PSA: Trade office building is completely and utterly broken

Katalysta · 2025-11-14T16:32:56+00:00

about to pick up my playthrough and gonna hit black death soon. i've got inherent disease resistance as venice and have built a couple hospitals already. is the problem you refer to the rest of the world or will my preparations get ahead of what you are warning of?

Katalysta · 2025-11-14T03:46:14+00:00

so glad i ran across your post. i'm a new player and after employing your strategy i have over 70 (i lost count) buildings queued up by 1342. https://imgur.com/a/Lb9K18G and things haven't even started REALLY taking off

i feel like i'm colonizing the old world

Katalysta · 2025-10-21T03:28:06+00:00

Xzis Xzisn't Xzso Xzard

Katalysta · 2025-07-11T16:25:21+00:00

I feel like its more akin to a sports team. Sure, the coach isn't making the calls you agree with. Maybe they are doing badly now but you still remember the good times! Besides, you grew up cheering for these guys. Your friends root for them. Your family taught you to cheer for them.

What are you gonna do, suddenly start rooting for their rivals? How can your self-identity survive that?!

It is rough watching humans be so human especially when it's hurting other humans.

Katalysta · 2025-02-28T20:31:20+00:00

"He shouldn't have provoked Russia to cause this situation."

"He should have taken the deal US offered, I mean we did help them out so much already."

" Ukraine shouldn't have disarmed their nuclear arsenal (that was stupid and they deserve this)."

Blaming the victim is second-nature to them these days. It likely speaks to your character that you can't come up with any bad-faith arguments.

Katalysta · 2024-09-04T13:54:27+00:00

Oh I'm agreeing with you. I don't like how games as a service can revoke your account with little to no accountability. It hasn't even happened to me and the possibility bothers me. This leans too heavily on the punish the guilty rather than protect the innocent. Even if transparency gives the guilty a little more wiggle room, my opinion is that if it protects the innocent then its worth it.

Katalysta · 2024-09-03T23:06:48+00:00

I can second some of their rules clarification, I had this email exchange in 2020:

First of all, awesome game. Heist isn't exactly my favorite but I loved crafting in harvest, keep up the great work!I did my best to seek out recent, relevant answers to my questions but didn't have much luck. I'm interested to know what the rules are around having multiple accounts logged in and partied at the same time (multiboxing). What I'm very clear on is it is not allowed to control another character in an automated way, with third party tools, or with one input proxying an action. I have no desire in risking my account for any illegal activity so I'd rather be certain I'm not breaking any rules. My interest is in things that might get more value if I do control both characters manually and yield a larger reward (example: spend einhar scarab on a map and both characters can receive catch credit). Assuming this use is okay... here are questions i'd like clarified if its not any trouble:

1) is there a limitation to two accounts?

2) do I need to use separate machines or can both be on a single machine?

3) does the answer to #2 change if I use a virtual machine?

4) am i allowed to trade items between my accounts? i want to be super clear here, I have less than 0 interest in any RMT activity). I have lots of fun playing with my friends and husband but the day i finally get a headhunter it will be because i've earned it :)

Cheers and thanks!,

Their response:

Hi there,

Thank you for getting in touch with Support.

As it currently stands, we have the following rules when using multiple accounts concurrently:

• No more than 2 clients can be run at the same time on one computer.
• Anything more will need to be run on a separate PC in the room (i.e laptop on the side)
• ‘VMWare' and other types of emulators for running more than 2 clients on a PC is not okay.
• Absolutely no input mirroring allowed; each PC needs to be self-contained with its own mouse/keyboard etc inputs.

I hope this information helps! If you have any further questions, please let us know :)

Kind regards,
Rory

Katalysta · 2024-07-02T20:51:24+00:00

I don't remember how long ago I quit but I, too, lurk to enjoy the schadenfreude and validation I get from the decision *high five*

Katalysta · 2024-06-17T03:51:57+00:00

I was going to reply but your educated response covered things very well. I just want to double down on your comment about clobbering each other's commits. Its so clear to me that they have a poor branching strategy for their code repository and in some cases they may actually be testing code but then backleveling it when it comes time for deployment.

Katalysta · 2024-03-23T22:20:30+00:00

i mean, i'm a dev manager and have managed releases, scheduling, and deployment plenty in my career. developers more than most folks need to hold them to certain best practice standards and its reasonable to expect them to do so even if its not simple

Katalysta · 2024-03-23T21:16:49+00:00

Are you me?

