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aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe
PROJECT QUARM IS THE NEW HOTNESS - Fall 2023

Former P99 GM and contributor Secrets has opened up a new EQ emulated server based on TAKP (EQ Mac emulator effort).

For more information:
https://projectquarm.com/

Secrets posted:

Time-Locked Progression system, with 9 months between each expansion. Classic -> Kunark -> Velious -> Luclin -> Planes of Power.

Incremental patches will occur every 3 months.

1.0 (Launch)
- Paineel is in on launch. The Hole and The Warrens are closed.
- Runnyeye does not drop Alloy items, and the sporali have not moved in.
- Legacy Items are enabled:
* Manastone
* Rubicite Armor
* Guise of the Deceiver
* Journeyman's Boots (Drelzna)
- EXP / ZEM - Pre Velious, Classic EQ ZEMs
- A single pet dealing 50% or more will reduce solo experience at 50% or equal to one group member weight of the pet's level if grouped.
- Wizards keep later xpac innate crit chance.

Classic 1.3: (3 months)
- The Temple of Solusek Ro opens.
- The Classic Planes (Hate, Fear, Sky) open. - Cazic-Thule is a hybrid of Kunark and Velious CT. Innoruuk is a hybrid of pre and post revamp Innoruuk. (Immunities to slow, snare, fear, root, paci, etc, but not resist immune)
- Legacy Items are disabled from Classic 1.0

Classic 1.6: (3 months)
- The Hole opens.
- Bloody Kithicor / Firiona Vie / Lanys T'vyl GM event
- Lustrous Russet Armor stops dropping.

Classic 1.9:
- None (This is our pre-Kunark milestone)
- Special GM event involving Firiona Vie

Kunark 2.0:
- Kunark accessible.
- Iksar createable.
- Nurga and Droga pre revamp
- Chardok pre revamp.
- Level Cap 60, 0 AA
- Legacy Items enabled.
- Epic Items enabled.

2.3:
- Firepot binding removed.
- Cazic Thule / Innoruuk given minor damage boost over classic.

Kunark 2.6:
- Legacy Items disabled.
- A single tradeskill allowed above 200 is added.

Kunark 2.9:
- Pre velious patch.
-Gnomes appear, wanting help crafting a new feat of gnomish engineering that will allow their expedition to reach an island they saw in the distance...

Velious (3.0)
- Velious opens.
- Level cap remains 60.
- Runnyeye revamps.
- Warrens and Stonebrunt quests NPCs enable.
- Legacy Items enable.
- Seaworthy planking is enabled as a rare spawn.
- EXP/ ZEM rules change to Velious group bonus / Velious newbie ZEM boost.
- Sleeper's Tomb is unavailable at launch.

Velious 3.3
- The Planes of Hate and Fear revamp.
- The Sleeper's tomb opens.
-Seaworthy Planking is disabled.
Velious 3.6:
- The Warrens and Stonebrunt opens.
- Legacy Items are disabled.

Velious 3.9:
- Chardok revamps.
- Pre-Luclin milestone.
- Al'Kabor Spire GM event

More details to follow...


HOW CAN I TALK TO GOONS?
https://discord.gg/cu3dX6q
Get you some discord cause channels ain't classic!

Green red and blue are now in their likely end-phase for content. They are sitting at the last pre-Luclin patch in the Velious era.


READ THESE CLASSIC TESTIMONIALS FROM REAL LIFE GOONS!

a real jerk posted:

[Fri Sep 04 15:26:47 2015] Auto attack is on.
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:47 2015] You try to punch Priest of Discord, but miss!
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:47 2015] Priest of Discord crushes YOU for 140 points of damage.
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:47 2015] You have been knocked unconscious!
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:47 2015] You have been slain by Priest of Discord!
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:47 2015] Priest of Discord shouts, 'Let this fool's meaningless death be a reminder to you that the power of Discord is absolute!'
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:51 2015] Returning to Everfrost, please wait...
[Fri Sep 04 15:26:52 2015] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

Conskill posted:

I am trying to start a Barbarian Shaman over on blue. I never did Everfrost back in the day and dear God I remember why. This is brutal in an unfun way and I'm not sure I'm going to make it to level 2.

