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People are already soloing dragons at level 41. If they keep adding loot like Befallen in the later dungeons then power creep is going to be nuts. I think they should have just filled some gaps at lower levels, increased drop rates of old gear and put some better stats on them instead of just...

The Risk vs Reward on this server is rather fucked due to the mechanics and revamp loot. I just soloed D4 fire giants and got the 2h. This required FD splitting every single giant. The Befallen sword took me two hours at level 31 to make (admittedly that was lucky) edit: the befallen sword...

Paladins get self haste and lulls, SKs get a harm touch that barely hits more than a druid nuke

hold right click on a spell gem or the spellbook icon, then move the cursor in any direction before letting go so the window stays open, then drop motes in

-15 resist adjust per rank also seems nutty. The standard resist amount for NPCs is 25 or 35 depending on level. (even less for PR & DR) So rank 3 spells are essentially never going to resist on anything not red unless it has a higher than typical resist amount.

I'm not saying that ez-servers shouldn't exist or are bad. I think the multi-classing stuff is interesting. The MUD I played the most up until EQ's 1999 launch had a remort system where you could delevel your character to level 1, add another class to it and the experience per level was...

I once played a MUD 30 years ago where groups had no limit on the number of people inside them and experience was granted to everybody without being split. The result was the entire population of the server grouped together, which was comical. It didn't last very long. These ideas aren't new...

Calling any variation of these solofest servers "classic EQ" makes no sense to me. EQ's hallmarks were interdependence between players and forcing players to make risk vs reward decisions on what content to take on, including a real risk of permanent corpse loss or simply dying too frequently...

Not to be pedantic here but this is my area of expertise. Mob HP in EQ ramps up considerably around NPC level 40. LDCs have a non-trivial amount of hitpoints. On live servers it's ~5550 and in old EQ it was a little less at ~5250. On top of that, melee DPS in classic era was rather weak...

What better way to show how not racist they are by having two very distinct skin colors inside the same society that refuse to intermarry with each other for millennia

AI will make everything pennies eventually, particularly digital things

Making a client is a lot harder than making a server. Programmers are willing to work for free but artists don't. The artists and world builders need a unified vision for a game world so it's less likely that some anonymous artist will drop in an asset to use in the same way a programmer can...

Melee combat in EQ does do a d20 roll. For NPCs this was known 25 years ago. While researching for the emus we discovered that player hits also roll a d20 and work mostly like NPC hits, but with another random multiplier done on top of it to produce more than 20 outcomes. Old EQ warriors came...

Old EQ boards didn't have the combat formulas. I figured them out in 2015 with the help of another EQEmu dev (Mackal) and a few pieces of it were leaked over the years, i.e. from Sony forum posts. This was harder than it sounds because OG Sony deliberately kept it hidden and obfuscated. What...

Yeah that's true. MotM is a massive buff in the earlier eras. I'm a purist however so I prefer hyper accurate servers but I understand that it's not very feasible for Daybreak to make them, and the quick fix is just slap a buff on raid bosses to counter the all the power creep the game has...

I regret that my post may have given the impression that I was bashing custom servers. I like custom servers and would like to see more of them. I'm sad they may no longer exist. A goal of mine for TAKP was to provide a solid and accurate foundation for custom servers to fork from, so...

I said I don't understand the appeal, I didn't assert that THJ was garbage. Clearly people found it enjoyable as evidenced by the fanboyism here. I just don't get THJ's massive popularity when other emus had done similar things before and there are so many other games to play. They've broken...

I don't get the appeal of THJ. Ez-mode emus have existed for a long time. In fact all of them are to some degree. You're not really beating the real content solo-- you're beating a fake mob that is using the model of the real NPC but with much weaker stats. My primary task for TAKP was to...

Daybreak should just hire the Lantern guys

People should make local copies of EQEmu, Project EQ, TAKP and my Google Drive just in case. The Internet is NOT forever as everybody says it is. If it were my job would have been much easier...

The reaction to THJ's closure will only encourage companies to crack down harder on all emulated servers so they don't become popular enough to create another PR problem. People react negatively to having things taken away from them, but if there were nothing given to them in the first place...

The friction involved in trading was a mudflation hedge. If the friction is removed then most people will end up buying everything they wear and not bother to pick any armor and weapons up; or at least this will occur much sooner in a league. On the other hand the trading experience was...

On Al'Kabor I used to farm Droga to mass produce Forged Deathsteel weapons and price them very cheap on my vendor so new players could get some weapons for near free without my having to interact with them. I may have made some kind of armor too but I forget. It was just very quick to make a...

I would dispute "as possible". P99 was given evidence for classic behavior several times that they choose not to adopt. They also won't remove mousewheel zoom. What happens is these emus get so old that they become their own thing, and radical changes would cause an exodus because the older...

THJ forming an LLC and hiring council says a lot in and of itself. The rest of us emu guys live in our basements and don't have any money. We're not thinking about forming LLCs and we can't fight a legal battle. Most of us are huge introverts and even if the law were on our side, it would...

One reason why I worked on TAKP so hard is because I wanted to see custom servers sprout up from it. The emulators have sophisticated scripting functionality which allows for rapid iteration. It took me just 3 days to script the Ring of Vulak. I'd bet the emus have more powerful scripting...

nobody used my banker anyway

The TAKP guys run the login server for Quarm. (I never had an admin role there) I extremely doubt the current admin would ever entertain the notion of faking the numbers, FWIW

Spending gold to arbitrage the exchange seems like a more profitable use of it to me but I keep doing ships just to experience the game or whatnot. People kept saying to send 250k to Kalguur, mostly in Zanthimums. The last divine I got from doing that was 15 ships ago.

I always wondered why they didn't just make a server with new/different items and change the rare NPC spawns. So like you would enter gukbottom and not know where any of the loot was, and everybody got excited to check the modern equivalent to EQlizer to see this new stuff. That's the custom...

Yeah it's the map mods. Multi projectile wrecked me several times. (including the Niko deposit death) I leaped right next to them ahead of my snake and they shotgunned me. I'm a one league a year or two player so I have to re-learn much of the game every time because I forget so much, plus...

TAKP has all of 45 people online right now and we never advertised our server anywhere because it was a preservation project and not a money making endeavor. TAKP has always had a low population problem which was kind of depressing for me because I thought the project was very successful in...

I have a 4800 armor chest with 8% phys reduction, 10% phys damage to fire implicit on it, my merc has Kaom's Binding, I have 82% all resists, 5.6k life, armor and evasion flasks on a Marauder and I die so much I'm stuck in level 94. I just died to the golem things on a Niko deposit.

I would help Daybreak with a true classic server for free. I would also love to see some kind of profit sharing arrangement with studios and amateurs which allow for an explosion of creativity of game design but I understand that's not very realistic unless the game from the ground up was...

I worked on EQ emus for 10 years so here's my take. I don't blame Daybreak for shutting down emus that are profiting from their IP like this. Some of us emu guys are mad because they're not only profiting from Daybreak's assets but also our emu dev work. They broke the big rule. This brings...

The DeFi contracts they made do actually work: you can use them permissionlessly. You don't actually need Uniswap's website to exist to use the contracts and exchange tokens, it's just that it takes some technical ability to do so. Uniswap in fact banned some tokens from their frontend website...

It's always amusing when people tell me I'm wrong about something I wrote

Dex does increase wizard innate crit chance, but not AA crits. Dex and Int both increase wizard innate crit chance by an equal amount. Dual wield chance is entirely skill and level based.