The single biggest improvement to game speed I have seen personally was when
I upgraded my EIDE hard drive to an Ultra DMA hard drive. The difference in
zone load time was astounding.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Pifer [SMTP:bpifer@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:46 PM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Stein Quest
>
> From: Brian Pifer <bpifer@...>
>
> WOW! That is a really long time. I almost always am back before the
> primary
> looting rights have expired. I am curious, what hardware do you use? I
> use
> a PIII 450 with a 770ultra card and I have cable modem service.
>
>
>
>
> From: Rich Hitz <Rich.Hitz@...>
>
> <snip>
> For my mule, I create a human fighter and max out the str. Then I
> hunt in front of Qeynos to hit lvl 2. This is just for comfort, a lvl 1
> has
> a better than even chance of making the kill. After that, just go kill
> fishes until a corpse is found. Log out. Log back in with your main
> character and loot the corpse. No fuss. No muss. No KOS.
> <snip>
> I would do this, but it takes me 2 minutes to log out, and another 3
> minutes
> to log back in as the primary. By that amount of time, someone else has
> looted the corpse or it has been "eaten" by the system.
>
>