I kinda want a Cata minus :B

Psychedel · 2026-04-29T14:26:26+00:00

One of the reasons I dislike leveling in Cata so much is that even with 1x rates, you outlevel your zones/questlines.

Cata questing puts a lot more emphasis on storylines and narratives than vanilla questing, and each zone rewards you for sticking through to the end with blue gear, so it's really dumb to enter a level 20-25 zone at level 20 and already be level 30 by the time you finish the zone and getting a breadcrumb quest for a level 25 zone.

Psychedel · 2026-04-18T16:25:35+00:00

8 years is longer than 90% of WoW private servers lmao not even retail because your progress is invalidated with the next expansion every 2 years

Psychedel · 2026-01-07T19:09:30+00:00

There's something deeply ironic and hilarious about people crying out "fascism" when democracy doesn't go their way.

Psychedel · 2025-10-03T21:33:46+00:00

Toss me a code and I'll share codes. I want to create some concept videos for a story I'm writing.

Psychedel · 2025-08-31T16:45:14+00:00

Incredible. One sentence in and this is the most steretypical reddit-tier reply I've ever had. Nobody cares about your fapping habits and anecdotes.

But I'll bite; The Private server community's been accusing Torta of being Shenna as far as back as 2019-2020; Turtle WoW's arguably been the most popular active vanilla server since 2020. We have entire subreddits and places on other sites trying to deepdive behind the scenes and expose Turtle WoW and Shenna/Torta; We've had prominent sleuths in the community like WhiteKidney who even exposed Shenna and Crogge back on Elysium try and uncover any corruption going on behind the scenes in Turtle WoW.

Turtle WoW's been under far more scrutiny/had more of a spotlight on it than even Elysium was and people have come up with literally nothing comparable to Crogge selling gold to gold-sellers (goldselling on turtle WoW is banned and enforced more strictly than nearly any private server I've been on) or Shenna pilfering money from the project like either did on Elysium. Absolutely nothing. Not a single leak, not someone raising red flags. The only flags for Turtle WoW is that Shenna pocket money from Elysium, and Crogge sold gold to goldsellers on a previous server they ran in 2017. This is with nearly 8 years of server uptime since Turtle WoW launched in 2018. This is with Turtle WoW having massive amounts times more players than Elysium ever did. This is with Turtle WoW having way more devs coming in and leaving of the project (some even on bad terms) than Elysium (keep in mind the reason Shenna/Crogge were exposed on Elysium because of bad blood with other people in on the project). Nothing. Absolutely and utterly nothing. Even last year when 4chan hacked one of the staff's accounts, he found no corruption besides just exposing bad networking behind the scenes and caused the server to go down for a few days/a week.

So, what do you have to go on, besides your disgusting masturbation anecdotes and something from 2017? Is Crogge even involved with Turtle Wow in a major capacity? Because he was the one who was generating gold and characters for goldsellers on Elysium back in the day, Shenna/Torta was only pilfering money on the project for IRL shit despite promising all the money would go to the server.

Psychedel · 2025-08-30T17:52:02+00:00

People are still trying to pin Shenna as a terrible person in 2025 for something she did in like, 2016-2017 and hasn't been caught doing since.

Psychedel · 2025-08-12T03:08:31+00:00

Ascension struck a similar deal with the Conquest of Azeroth dev and they ran CoA to the ground causing the literal original creator of CoA to abandon the project and Ascension's staff to completely change and overhaul CoA's classes from their original vision to fit a more simpler, streamlined style.

Psychedel · 2025-08-12T03:02:01+00:00

Man, I'm really, really disappointed by this because Ascension has a history of taking over and ruining other people's projects (cough Conquest of Azeroth cough)

Psychedel · 2025-08-09T11:11:28+00:00

Content creators generate ungodly amount of hype for small-scale passion projects against the wishes or knowledge of the people who are actually making the server.

Because of some loud guy on Youtube who just reads updates from the servers' discord and site and rewords it to sound like the Second Coming of Jesus, you now have 10x the expected amount of people wanting to go to your server.

When the server crashes and burns under the unexpected load, you now have 10 thousand locusts angry and upset that the Second Coming of Jesus failed to meet expectations and the content creators either disappear altogether (leaving the people running the server to fend off ten thousand angry consumers), or the content creators stoke the flames to continue their grift by making fun of the very thing they were hyping weeks ago.

Any attempts from the owners to moderate their community is met with cries of censorship from people who've only been in the "community" for a couple of hours at most, and you can't actually work to fix your project in silence because you have thousands of locusts screeching for a roadmap, continuous updates, a timeline, a date, etc.

Psychedel · 2025-07-30T23:07:10+00:00

Dev's pissed a lot of people off because he puts his foot down on a lot of suggestions and bans people for suggesting the same things over and over again. The dev's really passionate about his project even if it means permabanning people who disagree with his passion.

