I did some testing as well - Pulled a massive pull in PoFire.

It created a good amount of lag but the zone held true and no crash. Very nice work Hunter - I appreciate all your hard work.

It was nice to see my character go from 47-60 in one pull

Thats weird - Im still on playing. . .

OOC went dead silent for like 20 minutes and then i went to log in on a second char and found that the server wasnt up. Yet, im still playing on my main char.

I wonder if it will get rolled back if i keep playing.

I actually like the idea of the rot bot in PoD - that concept could work really nicely.

For the record I want to point out in your non-edited post what was in place of this text was something to the tune of:

If we put a rot bot in Qvic then think of the precedent that it will set of the other zones.

Ignoring that.

I would like to ask why you think a PoD rot bot doesnt affect PoD in the ways you are saying a Rot bot (that has more strings attached) would effect Qvic?

I will give you a little help as to why I think a Rot bot (And Dragon Class) in PoD is different from Qvic, since my guess is you arent in PoD yet. PoD takes more time and is much harder. The Rot bot (Dragon Class) cuts the time it takes to be in T1(T2) by an immeasurable amount. The Qvic rot bot would cut your time in Qvic by much less.

If you feel 20k is too low I wouldn't mind changing it to 50-100k personally. The only issue I see with that is that it will turn a lot of people off to using it (including the intended audience). So then why have hunter spend the time doing something that only me and two other people will use.

Really - there would be nothing stopping a single box player from farming FG/CG items to gain enough plat to simply skip that zone (or any other zone that you put a bot up in). 

It wouldnt really be "skipping" the zone as they would still need to go there and get two pieces to actually use for the rot bot. (please re-read my previous post about purchasing good luck).

I also want to point out that nobody should be concerned with other people rushing through content. The Rot Bot isnt a requirement you can certainly experience all the of the zones without rot bot's by choosing not to use it.

I disagree. 

As a newbie coming into this zone I have found it incredibly difficult to get groups going in QVIC in general.  A rot bot would make this worse.  Let me explain...

If i were a single box player and I perceived changes to the game to be geared at making it harder for me to play as a single boxer. . .I would feel alienated.

LARP-aggro   

I lol'd at this - which made people in my office look at me oddly.

To address the connection some people have made with Rot Bots alienating single box play I dont believe you have me convinced that it will really do so.

By adding a rot bot - I dont believe any single boxers are going to go out and create a bunch of boxes because there is now a rot bot. Nor do I believe anyone who wishes to group with others will stop grouping with others just because they are going to want to loot the rot.

I would go so far as to say people may be more encouraged to group together if there is a rot bot because now two plate classes looking for the same piece wont have to worry as much about losing the roll if their piece drops.

Rystan - Most boxers are little boys sitting in a dark room playing with 1-3 of their friends.

To be honest I was put off by your entire post. It is always unfortunate when someone comes to a thread and posts a bunch of non-sense that adds little to no value to the discussion at hand. Just because someone's playstyle and process of enjoying a game isnt the same as yours - doesnt make it any less legitimate or worthy of a reason to play.

My warrior has all four as I am going to for the UC. However, I only use two.

Anytime i need additional AC/HPs or about to pop a disc I will toss on the guardian charm. Otherwise im wearing a sorcers charm as it increases my DPS immensely. This is due to anger augs IV and V are affected by the Sorc Charm.

Pally - I use oracle charm to increase their proc group heal.

I feel like some threads got crossed - or im going crazy!

Lol I like how all of you assume a ban is appropriate for looting a chainmail bracer. Hope you all know me and OP became good friends in game

I dont see how that really has much affect on your blatent and unapolagetic breaking of a black and white rule.

The next person you ninja from may not be so forgiving and may have Fraps readily available.

Would love to know the general direction you were thinking of going with the Assasin and Gladiator Guilds.

As for the Tradeskill Guild - it sounds great, something that I might get access to on a few chars.

Now, the fact that you are going to make these items in the millions price range is a bit interesting and may atually be very offputting to the majority of its potential users.

RoA's are typically done rather quickly with the RoAer being completely naked with just a Shammy buff. Adding additinoal High HP gear would probably only speed up 1-47 by 2-5 minutes.

47-70 is usually done with the RoA'er being completely afk in PoFire while the level 70s do all the work making any high HP hear they have useless.

This would hardly make it worth spending millions of platinum to save a few hours worth of game time.

It would be sweet to see the tradeskill guild add some utility to characters regardless of their progression. Perhaps the ability to make some clicky items or potions with buffs that can be appreciated by all. For instance a HP buff that stacks with all other buffs that increases your max HPs by a percentage.  

Hmm, I'd never thought of this (or heard of it). So you simply make a copy of the EQ folder and put it somewhere safe?

Do you also do this with all your games? All software installations?

Just wonderin. Thx.

I put mine under my pillow to ensure complete safety.

aye, my guild and I have not done t3 unless it's instanced, and have yet to have an instance crash- but we do get horrible lag spikes at times.
is it instance, noninstance, or both that this happens to u on?

Back when I didnt care because I thought I would never be in T3/T4 I recall a discussion about how PoAir instances were bugged with the island spawning. As I will be entering T3 in the next week or so, I was curious to know if this has been fixed and if PoAir instances are fully and independently functional?

Cut the AFK timer to 30min; no need to be [completely] inactive for more than that and suck up bandwidth.

Unfortunately I believe the scripts are written so that "inactivity" is based on how much your character has moved. There are fights T3+ that take well over 30 minutes. During which time many of your characters are "inactive" in the scripts eyes.

I kinda disagree with this because I do realize it is called the EZ server but farming that one drop is a lot more like the original EQ that I am used to even paying for it I believe this would just be way too easy and a lot more like wow.. But that's just IMO if  people want it more power to this topic :-)

I actually agree with you to a point. I enjoy EZ server so much because there are aspects of it that do remind me of Classic EQ. However, speaking as someone who only gets about 10 hours a week and with all my chars finishing T2 I hate that i have to spend many hours going back to get that one missing piece.

To be honest this suggestion would just turn extreme bad luck into purchasable good luck. In order to utilize this Rot bot you would still have to spend enough time farming Qvic to get 2 other pieces of the same slot.

can we please remove plat in bank on the magelo, maybe just a tad personal imo.

hehe, really?

Ya, we dont want to encourage any rogues to go off pick pocketing the wealthy.

/shrug i dont know - i dont see how anyone knowing how much money you had this last weekend is very personal at all.

I could see it being annoying if we had people begging for plat in OOC.

Anyone recall the skit of the paladin with his flaming sword and the beggars from Gfay? I want to say Ricardo or something? 10 pts to the person who can post a link to those old audio files.

Im going to love being in Ssra temple - loved that zone.

Im going to hate relearning that freaking maze of a zone

Im going to hate running my boxes through those hallways

Im going to hate getting my boxes through those "water tunnels" even more.

Well played Hunter. . . Well played.