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For sure, I have a lot of videos for that too if you're looking for that.

Thank you, that would make sense lol.

@@vanman2099 It looks like youtube might have eaten my other comment. I'm one of the devs for THJ, and if you'd like to have a Q&A or even interview about THJ, feel free to reach out.

@@enneract9 Thank you, definitely a possibility down the road, I should probably play on it a bit more first.

www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverinfo&worldid=1557 are you referring to this server? I didn't include it due to lower population but it might have made it to like B category

@vanman2099 Yes that one, thanks. They had a high pop until Quarm launched. Worth mentioning that TAKP is launching a TLP server on Jan 1st.

@ I will most likely update this mid year or so for sure

@@CrystalPrelude firionia vie is role playing preferred

Thanks for info, I was unable to track any type of significant population on agnarr over the period this video was collected in, I will take a look at the takp server once it's out for a bit to see what type of success it's having.

I think the main reason Quarm isnt considered S tier is likely the amount of liberties taken by Secrets with loot abundance. Holiday events for example where raid gear from the previous raid content, peggy cloaks, and numorus other previous expansion items drop. I sometimes refer to Quarm as the Oprah server because everybody gets everything. Though that maybe fun for some, especially casual players, a large portion of players also do not like that. Personally I played on PQ for a while but left because I just don't see Secrets keeping the server alive for the long haul (after PoTime is on farm). Where as servers like Takp, p99, and even Agnaar(pop locked tlp) show more commitment to keeping those projects alive long term. Secrets does not have a good track record with sticking with projects long-term.

@@Serathiel7 That argument would almost be supported if THJ wasn't Diablo meets EQ in a single player ARPG experience where you can pop raid targets every like 8 hours, and you get a character powerful enough to do it with ease... and it made S tier.

Ok but thj pushes your entire point eyond the moon and its S tier so​@@Serathiel7

@@wtfalts The logical fallacy that justifies one bad thing as good because of another is called "two wrongs make a right" - essentially arguing that because someone else did something wrong, it makes your own wrong action acceptable or justifiable.

What changes would you make?

@@vanman2099 Your list is 80% stuck in old EQ, replaying old content. To say no to Luclin, Povar, and maybe to Cazic, Bertox or Xegony means to me you only know part of the game. There is a reason there are 31 expansions in the game not just the 4 that TLP's play before dying and Time locked servers play over and over. I'm sorry if I am coming off as an A-hole, not my intention but I see stuff like this and people reviewing the game and they never take into account modern EQ lol

@@Sandaormo1 I see what you're saying, these tiers were built almost solely off population tracking and data over a period of time, the ones that got a NO were ones that consistently didn't peak above 150 active accounts at any point. Maybe I should clarify, the video is more geared toward new and returning players, not the people already playing on those servers etc.

@@Fudmottin the halvings do create a strange predicament for sure, where miners need to double the hash rate to maintain the same production, so far BTC price has kept them alive but we’re at a point now where you still need basically free electricity to really make much. It’s going to be really interesting to see what happens when only fees are left so far technology has kept it alive with improvements in speed and efficiency, I don’t have any predictions for you, all I know is regular miners have been basically pushed out of market and all that’s really left are the big farms that can get really cheap bulk electric, I think that trend continues but if BTC doesn’t continue to climb in price and technology hits a lull it might create a lot of issues for them even.

@@vanman2099 I wonder if decentralized mining will come back. A simple BitAxe with about 1TH/s draws very little power. Obviously the odds of winning a block are near zero. But the cost is also quite minimal.

in alpha/beta

@@kidamere2408 Early access. On Steam

Pantheon is more EQ2 than OG EQ

@@paladine6 ahh yes test server I never remember that one

It's not an expansion, it's an emulation server that alters the rules to allow you to make class/race combos you cannot do with official EQ servers; have multiple pets per character; etc. Edit: If you mean to ask, "What expansion is The Heroes' Journey server on?", then I'm sorry. I don't know. I've seen a few people that USED to play on Live switch to there and start making it the subject of their Twitch streams, though; I imagine it's probably because of the massive, repeated ban waves that are decimating Live servers and causing people to just up and quit. Why waste money on a company that hates you, when you can get a superior product from someone that actually wants you there?

@@brianmurphy6480 It's in Kunark with Velious coming soon,

The electrical cost estimates were strictly what gets billed by the power companies, the system costs are just the bare minimums to run the system , if you have to cool the systems it's going to be even more expensive, I used to put them in abandoned apartments or grow tents and use a lot of CFM airflow to keep the heat away from them but that all adds up too.

So for like GPU mining, depending on the algorithm sometimes it's more efficient to use MSI Afterburner or something else to push the power down to 50-60% draw per card, if somebody isn't doing that then it will also be a lot more expensive :(

@@mws12345 tell me how you really feel man don’t hold back

@@vanman2099 well there is nothing wrong with you or your head, I just wanted to see some content from the game specifically teek I never played ever quest and was thinking of giving it a shot, but honestly with this whole dual box thing I probably wont it seems like all the old school good players are hooked on this dual box thing which means they have ways of just getting things on their own and are less motivated to help new players more trying to propel themselves and their alts ahead of everyone else etc. and most servers it looks like they allow dual boxing and even if they didn't people would still do it, so i dunno maybe i just will never play everquest plus teek's been out a while now. I dunno sorry nothing I said was personal or wrong with you or your head.

