Consider Project 2002

[Alarti0001]

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

I favor strong GM intervention when those that are raiding cannot get along. Translation, when it creates more work for the GMs from all the drama, and the raid scene is nothing but a cesspool of scum and villany, and GM intervention actually makes it less work then, yes to GM intervention.

If you can have raiding guilds work it out and get along? Then let them manage it.

I have never seen it work out on its own, for competetive raiding on eqemu.

Example: p99.

Takp: the users voted to manage themselves, but then they did nothing to actually manage it. Lots of drama. GMs intervened.

P2002: no competetive raid scene. Basically one guild raiding last I heard.

EQEmu raiders don't get along, in a real competitive environment.

Not sure how P99 is an example. The raid guilds never had the freedom to manage themselves.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure how P99 is an example. The raid guilds never had the freedom to manage themselves.

You're still as full of shit as ever I see.

[Haynar]

P99 is a perfect example of how raiding guilds cannot get along. Privledge is associate to how long and full ur poop sock is.

Doofus.

[Furniture]

I've been boxing groups on my own private al'kabor server with MQ2 and I absolutely love it. It is a game of micromanagement of several characters, programming (writing your own mq2 macros), and good old everquest and with enough experience writing quality macros you can just play one character and use simple commands to tell your group what to do and let the macros take care of the rest (clerics healing when hp low, etc.). At the moment I am maining a rogue in a 6 person group and dont have to switch to any of my other characters to do anything. It is like p99 minus all the idiots.

I really cant say I enjoy the boxing on Al'kabor or P2002 without MQ2. It turns it into a really fucking annoying game of alt tabbing and manually clicking and entering keystrokes that way and i think it is just plain tedious as hell. I understand why these servers don't allow mq2 though and I agree with it, but I do think the servers would be more fun (for me) without boxing.

[B4EQWASCOOL]

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

No, you can move with those keys. You can't adjust the camera with the right mouse or the mouse wheel. Well, you can move it a bit, but no where near as efficiently.

I could handle the mouse wheel. From what I understand, you can still get to the same view. You just have to hit f9.

If I have to turn my character with the keyboard instead of mouse, I would feel sluggish.

[Champion_Standing]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure how P99 is an example. The raid guilds never had the freedom to manage themselves.

Sure they were, just couldn't handle it. Pretty sure the first raid ever on p99 needed gm babysitting. Secrets tell us some stories plz?

[Furniture]

I think freedom to manage it themselves would be more along the lines of no gm involvement whatsoever and over time it would (hopefully) get worked out among the players.

There has never been no gm involvement on this server and I even remember prekunark a dev altering pathing in permafrost secretly overnight to make his competition wipe and give his own guild the advantage.

[Wharhog]

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

There has never been no gm involvement on this server and I even remember prekunark a dev altering pathing in permafrost secretly overnight to make his competition wipe and give his own guild the advantage.

To what server are you referring?

[Voland]

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

Someone could write a better eqw.exe as one option. Or play on a mac.

When I played the original EQMAC, there was no way to "tab out", we had to use a command like /mci a - this would generate a non-critical error and return control to the desktop until error popup is closed. Does this trick work in PC version?

[budorf]

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

When I played the original EQMAC, there was no way to "tab out", we had to use a command like /mci a - this would generate a non-critical error and return control to the desktop until error popup is closed. Does this trick work in PC version?

I've played p2002 on both Mac and PC.

On the PC side, you can use dexpot (or some other virtual desktop software) and you don't really need to "tab out". If you're using eqw you can set up a keybinding to switch between windows or release the mouse.

On the Mac side, you can use mission control and just create 2 or 3 desktops and switch between them. Really pretty seamless once you get it set up, and you can customize the shortcut keys to whatever is convenient.