Are you kidding me?

[Aviann]

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

We've been running the server on a TR? / IB model FTE sock model for the entirety of the server's history. That's not how all live servers worked and it's time to try an alternative. Sharing content would mean almost no staff intervention required versus our abomination of a raid system. I know how you feel, Aviann, but when the casual scum are just as capable of killing anything your top teir raid guild it's silly to feel superior.

It isn't a superiority problem that I'm having I don't believe. I'd be fine with just about anything at this point if it meant people would stop acting like morons.

Just so happens that nobody agrees with the whole, get what you put in mentality that I had before getting to this point so I can't exactly make a strong stance on anything besides the fact that people are stupid as hell.

[jcr4990]

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

when the casual scum are just as capable of killing anything your top teir raid guild it's silly to feel superior.

This is really what it boils down to. Pretty much every raid guild is capable of killing every raid target in the game outside of maybe 2-3 of the hardest ones and that's only cause all guilds not named A/A have been denied a lot of the pixels that make those fights much easier. All the clerics in CSG Anonity and BDA know how to run a CH chain. All the tanks know how to right click mallets and stand in a corner. All the rogues know how to hit backstab and evade. What separates A/A from everyone else really is their willingness to dump an insane amount of man hours into sitting around staring at screens til dragons appear and to a much lesser extent their pull team's ability to execute the pull quicker or know the best route to FTE race with the best clickies (Crown of Rile/Lev ring.etc) Unless your name is ________ (Fill in the blank with your guilds top 2-3 pullers/trackers) then you really have absolutely no leg to stand on when you look down your nose at other guilds like you "earned" something they didn't. Or you're somehow better at the game than they are.

I've been on both sides of the casual/hardcore fence and take it from me. There's not a lot of difference in the caliber of the average player between the hardcore and casual guilds. Want proof? Asgard and Taken members currently make up like 40% or more of the top 2 raid guilds. Let that sink in for a minute.

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

if i played on blue i would just edit zone files to give me a slightly more efficient run path

yowl gotta think outside the box

Rumor has it a certain AM tracker has a script that watches his screen while bind sight tracking and when it detects a mob spawned it automatically fires a sound through speakers/headset and starts running his character forward. I don't have proof of this but have heard it from more than 1 source. Not quite as elaborate as editing zone files but its def thinkin outside the box and squarely in "Would totally get you banned if ever caught" territory just like editing zone files.

[Raev]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rumor has it a certain AM tracker has a script that watches his screen while bind sight tracking and when it detects a mob spawned it automatically fires a sound through speakers/headset and starts running his character forward.

I thought about doing this, as it would be pretty easy. Then I realized I didn't care enough.

[Cecily]

Are you with AM now? Don't you ever feel like you're pressured to put in too much? Maybe not, but I feel like the toll for pixels as soon as possible is too high compared to what agreeing to a smaller cut and just enjoying content for the sake of killing dragons would do for IRL and server health here.

[Colgate]

if i played on blue i would just edit zone files to give me a slightly more efficient run path

yowl gotta think outside the box

[Cecily]

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

if i played on blue i would just edit zone files to give me a slightly more efficient run path

yowl gotta think outside the box

That possible? Looking forward to that RnF.

[Colgate]

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

That possible? Looking forward to that RnF.

yea you can edit/add/remove textures in any zone and it's undetectable unless someone sees you running through walls or if you show self-incriminating evidence

forcing a file check upon login wouldn't stop it considering zone files aren't called until you attempt to enter that zone, so you can just swap them out after logging in

not like rogaine would even get around to creating such a file check, though

we submitted proof of people doing this shit on red years ago and nothing was ever done about it

[Nirgon]

the only system that would work is an extremely present and heavy handed group of GMs that enforced a rotation

otherwise its going to be retarded and no one remotely normal is going to raid

[Cecily]

Well you're a horrible person for publicly discussing that, but it should be fun to watch now.

[Colgate]

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

Well you're a horrible person for publicly discussing that, but it should be fun to watch now.

was a real hot public topic when people were changing the skeleton model to default to human so to diminish the usefulness of amulets of necropotence

have seen much more extensive shit done with texture/model manipulation than that though