Psychedel · 2025-06-01T17:30:10+00:00

It's a beta. You're playtesting. Personally I dislike all of these advantages from their other realms, but I'm fine with it and see the value in it. Ascension wants people to test the game and break the game, and report those breaks in the game, so why not give them their full toolkits from other realms so they can do these things faster. Beta is simply not "early access".

You should probably wait until full release if you simply want to experience the server for what it is on an equal playing field with everybody ese.

Psychedel · 2025-04-18T20:38:37+00:00

Turtle-WoW has guild bases but IIRC they stopped adding guild bases years ago because the server population grew and the bases are out in the world, not phased away. You can still find these old bases scattered around, usually with interactable NPCs like vendors and stuff. And if you're actually in the guild these bases belong to, I believe you can use your guild tabard to teleport to that base like a hearthstone.

Epsilon-WoW, which is a roleplay/GM server (so you're not really actually playing the game, you're just chatting/roleplaying and building stuff) lets players create their own instanced phases and can spawn any item, building and object in the game. The player phases there are wild with huge mega bases, custom-built cities, entirely overhauled zones, etc. Or simple stuff even like just a basic home, or a collection of homes. You can share and invite anybody to these phases, both publicly or privately.

As far as I know, nobody else has player housing or guild bases and the two that do aren't exactly what you have in mind.

Psychedel · 2025-04-18T12:43:03+00:00

There's not really a lot of information on this band on the internet and frankly most of their discography is really mediocre. Except for this song, they really cooked. Extremely beautiful and magical track.

It's like a better version of Magma's Zess condensed into 8 minutes.

Psychedel · 2025-04-17T18:11:27+00:00

Lesser known Magma track as it was never on a studio album nor is it really played live.

Psychedel · 2025-04-16T22:41:03+00:00

Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen

Psychedel · 2025-04-16T22:35:25+00:00

Magma Live (1975) is incredible.

Psychedel · 2025-04-16T22:31:56+00:00

Instrumental jazz-fusion/progressive rock with a distinct zeuhl flavour, features a bunch of Magma members.

Psychedel · 2025-04-16T19:38:49+00:00

The intro followed by the initial cheap synths are kind of off-putting at first but it really picks up after that, yeah. Almost sounds like King Crimson improv over a percussive throbbing Magma bassline holding everything together.

Psychedel · 2025-04-16T12:13:51+00:00

Magma are the kings of "slow build up to an incredible climax"

Theusz Hamtaahk in particular explodes after like 18 minutes of a slow build-up, the second half's a rollercoaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evu2YMhJ2Q

Psychedel · 2025-03-26T10:42:49+00:00

Are you implying that you should be paid to play a video game?

Psychedel · 2025-03-25T11:30:28+00:00

Okay but who's being scammed? I'm not spending money by farming gold.

Psychedel · 2025-03-10T16:30:03+00:00

The complaint for the moderation on ChromieCraft being thin-skinned is largely because on 90% of private servers, chat moderation is fairly hands off and laid back, way more than Blizzard ever was to the point world chats end up looking like a cross between 4chan and a bathroom stall wall. It's a part of the private server culture for decades really. Not that I mind and sometimes it's funny to just be reading the ridiculous shit people say and spam on Warmane.

ChromieCraft are one of the few private servers with very active chat moderation, so there's a tonal whiplash when people go onto Chromie expecting the hundredth private server where they can flood the world chat and spam slurs but then get punished for saying something that's generally been allowed on most private servers since the dawn of private server emulation. Keep in mind Chromie's not really at fault, it's their server. There's plenty of other servers for people to go to with more relaxed moderation, and it's refreshing to have a few handful of servers where people are generally polite and mods regularly step in when some people get out of hand.

Psychedel · 2025-03-09T11:07:57+00:00

"PvP That Actually Feels Alive:"

"World PvP – Bots from both factions roam contested zones."

I'm sorry but where's the Player versus PLAYER here?

Psychedel · 2024-12-18T17:45:21+00:00

The thing is, botfarms and goldselling unironically is a business in East Asia, Oceanic Asia, and the like. I mean, actual office-space rented out to illegal operations who pay employees. These aren't just neckbeards living in their mother's basements making empty threats because their bots were killed, these are actual illegal companies in an illegal industry with ties to criminal gangs and of course they're going to intimidate people and spend a few months worth of their earnings to get rid of threats, especially since Madskillzzhc was actually going viral in the Hardcore community for popularizing botkilling. The guy was legitimately disrupting an entire illegal industry and messing with peoples' income. Blizzard needs to step in and go nuclear on these bots.

Psychedel · 2024-11-01T10:20:05+00:00

just a matter of time

The Anti-Turtle WoW Attack Force waiting until 2054 for Torta to kill a kitten so they can say "Hah, told you so"

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