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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Picture of Furro....discuss
« on: December 09, 2010, 05:30:44 PM »
 
I'm so abused!


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Freelance Ramblings / Re: OMG yes .. DON"T take it personal
« on: November 22, 2010, 05:34:42 AM »
 
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Not everyone plays this game in a min/max fashion.  No one should have to do things they don't want to do with their $14.99 a month, which includes grinding endlessly if they'd rather go off and TS or do something that's fun for them. 

I don't personally expect everyone to min/max their characters.  However, there's no harm in promoting or inspiring others to enhance their level of play through a better understanding of their character and environment.  A "better understanding" doesn't mean "complete understanding".  Encouragement should be limited with respect to the target audience.  Casual players are often not min/maxers to any degree.  I would argue that very few raiders at the tier in which we raid are outliners or min/maxers.

Encouraging others to better their level of play can be accomplished through positive methods.  Within an Open Raid team, the level of play and character development is all over the map.  This is normal, and the hope is that as each player continues to raid, their level of skill evolves, along with their character.

Players often feel they've reached their peak, based on a flawed personal scale in my opinion.  The scale used is subjective to each individual's view of reaching a point of diminishing returns.  With a made up scale, one may never realise their true potential, because it's never put to the test against content or other players of similiar level, development and skill.  This is where raiding truely draws out and tests those characteristics of play.  Facets of EQ raiding require these aspects to various degrees.  The tier of raid content also dictates whether or not a team must strive towards a new plateau of performance.

I'm not judging anyones personal playstyle, that's their choice.  However, when one enters the realm of raiding, it's no longer all about personal choice.  The good of the team deserves consideration also.  A team won't advance, if the it's collective is thinking as individuals.

Raiders are molded over time, and not everyone will fit into the mold.  Each person makes a conscious decision to raid. Those who raid with Freelance shouldn't expect results without putting forth the required effort.  Positive encouragement directed at players in order to increase their performance, aids in the development of team players.  Team players strengthen us as a force, which in turn help us push forward and progress into new content.

I strongly believe that improving our level of play is healthy, as long as it's not pushed to a point that it negatively affects the morale of the team.  Comradery among Freelance raiders can be strengthened by each member taking a moment to self-evaluate, seek out, and consider others opinions/suggestions to improve their level of play.  I certainly wouldn't take it personal if someone told me how to heal better, or improve on some other aspect seen as needing attention.  I'm always trying to improve my gameplay on all levels.  I'm probably more of a min/maxer, but I don't expect everyone else to be.  We draw strength from each other, and our comradery binds us.  We must use these bonds to support one another in the pursuit of better gameplay as a team.  This is what Freelance is all about.


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If you don't want those people raiding with you, that's fine, but be upfront about it.  Freelance is already developing into a distinct raiding entity and moving away from its open raiding roots with this change in loot rules.  I mean, hell, there's even a guild tag. 

Recent changes to the Loot System were necessary. 

Raid Attendance:

Requiring a degree of participation in Freelance raids for a chance at a Flag/Key via Random is good for the team as a whole.  I've been tracking flags for years, and I'm sure it's no surprise that there's a disturbing pattern of abuse for flag/keys.  These abuses do nothing to aid in advancing Freelance in content that requires flags to raid. 

This change was to close a vulnerability within the loot system, which directly hampers our ability to progress within an acceptable timeframe.


Ratio DKP/Random:

70/30 increases the chance for gear to be spread among those who are active with Freelance.  Landing DKP state always benefits the team (from the standpoint of gear distribution among active members in the roster), because those who bid on items, earned DKP by attending our raids.  Therefore, those raiders put in time with Freelance, and potentially benefited the team as a result.  The presence of Random still remains, and allows the possibility for someone new or with less activity, a chance at gear.


Freelance Guild:

In response to the guild reference.  Huevos created a guild called Freelance Raiders for is own personal use (he boxes group content often).  His guild isn't associated with Freelance in any form though.  I don't fault anyone for making the assumption of affiliation of his guild and Freelance, it's logical really.



