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You've never truly lived if you weren't there for Project M on live servers. What an absolutely bonkers idea. Just the devs throwing ideas at the wall and briefly having it on test servers before bringing it to the live servers. It was too beautiful (and broken lmao) for this world. For anyone unfamiliar, a bit after Velious launched we got this: quote:Tonight we have patched something to the PvP servers that many players have been waiting for. The ability to play that gnoll, orc, or the cute and fuzzy rat. On your character select screen you will notice another button in the upper right part of your screen called "Monster". Clicking this button will randomly place you in a low-level NPC in a random zone. You will be given full control of the creature to do with it what you like. You may hunt and kill other creatures. You may even attack other players. This was in a client where buffing npcs and stuff was possible. So if you could communicate that you were a monster player it was not unheard of for someone to buff you (though equally likely someone would kill you immediately.) It didn't last especially long as you can probably imagine, though it supposedly ended up inspiring the Darkhollow expansion a few years later
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Sankis posted:You've never truly lived if you weren't there for Project M on live servers. What an absolutely bonkers idea. Just the devs throwing ideas at the wall and briefly having it on test servers before bringing it to the live servers. I played on test fulltime from vanilla till PoP, and I remember the pvp, race war and project M patches. Race war was fun, if not annoying, but project M was a whole new level of insanity. Groups of fire beetles ganging up on poor newbies; raid buffed orc pawns with ykeshas and hp jewelry. I'm surprised they even let it hit live.
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Nov 26, 2023 11:49
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project m was maybe the greatest era of everquest
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Nov 26, 2023 11:54
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Project M: I was a bat in Freeport newbie area. My brother ran his character over and bandaged me while I fought mobs. Leveled to 5 that way, absolutely slaughtered unsuspecting players trying to level there. Good times.
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I managed to get transformed into a kodiak in West Commons. I destroyed people. All the other times I played on project M I just got turned into newbie yard trash. But that glorious time as a kodiak will never be forgotten.
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nwin posted:I got hooked way too quickly but wasn’t great. I got a human monk to level 46 and decided I should start my epic. I started missing college to camp things for my epic and lost my scholarship for college. I'm lucky I don't have the kind of brain that gets totally sucked into these games. My brother is one and was in the top raiding guild in EQ and in WoW once fell asleep at his chair doing a dungeon, woke up, and grabbed the bus for school. Also felt a bit guilty about possibly getting a coworker fired when I told him about WoW despite me not playing it him, coming in after some weekend about how much he had been playing, and not long after he no-called no-showed until they canned him.
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Nov 27, 2023 20:00
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New implementation of raids on Quarm, Secrets has decided to just go with instancing plus weekly/bi-weekly quakes instead of the not-instancing-but-basically-instancing daily guild rotational spawnsquote:Private Guild Instances Are Available, Quakes Return! Flavahbeast fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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Dec 11, 2023 22:16
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I don't really understand why #showquake is limited to guild leader/officers. I also don't totally understand why the quakes are random but known. I'd like to know if I'm going to get booted out of a zone I'm exping in without having to be in a guild/leadership.
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Dec 12, 2023 01:26
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I have no idea what any of that poo poo means. what's a quake in eq terms
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Sankis posted:I have no idea what any of that poo poo means. what's a quake in eq terms Resets/respawns everything.
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Oh no dad-eq changes on the daddliest eq server ever. Edit: Also get ready for PVP quake in the "future"
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Dec 13, 2023 13:41
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Secrets is changing items now, lmfao - whoever warned about this was right on the money. God can we PLEASE just get a new P99 soon
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🤷🏻♂️ It doesn't seem especially popular so maybe it'll get reverted.
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That Little Demon posted:Secrets is changing items now, lmfao - whoever warned about this was right on the money. God can we PLEASE just get a new P99 soon What kind of changes?
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Dec 13, 2023 20:31
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Well it changes three basically worthless drops to be merely Bad (and probably takes a bite out of the Pearl Kedge Totem market.) We'll see what she does with the planar stuff but the three changes so far seem pretty marginal, especially with planes releasing in a couple weeks
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Node posted:What kind of changes? 