@ Hahaa thanks for the explanation, if you’ve never played before you might enjoy some of the emu servers, but yes the game is so old in its way it’s not even dual boxers people play full groups it’s like the opposite of wow it’s hard to solo etc especially before mercenaries, but there are guilds and friends you could make that you could play with or help you along, firiona vie is the best bet for live servers, teek will continue to die down now at this point but will still be semi popular, but it is tough to jump into project 99 has the very old school brutal stuff in original game format and then things like project quarm are a bit more lenient

:( its kind of crazy, I always say I wish I could relive the old eq days but honestly I really don't I gotta just take those memories and cherish them, If they reset everything back to old eq I'd never have that kind of time again. It's the same with Warcraft 2, I miss the old days of that, even battle.net edition they brought up a russian server for it that's private but theres hardly any games and the people that are the "pros" that have been playing for 25 years mostly weren't the pros I remember from back in the day I used to play with, it's basically just the best of the 25 people that are left now.

@@vanman2099 I hear you. If you haven't given The Heroes' Journey, you should give it a try. Downloaded the client yesterday and I've been playing non stop since. It's been a long time since I've been that curious and excited about a game. THJ lets your build 3 classes in one character so your toon could be mage, enchanter, shadowknight all at once (or whatever combination you chose). Very smooth gameplay and has all the QOL included. Tons of fun!

All live servers besides Firionia Vie are virtually dead, you can definitely login there and see what the deal is but you probably have 1 or 2 guilds and a bunch of casuals only so you'd have to fit in with the small community there.

@@vanman2099 Which server has the larger population? FV or Teek? Thanks.

@ teek will by a good chunk for awhile, FV is on live, teek Just hit planes of power, mischief is probably the third most populated and that’s at have the level 105 expansion is I think. So it depends if you want to start at the latest exp or play again where you remember from

@@marshaledrek71 Teek will have 2-3x, sometimes 4x the population as FV, but it's a TLP so as it progresses it will drop population, eventually if it follows Mischief, it will have half the population as FV before it gets to live.

This is so true, I didn't start off raiding and I played a warrior during planes of power, I had basically the best gear you could get without raiding but anytime a tank from a raid guild wanted in the group or was LFG I had zero chance of finding a group.

@@vanman2099 Yeah, those top guild badges got people excited. It kinda said that player was top gear, a good player, and the chance to get a contact in a top guild for potential future payoff. It happened fairly often that I would get messages from players in top guilds letting me know a drop was rotting if I wanted it. As a bard, it was usually very easy to get there and loot it in time. Or if you got really messed up in game somewhere, they could bring in the cavalry and save you. I was a high level bard who didn't want to guild or raid, I liked to do a lot of the OP solo stuff or casual group, but I also posted on forums a lot and knew the top guild bards (bots on The Rathe at the time around PoP). PoP forced raiding so hard for progression and loot access, it broke my solo game. One top guild Bard fed me extra spells they had for a while (even top Guilds didn't have lots of Bards or Bard alts), but eventually even that was not enough. So I got recruited into bots, they got me my Epic with a small group, then I became Main Tank bard for a month. I did really like the people, but raiding was just not for me. So I dropped from bots and EQ shortly after. I worked as a designer. And I feel that even "PvE" EQ has lots of PvP elements in it. From in-game things like competing over shared content, to getting spots in groups, to how and who the designers produce content and rewards for. I tried my best over a meal to convince a top dev to develop the casual and solo play more, but they were just not having it: he wanted to make games for full groups, raids, and hardcore guilds.

@@kittensmakingcandles That's sad, but that's actually how/why I ended up multi-boxing, there just became a point where groups were hard to get unless you were part of a guild so I just started doing stuff on my own, I would join my tank to guilds and raid at the beginning of each expansion to get gear and then that would help my boxed group with having a geared tank to do my own stuff. Eventually went into WoW which was more casual friendly to me and then it became really casual friendly with Looking for raid groups and other groups and then making it so to queue up you had to have a certain item level for gear was a pretty neat feature so even if you got a bad player at least they had enough gear lol, but we got around that with ults for awhile by getting PvP gear or certain items with a high ilvl to get above the needed average even if we didn't use it after we got in the instance.

@@vanman2099 Multi-boxing seems like a perfect solution to the problems of the casual player. Especially with your technique of combining it with a full geared up key role main character to make it work better. Do they have in-game or 3rd party tools for that? Can you run it on just one machine? I've for a long time been a fan of design that works to build out the game to reflect the realities of the player. For a game like EQ (and Planetside 2), that would mean changing the game to make grouping of casuals more streamlined, easier, and effective. Specifically in line with the experience they want to have, have had, or otherwise respond well to, or... that other players already have (in the case of EQ, that would be the hardcore guilds). I totally avoided WoW, other than a brief play to experience it and take design notes. I knew I didn't want to be addicted again like I was to EQ. I also of course know some things about WoW just because of how massive it was and how that game's news and influence often reached far beyond the players and the game. From what little I know of WoW I was very impressed by it. They continued to make massive leaps in design and other dev work. How do you like WoW vs. EQ? From what you wrote, it seems like WoW did open up a lot of options for your playstyle. And even though you had to find your own workarounds for other things, at least they were still there to find and use.

@@kittensmakingcandles On live servers and some TLPs they let you play 3 to as many as you want off one PC. Most of my videos are boxing on servers that restrict to 1 account per PC which is maybe the unique aspect of those videos. I got into wow early enough to get into the making guides and selling e-products and websites so it was my full time job for about 6 to 7 years but it wasn't fun for me when that happened because it was always about getting in the beta, making guides ahead of time, then leveling every class to max level on both horde and alliance and all professions so it was really exhausting we started to dread new expansions until finally we just quit once more people started doing Internet Marketing and wowhead and stuff got huge it was too much energy to compete. Before it became work it was relaxing because like I said, I went from having to multibox in EQ to just playing 1 in WoW.

Nah it might be lonely starting out but Planes of Power just came out which was a lot of fun.