Currently my corpse is being camped by a goblin that doesn't move and kills me before I can loot all my stuff. Yay.

Conskill posted:

At this point I'm just going to delete the character and start over. Half way through level 1 isn't enough grind time to worry about trying to get my club and armor back.

kecske posted:

I made a gnome necromancer on blue, spent 10 minutes finding my way out into the steamfount mountains and 20 steps out of the front door some other gnome hanging out by a giant robot spider ran over and beat me to death. Then I made a human and died a slow death at the hands of a rat, so slow I had to force close and restart the client to get out of the unconscious - bleeding to death cycle.

Now I'm an eridite guy trying to find my way out of some grimdark skeleton city, and the map is disabled apparently? How the hell do you ever get anywhere.

e: do I need to train the sense direction skill to figure out which way I'm facing?

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Nov 9, 2023

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Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe
Did Everquest pop your MMO cherry? Are you tired of WoW and its copycats dumbing down your MMO experience? Have you never played EQ but want to see what all the fuss is about? Do you sometimes have nightmares about running around naked trying to find your corpse in the middle of West Karana?



Project 1999 is a free emulated Everquest server (run through eqemulator.org) that has been developed to recreate the original Everquest experience as accurately as possible. While Everquest is still around and things like progression servers still happen with some frequency, EQ is now full of changes and features that make it a completely different game from the one released in 1999. Project 1999 eliminates these features as much as possible and overall is the most accurate classic experience currently available. If later versions of EQ are your cup of tea check this thread for more info: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3472675

Project 1999 is a work in progress based off the Everquest Titanium client. There are some legal limitations for the developers, especially when it comes to modifying the client. The Vanilla-look client can't be hardcoded, though people have come up with UIs that make your client look Velious era, or even Vanilla-era to some degree. Also, there are some intentional differences, mostly ones designed to prevent faction/experience/plat grinding exploits, protect the economy, and keep the raid scene from getting too awful. There are a few weird/random things that aren't classic, but for the most part, the developers do a good job making things feel right.

Project 1999 is a unique animal in the world of emulated servers as our new Russian overlords at Daybreak Games (formerly known as SOE) have officially recognized it as a non-profit fan server. This is great news as the lurking legal hammer and potential shutdown threat were always a concern for everyone inovlved.

ARE THERE OTHER WEIRDOS LIKE ME WHO ACTUALLY PLAY THIS?

The community of classic Everquest has been recreated to a large degree and most people are polite, friendly, and at least somewhat concerned with their character's reputation. Unfortunately, due to trends in contemporary games that give you whatever content you want on a silver (instanced) platter and the type of nerds this sort of game attracts, you will occasionally run into people who will attempt to bully, rules-lawyer, or grief you out of a camp or group. This is most noticeable at high-value item camps that are fairly easily soloable by lots of different classes, but is thankfully not a general problem. The endgame raiding scene is extremely competitive, much more so than most live servers, which has led to strained and at times openly hostile relationships between the various raiding guilds. Raid guild drama is pretty darn classic and this server has it in spades, both in game and on the forums. There are guilds that raid casually, though these guilds tend not to kill as many of the most desirable mobs. There are leveling guilds and community guilds as well if that's more your speed.

Peak hours since the release of Velious have been roughly 1200-1400 characters online. Events like Double XP weekends have prompted 2000+ people to log in to P99 Blue. Due to strict policies against multi-boxing accounts, almost all characters are unique players, which greatly encourages grouping. There are plenty of opportunities to group at all levels if you get to the proper zones. If you need to figure out where to be, ask in the thread or do some /who all searches in game: '/w all 28 32' is good for finding people around level 30 for instance.