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Sankis posted:🤷🏻♂️ It doesn't seem especially popular so maybe it'll get reverted. there are about 600+ idiots slobbering all over her constantly for this so I expect this + more idiotic poo poo soon enough lol
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I kind of like the idea of reworking itemization in EQ because there are a lot of bad items that could be made more interesting. Like that Warhammer of Divine Grace is a Cleric only melee weapon that procs Yaulp, which increases strength and AC. A weapon that drops off a big ole dragon should be useful and not a piece of poo poo (although I'm not sure how useful proc'ing a DD to undead is for a Cleric). But Quarm presented itself as "classic EQ up to PoP", right? Anyone who went to the server to re-live their 1999-2002 glory days is gonna hate any sort of changes like that. Ehud fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Dec 13, 2023 22:51
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Planar armors are all kinds of messed up because the devs at the time thought every character should be well rounded. You get things like these: https://wiki.project1999.com/Rune_Etched_Helm https://wiki.project1999.com/Insidious_Slippers https://wiki.project1999.com/Indicolite_Boots https://wiki.project1999.com/Vermiculated_Gloves
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Yay custom content server?  Everyone wants improved EQ until my vision doesn’t line up with your vision. I’m interested at all of these other servers like EQ Archives popping up on the TAKP login server though. Maybe we’ll have a little renaissance of interesting servers
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Yeah I mean, willingness to address the obvious problems that exist on every classic EQ server isn't bad on the surface. But the inconsistent and ad hoc approach to big system changes will eventually piss a lot of the more hard core people off. It's a race between that and the blatant favoritism really. But it should still be a fun time with a good, active population for most.
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Population is already going down. Granted it's still much higher than I thought it might be at this point but it's been decreasing lately. I imagine we will see a sharp decline once legacy stuff stops dropping. Everyone anticipates that I figure. Would be something if Secrets decided to leave them in to stave off a population drop. Concerning the other changes I don't think there will be too much awful backlash towards onesy-twosy changes but as was mentioned the inconsistency and firing from the hip will erode player trust over time. I'm still not ruling out That One Big Change that makes pop drop over night but maybe that won't happen. Also have to figure that Secrets has some pretty thin skin if you've ever caught her streams so we shall see.
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aparmenideanmonad posted:Yeah I mean, willingness to address the obvious problems that exist on every classic EQ server isn't bad on the surface. But the inconsistent and ad hoc approach to big system changes will eventually piss a lot of the more hard core people off. It's a race between that and the blatant favoritism really. But it should still be a fun time with a good, active population for most.  i'm having fun on my Druid, just hit 30 and got the ol' Manastone now onto getting some newbicite before I shift focus over an ERU SHD. Ground that one up to 10 with some PLs and planning to hit 20 and get Jboots before the legacy items are poofed. a little worried how bad I'm gonna suck with garbage melee stats in classic but I'm in it for the long haul 
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the second there is a new P99 quarm goes to 0 lol
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Fangthane posted:Population is already going down. Granted it's still much higher than I thought it might be at this point but it's been decreasing lately. I imagine we will see a sharp decline once legacy stuff stops dropping. Everyone anticipates that I figure. Would be something if Secrets decided to leave them in to stave off a population drop. Concerning the other changes I don't think there will be too much awful backlash towards onesy-twosy changes but as was mentioned the inconsistency and firing from the hip will erode player trust over time. I'm still not ruling out That One Big Change that makes pop drop over night but maybe that won't happen. Also have to figure that Secrets has some pretty thin skin if you've ever caught her streams so we shall see. I think there could be a small bump when planes come out. A ton of people are done leveling and just logging in to raid right now, Jan 1st there will actually be content again The legacy stuff is kind of a mystery right now though:   So most of it will stop dropping Jan 1st (except Jboots, those will still drop off Drelzna) but there's some other system, in addition to the casino (which I assume will be a big plat sink), which will make legacy items not significantly valuable somehow? No clue what that could be (and she says the items will "still have value" so presumably they won't just become No Drop)
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Flavahbeast posted:(except Jboots, those will still drop off Drelzna) wait what? I guess I don't have to rush my SHD to 20 then before the 1st. e: i wonder if all of the manastones etc are going to be made NODROP. if so  at all of the melees holding onto them. breaking root i guess.
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Flavahbeast posted:I think there could be a small bump when planes come out. A ton of people are done leveling and just logging in to raid right now, Jan 1st there will actually be content again lol i hope you're not wasting your time farming them, but also farming them might not be a waste of time. Maybe. Depends how you value the system that I will not be explaining for two more weeks.
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it seems the warhammer of divine grace proc being changed to dismiss undead is being walked back a bit? It's tradeable and non-lore, so I guess somewhat useful as a farmed up pet weapon.
