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binibren · #**101** 01-25-2011, 04:18 PM

How did I miss this thread?!

I followed EQC for a few years and always boggled at the mindset of YL. Who gives a crap about the most minute detail of the original EQ client? People want to knock-down the ghoul lord and get a yak. Or see Freeport (the real Freeport) again. Or maybe take down Lockjaw in the Oasis, where he's supposed to be. That obsession with making the client look exactly like it did in 1999 just seems... unhealthy.

Honestly, I played from beta until Luclin and off and on until WoW came out and have no desire to see the original UI again. That original client with it's tiny world window wasn't all that it's cracked up to be. I remember being in a Naggy/Vox raid and half of the view disappearing because of buffs. That wasn't fun. I was glad when they fixed that $@#*. And don't get me started on med. I played a wizard and for 30 levels I saw nothing but book. No thanks.

Project 1999 got it right: EQEmu (Titanum client - and now beyond) and reverse merge ("remove" for non devs [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ) the newer content. Zone revamps are gone. Turn on the old models. Lots of great work from the community digging up things like old wolf models. But at least the EQC guys figured out the correct flight trajectory for a ranger's arrow. Good fucking job, guys. That only took 3 years?!

Extunarian · #**102** 01-25-2011, 05:49 PM

kinda old thread to be bumping....but I'll look past it because this is a pretty good rant.

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But at least the EQC guys figured out the correct flight trajectory for a ranger's arrow. Good fucking job, guys. That only took 3 years?!

Icecometus · #**103** 01-25-2011, 10:13 PM

you will all make toons on EQC when it goes live and you know it.

Droxx · #**104** 01-25-2011, 10:15 PM

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you will all make toons on EQC when it goes live and you know it.

Then we'll be ranting about how people care too much about a 20 year old game.

Icecometus · #**105** 01-25-2011, 10:26 PM

nice one [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Humerox · #**106** 01-25-2011, 11:04 PM

90% of us will be ban-hammered into oblivion.

Harrison · #**107** 01-25-2011, 11:35 PM

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you will all make toons on EQC when it goes live and you know it.

No.

Lianon · #**108** 01-25-2011, 11:54 PM

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The fact that they are not even willing to collaborate or accept advice from/with others who have done the footwork is beyond ignorant. They are reinventing the wheel from what I gleaned in that post. p99 has succeeded where that project will fail. (or at least take so long to complete that nobody will be interested anymore and move on to greener p99 pastures)

They're getting paid to re-invent the wheel. Every little piece that they don't have to re-invent means their job is less secure. It's just like the worker bee for a big corporate company who doesn't want to change their process and is typically narrow minded. Any suggestions about what could be better or changed is just you trying to eliminate their position.

It's extremely inefficient.

Lianon · #**109** 01-25-2011, 11:57 PM

Nevermind - thought we were talking about Sony's version of p1999

Duma · #**110** 01-26-2011, 12:16 AM

After 3+ years I have given up hope of that server being anything other than vapoware at best and an elaborate hoax at worst. Reminds me exactly what Dawn/Dusk was.

I remember when they had a thread asking for legal advice on how to avoid problems with Sony and I gave a couple pointers and immediately I was jumped on by Yeahlight, edited my post and told me to not reply unless I was a lawyer. A couple months later the site got shut down for a year.

Karma's a bitch