I never understood why you need a zerg once instances came out. It was pretty rare to not get BiS in era after that.
Except when fuckin weapons wouldn't drop.
Except when fuckin weapons wouldn't drop.
Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs
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Tredge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Its mostly all bots.
Might have been a metric worth observing at one point - but we have all witnessed developers caving to the reddit npc's and getting badly burned in the process.
Never listen to npc's. They will march you right off a cliff and then complain about it.
Hippos
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naw. fundamentally it's still pretty cost-prohibitive for daybreak to take real legal action against every emu server beyond a c&d/dmca, and emus still serve as indirect marketing+retention for the IP itself (eq is still "competing" against other mmo's at the end of the day), so they'll just leave them alone as long as server devs stay in their lane.
i said before that daybreak could disrupt/fragment the community by waving a judgement with thj's corpse on it at eqemulator.org, but i double-checked and it looks like rogean hosts most of it on his own servers. given that he handed over a convo between him and aporia to daybreak that strengthened their case for the injunction, it seems more likely that they'd continue that type of collaboration than just outright nuke it. so maybe an agreement that eqemu take down any "offending" servers from the server select list at daybreak's discretion if anything.
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Zaide
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With the advent of instances the only things that can destroy a guild are internal drama and attrition. Once attrition reduces your roster enough you can’t raid effectively and the guild dies.
The best way to avoid this outcome is to have fair and stable leadership (avoids internal drama getting out of control) and a massive roster. The big roster lets you weather the attrition, it also gives you a huge advantage for server first and open world racing which in turn gives you an advantage for recruitment so it’s a cyclic roster development process.
As the “top guild” if you manage your reputation well enough then when the other small guilds start to die out from attrition or drama you’ll be scooping up their best players or sometimes their entire roster.
This is one of the formulas for long term success on TLP.
Also, at the end of the day, if your guild isn’t hurt by adding a new player there isn’t a great reason to deny their application. In Faceless there is basically a social calculus of how your contribution stacks up against how annoying you are.
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Ambiturner
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1. It's not a straw man if you're the one who was exaggerating your position.
2. You said it in two separate ways
3. You proving my point for me isn't "dunking"
You did the same delusional shit there where everyone was clowning on you hard, then you tried to say half the thread agreed, even though not a single person did. Just accept you're mentally retarded and maybe do some Make a Wish Foundation shit with the Harlem Globetrotters so you can sit on one of their shoulders during a play because that's the only way you'll ever dunk on anything
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The only real G is Akkadius, that man somehow sneaking out of all legal trouble throughout the years. No one has done more for the emulator community (aka EQ harm) than him. Respect.
Zaide
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Daybreak lawyers rubbing their hands together as they prepare to screenshot this comment.
lol i mean he's directly responsible for THJ being able to scale. multiple ways; from backend architecture to server code mods - all directly related to scale issues. their discord announcements would have shown all the different ways. i'm not ratting on the guy, this is coming from a place of respect, but yea guess i do sound like a rat. I'd imagine this is no secret though - unless DBG didn't export THJ discord.