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I should be at work right now. - DADC - EverQuest - Site News
Posted on: 2006-11-20 20:36:21

I decided today, actually minutes ago, that I hate my job. I hate it in a way that has nothing to do with where I work, who I work with, or what I do. Anyways, totally unrelated, I should be there right now. I, uh, kinda slept in. And since showing 1 minute late yields the same number of points as showing up 4 hours late, I am doing the 4 hours thing. I don't really feel well anyways, but I am hoping that it passes by the time I have to be there. I can't wait until the end of the year. No more DADC, no more night shift, back in school, and seeing the wife more regularly. I can't wait.

I think I mentioned some time back about how I have become readdicted to EverQuest, which is one of the reasons I have not been posting much lately. It has kinda of taken over my waking life. I have most recently been working on my tradeskills. I have baking, fletching, smithing, pottery, and jewelcraft at 200, brewing around 254, and tailoring falling behind at around 170. I am slowly building the required pieces I need to get to 200 in tailoring, but that could be awhile. Normally you can have 1 trade over 200, but you can spend AAs (Alternate Advancement is a sink you can dump experience into instead of leveling. You use these points to buy skills and abilities.) to exceed the 200 cap if you want. Once I cap brewing at 300 (can not go higher...yet) I will probably work on pottery. I am also collecting pieces to make a pottery combine, and if I get all them before I am done with brewing, I will jump the gun and spend the AAs to up my pottery cap.

A brief rantfest update. I am making some small changes to how the commenting works. If all goes well, you should not notice anything, but the changes are needed for some spam challenges I am going to be addressing either later in the year or in the spring.


Late?
Posted: 2006-11-21 08:01:28, by Joe (dad-in-law)

Seems really silly of companies to have that point system. I think Jasper Engines does the same thing. All it does is encourage employees to leave them short handed for four hours when it could be 1/2 hour or less. The first 1/2 hour probably isn't all that productive anyway. How does EverQuest work on dial-up? Not that it matters anyway. I have a hard enough time getting time for my Animal Crossing game anyway. Good to know that you can bake, fletch smith do pottery and jewels. Bet that is handy around the house.

Joe

EQ on dialup...
Posted: 2006-11-22 09:29:55, by TheBackofMyMind

... wasn't too bad when it was originally released back in 1999. I haven't played on dialup for over five years now. However, here are the system requirements for the game:


Required Specs:
Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium® II 400 equivalent or greater
256 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 7500/NVidia GeForce 1 equivalent or greater
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
28.8k + Internet Connection
4X Speed CD-ROM
500MB - 2.6GB Available Hard Drive Space (depending on how many expansions are installed)
DirectX 9.0b
EverQuest Classic and a valid EverQuest account
* Note: All Direct 3D cards not supported.

Recommended Specs:
Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium® 4 equivalent or greater
512 MB RAM
NVidia GeForce 3/ATI Radeon 8500 equivalent or greater
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
56.6k + Internet Connection
16X Speed CD-ROM
3.0+ GB Available Hard Drive Space
DirectX 9.0b
EverQuest Classic and a valid EverQuest account
*Note: DirectX 9.0c or greater is required for all Win 98/ME/2000/XP

I am not sure how well it will play, but Sony obviously allows for 28.8k connection. I would assume many disconnects and periods of lag.

Hey Joe ... I have only heard of Animal Crossing in your posts. Is that a PC based game?

Animal Crossing
Posted: 2006-11-22 11:16:14, by Joe (dad-in-law)

I played originally on the Game Cube. When the DS came out, a version was developed for it and is the one I'm playing mostly now. Erin, Simon and I play it and can visit each others towns when we get together.


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