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  1. Sieger

    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    I think the guild really hit its stride around the time you guys joined. Late DoDH the majority of what I'll call the "tourists" were bailing out of Selo (not just in Faceless, but in other guilds) so when Altered Minds and Amtrak merged into us (and we got a lot of Reversion players later in...
  2. Sieger

    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    What's kinda funny to me is there are some later (much later) era EQ fights that have mechanics that seem all but designed with ShowEQ (or MQ2Map) usage in mind, and would be incredibly difficult for any guild that had 0 people using SEQ to complete.
  3. Sieger

    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Oh yeah, I agree w/that. People streamed all the major exploits you could do in DZ and OW live on Twitch in the last few years and none of the guilds/players involved got in any trouble. I don't really think they ban for players doing raids in an unintended way anymore, they will just...
  4. Sieger

    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    This isn't right, old era EQ management was pretty ban happy on people for being "creative." It's not like today where they see a strat they don't like (e.q. spamming clickies to play threat games, pulling Emp out of his room etc) and just patch it out, in the '99-02 era they would do big...
  5. Sieger

    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Yeah, the issue you ultimately run into is there isn't like a meaningfully difficult EQ raid until Vish in DoN, and even he can be beaten with like 20-30 characters in era. In some way DZ only would dissuade guilds from Zerging (you saw this on Selo where every guild other than mine actually...
  6. Sieger

    EQ TLP ramblings

    Phinny has Resolute and Rosengard III still going in addition to OGC. Resolute still has more than a full roster of mains, but is more casual. They recently (I believe) announced they would not pursue beating TBL in era due to the 4-clears (or technically 3.5) required for each tier to unlock...
  7. Sieger

    EQ TLP ramblings

    A lot of us have suggested DoDH for those reasons. There's a bit of open world shenanigans in PoR but it's really pretty minor. Even TSS and SoD would still help a ton versus their current stance of "TRUEBOX FOREVER LULZ", like in SoD you can get fucking mercenaries which are really shitty...
  8. Sieger

    EQ TLP ramblings

    Yeah the specific slots having specific foci are fairly standardized with the SoF armor and forward, although even that is tweaked slightly over a longer span of time. I would agree Mangler is more on the Phinny trajectory than Coirnav, but I'm more talking about the kind of universal TLP trend...
  9. Sieger

    EQ TLP ramblings

    Mangler is doing a little better than Coirnav was at that point but it also started with more guilds than Coirnav did. The big issue is if you look at the list of Mangler guilds they're almost all "cycler" guilds I've seen on tons of TLPs, when the 2021 TLPs hit I foresee the typical outcome...
  10. Sieger

    EQ TLP ramblings

    Glad to see you still going on Ragefire Lend! I miss the Ragefire crew, but at the end of the day I saw Selo as my only real opportunity to fulfill my autist dream of doing every EQ expansion so I had to leave RF behind. Now that we're rolling into ToV on Selo and have basically "seen it all", I...
  11. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    Ah, I have Stellaris in my steam library but only played it briefly when it launched. Like most Paradox games they usually launch somewhat lackluster and then get improved tremendously by subsequent patches. I've never had the chance to circle back to it.
  12. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    Paradox? You on that CK2 train??
  13. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    So in 2002-2004 era when EQ2 was being developed almost all games were dominated by that gender/age demo. Obviously there's been a big shift towards gamers being both older and more women playing than 20 years ago. That being said, I don't buy into the narrative that EQ1 was as described. You're...
  14. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    I think EQ2 had a time in its middle years where it was decent. I tried it on launch and uninstalled it like 2 days later, but I remember trying it some time in the later 2000s when they were running some kind of promotion and got into it for 5-6 months and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.
  15. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    Trivial loot actually was implemented on FV briefly, so it wasn't just lined up. It was discontinued pretty quickly due to universal dislike. I wouldn't agree that EQ was properly funded, both Brad and Smed have *multiple public interviews* where they explain its funding: The game was...
  16. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    No, I pretty much know more than anyone about everything, nice try cuckles. Fanra's Wiki lists all the old devs and where they ended up, I know people at Amazon making $300-400k/yr as developers. I know everyone on the internet is a millionaire with a limitless supply of young virgin wives and...
  17. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    I mean if you actually have followed the Dev team at all there have been like 30+ people to have cycled through, some have ended up at major companies like Amazon etc afterward. If more EQ fans actually knew how EQ was created, the limited resources it was given for its initial launch compared...
  18. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    I didn't say you were a bad EQ player, I believe I said you were retarded.
  19. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    :trump:
  20. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    If you think a "red" EQ player has any point worth listening to, you're full on retarded.
  21. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    Nothing you've said here contradicts anything I've said. In your own words the PvP servers were maybe 1/25th or smaller a % of EQs total population. They hadn't even merged all the blue servers down to their present state by 2006, with there being many more blue servers at the time, most of...
  22. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    It lost players because the underlying game wasn't suitable for PVP, it had niche appeal, and that appeal was time-limited. There was nothing reasonable that SoE could have done to preserve or even promote PvP in EQ. They could have made other games instead, and in fact they did, and some of...
  23. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    I'd put weight behind what a reasonable guy like Elidroth says vs an EQ PVP autist any day of the week. You're literally on crack cocaine if you think EQ PVP once received tons of resources, but it was clear by like, GoD and later era almost that entire player base had moved on, it'd be terrible...
  24. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    I was never super into PVP, but when I was getting bored with my initial run in EQ back in the old eras, I had a friend from the serverwide.necro community that was on Sullon Zek, I rolled over there and got an SK up to max level and it was actually pretty fun. But a lot of that fun would 100%...
  25. Sieger

