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Erdricks
Sep 8, 2005

There's nothing refreshing like a sauna!
Any recommendations for how to train JC? As an enchanter, I kind of feel like I should level that up to help everyone out (including myself).

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Never Been Banned
Sep 7, 2004
Okay well, maybe once...

Erdricks posted:

Play on red!

Nahhhhh...

Thanks though ;)

dirty nub
Jan 19, 2009

Never Been Banned posted:

Hello thread!

So I've just got my client set up and am about to log in for the first time since P1999 was still completely vanilla. My main character is a 31 (or so ) warrior named Tissamo, whose gear was good when I quit but will now be appallingly bad due to the expansions, etc. I'm posting because I'm hoping there's someone around who can maybe help me guild up with the goons in this thread, and maybe even some folks around this level who would be interested in doing a group or two somewhere to help me just remember how to play the game. In a tank role I feel like there's not much forgiveness for learning curve, but of course as a warrior soloing anything to get back into the groove is off the table. I would be down to go anywhere and do anything that's level appropriate. If I remember correctly I just finished Highkeep Basement with this character before I stopped playing those years back. That said, I played the game from 2000-2005 and tanked anything and everything back then up through PoP raids, so I'm hoping the mechanics and general feel will come back quickly. At the very least I've got the basic way the game works burned into my mind from those thousands of hours back in the day, so I'm unlikely to make too many heinous mistakes.

If anyone reads this post in the next few whiles, please send me a tell @ Tissamo. I'd appreciate having someone to chat with about the state of the game, the goon guild, and what zones are trendy in P1999 for early level 30s groupin' now that Velious and Kunark are live.

Happy hunting!

Blue guild has been decently active. Do a /who all "Unknown Guild"

I have a 31 druid that could level with you but I wont be on till next weekend.

Buane
Nov 28, 2005

When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Would love if we could get a new Red guild created, just to know who's around to group with! My Druid is up to 31 and I've got a 21 Monk.

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002

Buane posted:

Would love if we could get a new Red guild created, just to know who's around to group with! My Druid is up to 31 and I've got a 21 Monk.

The issue is to get a new guild created I need 10 people on at once and a screenshot of us all standing together. They clamped down on random guild creation and it's a lot harder to get one started than it used to be.

I would be happy to do this but I'd need a roll call and then we'd need to coordinate a time to pull it off.

Xesis
Jul 11, 2002

Started a new bard on Red, name is Worrying. It's been a while since my Sullon Zek days (12+ years?), but add me if you'd like as I try to scrounge together some levels and re-learn how to swarm kite.

Buane
Nov 28, 2005

When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

I Love You! posted:

The issue is to get a new guild created I need 10 people on at once and a screenshot of us all standing together. They clamped down on random guild creation and it's a lot harder to get one started than it used to be.

I would be happy to do this but I'd need a roll call and then we'd need to coordinate a time to pull it off.

Ah, bummer. Is SLAMDUNKATRON totally disbanded then? Figured we could just resurrect that.

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002
There are still people tagged in it and i was removed as guild leader so I can do nothing to get it back probably

ransome
Dec 27, 2012

Cosmic, Baby!
I started playing on red last week, 46 bard at the moment. Skribble in game!

Ashenden
Feb 6, 2013

I Love You! posted:

There are still people tagged in it and i was removed as guild leader so I can do nothing to get it back probably

I can login for the sake of forming a guild. Yevea was lead back when I was in SLAMDUNKATRON but haven't seen them in the new thread.

Pwnz0r
Sep 21, 2005
I wouldn't mind helping start another goon guild, got plenty of alts. my main is empire tagged however.

insulated staircase
Aug 21, 2014

I don't play red anymore but I could hop on to help you guys make a guild. Seemed like you dudes had way more fun when you had a tag together

insulated staircase fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Oct 18, 2015

aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe
I'm pretty sure if we can get 10 online it can happen. I'm game to login at some arranged time, someone organize it. Blue goons would probably be down to help form up if not actually play. If not I'll shame them.

Chuds McGreedy
Aug 26, 2007

Jumanji
I'd help you guys make a new goon guild, I think I have an iksar shadowknight with the SLAMDUNKATRON tag on red in his 30's.

