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

What was the date of the post and link to the thread? Was this before or after they posted that they had increased the player cap multiple times?

Edit: Found the thread. He posted that on June 10th. It looks like it was possibly only in effect for about a week as Mepps posted later on that they had already increased the server cap multiple times. On the 30th of May dreamweaver posted that they have been monitoring the queues and that the server cap is at what it can safely handle, which could be interpreted as moving the cap past the standard 3500, because why say what it can safely handle vs just saying it's at the player cap which is how he worded it a couple days prior. If they had increased the server caps on the 30th or any time before the 10th, a slight decrease in player cap could mean just taking it back down closer to 3500. If they didn't increase the cap past 3500 prior to the 10th, then a slight decrease certainly does not mean a 2k player cap as good ole bot boy elderan says. Either way, from the dates between that and Mepps posts it looks like that slight decrease, from whatever number it was a decrease of, was only in effect very temporarily.

Edit2: I actually started to vaguely remember them taking away the queue completely at some point due to the massive complains about how long the queue was going on and then putting them back in. Started to read through that thread the SS is from and that seems to be what happened. It's talked about in that thread that they got rid of the queue and tried to run the server at a higher capacity than normal but the lag was too bad as the server could not handle it, so this appears to be their post updating that the queues would be put back in, which leads me to believe that the slight decrease in player cap was more likely decreasing what they had already increased.

Aradune also should be MORE represented in general chats since, on average, you have less people boxing a lot of characters which never join any of them.

(I know it had plenty of rulebreakers but as a general figure I'd assume general chat presence per character logged into the server should be higher)

yerm said:

Aradune also should be MORE represented in general chats since, on average, you have less people boxing a lot of characters which never join any of them.

(I know it had plenty of rulebreakers but as a general figure I'd assume general chat presence per character logged into the server should be higher)

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What makes think mains are more likely to be in general chat than boxes? From my own personal experience my main isn't in general channel 99.9% of the time, but on servers where I have 6 box'd every single one of my boxes are in the general channels. I actually don't know that many people who have general channel as an autojoin on their main or ever join it period. I've never bothered taking autojoin general off on any of my box computers and I feel like that's the case for many many people.

I never join any general channels. My boxes are setup to avoid that cess pool as well. As far as I'm concerned anyone in general channels are not even people; they're some sort of ultra degenerate.

I stay in them until I see politics or religion. So about 10 minutes. I like chuck norris related stuff though

Atabishi said:

From my own personal experience

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Yep, I agree with you there.

Rajaah said:

I still don't understand the naming of Mangler. If Selo was the fast server, then Mangler should have had a name that denoted lack of speed, like a turtle. And "Lodizal" is RIGHT THERE.

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Mangler was supposed to be the "hardcore server" its why its called Mangler cause its supposed to mangle people up. It was planned to have much slower exp rate, harder death penalties. The first server where item effects were removed and some other stuff I dont recall. Selo was labeled the casual server.

That Phinny kill was great. More updates? Any anecdotes from anyone playing is good. Edit: Lol wrong thread.

Just skip LDON, the raids are zero fun and in trash zones with tiny passages.

Sorry didn't mean for my comment to come off shitty.

I hate those raids and really ldon in general. From what I remember from doing them on Selo...none were any kind of challenge at all. All were straight zerg fests start to finish with split raids running multiples at once. If you have your standard core of average EQ players geared in Time loot you should roll over them without much issue.

LDoN raids have a couple of interesting boss fights. The real problem is that 99 percent of LDoN raiding is clearing lots and lots of trash. Also the rewards are real hit or miss. Some of the Augments are absurdly good but there's a lot of real trash. Also, some people would rather get their 25 AC upgrade from just looting a new shoulder item than getting it from an aug which was a new thing at that point.

Yeah, the reward to time ratio is really skewed and that's the biggest problem. You could easily spend two hours doing LDoN raids and get only a handful of useful augs. Compare that to two hours of a PoTime clear... a world of difference.

You can cheese pull some of the Rujarkian stuff to save time, but yeah, most of the LDoN raids are fairly long for very little loot incentive. Augs are nice, but GoD boss augs then OoW Anguish farmable augs blow them out of the water. Some of the LDoN's you could definitely do with 30ish people in Era like the permafrost ones which you could probably 2-4 group quite easily. The Mistmoore ones seem bad on paper but really aren't. The Takish ones can definitely suck with a lot off off-tanking and curing going on. The Guk one is somewhat the same and has some VERY hard hitting mobs. The Rujark ones have some hard hitting mobs with offtanking and some nasty pulling if you don't cheese it.

Overall by your 2nd complete run of LDoN raids you'll be set on LDoN raids for life. I didn't mind them personally, but the loot is very underwhelming and there's just so many that you'd rather just save that raid time for more Time/Elemental clears at that point.