    Everquest AMA Answered!

    This post reads like someone who has actually, at a minimum, been exposed to the actual workings of business. The posts advocating for nonsense like PVP servers are clearly people with no clue. The EQ PVP community, all 15 of them, seem to be amazing at dominating discussions on forums and...
  26. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    Things going well cuk. So my expectation for Selo: GoD - Tons will love, probably have some people logging back on chars they've not played in awhile OoW - Same deal, Omens is pretty fun on TLPs, also the attraction of Epic 2.0s DoN - Well, like 2/3rds of the way through Omens WoW Classic...
  27. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    Yeah, the fact that some loot sets even out of the absolute best loot-giving LDoN raids can still give you 6 drops that mostly no one wants does suck pretty bad.
  28. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    6 Hopebringer, 10 TAs, we've had both go to recruits. EQ RNG lottery is pretty hilarious. The Agnarr guild had like a 3+ month drought on TAs and a similar drought on DBoW. We've been weirdly lucky with almost all of the really prized Time items. The first Hopebringer that dropped we only had...
  29. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    I don't understand a lot of EQers. Typical EQer chat: "Man, EQ is such a boring game, not sure why I play it. All the fights are boring tank and spanks. My favorite raids are NToV and Vox/Naggy." Fast forward to LDoN where raids start to have minimal reactive gameplay mechanics: "Man this...
  30. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    The biggest reason botting happens so heavily is because the automatic detection tools as they are (at least that I know of), are very poor on Daybreak's end and will generate a decent amount of false positives. Additionally the typical EQ GM in 2019 has never played EQ himself, has probably...
  31. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    Knowing a lot of the real scummers of EQ, it sounds like the ban wave as has been said was almost entirely focused on people who were bypassing truebox, be it through VMs or through third party software. It also seems like back in April when the rumors of a "ban wave" were coming, due to some...
  32. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    We do the ele planes on lockout except when they overlap with PoTime lockout then they get pushed +1 day. Next few ele planes where we'd give away free backflags: Fire/Air 5/26 Water 5/27 Fire/Air 5/30 Water 6/1 I'd say if you want an Air flag you generally need to be willing to work with us...
  33. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    I've always said Luclin is a sleeper candidate for the best expansion of the "core" old school content (which I peg as Classic thru PoP, i.e. the era before people started quitting for WoW beta), even technically unfinished Luclin added far more to the game than any other expansion in its...
  34. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    @a_skeleton_03 the group/quest stuff that are somewhat interesting for some of the future expansions: Kunark -Epic 1.0 -Chardok Regal Band / SWC Quest chain Velious -Dain Ring Chain -Coldain Prayer Shawl Luclin -Sigil Earring (although killing Seru is a raid thing, most of the quest is...
  35. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    I'm going to need some clarification on if that was actually Vise sucking himself off.
  36. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    So from my earlier post: Almost like what...I've already said. It's weird that people are "counting minis" in some vain effort to drum up a race atmosphere that just will never exist on Selo.
  37. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    It's very difficult to effectively communicate w/a guild our size. We don't all raid together even. Like I barely raided with Ansel (one of our main raid leaders) in Luclin because he's always running one of the raids and I'm usually in one of the others. A good % of EQ players get their...
  38. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    Our plan was to get 60 storms keys so we could piggy our full first 72 into Agnarr. We were all committed to staying up as long as we could to try and get that done because it's important to us to get into PoTime quickly. Plane of Time is actually fully instanced content, so it doesn't actually...
  39. Sieger

    Everquest - Selos Server - 20th Anniversary Casual Server

    There's literally no one in Faceless who actually had a count of storms keys vs Amtrak for one. That's not something we were even attempting to measure. Our goal was to key 60 and then stop, which is what we did. It took us exactly one cycle after you guys left the zone to do that--and you guys...