Post when this could happen, I follow the thread more than I play these days, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Edit: I work bankers hours so evenings or a weekend would be prime

Chuds McGreedy fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Oct 18, 2015

Never Been Banned
Sep 7, 2004
Okay well, maybe once...

dirty nub posted:

Blue guild has been decently active. Do a /who all "Unknown Guild"

I have a 31 druid that could level with you but I wont be on till next weekend.

Thanks for the reply. If we are still close enough in level lets do it.

I feel like i'm pretty well back in the saddle after playing 6 or so hours today. Managed to get a wurmslayer and glowing black sword with the money i had saved up before i quit playing, and then headed off to mistmoore and managed to get from 32 to almost 35 over the course of a few great groups. Remembered with a vengeance how tough it is to keep aggro as a warrior.

Niedar
Apr 21, 2010
I can help out as well, I thought I still had a character in SLAMDUNKATRON as well but it looks like it got removed.

aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe

Buane posted:

Ah, bummer. Is SLAMDUNKATRON totally disbanded then? Figured we could just resurrect that.

It's still alive and I'm pretty sure onesixtwo has the leader tag'd character. If someone can get him to log in and transfer it or make some more officers that might be better/easier than wrangling 10 goons onto Red.

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002

aparmenideanmonad posted:

It's still alive and I'm pretty sure onesixtwo has the leader tag'd character. If someone can get him to log in and transfer it or make some more officers that might be better/easier than wrangling 10 goons onto Red.

If this could happen/I could get the leader tag back on Scoobs that would be insanely cool. Alternately could give leader to my druid so I could port around and give officer status etc.

Pathos
Sep 8, 2000

The guy who makes ZlizEqMap posts in this thread, right? Because if so, lower guk is totally hosed up on it. Like catastrophically so. Upper guk isn't perfect but lower is unusable. And mistmoore is also hosed up but not as badly.

onesixtwo
Apr 27, 2014

Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt?

I Love You! posted:

If this could happen/I could get the leader tag back on Scoobs that would be insanely cool. Alternately could give leader to my druid so I could port around and give officer status etc.

I made a petition on p99 asking for GL status to be transferred from Scoobs way back when and they made Fizzpop the new GL, so it's pretty easy to get access to.

I'm going to see if I can dig up that account info and get it to one of you. Pretty sure that account is the one I didn't give over to Robocop, so it may still be untouched and have a pretty good bank to it + the wizard for porting. It's not likely I'll be returning, so I may as well let SLAMDUNKATRON re-purpose it again.

e: Niedar has my login accounts / password now. Make use of the many hours I hosed around. Scoobs and other goons I remember playing with, ping me on steam for the logins. Just don't delete anything, thanks. http://steamcommunity.com/id/cavos In total I should have three useful accounts, 2x clerics and a wizard 50+.

onesixtwo fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Oct 18, 2015

Hesh Ballantine
Feb 13, 2012

Pathos posted:

The guy who makes ZlizEqMap posts in this thread, right? Because if so, lower guk is totally hosed up on it. Like catastrophically so. Upper guk isn't perfect but lower is unusable. And mistmoore is also hosed up but not as badly.

iirc this is because the eqatlas maps are terribly off scale, not because of some problem with zlizeqmap

Buane
Nov 28, 2005

When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
I am officially a SLAMDUNKATRON officer now. I also just hit 34, so I can port to almost all druid rings. Bug Buane in game and I will port and invite you!

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002

onesixtwo posted:

I made a petition on p99 asking for GL status to be transferred from Scoobs way back when and they made Fizzpop the new GL, so it's pretty easy to get access to.

I'm going to see if I can dig up that account info and get it to one of you. Pretty sure that account is the one I didn't give over to Robocop, so it may still be untouched and have a pretty good bank to it + the wizard for porting. It's not likely I'll be returning, so I may as well let SLAMDUNKATRON re-purpose it again.

e: Niedar has my login accounts / password now. Make use of the many hours I hosed around. Scoobs and other goons I remember playing with, ping me on steam for the logins. Just don't delete anything, thanks. http://steamcommunity.com/id/cavos In total I should have three useful accounts, 2x clerics and a wizard 50+.

Pinged you, scoobs here

Man, Hardon you stripped down everyone one of these toons you clever bastard

I Love You! fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Oct 19, 2015

FranktheBank
May 14, 2007
In the beginning...the universe was created. his has been widely regarded as a bad move and has made a lot of people very angry.
I think I am gonna make a second account and level another cleric. I was bound at seb for a bit and was making 200-400p per rez. Now I get tells asking if I am still bound there offering 200pp+. One guy offered 1k if I could get there is 5 minutes (I couldn't).

