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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.

Some observations (these are not necessarily intended to be complaints or suggestions) after playing today: * Melee hits can stun, which make your character turn. In EQ this only occurred (not always) from a bash (or an attack from behind if moving), and turning you only if your character was...

Give everybody a 10x exp bonus then. It's quality of life!!! And yes rangers are considerably stronger than classic warriors. My groups have a ranger tank and he's got more AC than the paladin right now and aggros better than anybody. Our wizard can quickly delete the first mob in a large...

When people say "QoL" I read it as "EZ mode". WTB a server without EZ mode. Pets taking exp and class exp penalties were there for a reason: because those classes were OP. That's how games were designed back then, they 'balanced' classes with these kinds of penalties instead of making...

Assuming the code is working as intended, the rule works like this: a SINGLE pet must outdamage EVERY OTHER ENTITY combined to take an exp share. If the mage and necro are tossing in a few nukes then this is unlikely to occur as the higher damage pet would need to out damage the lower damage...

I can't tell what is a parody or not anymore

Exp on Quarm is faster than what it was in 1999 with the removal of class penalties and the quests I investigated are using the higher end of my estimates for what they were, and some of the quests gave higher exp than they should have (Kelethin mail gave 2x what it should have before the nerf)...

Whites grant a ton more exp than blues, so max your defense skill by having level 1s beat on you and buy all the armor you can so you can kill whites, then leveling won't feel bad

Actually here's a video I made 12 years ago on P99 using the view instead of mousewheel cam

It merely puts the camera directly above your head instead of at your eyeballs. The only annoying thing about it is the up/down speed is a bit slow, otherwise it works quite well. I use this view like 90% of the time. It's particularly nice for small races, which can have a harder time seeing...

In Velious I started using the top down view (F9 once, then alt+up arrow to raise the camera) and I used that camera up until GoD when I quit. Then I played on p99 a decade ago and used that view because it didn't even occur to me that mousewheel camera existed. I'll typically use the...

for the love of god do not include the clip plane cheat in the DLL

play on hardcore mode in game full of CC, get predicted result

I did stronghold runs to level to 50 this season. It's funny but not surprising that the best and funnest way to level in the game is probably unintended and mimics older Diablo games. It's far more satisfying than horsing to dungeons where you then spend even more time backtracking in the...

I quite enjoyed making a non-trivial amount of money from D3's AH for a few months before it got too flooded with gear and buyers quitting to be worth the time to farm for it anymore. I consider it a worthy experiment and I don't fault them for trying it nor removing it. I think it was rather...

Did they make killing mobs easier? It felt significantly easier however I switched classes, although the class I switched to should melee worse. I got to level 2 quickly but utterly failed to obtain my starter tunic (again) which required seeking out half a dozen NPCs and putting return items...

The game is a 5. It's not abjectly terrible. They've copied enough stuff from better games to have something playable. It's perhaps the most average game I've ever seen. However compared to previous entries in the series I have to say that it's a failure in terms of design (not sales)...

The MMOification of this game is a big failure, IMO. The world map adds nothing and just forces players to backtrack all the time. It's so uninteresting that I couldn't even tell if it was randomly generated or not at first. Other players are just NPCs as that dude says. World bosses and...

D4 very much feels like it was made by people who were there for a paycheck and not by people who are passionate about the game/IP and clearly not involved with D2. Blizzard has been this way for awhile now: they think they are smarter than they are. They 'know better' than the old Blizzard...

My first day take is: playing this game feels like an AI designed it. It's remarkably generic and uninspired

The prices on items suggests that they are replicating an issue that I feel is a design flaw (I could be wrong) that EQ and WoW made which is that the coin denominations under platinum (and gold for WoW) are very quickly made irrelevant because the valuation curve is so steep and level 1 items...

I say this as somebody who both loves this project and what they're trying to build and never had an issue navigating in EQ: This city is STUPIDLY ABSURDLY too large and this is a very bad idea in a game without navigation aids. It's a gigantic maze. I've spent 2 and a half hours trying to...

S1-2: 1/10 S3: 4/10 TNG is my favorite show of all time, not that I watch much television anymore

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