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Originally Posted by integrable
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Sorry gonna call bullshit. What graphics card were you using that could handle rendering 100 mobs? How much RAM did you have? You would be lucky to get 64MB, 300 Hz card for $1000 circa the year 2000. And a good card back then had a 128 bit bus at best. And really? dual 56k? I ran off a T1 and I would lag. You're running off dual 56k? gtfo of here. I got a geforce4 in 2002 and it lagged so hard in the bazaar i had to look at the floor. Youre full of shit.
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You would lag off a T1 line? I was mostly swarming off T1 but dual 56k at home and both were doable. Dual 56k is actually pretty low latency and competitive with modern broadband in that regard, and bandwidth/reliability isn't the bottleneck with swarming. I don't remember what hardware I bought a decade and a half ago but ATI and nvidia both offered 128mb cards at a $200-300 price point in 2000. Shit I think even 3DFX did as well. Sounds like you're pulling this out your ass and your box was full of trojans in the 90's. I'll spare you the "let me google this for you" link.
Again, knowledge of the class and game mechanics was the limiting factor for swarm kiting back in classic, you don't need to pull the zone for it to be fast -- even on peasant-tier hardware you could render 20-30 mobs. Plenty of bards on Ayonae Ro and Xegony swarmed, where I played. SoE was well aware of swarming, and never nerfed it - instead, they gave bards an AoE snare to assist in swarming in the game's first expansion.