DickTrickle
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Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)
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yerm
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I would assume if you have all your vaccines and/or rushed there on a selo server, there's still a fair bit to do. For someone who's been crushing it every week for years or not trying to collect every last bullshit item maybe not so much?
Crone
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Selo's didn't leave much time for back farming, or farming of items wanted for clickies, simply because of the speed at which expansions were released. At least I assume so? Players that have been on Live for a long time might have everything they want but it could be exciting to be a guide or to help out "new to Live" players get all that stuff. And like said, to be in a guild that's pretty active versus the once a week thing going on now.
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god bless whoever thought of that Ice-T idea, the whole concept. I just saw, and now my day is made. I am assuming this is probably done in esports? I don't follow.
was sweeeeet laughing my ass off. "No skeeels no money"
was sweeeeet laughing my ass off. "No skeeels no money"
Sterling
El Presidente
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i mean the cameo thing can be used for kind of whatever you want. Get some celebrity to wish someone a happy birthday if you want for a couple of hundred dollars.
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Are you telling me, Ice-T could wish my 82 year old dad happy birthday, sir? This is real, I just checked it out. Oh my, the possibilities.
Sometimes the world makes yo laugh, Nice work, world!
Sometimes the world makes yo laugh, Nice work, world!
Evernothing
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Here's their servers:
In reality: Their servers are fine. Software only runs as good as it's coded. The game is nearing 22 years old and uses practices from back in 2000's in a lot of cases. Not even IBM's Watson supercomputer can help if the software runs on a single threaded game loop. There's a finite limit to processing power in conjunction with components that depend on each other.
Also factor in they're a business with insanely high retention rates and player loyalty and haven't lost customers over downtime.
Zaide
TLP Idealist
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Bro that's just the time they posted. Whenever EQ patches it's a 50/50 on whether or not it's extended 3+ hours, immediately crashes all servers after returning online, causes massive rollbacks, or needs a hotfix and more downtime within the first day.
Sieger
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I dunno that long down times are a problem per se; back when I was playing WeebFest (aka FFXIV), their major content patches which only come out a couple times a year routinely had advertised 24 hour down times. But Square pretty much always hit those down times, and sometimes brought servers up early. What makes EQ downtime rough is there have been any number of occasions where an 8 hour downtime is a 16 hour downtime, or an 8 hour downtime is followed up by a very unstable 2 hour uptime and then another 4 hour downtime etc. When I used to work in more customer facing systems it was pretty standard we gave ourselves a good outage cushion so people wouldn't get upset, but being able to do that also requires you have some earthly idea of how long it's going to take you to complete whatever work you're taking the system down for, which I suspect isn't a thing at SOEBreakPaw.
Evernothing
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WorryPlaysGames
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So many AoE groups getting suspended in the Deep. Heard 2 teams got hit today - rumor has it's Bonestealer from Altered Minds doing all the reporting.
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