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<b>Message ID:</b> 20110 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Wed Jun 28 22:28:19 BST 2000 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> jhenders@bogon.com <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [eqbards] grouping thread on the Everquest boards <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-855437570">On Wed, Jun 28/00, &quot;Kimes, Dean W.&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dean_kimes@...">dean_kimes@...</a>&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; If this is the case then the z-axis thing truly is a bug and not simply a<br/>
&gt; feature of the system architecture.  There is really no reason one spells<br/>
&gt; AoE should behave any differently than another&#39;s except for bugs.  Do wizard<br/>
&gt; AoE damage spells agro creatures below or above them like ours do?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes they do. Our enchanter cast aoe stun when we were killing fairies on<br/>
the first island of Sky and got almost every quest mob from the inside<br/>
of the island on his butt instantly. I think the only factor that has<br/>
any effect is if mobs are below you in the dungeon or not. Some places<br/>
that seem ok may just not intersect with other mob holding areas.<br/>
<br/>
Verant (Brad) has said at least one place that I&#39;ve seen that checking<br/>
the z-axis is just something they can&#39;t do in the current server engine.<br/>
Too much cpu. Given that I&#39;m 99% certain the game runs on Sun servers<br/>
and if it was spec&#39;d when they started developing, the servers it was<br/>
spec&#39;d for aren&#39;t even sold anymore, I really think they probably could<br/>
have the cpu for it now if they really wanted to do it but that&#39;s what<br/>
he has said.<br/>
<br/>
Why am I 99% certain it&#39;s running on Sun? Look at Verant&#39;s current job<br/>
offerings. The Sr. Sysadmin position says your duties involve <br/>
&quot;Configure, deploy and maintain game server hardware to power our<br/>
Massively Multiplayer games&quot; While Unix experience is required, NT<br/>
experience is only prefered. As a side note, from what I&#39;ve heard they<br/>
pay, getting a sysadmin with a Cisco ticket is a total fantasy. <br/>
<br/>
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