Parsing in 1999-2001

[Hanyabull]

I’ve heard of P1999 for a long time now, and am going to start playing.

That said, after reading a lot of posts over the years, it got me thinking:

“Did we have damage parsing/heal parsing” in Classic EQ?

I historically played in a high-end raiding guild from Velious to GoD, and I recall damage parsing barely starting to get traction in GoD. Once I started playing WoW, parsing was almost always assumed.

In 2001 though, we just always assumed the Rogues were top DPS, but were there parsers in 2001?

[CrazyPro]

Yes you could just manually look through your log file back in 2001 and see what you parsed.

[Snaggles]

The programs back then were very rustic. I remember doing a parse around that era and it was nothing like gameparse; I do not recall being able to see other peoples dps.

We all know rogues did more dps because rogue groups on raids got the xp. In grind groups with most average rogues (MH Rage + other) they are heads and tails above most people.

[loramin]

It's strange, because this wouldn't have been a technology limit. Modern parsers are fancier sure, but even back in '99 any idiot could have written a Perl script to parse a text file and sum the numbers.

Of course, here on P99 we care far more about such information than the live folks ever did ... but even so, live folks were obsessed with class balance. In retrospect, I'm surprised Aradune wasn't inundated with parses showing ____ class needed to be nerfed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Keebz]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's strange, because this wouldn't have been a technology limit.

With the slow spinning disks of the era, running with logs on could absolutely tank your perf.

[Duik]

Even i had an os disk and a seperate application disk.
Now i think about it, paging was on application disk. Depending on how windows handled log files it may have not helped much.

Also, I didnt use logs for parsing.

[Rygar]

Joe Pasketti was the guy, he may have began in 2000, possibly 1999.

He had the Pasketti parser that was classic as fuck. Could track your loc, faction hits (although no values), mobs killed, DPS, max hits, NPCs talked to, hell even fishing casts and hauls.

I reached out to him and he even sent me the source code on the parser itself, a lot was documented in his change log.

To use it in real time probably required some kind of dual setup, but it was definitely a thing. Certainly not "mainstream meta" like on P99 tho

[VENDER]

Originally Posted by CrazyPro [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes you could just manually look through your log file back in 2001 and see what you parsed.

i think that is too hard to release.
Right now there are a lot of easy add-ons.

[tycohunden]

Coolest thing you could have back in 2001 was a collage of all the mobs you had gotten the last hit on. Parsing in cancerous min max culture, that said, parsing as a knight to shame monks is based and the pursuit of pure Chads.