Let me tell you about a time.

[Jimjam]

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

Due to highly accelerated EXP rate(3.5x) I found personally testing my box it's really hard to motivate myself to level from 1 in the noob area, scraping together some coppers, buying a few spells, going back out scraping a few more, buying a couple more spells etc, running back and forth to town wasting a ton of time in not a fun way.

I decided to add back my Boost script, which will auto level people to 20/spells/skills, you can sell your noob robe for 1 malachite, Necros can farm a bone chip etc, Melees will need to be twinked regardless because it's very close to Red99 functionally, you'll be swinging for 8 dmg with your rusty sword. Which is all classic and good.

I just found the early part, with accelerated EXP, and attempting to be an end-heavy PVP box, the very early part doesn't really function and I'm OK with that.

The best part of pvp servers is getting started, scraping gear together, battling darky assassins while trying to xp in crushbone.

Why would you remove that just because high level xp is slow?

[Tomdottington]

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

how do resist rates to devastating MR effects like root and snare and blind scale on your box for various MR values, in pvp?

Everyone has their own opinions like assholes or w/e so I decided to go full Red99. Red99 is the community standard currently and we will copy it basically content wise. My box is Kunark bowquest shouldn't be an issue, umm we allow 2box which is actually classic. No levelling, we differ in some areas but we want it to feel like the gold standard.

In fact all our spells/resists are the same as Red99 taken from their DB. My Coder is Bamzal in your video also =D

[Tomdottington]

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

The best part of pvp servers is getting started, scraping gear together, battling darky assassins while trying to xp in crushbone.

Why would you remove that just because high level xp is slow?

Didn't attract people, no ones interested in it, been done before a bunch, and there's other options for grinding. Believe me I'd love some CB/Blackburrow PVP, it's just not possible.

I would fill any PVP niche, but honestly I just don't think I can expect people to grind on my box? Farming gear/doing content is actually fun especially if you can just que up a 60 mage/cleric, or a torpor shaman etc etc, I'm hoping people will get immersed and it will lead to guild vs guild PVP.

I also joined a guild on Red, so I believe in diversifying your EQ portfolio.

[Tomdottington]

If you lower EXP rate to ultra slow, people will just get bored and log off, it won't create this PVP situation, if EXP rate is fast people will just blow past it all anyway.

Levelling is out dated, it could work on a real legit ass box, like a Live TLP or a Takp PVP release Red99 2.0, but my box? It won't happen, people won't trust it or feel like it will last, the population will be ultra low... it ain't easy out here for box creators in 2024.

[Tomdottington]

Good video of my coder tanking the first Red99 Trakanon to slip past Nihi.

[Tomdottington]

When I was rich on Red I transferred some of it over to Blue when it was 4x the rate, bought a monk epic from Jeremy, and I bought a rogue epic too? Not sure if that was from Jeremy too.

My Barbarian Rogue lvl 13, my Iksar monk lvl 5. I dunno how people do it tbh with no PVP.

[quido]

Red99 implementation:

0-124 MR - 2% resist rate to root
125+ MR - 98% resist rate to root

Very discrete

[Tomdottington]

Yeah I remember in Classic being rooted with 100 regularly.

I hate to disappoint people but the "resist code" of p99, is basically just stock resists, but they crank up the ResistDif column in the DB to 25. I personally view 25 as too low, and would make MR more valuable and do Resistdif 50 or 75 etc, and make those spells useless, but that actually effects PVE too and mobs become overly resistant.

I'm not like trying to recreate the wheel or argue this or that point, in my opinion I would delete bards, make mr spells useless etc etc, but this isn't that project. It's a Red99 clone, with no grinding required, classic quality content/loot/legacies, and 2 box, and kunark.

[quido]

yeah in my opinion, especially for MR spells, it's impossible to unify PVP and PVE resists

[Tomdottington]

To remake Droga, normally I just copy everything over from TAKP and delete what's in it's place(for zones not remade 1.0) on our DB if it's a non issue.. Droga was an issue, so what I ended up doing was copying over, because TAKP reconstructed the placements/npcs/loot tables of classic droga, PEQ doesn't have that. So how I solved that issue was I copied all the spawn2(locations, spawnentries, and spawngroups over, and the NPC(stats loot tables and shit) group for Droga over. But I couldnt copy the loot tables over without conflicting with our DB. So I noticed PEQ patched TAKP in(loot tables, npcs, but not spawn locations etc), so I copied over from a Fresh PEQ, Loot Tables, Loot table entries, Loot drop, and loot drop entries from the fresh PEQ, then just linked all the droga NPCS Loot tables to the imported PEQ ones with non conflicting location.

Proud to present classic 1.0 droga on Dota EQ, also, I can do grid entries and such, not just make my own pathing grids, but I copied over the ones for CT/Droga/Runnyeye 1.0 etc etc.