The Al'Kabor Project (PC/Mac) EQmac - EverQuest done right

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

there are plenty of drops in the database right now that deviate from the 75/25 rule and have weird values in the DB due to straight magelo imports without normalization. The FBSS until recently had a drop rate of under 20%, to name a prominent example

This isn't quite accurate. It was 20% in the database, not less-- but due to the logic error in the loot drop function, it was dropping less than 20%, like almost everything else. I just bumped that up to 25% a couple days ago after reviewing the magelo data.

The effective drop rates for a 75/25 item are about 19.2%/80.8% currently. Code to fix this problem is currently being tested.

Also I had absolutely nothing to do with your forum suspension. I had no idea it happened until now.

The loot drop logic error is one of many bugs that are not unique to our server-- we forked eqemu like every other server did, and we got their bugs along with it. TAKP is fully open however, so our fixes are often going back to eqemu.

Low level mobs hitting so hard is the result of the melee damage mitigation algorithms being inaccurate. (also from eqemu) NPC attack delays and max hits are very close to Al'Kabor's, if not precise in the majority of cases. At higher AC values, the opposite problem is likely happening: mitigation is too high.

We're aware of these issues. We can't just fix them overnight. I'm literally working on this server all day every day.