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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Need help in getting GTT to work witrh widows 7
« on: October 03, 2010, 01:46:42 PM »
 
I don't use Windoes 7, but are you running GTT standalone or installation version?  I'm guessing here, but perhaps where you saved it and are attempting to run it, Win7 doesn't allow it due to permission issues.



- Edit, nevermind!  Talked to you in game, glad you got it working.

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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Void E access.
« on: September 05, 2010, 04:18:41 PM »
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If your playtime is erratic, you might want to also pop into the FLRaids:raids channel and ask for assistance when you're online.

sorry but i disagree.  i have stated every day that i was lfg both in fl channel and guild and got nothing but crickets.  it's to the point where i do not  want to log in.   >:(
 
I'll set aside some time today if you're online and assist you.


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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Void E access.
« on: April 28, 2010, 11:13:09 AM »
 
If your playtime is erratic, you might want to also pop into the FLRaids:raids channel and ask for assistance when you're online.


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Freelance Ramblings / Re: COP Does Korafax
« on: July 24, 2010, 06:04:34 PM »

Reminder:

Freelance has temporarily dropped Pallorax from the weekly cycle to work on other progression related events in SoD. 

In the interim, the Circle of Prophets guild is doing Pallorax on their regular scheduled raid nights: Saturday and Sunday.  CoP welcomes guests, and operates within a /random ruleset with regards to Loot.  Their channel is: copstar.  Frostfox or one of their officers normally announces at gather time in the FLRaids channel also as a reminder.


Note: This was posted in the Tower Flag Progress thread also in the hopes those missing Pallorax may catch the info there.

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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Hoping to begin raiding with FL next weekend
« on: July 04, 2010, 07:42:08 AM »
 
Welcome!

I happened to be AFK when you sent a tell earlier, but wanted to reply before turning in here. 

The CST times you listed above are no big deal, as we often have people join after we've started and inbetween targets.  I noticed you found our healer channel also already, so that's good.  I'll be around tomorrow off and on, so feel free to drop me a tell then if you have any questions.

0330 now, and no pie, so no point staying up!

See you in game!





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Freelance Ramblings / Re: LL raid(s)?
« on: March 21, 2010, 06:04:45 PM »
 
Freelance is planning on doing Steel Behemoths and Dragons 3x event.  The events are on until April 28th I believe.  So hopefully we'll get a couple runs in to cover as many people as possible.

Living Legacy event NPCs appear active at the moment.  I'll try and slot these into the schedule between our regular targets.

For all the above events, I'll co-ordinate FL scheduling efforts with Circle of Prophet leadership in order to avoid conflicts.



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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Humor - Less than 100 Raid Musts
« on: January 11, 2010, 11:48:08 PM »
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>-#9 In fact on that note. raid instructions in general are just inane chatter intended to give the raid leader a sense of self importance. This is good time to go make food.-<

/em points at Furro, yeah you!  :D


Not true!   ;D

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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Octa
« on: November 28, 2009, 11:10:53 PM »
 
Nope.

He drops container for part of Mansion flag.  But so does a group name in Fortress Mechanotus.

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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Audiotriggers still failing
« on: October 20, 2009, 10:54:44 PM »
  
There's two ways you can fix this.  One way, is to close EQ, rename your AT file.  Start EQ, remake all your triggers from scratch.  That's the sure way to fix it, but of course more work depending on how many triggers you have.

The other way is to edit your AT file, remove the unwanted trailing spaces, and Save As, Encoding: ANSI.


Edit AT file step-by-step approach:
  
Close EQ and try the following, from windows:


Start Menu -> Run -> C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest\userdata

Right click on file: AT_default_Furro_fenninro.ini

and select "Open With" -> Notepad

(depending on your system settings, the .ini part of the above filename may not be showing, that's ok).

If good so far, you should notice some of your audio trigger patterns in the file.  For example, something like:

Pattern52=Mallet in your direction
Sound52=duck


Click on each Pattern line, go to the end and remove the spaces you don't want (click on the line, and on your keyboard press the End key, that'll bring you to the end of the line and you'll see the spaces clearly.

When done, click the "File" pull down menu, select "Save As"

From "Save As" dialog window, select Encoding: ANSI

Click Save

Click "Yes" when prompted to overwrite the existing file.


