Alright, who took time off from work?

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

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

I took the day off when one of the Live EQ expansions went live - Luclin or PoP I think, only for the servers to be down all day. I'm not planning on taking any time off, work Green goes live Friday evening for me anyway, will be encouraging the other half to go out with her friends that weekend though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember taking the day off for Velious. I got the CD, went home and installed it.

Zoned to Velious, didnt work. Punted me back to Oasis. Like an idiot i took it back and said the copy didnt work.

Turns out i just didnt put the CD KEY into my account to say i owned it. DOH. Half a day wasted [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Daldaen]

I’m a bit sad they didn’t decide to not post a release date and instead just launch it unannounced so that these nerds couldn’t schedule weeks of straight socking time.

[Jibartik]

Sorry our enjoyment of life makes you feel a bit sad.

[aaezil]

Lots of depraved pixel addicts on here dont work and just play sometimes even RMTing to pay rent and feed the habit

Dark side of evercrack

[Jibartik]

haha I love you Llandris <3

[Rogean]

I think the better way to explain it is like this:

If you have a group of 6 players fighting an NPC, each time a player swings an attack at the NPC, there's a packet that goes out to all 6 players for the damage done, and the animation.

If you have 10 groups spread out across the zone, each damage swing is only being sent out to the 6 players in that group.

If you have 10 groups all fighting the same mob (Raid Encounter), then that one player's damage swing is sent out to all 60 players now.

This also includes position updates, which can be sent several times a second depending on how the player is moving, and those packets are only sent to other players in the direct vicinity.

[Jibartik]

are the damage swings being sent out what people refer to as packets of death?

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

are the damage swings being sent out what people refer to as packets of death?

No, what you're talking about is the packets from the server that get sent to your client telling it to drop your HP to zero because you just got DEATH TOUCHED! (or fell down a small step carrying 3,000,000 plat.)

[Sheriff_Cockroach]

I requested off the week following launch. Ive got a ton of time saved up and was looking for an excuse to use it.

Gonna also be nice to be off halloween, might get a costume and hit the bars. I work nghts so havent had a halloween off in a while.