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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This info is a little out of date. 3-4 years ago they did seem to be pretty reserved with real bannings, but now that I've been running a live guild since 2021 I see a lot more of the big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...

This isn't what happened. You would be surprised how little management occurs at DPG over the dev team, and how much is driven by individuals who can essentially do almost anything they want. This coincides with some people having close affiliations with live guilds that are omega anti-cheat and...

They don't. These ban waves have not been limited to only MQ use. The problem is the sort of detection you are assuming gets most people is trivially bypassed by MQ as it is now, you can essentially control any program on your computer's ability to investigate things through Windows OS...

The banwaves at least since January and maybe since 2021 are not people being caught the way you describe. MQ has basic protections in place against the detection techniques already discussed in this thread, however if you modify MQN simply to add truebox servers to the enum list of allowed...

Funny as it is to hear the rumors on the grapevine, Reese and I are not killing raid bosses by ourselves or megaboxing. We have a crew of 10 people who have done TLPs since 2015, including a lot of Faceless Selo people and a few people from Phinigel. Each person boxes a few characters, we have 5...

I've had full 40-50+ hem gear in every slot since like week 2. I haven't been raiding much so my very top end pieces will be inferior to people who were doing the various killable Velious / Luclin raid targets, but there is zero reason anyone should have empty slots or Gloomingdeep by the end of...

Vaniki's big issue is that it combines two concepts that don't necessarily need to be linked--an underleveled "challenge" server, and the concept of "level locked" progression instead of expansion locked. I've always thought it'd be at least "interesting" to do a server that unlocks the level...

Yeah, to be candid OGC should have strongly considered telling all of its members like a year ago to save DBC for 3 months and mass transfer to a higher population live server. I also think it is a mistake for OGC to passively go to the server merge destination (Vox), that is one of the worst...

I think that maybe says something you thought it was a personal attack. The legion of TLP re-rollers I have interacted with, serially, on server after server is huge in number. I have absolutely zero issue with serial TLP rerolling, but I do admit to getting annoyed at the serial rerollers who...

I think that combo will be able to do quite a bit, one thing to keep in mind is the Cleric's stuns are now more powerful than you are probably used to, incidentally Paladin is non-meme the actual best tank this server because they can stun lock stuff so hard and when you're tanking a deep red...

There's a significant amount of content that can be done with a group that has 1-3 charm pets and that simply cannot be done without charm pets. Other content can be done with a tank and healer but much slower and less efficiently. This server is not remotely balanced, but I can't imagine anyone...

Vaniki has actually been the most fun I've had on a TLP since probably the Underfoot-->Rain of Fear stretch on Selo. Unlike a lot of the autists in this thread, it does not bother me whatsoever that it isn't a viable server long term or that its population isn't great. 1. I don't RMT and I...

I'm strongly in the camp of: each year they should release a Phinny/Mangler clone + an experimental server. In that context I think Vaniki is fine, on top of that I actually like the idea of a level locked server as well. But I think the level locked where they are putting you -10 levels below...