TMO Proving they Ruin project1999 Raiding

[Knuckle]

yeah i heard world of warcraft is good this time of year if your a cryhard 14 year old faggot

[OforOppression]

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

yeah i heard world of warcraft is good this time of year if your a cryhard 14 year old faggot

lolmad

[quido]

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

"Normal" only because the technology for instancing didn't exist yet. As soon as Blizzard/SOE figured it out, it became standard.

Lots of things were "normal" in Everquest because the tech/code/idea hadn't been developed yet:

• Targeting Rings
• Flags vs Keys
• Encounters more difficult than tank + spank
• 32k mob HP cap
• Character customization beyond leveling (AA, talents, etc.)
• Balancing DoTs against crittable DD/melee
• Overpowered Complete Heal
• Warrior vs. hybrid balancing (warriors have zero innate utility, but gain lots through items while hybrids have sub-par base performance against warriors but don't gain equivalent performance to the warrior's gain in utility)

If Everquest had been developed for end-game competition, why is there so much content in Classic-Kunark-Velious that is NOT for L60's only? Why isn't more content "tiered" (ex: Seb and HS might be too difficult until you're reliably clearing the Planes of Hate & Fear)?

It's not that they couldn't figure out how to instance or get mobs with more than 32k hp. They simply chose not to at first.

[Massive Marc]

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

It's not that they couldn't figure out how to instance or get mobs with more than 32k hp. They simply chose not to at first.

Proof ?

[quido]

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

Proof ?

I have none, and you may be right actually. I read somewhere that until the year 2000 numbers only went up to like 50,000 or something. Thank god for the digital age.

[Massive Marc]

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

I have none, and you may be right actually. I read somewhere that until the year 2000 numbers only went up to like 50,000 or something. Thank god for the digital age.

I was talking more about Instancing. You're probably correct about 32k HP cap.

[deneauth]

I think its time to busy out the real life pics and start comparing people to skeletor

[patriot1776]

a signed short integer has a maximum value of 32,767

if they had decided to go with shorts from the get go (and quite possibly so, given memory management was still a big deal in 1999), they would be used shorts all over the code, and later converting every instance to 32 bit integers would have been 2 much effort and open to introducing bugs

[quido]

I still think it's because numbers didn't go above 50,000 or so until this millennium.

[quido]

Instancing wouldn't be that tough of a problem from a design perspective - we're just talking about managing data here. From a resource perspective, though, it might have been difficult for the time.