CURRENT PROGRESSION (Jun 26, 2018): Velious + fifth post-Velious release update

The server has been running publicly since Fall 2009. The plane of fear was introduced during the following winter. Hate was opened (with a Bloody Kithicor event) in Feb 2010, which was followed by the opening of the Temple of Solusek Ro and the first mid-level class armor sets, as well as the removal of dropped items like Rubicite, Manastone, Guise of the Deceiver, and Journeyman Boots (go here for a more complete list - JBoots are now a quest result of course). The Plane of Sky and The Hole were made available later in 2010. In the spring of 2011, Kunark was released, and not long after some drops were removed (check the above link for details). Late in 2011 Veeshan's Peak was opened and the original class Epic Quests were implemented. Kunark purgatory then ensued for almost 4 years and is, at long last, finally over. Velious is here along with several updates: Class XP penalties, including that pesky hybrid penalty, are now gone! Root and snare can once again play nice together! Planar revamps to Hate and Fear that include some minibosses are in. And the Sleeper has been awoken already on both servers! Items like Holgresh Elder Beads and Circlet of Shadow no longer drop. There's many rumours about what will happen to the server once progression catches up with Luclin (the first non-classic expansion) but nothing has been confirmed by anyone who actually has a say in the future of the project (nilbog, Rogean).

MY MASOCHISTIC NOSTALGIA IS TINGLING, WHERE DO I SIGN UP?

The official getting started guide has instructions for both PC and Mac installations: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651

ME AND THE PRIEST OF DISCORD ARE PALS, WHERE'S MY PVP?

Project 1999 includes both a "blue" (PVE) server and a more recently released "red" (PVP) server. Both servers get the same progression updates at this point. Red runs at roughly 5-15% of the active population of P1999 Blue but has features like faster XP, a smaller player community, and global chat channels. EQ PVP, while pretty much universally acknowledged to be unbalanced and bad, also provides another incentive to be social and group up with people. The PVP is mostly +/- 4 levels so you don't have to be too concerned with high level ganking - twink ganking happens but is largely avoidable by grouping. Here's a post with more details about the PVP and other mechanics on Red:
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148678
Many of the devs and GMs involved with P99 are committed to a stable and enjoyable PVP server, and there are long term plans for a racial/team PVP server, which may include an eventual merger of the current and new PVP servers.

HEY I WANT TO BUY A CHARACTER SO I CAN 2-BOX MACROQUEST AND SHOWEQ!

Project 1999 has strict policies regarding all of the above. Here's a rundown of some of the more common offenses and how they're handled.
  • 3rd party "cheating" software (Macroquest, ShowEQ) = Ban, *HIGH* enforcement + automatic detection - This server has far better hack/cheat detection than anything Sony ever ran. If you run this stuff, even for some benign reason, you will get caught and you will get banned. It's honestly one of the best reasons to play on p1999 over some of the other available classic-ish options out there.
  • 2-Boxing (more than one character per player) = Ban, high enforcement - It is not possible to log in more than one account from the same IP address without a special exemption. Sure, it would be nice if you could mule items, port and powerlevel yourself, but this rule is what ultimately encourages grouping at all levels. The community would be much less classic-like without this rule. GMs have gotten pretty good about catching people who try to get around this with proxies and cell-phone tethering etc. and the community helps to police it.
  • Real Money Trading (trading in game stuff for out of game stuff) = Ban, high enforcement - Braknar (a senior server guide) has been on a crusade against RMT for at least a year, and he's gotten pretty good at hunting people down. Whether you like it or not, please do not use this thread for RMT. If you must mix :10bux: with free pixels, just google Project 1999 RMT and you should find what you're looking for. Note to buyers: beware - if you end up getting caught you can lose your P99 character/items/plat and the seller will typically get to keep your dolla bills, other game currency, buttcoins, etc. I know exactly one person who managed to get his money back from a RMT that resulted in a ban.
  • In game currency/item exchange for Characters/Accounts = Ban, enforcement unknown - This is a more recent change. Up until August of 2013, you were allowed to buy and sell accounts for in game currency and items. This was convenient for a certain small subset of players but did very strange things to the economy. I've still never heard of anyone getting banned for this since then, but most people interested in accounts now just go for RMT anyway.
See here for more rules info: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651

If you want to play with people who share your IP address, you will need to apply for an IP exemption here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/announcement.php?f=25 Note: this can take a few weeks to go through. Also, if you do manage to score an exemption and use it to 2-box you will get caught and you will be banned (guides and GMs specifically monitor people with exemptions).

CLASSIC and SERVER SPECIFIC RESOURCES

You will be able to find some good item and quest info on current EQ fansites like Allakhazam, but some of it is wrong for P99's take on classic EQ.

