Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power
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Zaide
TLP Idealist
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Na instead their policy is “We put out awful, creatively bankrupt garbage and so will you”
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Breakdown
Gunnar Durden
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If custom zones, custom combos, custom raids, custom expansions that done exist, basically custom nothing to most players, is aids, you are a faggot retard
that shit that is gone is 1 percent of the server if that
Since it’s re-launching with Luclin, I’m planning to level a space kitty for the first time just to experience the zones I’ve never leveled in before. Anyone have a solid Luclin-only leveling path or camp recommendations?
Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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It almost writes itself, make cat, go outside city to kill stuff, zone over, kill, zone over, kill etc.
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Kithani
Blackwing Lair Raider
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General Antony
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Luclin zones look like smoothed out mashed potato, never heard them called pretty
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Kithani
Blackwing Lair Raider
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I always felt there was something terribly optimized about the pretty zones that made them feel janky as fuck to run around in with clip plane set high
Breakdown
Gunnar Durden
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Maybe I’m nostalgic but they were such a departure from Velious and Kunark I loved them. I assumed that’s how everyone felt.
I feel like I’ve been living a lie.
Kriptini
Vyemm Raider
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I think Secrets spoke about this a long time ago and one of the problems is that they can't afford him.
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Quaid
Trump's Staff
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Furry
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Luclin was a mixed bag. Some areas looked like total shit, but I thought vex thal and some other zones were legitimately cool. It had those stupid models, and came after velious, which is IMO probably the best looking eq expansion as far as style went. It also didn't help that all the bosses took fucking forever to kill.
Kithani
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Also naming them all Diablo Booba Gooba, Diablo Gooba Booba or Diablo Thx Booba Gooba didn’t help
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 behavior than Daybreak has and we certainly do compared to EQ 20 years ago. One thing I added to TAKP was the ability to create NPCs from scratch entirely in the script code so that I did not need database templates to create NPCs. That sped up development and hides script NPCs from the Allaclone. I also added much more powerful cross-zone communication such that zones can send long strings of data to each other and I was thinking up all kinds of cool stuff that might be done with it.
Here's a more intricate custom event I was working on but abandoned 2 years ago for, reasons:
Killing custom content with lawfare is definitely something that makes me unhappy. THJ picked the fight though with their egregious monetization, and we're all losers for it.
Also agree with you Zaide that if Daybreak were smart, they'd leverage the fan community instead of alienating us. Discord makes it super easy to just invite us into private rooms to chit chat at the minimum.
This is implausible but I wish some kind of profit sharing arrangement could be struck with emus. I was trying to think up how that might work. This is what I came up with in the shower:
* Daybreak gets 50% of the profit of the emu. They only do two things: handle payment processing and do some cursory oversight just to make sure the server is not harming the brand by doing anything crazy or highly unprofessional. Daybreak does not need to provide any code or assets, just lets us use EQEmu and the forks of it and allows client mods. Presumably they wouldn't care if people were downloading client assets via Steam in this scenario.
* EQEmu (and Project EQ, TAKP?) gets 10% because they made the server; the forkers just modify it and extend it. Same for the database. People underestimate how much work this was. Money goes to improving EQEmu somehow and hosting up and coming servers. Emus are not made by "a couple of guys". They were made by dozens of guys over 20 years and every emu leverages all this work.
* The emu server creators get 40%.
Here's a more intricate custom event I was working on but abandoned 2 years ago for, reasons:
Killing custom content with lawfare is definitely something that makes me unhappy. THJ picked the fight though with their egregious monetization, and we're all losers for it.
Also agree with you Zaide that if Daybreak were smart, they'd leverage the fan community instead of alienating us. Discord makes it super easy to just invite us into private rooms to chit chat at the minimum.
This is implausible but I wish some kind of profit sharing arrangement could be struck with emus. I was trying to think up how that might work. This is what I came up with in the shower:
* Daybreak gets 50% of the profit of the emu. They only do two things: handle payment processing and do some cursory oversight just to make sure the server is not harming the brand by doing anything crazy or highly unprofessional. Daybreak does not need to provide any code or assets, just lets us use EQEmu and the forks of it and allows client mods. Presumably they wouldn't care if people were downloading client assets via Steam in this scenario.
* EQEmu (and Project EQ, TAKP?) gets 10% because they made the server; the forkers just modify it and extend it. Same for the database. People underestimate how much work this was. Money goes to improving EQEmu somehow and hosting up and coming servers. Emus are not made by "a couple of guys". They were made by dozens of guys over 20 years and every emu leverages all this work.
* The emu server creators get 40%.
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