth the trouble-- IF...
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    Defiance (Syfy April 2013) TV Series and MMO

    I'm not thinking that they came to invade like independence day (although the Volge don't look like the 'lets get along' type) but otherwise mundane technology can be easily weaponized. I would expect them to bring along small spacecraft and other kinds of flying vehicles. I would expect them...
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    Defiance (Syfy April 2013) TV Series and MMO

    It really is painfully obvious what little effort they put into it. I mean the idea that a species which mastered interstellar travel would face ANY resistance from modern day humans is LAUGHABLE on its face. If Europeans could wipe out 90% of the Native Americans just by stopping by and...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I think that bitcoin protecting sellers is a huge selling point. If sellers aren't eating the fraud, then they can offer lower prices. Certain sellers in particular would absolutely love no chargebacks, such as virtual goods merchants. It's also easier to integrate bitcoin into storefront...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    A crash just means it's a good time to buy in, which I did. I was going to buy litecoins since BTC was so high, but the crash allowed me to buy into BTC. Sellers can't seem to break through the 2+ million dollar $50 wall so far. Even at litecoin's current $1.50, I still mine at a rate of...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Short litecoin mining guide. Even at current prices, litecoin is more profitable mining with GPUs. 1. Buy one or more voltage unlocked ATI video card(s). 7950 for the most khash/watt. nVidia cards don't mine well at all. 2. Install the AMD APP SDK 3. Sign up at a mining pool or use...
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    Well I'm certainly guilty of bringing up EQ in other game threads, but I only do so because I consider EQ classic to be the best MMORPG ever released, and I see modern games as a step backwards gameplay wise. I'm not the only one who thinks this, which is why people keep bringing EQ up. You...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    You're right, those are big problems right now, but they are so easily fixed. Mtgox is the biggest right now because it's simply the best exchange. When people handle this much money, they want to give it to the most reputable sites. As bitcoin gets bigger, you'll start seeing more...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Bitcoin DOES have intrinsic value though-- as a service. It's free to transfer funds to anyone, anywhere. The world shares it, so if your country blows up, bitcoin will remain about as stable as it normally is. (which will get better over time) It's fast. It's convenient. It's private. No...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Other exchanges had a massive sell-off while gox is down. btceBTC was down to $55 and btceLTC was down to $1. Killin' me that I can't buy in right now. Bitcoin needs an easy way to buy in, badly. Whoever figures that out will get rich.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    How are you guys buying your coins? It seems the old Dwolla -> MtGox way is now full of delays and sending ridiculous amounts of identification. I expected this to get easier with time, not harder. And here I was all ready to buy in after my ridiculously long 5 day bank transfer to Dwolla...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    If I'm reading this right, some dude set up a buy order for 9073 coins at $212.12. That's a 2 million dollar buy order.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I can only repeat what I've read as this stuff is over my head, but supposedly FPGAs and ASICs will at least be far less effective miners. Litecoin was supposed to be the CPU friendly coin when it was developed. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?to...502#msg1256502...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I just started mining it so I'm far from an expert, but I can tell you a few things. The currency's hash algorithm (scrypt) was selected specifically to allow CPU mining to be viable. However apparently the designer of the protocol used bad parameters which allowed people to figure out a way...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I wouldn't bet against bitcoin hitting $500. Few people thought it would hit $200 a couple years ago and yet here we are. Consider that the number of potential bitcoin users is virtually unlimited. The more people that begin using the coin, the more motivation new users have to use it as it...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Really kicking myself for not investing in bitcoin sooner. I've been interested in it for the last couple of years and expected its value to rise, but never got around to putting serious money into it. I did turn $34 into ~$200 though. I mostly used it to pay for my VPN. Thanks for the...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    I didn't list anything from Luclin or PoP because the argument was over Hoss's competitiveness when Seekers/Vindication was still around. Hoss had virtually everything first from Luclin on through GoD. It was practically a one uber guild server from VT on up. Shit, I didn't even remember...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    Two people came in here and bashed my guild with their nonsense posts. I am merely responding in kind as anybody else would.
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    And who the fuck are you? Your memory is terrible. The Hoss forum still exists and has every post going back to June 2001, so I can say with absolute confidence that the following is accurate as I just went back and took a trip down memory lane. First of all, Seekers imploded in the middle...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    We left Solusek because it was overcrowded as shit-- even in the middle of the night because a lot of Europeans decided to make it their home server. HOSS was originally a small tight-knit guild with highly skilled players who originally played Quake together prior to EQ, and they had to team...
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    StarCraft 2

    Sure. Blizzard pretty much committed themselves with WoL and missed the opportunity for more radical changes, that much is true. Although they want to try and sell these expacs as separate games almost to get more profit from them. Ok, I'll use the best example: spawn larva. Why is this not...
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    StarCraft 2

    Blizzard's target audience is apparently 12 year olds. Their games look like cartoons with stories having about as much depth and logic as a cartoon. I actually had some hope for Zerg in multiplayer after doing the campaign. Wow, did they really get rid of that fucking lame as shit spawn...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    The problem with NPCs eating items and handing items to the wrong NPC is a UI mechanics problem and not really a gameplay problem. I doubt you would find many advocating for no safeguards to prevent this kind of thing. Some NPCs did in fact return items that weren't part of a quest they had...
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    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    This server is in fact as popular as it has ever been. Population hits up to 1k during prime time. I've seen arguments over trash exp mobs being pulled.
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    Because WoW's existence makes the game once nicknamed 'EverCrack' suddenly terrible, obviously. I'm not the deluded one for thinking an EQ1 classic clone would be viable; the deluded ones are the people who think WoW's success was entirely due to gameplay. As I mentioned earlier, I still...
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    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    The problem with modern EQ is that it is so old, it binds the hands of the developers that work on it very tightly. Removing features from a game (or any product really, but games in particular) is difficult to impossible, so EQ is burdened by all the crap they added in the last 12 years. Any...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    The hack is hardcoded to use that directory, so the only way around that would be to make a symbolic link to another drive. try mklink /D C:\EQMac X:\path\to\EQ
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    I needed a dwarf cleric to imbue rubies
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Sony is just administrated by cowards. And I mean that literally. They are afraid of a hobby project a few dudes made in their apartments (project 1999) to the point where even mentioning the name of the project is instant post deletion. No mere blanking out the two words; they have to full...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Thispost doesn't give me much hope in that. Of course I respond with a post that included the line: "With all due respect, playing on progression servers is nothing like classic. If it was, project 1999 and the PC client hack wouldn't be so popular." And it was almost immediately...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    The test client is just a couple of simple fixes like beastlord MGB. Hobart said in chat that he was going to implement more substantial changes later. If he is changing network packets, then I would assume he is going to do something like add eqmac to their new login infrastructure. He could...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    Perhaps you missed this in the flamefest back there: For those unaware, Elidroth is a developer for PC EverQuest.
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    It's silly to want to race to the end game on here anyway. Al'Kabor is content locked. There is nowhere else to go after Quarm and everybody is decked in time loot. Why not just adhere to the guild rotations and prolong the journey so the ride is more enjoyable and longer lasting? Play other...
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    EQMac Now Free to Play

    As far as I know, that depends entirely on your machine's hardware. OSX won't run on just anything. It may work on my new ivy bridge, but my old Athlon XP and Zacate netbook sure won't run it. So I get to kiss 6 boxing and AoEing goodbye. It's a shame too, because I know a trick that...