Official P99 Wiki: http://wiki.project1999.com - Your one-stop shop for classic EQ information: classes, races, items, mobs, guides, maps...it even has item pricing info though there are better resources for auction prices. There's also a Magelo-style feature that lets you put up a wiki page for your character and list their gear to be displayed graphically, like so:


Auction trackers - the official wiki has prices for many items on each individual item's page, but many of them are out of date or have been manipulated by the people who upload logs. I'd recommend this tracker instead: http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/. You can also check out the East Commonlands subforum on the P99 website.

Maps - EQAtlas mirror: http://www.allakabor.com/eqatlas/atlas.html - EQ Map Preserve: http://www.steveprutz.com/eq/

There's also a really handy tool that Pilsner/Zliz wrote that is 100% confirmed OK to use on P99 and parses location data from your log file to update your position on an EQAtlas-style map in another window. It's available here: http://www.zlizeq.com/ZlizEQ_Projects-ZlizEQMap

Class selection - A realistic look at choosing a class on P99 - slightly endgame skewed but mostly good info: http://wiki.project1999.com/Loraen%27s_Class_Selection_Guide

Goon-written project 1999 FAQ: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1002

P1999/Everquest Beginner's Guide - very useful if you never played EQ during the classic era:
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41480

EQ PVP Class Summary - trying to figure out which class to roll on Red? Check this post: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3475298&pagenumber=66#post434167724

Feel free to ask any other questions in this thread or on the official P1999 forums: http://www.project1999.com/forums/index.php

If you're having trouble getting the game to run or want more info on modified UIs and other technical stuff, check out the stickies in the Tech Discussion forum: http://www.project1999.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40

Links to the old threads in case anyone needs to check them out and lost their bookmarks:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3254358
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3211945
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3475298

WHERE DA GOONS AT?

New discord: https://discord.gg/cu3dX6q
Old discord: https://discord.gg/4XrG9h5

Green
Ask in thread

Blue





The official Blue goon guild is <Unknown Guild>. You must search for it using quotes around the name like so: / all "unknown guild"
The previous tag <Invalid Guild> was also searchable with quotes, but it's also the default tag that you get when your character's tag or an entire guild gets messed up in the database. We occasionally got random additions to the guild because of this. That was part of the joke, but Sirken didn't think it was funny, and he nuked it after Nilbog mentioned it to him randomly. I still hold this against him.

Red
The goon guild on Red is currently defunct but will likely rise again. There are a number of active Red goons, ask in thread for more info!

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Nov 9, 2023

hayden.
Sep 11, 2007

here's a goat on a pig or something
first post bitches

Is Blue Velious launching at midnight? Or some time tomorrow?

aparmenideanmonad
Jan 28, 2004
Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!
Fun Shoe

Rogean posted:

I wanted to make a post to let everyone know what to expect. We will be starting a launch event in the evening of that server's day. The event will last for a few hours. Unlike our Kunark launch event, which had a set amount of progress required and various defined steps, the Velious launch will be a consistent event lasting for an undefined amount of time (up to several hours).

Other than that, the event will be similar in many ways to the Kunark event. There will be 5 zones, announced at the beginning of the event, each containing a mini event with battles taking place between two factions. Players can chose to help one side, or both. Event participation will be tracked by faction, which can be gained by assisting either camp with acquiring event specific items off mobs in surrounding zones, or by slaying the combat mobs of either faction. You will not lose faction with the opposing camp by any action, however, so feel free to jump around.

At the end of the event, the higher value of the two factions will be your participation score. When Velious opens, you will be able to take a one time teleportation directly from the event camps into a Velious zone. The destination zone will be determined by which camp you port from. This teleport will initially only be available to those that participated the most in the event, and every several minutes that participation threshold will be lowered to gradually allow more players to teleport from the camps. This system is set up to encourage participation in the event and to take the stress off bottleneck zones like North Ro.

There will also be rare item raffles based on your participation score, so don't miss out! See you guys there.
So probably sometime tomorrow night, Blue Velious will be unlocked for the non-tryhards. I'm going to be out of town sadly so someone go rep goons for me.

