The Sleeper to be awoken tonight in Rampage's final raid.

[Pheer]

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

It is odd as I was saying that no one even heard of "Scripting for FTE" until Rampage brought it up. No one did this in any other guild for sure. Gotta look at the source.

So you thought autofire just meant "a magical button that makes you get fte" ?

You never thought maybe that making a computer do something like that required some kind of set of instructions to tell it what to do?

Maybe I gave you too much credit when I said you weren't that dumb.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Fippy prog server, normal mega-hack Venril Sathir kill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAEq1F0kX8

That's what it looks like.




ps: surprised at the bitterness about Rampage waking the Sleeper. Life is not like your last birthday party, where your Mom made sure you had the piece of cake with the most frosting on it.

[heartbrand]

Tonight at 7pm we will be clearing all of the Lords and Lady's and then Vulak and Eashen. The raid will last approximately 2 hours. Everyone is welcome to join us. Thanks.

[Lazie]

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

So you thought autofire just meant "a magical button that makes you get fte" ?

You never thought maybe that making a computer do something like that required some kind of set of instructions to tell it what to do?

Maybe I gave you too much credit when I said you weren't that dumb.

I just want you to keep telling the server all the scripts your FTE'rs used. You are doing so well informing us. I think everyone is learning a lot about Rampage's raiding tactics in this thread. Thanks.

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[Lazie]

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

You fail to know me then.

The goal of full repops is to have a situation where no one EVER has to sit and track a mob staring at a wall, refreshing 10 second track Windows, refreshing 5 min TL boxes, duck casting 12 second CotHs for hours and hours on end. Having many individuals willing to do those things shouldn't be the determining factor for participating in the raid scene on this server.

The goal is not to prevent guilds from having a clean sweep of 80-90% of the raid targets. That's merely a byproduct of the repop and in my eyes a good one that promotes the health of the server by allowing many guilds to raid and enjoy their raiding.

A global message goes out. Everyone knows everything is up. No need to field a 5 man FTE group from 1AM-7AM on a god damn Wednesday morning. Just one Euro or Aussie dude in your guild online able to send a batphone is sufficient if sim repops replace respawns.

CSG for example got to kill their first Dain and their first Dracoliche and were damn close to pulling in their first Cazic Thule attempt too. That's what sim repops should be about.

The hardest core people should be shuffling around fighting over ST keys, Vulak, KT, AoW, etc. While they do that every other guild can step up outside of their previous comfort zone and take shots at the Dains, Statues, WToV and NToV targets of their choice, mostly uninterrupted if they go quickly.

If you want to go as classic as possible (which I'm in favor of)... go back through server patch history and you see how many patches they put out in 2001 (Velious era), they were averaging about 1 every 2 weeks. Every single patch they did took down the server and brought it back up with full respawns. This doesn't even include server outages for other reasons which were somewhat common as well.

Sim repops twice monthly that update all respawn timers. The normal respawns have 0 variance (which is mostly classic for most of these targets), so that the 3-day mobs spawn with correct frequency and so that the more casual guilds can pick a target on a respawn and plan around sniping that mob the when it respawns. Probably honing their strategy of pulling or killing that specific target, before moving onto a new target the following week with the next sim repop. The hardcore guilds can battle each other for their high end targets. Then after 1 respawn cycle with known respawn times for the 7 day targets you can expect another sim repop and the cycle repeats itself.

That isn't however classic. Which is what this server thrives for. You don't have to stare at a screen too long with Classic Live timers. Raiding would largely still happen one day a week. Sorry you guys hitched your wagon to a sinking ship btw.

[Ele]

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

If you want to go as classic as possible (which I'm in favor of)... go back through server patch history and you see how many patches they put out in 2001 (Velious era), they were averaging about 1 every 2 weeks. Every single patch they did took down the server and brought it back up with full respawns. This doesn't even include server outages for other reasons which were somewhat common as well.

Not just an average of 2 patches a month, but weekly maintenance down time AND random server/zone crashes causing additional pops.

[Lazie]

I do agree that simulating the patches would be cool and exciting.

[Gorillas]

Can all these Rampage losers stop posting now?

[Lanuven]

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

Can all these Rampage losers stop posting now?

Its our thread, get over it.

[Tuljin]

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

Its funny how you guys are claiming this game is competitive but both of you guys are arguing how the rules are still a 50/50 doesnt sound to competitive to me sounds like you guys are just fucking clowns for sitting at your computer starring at the wall waiting for a mob to spawn. Good job on being competitive lmfao idiots

These same people have been the same people shitting up this server for years. Everybody here, IB and TR and TMO, everybody. Detoxx, Hoku, everybody. Everybody. There are no "sides" they all fucking suck and nobody can "play nice."

Same shit, different year. Its just the constant new influx of koolaid-drinking nubs that makes it all possible. The guild recruitment on this box has become so pathetic and desperate its laughable really.

The first five months of Velious had no "competition" at all, just like the last 5 months of Kunark in VP. IB and pals went to great lengths to ensure this was the case through a skillfully timed "assimilation" and rebranding coupled with being in cahoots with server staff.

To call what happened between IB and "The A-Team" a "merger" is downright insulting. There was no collaboration between the "officers" of the guilds, just direct assimilation. And comically enough only -one- of the officers from The A-Team remains an officer to this day, and he only joined "the guild formerly worthy of being known as The A-Team" at the tail end of 2014. Our beloved gif-creator recently got into a little spat with Emperor Hoku and quit his officer position/got kicked out (who the fuck knows or cares) and took his ball and went home, behavior that The Omnipotent had been informed of personally. Hey Hoku ----- "atoadaso"

Im glad there are at least a few people who can see it for what it is. That's really how we start "fixing" this box. These people are so insane that educated, intelligent, and altruistic people are ostracized and what you're left with are neckbeard mouth-breathers with a tenuous grip on their mental stability. No thanks dude, I'll just keep soloing and playing with my friends and chipping away at quests and gear that don't require taking advantage of legions of nubs to finish. There is no negotiating, there is no "winning."