1-49 shouldn't be that hard. And I am buying almost zero spells, because now I know which ones i never use lol.

Maybe I will level a druid on that account as well, ports are too good.

Pilsner
Nov 23, 2002

Pathos posted:

The guy who makes ZlizEqMap posts in this thread, right? Because if so, lower guk is totally hosed up on it. Like catastrophically so. Upper guk isn't perfect but lower is unusable. And mistmoore is also hosed up but not as badly.
There are two possibilities for it; either the eqatlas maps (from http://www.allakabor.com/eqatlas/lowerguk.html ) are just not properly to scale, or perhaps I made a mistake in my calculations for the map scaling and boundaries. I have a level 50 Monk, but I don't really feel like going deep into Lower Guk, so I can't really test it myself. If someone just a tad technically inclined can look at the documentation (the numbers in the first lines of the gukbottom1.txt and gukbottom2.txt files) and see what's wrong, maybe it can be fixed. :)

Is both live side and dead side hosed up?

Ramulack
Oct 12, 2009
This had been posted on the p1999 forums and quickly deleted from redguides.com:

quote:

We are 99% certain that the P99 staff are lying to players about their RMT detection methods. Last month, it was "Your seller is ratting you out!" as seen here:
http://www.redguides.com/forums/show...l=1#post245278

This month the GM's are claiming, "we have a moderator on redguides who can see your ip!!"

After extensive research, I can see why they'd want to create new lies each month.

Only two people on Redguides are given access to your IP information. Maskoi and myself. Neither of us play on P99, but we appreciate the community you guys have built here and are going to support you 100%. Also, moderators cannot see IP's, and beyond that, the bazaar has no moderators! Hard for "moderators to see ur ip!!!!!!" when they don't exist.

But because I'm a paranoid nutter and I respect the talent behind P99, I made everyone take their accusation seriously. Even though moderators don't have access to IP information, we immediately worried that our server was compromised, so we scoured our logs for any signs of IP access and found nothing. We double checked for server exploits, shells, rootkits, etc. and found nothing. I personally spent two days going over a 3GB mysql log BY HAND for any signs of anomolies. There has been no outside access.

Here's what we've discovered from reverse engineering: P99's dsetup.dll actively scans your PC. For exactly what, we can't say, but we have cracked a couple mysteries:

1) It includes some NSA-level intrusive scans on your PC.
2) P99 GM's have full access to every window title and URL you have open.

I've updated our safety thread in accordance with these discoveries. Please log off p99 before visiting Redguides, or use a different PC or your phone.

We barely cover costs from giving P99 players a home here, but you guys have done a great job building a community and we want to protect your hard work from these psychos. If there's anything we can do to make you safer from scammers, GM's and other scum, please let us know.

Never heard of them before so I take it with a grain (bucket) of salt but Greengrocer is also cross linking it in Reddit (I know hes very butt hurt atm).

insulated staircase
Aug 21, 2014

if they're doing nothing shady with the dll, why does simply mentioning the scope of their access get you forum banned?

Niedar
Apr 21, 2010
The fact that p99 is doing intrusive scans of your PC for cheating detection has been known for a long time I thought. This isn't really new.

aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe
This is a pretty old hat with new tinfoil on it. The DLL is what allows for most of the cheat detection. I don't know what sort of magic it uses, but I've been on the server as long as anyone and haven't had any issues.

The short version is, there's some fancy detection poo poo packed into this game which keeps it from turning into the steaming shitpile that is most other emulated MMO servers. If you're worried that the admins can see your porn browsing habits then stop going AFK in groups to jerk off.

a real jerk posted:

if they're doing nothing shady with the dll, why does simply mentioning the scope of their access get you forum banned?

This is pretty obvious. You don't want to provide a bunch of internet nerds a forum upon which to reverse engineer your security measures.

iNteg
Dec 17, 2007

aparmenideanmonad posted:

If you're worried that the admins can see your porn browsing habits then stop going AFK in groups to jerk off.