Start EQ, check to see if your triggers work.


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Freelance Ramblings / Re: Classic Raid
« on: October 15, 2009, 02:08:51 AM »
  
There are no immediate plans to do Nag/Vox, as we don't meet the flag requirements put in recently for these events.

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Freelance Ramblings / SoD Raids -  Unlocked items from Zeb in the Void
« on: August 23, 2009, 11:44:25 PM »
  
Queen Malarian Completion - Unlocked Items

For those who attended our recent Queen Malarian raid.  Below are the following items now unlocked and available from Zebuxoruk in the Void.


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Freelance Ramblings / Re: SoF - Raid Armor
« on: July 17, 2009, 06:51:05 PM »
  
For those who won Gyro Cores last night.  The Bimbalicus event flags you for WRIST patterns, via the associated NPC I have listed in the above post.  

Just make sure you convert your cores if necessary (if you're not of the class listed on the core), before doing the combine.


Congrats on your wins!

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Freelance Ramblings / SoF - Raid Armor
« on: July 17, 2009, 02:28:14 AM »
  
SoF Raid Armor
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Since we're breaking into SoF content, I'm posting the relevent armor information for reference.


Tier 2

Steel Armor:Related Events: Wirlem, Scorn, Octa, BMK1 & 2.


Tier 3

Ancient Armor:Related Events: Big Bynn, Deepscar, Mining Behemoth, Clankwrench, Spindlecrank


Tier 4

From this point, the Gyro Cores drop from events within this tier, which can be combined with previous tier armor, OR by purchasing templates and using embedders.

Related Gyro Core Dropping Events:

SLOT   EVENT
WristBimbalicus, BMK3
FeetMMM - Breakneck
ArmsMMM - Krond
HandsMMM - Battle Room (Tactical Prototype)
HeadMMM - Brinda Sprockets
LegsMMM - Bargangle Tinkerson
ChestMMM - Meldrath the Malignant
* Completion of the above listed events, also unlocks it's associated core (by SLOT) via the Automated Vending Unit, in Dragonscale Hills.


T4 Armor Combines

There are three ways of producing the armor.

   1. Combine Tier 2 (Steel) Armor Piece + Gyro Core inside a Gyro Core Embedder.
   2. Combine Tier 3 (Ancient) Armor Piece + Gyro Core inside a Gyro Core Embedder.
   3. Combine Un-Cored Template + Gyro Core inside a Gyro Core Embedder.

Note: Take out any augmentations before doing a combine!

The Gyro Core Embedder and Un-Cored Templates may be purchased from Automated Vending Unit in Dragonscale Hills (located next to the Fortress Mechanotus cannon) and requires at least indifferent faction with Ak'Anon Strike Force V.


Gyro Core Conversion:

A Gyro Core unusable by your class can be converted by combining an unusable Gyro Core and the appropriate Core Gear Kit inside a Gyro Core Re-gearing Kit (also purchased from Automated Vending Unit II).


Class Specific Armor Results:Tier 5 (Crystallos)

At this stage, Prismaridescent Essences drop from events within Crystallos only.  These are used to upgrade your Tier 4 armor, via an essence grafter.

Related Essence Dropping Events:

SLOT   EVENT
Wrist, Head   Halls of Fire
Wrist, Feet   Keepers of Stone
Wrist, Hands   Ice Constructs
Wrist, Arms   Aerius Windfury
Hands   Tjudawos
Feet   Kildrukaun
Head   Zeixshi`Kar
Arms   Vyskudra
Legs   Brood Mother Visziaj
Chest   Kerafyrm the Awakended

* Completion of the above listed events, also unlocks it's associated core (by SLOT) via the Automated Vending Unit, in Dragonscale Hills.


T5 Armor Combines

Combine Tier 4 Armor Piece + Prismaridescent Essence inside Prismaridescent Essence Grafter.

The Prismaridescent Essence Grafter can be purchased from Aring, Jashy, Tonas, or Vesiss once you have at appropriate faction with Crusaders of Veeshan.


Class Specific Armor Results:

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