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cmdrk posted:it seems the warhammer of divine grace proc being changed to dismiss undead is being walked back a bit? It's tradeable and non-lore, so I guess somewhat useful as a farmed up pet weapon. Sounds like thats why the buff got put on hold, they fear the power of pets with the weapon as it was going to be implemented
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so the post-1.0 Legacy item changes have been put into place. tl;dr the legacy items are getting replaced by NODROP variants. Secrets posted:There are a number of revamps to Time-Limited Legacy Items. These new versions will be functionally identical, require specific levels to acquire, and will all be no drop. The Time-limited factor will only apply to legacy items that are able to be traded, and are traditionally time-limited, nerfed, or removed in EQ's timeline that we select to be. As well as this: Secrets posted:The following items are not traditionally legacy items in EverQuest, but have seen a legacy flag added to ease camp congestion. They will not be removed at all at any point during the timeline, nor will spawns be eased: I guess Manastones will be useful for PLs 
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how do you make something 'russet' teal?
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Both Pinkicite and Teal-coloured Russet stink of bad writing in the style of being lol so random XD In the time honored tradition of EQ dev you’d think someone would’ve done a 5 second google search for a pink gemstone to base the discount Rubicite off of. I’m still casually playing but my friends have given up the idea of raiding here since it’s quickly sliding into EZ Loot Custom Content Server. I’ve got no objections to that in principle but it’s a bit different than what was sold to the community. The developers have a somewhat captive audience for whatever weird poo poo they wanna try as long as they keep the rare pixels flowing to the game dads.
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I think most of the changes have been good
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Rexicon1 posted:I think most of the changes have been good The changes are whatever but secrets sucks and I won’t support anything they are involved in. That’s just me though.
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cmdrk posted:Both Pinkicite and Teal-coloured Russet stink of bad writing in the style of being lol so random XD Insecure devs and admins are the worst. Some people wanted legacy items but some people didn't, let's keep them in game but make the original versions special. Some people wanted competition, some wanted rotations, let's have both at the same time with different rulesets, and also instancing but without loot, except you can win a rotation spot... there's just no coherent idea at all, it's all compromise after compromise.
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an iksar marauder posted:Insecure devs and admins are the worst. Some people wanted legacy items but some people didn't, let's keep them in game but make the original versions special. Some people wanted competition, some wanted rotations, let's have both at the same time with different rulesets, and also instancing but without loot, except you can win a rotation spot... there's just no coherent idea at all, it's all compromise after compromise. Yeah, honestly I haven't touched Quarm in a couple days because of this. I understand the desire to not remove things from the game to be fair to those who haven't gotten it, but I feel like it was a bit of a misleading change of pace. I confronted the reality of 'this goes away on January 1' by leveling a couple alts to 30 so I could get dark elf masks. I'm not really upset that it's sticking around - mostly just wish I knew that ahead of time. Would have played my hand a bit differently in that case. I do enjoy the fact that a guild can't just forever monopolize the legacy spawns - that was in there from the beginning. The problem I have is the flip-flop, honestly. Ah well. Might poke at it again when Kunark's out, but my motivation is gone for now. Nothing new with EQ, obviously; I've been yo-yoing like this for years after all.
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imo removing items from mobs is loving stupid and kills the fun out of some mobs. im glad you can get jboots from najena instead of praying to god you get the god spawn of AC where some high level poopsocking dog wasn't there during their 21 hour grindfest or dumping 5k plat to do it the boring MQ way. renaming legacy loot is loving dumb. for what purpose? to appease the sweats who farmed several sets to sell at bloat prices? they can eat poo poo. my biggest loving peeve is the dogshit skillups on this server. i feel like they're so loving gutted compared to p99
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Levelling an Iksar Necro, got bored of Wakening and moved to twin giants in Frontier. Since those are camped half the time, and chain-resisting slows when they dont insta-break roots i moved on to find myself in the giant fort in Burning Woods, currently lvl 56.84 now. Kinda liking it a lot, and i noticed a Greater Warbone Skeleton roaming the front gate path a lot of times - so i thought "why not try undead-charming that guy since wiki stats say hes pretty awesome appearently". But, of course, i dont have the fabled pre-nerf-CoS (and prolly never will) so heres my question: Is it feasible to try fighting with a charmed undead pet that could potentially wipe the floor with me if charm broke out of the blue if you dont have the good CoS, and if so, how exactly would you go about it (in detail)? My only experiences with undead charming so far have been rather frustrating at low levels, when i gave it up until a short episode in KC at 55 which ended up with my pet breaking charm and slapping me to paste in the absolute clown fiesta that is KC-courtyard-okta-pulling-group, so im hesitant to even try to utilize it. (Which is also why i wont go to HS basement.) e: im on Blue, didnt find a separate thread for the server, dunno if its much of a difference though.
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