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Originally Posted by dafier
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3. It's refreshing to raid in Velious and actually have normalized raid mobs. The resistance isn't as stupid as P99s. Caveat - I am not saying it's easy mode, but it's more from what most of us remember from classic periods of EQ.
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Well since I'm the dev parsing NPC statistics and who wrote the tools that are used to parse them, I can clarify some things about this.
TAKP has the most accurate NPC stats of any emu, period. Certainly better than p2002, which doesn't bother to even set raid boss min/max hits correctly; p99 at least does that much. I spend 2 or 3 hours on each raid boss to parse resist values and have spent thousands of hours parsing stats over the last 2.5 years.
I helped fix the resistance algorithm for TAKP and EQEmu so I have a good idea how they should function for our era. (incidentally p99 uses a different algorithm because Sony changed resist calcs right before PoP's launch) I also wrote the melee mitigation algorithm that p2002 is 'importing' to their eqemu fork. The copy they have is very incomplete because we closed source while I was working on it.
NPC stats are very important. If you know that an NPC flurries for example, at what rate does he flurry? Some flurry 100%, some flurry 1%. How much does it matter to people when they lose to or win against the AoW because his stats were incorrect? I also parsed hit rate and atk estimates for him, which were significantly different than typical bosses. Figuring this stuff out requires a lot of tedious time and effort. It's unfortunate that users don't notice these details, else TAKP might be appreciated more. PoP will get even worse with slow mitigation. An incorrect value there could mean the difference between a 1000 dps boss and a 300 dps boss. To say nothing of atk delays and proc rates.
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TAKP doesn't have the server population that P2002 does. Meaning, it's smaller. Also, I've heard a few things from regular players who played TAKP before switching to P2002, and it's not that the TAKP support is bad, but there were a few things that weren't exactly good which caused them to switch. I am talking about people who are casual family people.
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Keep in mind that p2002 has several banned users who like to say things that aren't true or at least omit important details. I sometimes hear these things repeated by other users who don't realize that they are not true, sadly.
P2002's server population is in large part due to the name they chose, which 'borrows' some of the notoriety from p1999. The populations are not entirely dissimilar regardless.
The original Mac AK population stayed on TAKP, and they are some of the friendliest casual players you'll ever meet.