Tashan Dorrsett
Apr 10, 2015

by Deplorable exmarx

Tashan Dorrsett
Apr 10, 2015

by Deplorable exmarx
Red server highlights

<<You have now entered the Pro-Click zone>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y48ITnS1jk + http://fox40.com/2015/03/23/woman-hospitalized-after-brutal-medieval-mace-attack/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3EMkz97Ks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAXCiKFEpFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT17uFri5F0

Siets
Sep 19, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
I didn't show up for any Velious events because they were massively confusing and I knew it would just be a shitshow full of corpse runs fighting unkillable Empire at full force.

Also, how do I fight a bard as a monk? Every fight with a bard has just gone completely one-sided against me. Within seconds I have a million songs landing on me that I don't know what they do, I'm running at snail speeds, and unable to melee them. Can songs be dispelled with pumice? Also I have 100+ MR but the songs seem to hit me instantly every time. It seems hopeless.

vvv That's what I figured. :negative:

Siets fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Aug 2, 2015

FayGate
Oct 5, 2012

Crimson potions help with bards/ench but really they can just kite you till death. Plug at the nearest ZL.

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit
SO I was burnt out and haven't logged into red for about 3 months. Today I logged in to find Velious, Good Guys are no more, my friends it looks like have gone to TMO, who the gently caress are TMO? what's happening on Red fellas?

Tashan Dorrsett
Apr 10, 2015

by Deplorable exmarx

Siets posted:

I didn't show up for any Velious events because they were massively confusing and I knew it would just be a shitshow full of corpse runs fighting unkillable Empire at full force.

Also, how do I fight a bard as a monk? Every fight with a bard has just gone completely one-sided against me. Within seconds I have a million songs landing on me that I don't know what they do, I'm running at snail speeds, and unable to melee them. Can songs be dispelled with pumice? Also I have 100+ MR but the songs seem to hit me instantly every time. It seems hopeless.

vvv That's what I figured. :negative:

Event was horrible, yeah you guys missed nothing. I spent from launch to midnight unable to login with 20 empire getting dkp to camp my bind all night while I played my lowbies, because I emberassed Colgate on their stream. At no point did the staff think it would be a good idea to have any sort of CSR presence on launch. Go figure.

As a monk there is nothing you will ever be able to do against a good bard without your own bard. 1v1 the only thing that can kill a bard is another bard or a wizard who gets incredibly lucky with yonders, but even then only if the bard is bad. One of my hobbies is to grief tstaff monks with my naked bards. Bring your own bard with you or engage them indoors if you want a chance.

Tashan Dorrsett
Apr 10, 2015

by Deplorable exmarx

Myrddin_Emrys posted:

SO I was burnt out and haven't logged into red for about 3 months. Today I logged in to find Velious, Good Guys are no more, my friends it looks like have gone to TMO, who the gently caress are TMO? what's happening on Red fellas?

Holocaust is Empire and now the dominant force/zerg on the server. Other Guys is their alt guild and Kingsguard is their 55 twink/griefer guild. TMO is a top blue server guild that moved to red server pretty recently. Currently the server's undergeared resistance guild. Good guys disbanded and most of their members are currently applying to TMO. Azrael is reforming, but many of their members went to TMO. Fresh is gone, thunderdome is the server leveling guild. Friends and Slosh are still around, while Flowers of Happiness is MIA. Lite is back, and there are rumors Nizzar will return. Most goons including myself are in TMO or unguilded right now, but there's definitely goons in Empire.

Tashan Dorrsett fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Aug 2, 2015

Lotophage
Apr 26, 2015

by Lowtax
I don't know if I have the patience to start this up in earnest again, but I never played Velious so I'm gonna log in and run around for the next few days probably. If anyone is doing anything Velious related it would be cool to tag along, I have a 45 SK and a 30 Wiz on red.

nyclin
Jun 19, 2001

Siets posted:

Also, how do I fight a bard as a monk?

If you're outdoors, just zone plug. If you get really, really lucky with a tstaff proc+innerflame combo you may be able to put a dent in them but as soon as Selos pulses, they'll be gone.

Indoors just use a 2hander and treat them like an Enchanter that you can't really interrupt.