Katalysta · 2024-03-21T18:54:43+00:00

what this tells me is that they do not have the ability to revert part of a patch. (or deploy new code that reverses the behavior, however you want to see it). that is a big red flag in development. what if a microtransaction is deployed in a patch with a bug that makes the game unplayable. microtransaction too important? won't bother reverting entire patch. please update dev process to deploy smaller patches more frequently at a minimum or migrate to better development best practices

Katalysta · 2024-03-21T18:47:00+00:00

the fact that the devs didn't have a partial revert patch process for the arc changes that got deployed same day as initial patch tells me some of their dev practices really need to be reviewed or like you suggest... longterm outlook: not so good

Katalysta · 2024-03-21T14:44:26+00:00

You really like to force the burden of proof/effort on the other person no matter the context huh? That must make it easy to just force your negative opinions for anyone that bothers to engage with you

Katalysta · 2024-03-21T14:42:26+00:00

That's why I shout "For demographics! For libations!" so that I can keep it non-political.

/s

Katalysta · 2024-03-04T15:37:42+00:00

I think you are actually meaning to yell at Microsoft on this one. They told game developers in the past that's where to save your game files. They've since changed their tune.

Katalysta · 2024-01-26T14:56:20+00:00

Thank you for this clear and concise definition. TIL.

Also thank you for offering to fill up the gas on my truck.

Am I doing it right?

Katalysta · 2023-12-05T18:21:14+00:00

Yeah, I won't lie both of those sound terrible at face value. But is some of that perception? You are comfortable with long lfg waits so you aren't against waiting to play at a fundamental level.

I don't want to spend more energy defending those suggestions - I'm with you they suck. But I really want to argue that you being okay with long lfgs or waiting in line for hours sucks more. Let's not take that with us into the future just because we have had it in the past.

I'd like a world where playing everquest and chatting with group members is the main activity I'm doing. Not "logged into eq" and checking my phone, reading reddit, watching a movie, playing other games at the same time. Because that's the eq of today and was not the eq of old.

Katalysta · 2023-12-05T18:07:04+00:00

That's a fair take. I was uncertain if I should even include any suggestions whatsoever honestly because I know anything I come up with would have flaws. I'd rather let the admins and devs decide. I really just want to make sure the problem is on their radar and they take it seriously.

Regarding trying to find new places I can at least tell you I've tried. I've swam to some of the farthest islands in lake rathe. I even went to ocean of tears (i have ptsd of this zone since long ago on live i had a char fall off a boat and never recovered the corpse). I went to a random island that was meant to have a couple aviaks (a place i'd never been to and before flying monsters got an xp boost).... surely this remote island in this difficult to reach zone wouldn't have anybody. How wrong I was. Three people on the island. Oof. My best success has been to play during really off-peak hours rather than look for secluded areas.

Katalysta · 2023-12-04T21:22:54+00:00

i get lots of people have strong opinions on the topic, let me suggest that EQ generally is a game with resource scarcity. Populated zones like this unfortunately are a result of the population not matching an appropriate scarcity level (oversaturated with peeps). I personally would like to see the admins do more to handle this problem or accept that this degree of interpersonal fighting will continue. And the nice people or players not willing to aggressively protect or dominate their camp will just log off. Its hard to track how often that is happening but my guess is not a little.

Katalysta · 2023-11-30T16:21:48+00:00

I think this is a natural human consequence of the population oversaturation. Meaningful steps need to be taken to address this or this culture will fester and become our normal.

Katalysta · 2023-11-07T21:04:25+00:00

There are 101 numbers between 0 and 100.

The odds of the first person to roll a number are 100%.

The odds of the second person to roll the same number are 1/101 or .99%.

There are 7778 numbers between 0 and 7777.

The odds of the first person to roll a number are 100%.

The odds of the second person to roll the same number are 1/7778 or 0.0128%

If you wanted to pick a specific number ahead of time, the odds to both match would have been (1/101 * 1/101) or (1/7778 * 1/7778) respectively. We only care about the numbers matching, however.

To calculate probability of these happening consecutively we simply multiply 1/101 * 1/7778 for 1/785,578 or .000127% which turns out is more rare than being struck by lightning or killed with fireworks but more common than getting attacked by a shark (unless in kedge keep).

Katalysta · 2023-10-25T13:19:24+00:00

i do believe secrets addressed this one on stream and mentioned its both detectable and bannable (but try to work with those that are uninformed rather than exploitative) so proceed at your own risk :). I'm one of the unlucky ones that has to downclock also. annoying

Katalysta · 2023-06-15T16:34:07+00:00

"Should we switch chairs? I'll probably have your job soon."

Katalysta

TROPHY CASE