Silly post, don't take seriously, just monday morning rambling.
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Originally Posted by Dr_dre
Does the gamedata include the xP per mob u earn. and thus create me numbers instead of stupid % based we get to see now ?
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Verant/SoE learned that lesson a long time ago... Don't share too much data.
back in the day, the gods created EverQuest, and it was good.
(I'm not really biblical so excuse me if a paraphrase)
...and on the seventh day, the gods rested.
It was on this day that the "demi-gods" (the open source community) created ShowEQ, and it was 'l33t' good, but not good in the way that the gods wanted. So the gods retalliated on the demi-gods closing the gates of paradise and there was much sadness for many days (Verant encrypted their data stream so ShowEQ stopped working).
The demi-gods in secrecy came up with a plan to tunnel under the great wall around paradise, once more getting a taste of the glory of whatever it was that god didn't want them to see. (fixed ShowEQ)
The gods realizing they could not truely defeat the demi gods came up with a plan to keep the demi's at bay, sort of a stalemate if you will. The gods let the demi-gods view paradise, but they made all the apples unobtainable, but left the apples there for the demi-gods to drool over just out of reach. So while the demi's had their reign in the garden, they were never truely raised to the level of the gods.
In other words, EQ used to send exact numbers like exp gained, and lost. ShowEQ exploited those numbers and made it easy to figure out how long it would take you to level, Verant tried to stop that, but could not (ShowEQ broke the code). So Sony said, well then we'll just stop sending the exact numbers instead we'll just send a percentage so that the client will look the same, but ShowEQ won't display those exact numbers. Because what the server doesn't send to the client can't be exploited. (like loot, there's no way to peek at a mob and see what drops he/she/it has on him/her/it, becuase that data is never sent until you loot something)
So blame ShowEQ for not being able to see exact numbers.
(oh and ruining PvP, but that's another topic)