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



Tashan Dorrsett posted:

Holocaust is Empire and now the dominant force/zerg on the server. Other Guys is their alt guild and Kingsguard is their 55 twink/griefer guild. TMO is a top blue server guild that moved to red server pretty recently. Currently the server's undergeared resistance guild. Good guys disbanded and most of their members are currently applying to TMO. Azrael is reforming, but many of their members went to TMO. Fresh is gone, thunderdome is the server leveling guild. Friends and Slosh are still around, while Flowers of Happiness is MIA. Lite is back, and there are rumors Nizzar will return. Most goons including myself are in TMO or unguilded right now, but there's definitely goons in Empire.

Yeah, this.

In my experience, basically Empire and Kingsguard are the ones to distrust and always worry about if they're in the same zone as you. They actively did their best to train everyone to death in Kael and ignore LNS and so on and so forth last night. TMO can be a little jumpy but most are super chill when you message them and mention knowing various goons in their guild.

hayden.
Sep 11, 2007

here's a goat on a pig or something
"Snowflakes begin to fall from the sky"

itshappening.gif

hayden.
Sep 11, 2007

here's a goat on a pig or something
Currently dwarves and giants to kill in various zones. 110+ Taken in GFay killing stuff. Has items to turn it but not clear what they do.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
1800 players online holy poo poo :stare:

hayden. posted:

Currently dwarves and giants to kill in various zones. 110+ Taken in GFay killing stuff. Has items to turn it but not clear what they do.

Yeah I just killed a bunch and turned em in, all I got was rep. Somebody else said they got a haste belt from it though?

hayden.
Sep 11, 2007

here's a goat on a pig or something
I think he was just messing with people. 250 players in GFay and zone started dying. People having desync issues or can't log in.

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011






First boat to Velious on blue

Lotophage
Apr 26, 2015

by Lowtax
Was too late for the Red event, but I got some.. mammoth hide leggings on blue. :toot:

The only thing of value I saw anyone get was a Ring of the Ancients.

Not_Rainbow_Horse
Nov 11, 2013
I got a handmade backpack!

hayden.
Sep 11, 2007

here's a goat on a pig or something
Taken got AoW down to 72%, I landed a few nukes before dying. He's susceptible to Lure of Ice strangely, not Lure of Flame. We first attempted AoW with BDA but the number of people desyncing made it impossible, didn't get below 99% I think.

Taken also took down King Tormax and someone won his head for 2900DKP (a shitload, was one of the highest balances in the guild). Pretty fun intro to Velious.

hayden. fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Aug 3, 2015

Dirt
May 26, 2003

Few pics of the Coldain/Giant event:






All I got out of it was a Platinum Skull Ring. meh

Wasn't really fun either, the mobs were all red to me at 40, and summoned, and would quad for like 180.

I ended up farming dervs in Oasis for the quest drops. I got like 10 total. Nothing but that ring to show for it.


Went into Velious for the first time... It's pretty cool from what I saw. Very big zones, tons of people.
Stuff is mean there though, with crazy MR. Like I could barely land nukes on blue con mobs(like 1 out of 5 tries would land). Couldn't get Malise(magic debuff) to land ever either.

Pwnz0r
Sep 21, 2005

Pilsner posted:

Here you go:

/pause 3, /tar Zliz
/pause 1, /doability 1
/stand

For line 1, replace Zliz with your name name. Adjust the /pause 3 according to your lag.
For line 2, replace the /doability 1 with the ability slot you have BW in (1-6)
If you are fighting mobs that start with the same name (ask me about grinding Bouncers in Oggok from level 45-50 ), you can also add:

/attack Bouncer

...on a fourth line to automatically resume attacking, but even without a /pause, I found that the delay (about half a second) between standing and attacking was too long, and I preferred to resume attacking manually.

Oh man, I had no idea you were a goon Zliz !. I actually just messaged your email regarding your Zliz EQMAP for P1999. Is there any way you can update this for velious? I read over your instructions, and I think I may run into issues for the 'dimensions' of the zones. I created a folder called 06Velious, added the map .jpg's, but for the actual .txt files that need stuff like the map dimensions I basically just copy pasted them all from another map and I assume this will make my actual loc showup wrong on the map itself but I wanted to get the map atleast loading the new velious zones so I could see them and at the very least guess where to go etc.