Maybe it turns me on when Rogean watches the porn I'm watching?

aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe
If anyone is interested in an official response, here's what Rogean said on the issue over on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/project1999/comments/3pcrbi/project_1999_dsetupdll_scans_your_open_programs/cw5bqjv

quote:

Let me go ahead and put this to rest for the 100th time. The DLL and Anti-Cheat system will ONLY forward information about a program, it's name, and path, when AND ONLY WHEN it has identified it to be a program that interacts with the Everquest client. Other than that, the program does NOT collect information on your other programs, file paths, web browser tabs, etc. It doesn't even have the capability of taking screenshots/captures. That is false information being spread by people who have obviously been caught doing shady things. Also contrary to the belief on redguides, we do NOT utilize ANY information obtained by the anti cheat system in the process of RMT convictions. We have several methods of linking all types of tranactions server side and can easily follow those trails without needing anything client side. If you have any other questions feel free to PM me here or on the forums, but understand that the details I will give out about our anti cheat system will be limited. Thanks.

Data itself is not gathered by the AC. When it finds something that triggers a detection, even then it still does not copy any data, only the metadata about the program. You don't have anything to worry about.

Make of that what you will.

iNteg posted:

Maybe it turns me on when Rogean watches the porn I'm watching?

You naaaaasty.

Ashenden
Feb 6, 2013

Pathos posted:

The guy who makes ZlizEqMap posts in this thread, right? Because if so, lower guk is totally hosed up on it. Like catastrophically so. Upper guk isn't perfect but lower is unusable. And mistmoore is also hosed up but not as badly.

Did you click the thumbnail on the right side of the program for the section of Lower Guk you were on? Just tasted both because I was near fine and they're showing my coords about as accurately as anywhere in the game. Except obviously the spot where a bunch of floors should overlap but the map maker didn't do that.

khysanth
Jun 10, 2009

Still love you, Homar

aparmenideanmonad posted:

If you're worried that the admins can see your porn browsing habits then stop going AFK in groups to jerk off.

I think there are legitimate concerns if it can actually tell what browser tabs and such you have open and is relaying that information. What about people who are able to play from work? There can be sensitive information on those computers. What if you are signed into your bank or medical insurance or something at home? It's also illegal in CA if they are doing it.

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002
If anyone can rez in CoM tonight please let me know, we had a disaster

Pathos
Sep 8, 2000

Ashenden posted:

Did you click the thumbnail on the right side of the program for the section of Lower Guk you were on? Just tasted both because I was near fine and they're showing my coords about as accurately as anywhere in the game. Except obviously the spot where a bunch of floors should overlap but the map maker didn't do that.

Hmm. I didn't try that, no. I'll have to give that a shot. I just noticed that it was FUBAR when I zoned in (repeatedly) and then corrected or changed. I'll have to mess with it a bit more next time I venture down there...

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002
Scoobs and co. have declared war on Pandemonium. This has resulted in a large number of bodies of Pan + groupmates who think they're gettin' fresh piling up across CoM. We apologize insincerely if we roll in and rekk your group. Please do not fight back and we will not harm you, though we welcome you switching sides midfight and assisting us in our virtuous Jihad!

Pillow Armadillo
Nov 15, 2005

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!"

I Love You! posted:

Scoobs and co. have declared war on Pandemonium. This has resulted in a large number of bodies of Pan + groupmates who think they're gettin' fresh piling up across CoM. We apologize insincerely if we roll in and rekk your group. Please do not fight back and we will not harm you, though we welcome you switching sides midfight and assisting us in our virtuous Jihad!

Should I park my 40 cleric in CoM?

Daaz
Feb 20, 2004

D.I.Y.

Ashenden posted:

Did you click the thumbnail on the right side of the program for the section of Lower Guk you were on? Just tasted both because I was near fine and they're showing my coords about as accurately as anywhere in the game. Except obviously the spot where a bunch of floors should overlap but the map maker didn't do that.

MM is also jacked up

I Love You!
Dec 6, 2002

Pillow Armadillo posted:

Should I park my 40 cleric in CoM?

We have clerics parked out there already, just in case.

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Ashenden
Feb 6, 2013

I Love You! posted:

Scoobs and co. have declared war on Pandemonium. This has resulted in a large number of bodies of Pan + groupmates who think they're gettin' fresh piling up across CoM. We apologize insincerely if we roll in and rekk your group. Please do not fight back and we will not harm you, though we welcome you switching sides midfight and assisting us in our virtuous Jihad!

What's the level range on that PvP?

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