How can I go about getting these dimensions of the zones? Cobalt Scar, Western Wastes, Eastern Wastes, Great Divide, Iceclad Ocean, Skyshrine, City of Thurgadin, Kael Drakkal, The Wakening Land, I left out a lot of the dungeons and such because rarely do I use it in those type of zones. However the big wide open zones like ice clad, E/W wastes, GD, even wakening lands. Would be amazing to have this function again. Please if there is anything you can do, I have red plat or whatever I can donate to you.

For those wondering what I am talking about, He made a wonderful program that reads your logs and uses the /loc in game command to show you where you are on a overlay map. 100% legit, I used it on characters for quillmane farming that had no track etc, just to visually run the lines and find it a few times. Even though I know certain zones, like west karana, or dreadlands, or burning woods for example. I let this run in my background, and sometimes I will just overlay it always on top, fade it a bit. then while im auto running, ill hit my /loc macro, and itll show me where i am, how far off I am from being a certain place etc.

As far as Velious goes...Soon as the world shook last night after the GM event. Everyone had their eyes on the prize for velious, Me and some friends went and knocked out all the kunark content. Got gnarled staff, some neat stuff, soul leech, trunk, strings from CT, CURE SHIELD and other stuff from inny, Green dragon shield and some misc stuff off sev, RBB's off fay. No Dragon Hero bracers unfortunately, but with velious they won't be best for long. Some people might think oh its just kunark content, but gnarled staves cure shields are some of the best drops in game still esp on red, next to an AoN. I snagged the shield, not sure what to do with it may leave it in clerics bags for vyemm or something. I must say though, the whole spell vendor stuff has been a mess so far. I worked my way to wakening lands/SS on a wiz + druid bound there. so I could funnel multiple copies of all the portal spells to friends and people in ooc who needed help. Only to find out the other spells, like level 59 paladin Celestial Cleansing isn't for sale and the vendor apparently won't be there for another month. We did snag 2 copies of aegolism from lodizal at least...Great buff! Can't wait to farm up a ton of holgresh beads.

My main regret, is not getting my monk 60 sooner. Hes guised, tstaffed, fungus, twinked out the rear end. On red, the PVP in kael and surrounding zones is infinite. One guild was literally on perma LNS almost all night because they just kept getting dropped.

insulated staircase
Aug 21, 2014

where the seaworthy planking @?

Pratan
Dec 31, 2006

As a human druid of Tunare, is there any reason I need high or wood elf faction? I've done the Felwithe portion of my epic. I want to quad/rot both race's guards, but am scared I'll permanently gently caress up needed faction for later quests.

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit

Pratan posted:

As a human druid of Tunare, is there any reason I need high or wood elf faction? I've done the Felwithe portion of my epic. I want to quad/rot both race's guards, but am scared I'll permanently gently caress up needed faction for later quests.

The only faction you need is The Claws of Veeshan

Pilsner
Nov 23, 2002

Pwnz0r posted:

Oh man, I had no idea you were a goon Zliz !. I actually just messaged your email regarding your Zliz EQMAP for P1999. Is there any way you can update this for velious? I read over your instructions, and I think I may run into issues for the 'dimensions' of the zones. I created a folder called 06Velious, added the map .jpg's, but for the actual .txt files that need stuff like the map dimensions I basically just copy pasted them all from another map and I assume this will make my actual loc showup wrong on the map itself but I wanted to get the map atleast loading the new velious zones so I could see them and at the very least guess where to go etc.

How can I go about getting these dimensions of the zones? Cobalt Scar, Western Wastes, Eastern Wastes, Great Divide, Iceclad Ocean, Skyshrine, City of Thurgadin, Kael Drakkal, The Wakening Land, I left out a lot of the dungeons and such because rarely do I use it in those type of zones. However the big wide open zones like ice clad, E/W wastes, GD, even wakening lands. Would be amazing to have this function again. Please if there is anything you can do, I have red plat or whatever I can donate to you.

For those wondering what I am talking about, He made a wonderful program that reads your logs and uses the /loc in game command to show you where you are on a overlay map. 100% legit, I used it on characters for quillmane farming that had no track etc, just to visually run the lines and find it a few times. Even though I know certain zones, like west karana, or dreadlands, or burning woods for example. I let this run in my background, and sometimes I will just overlay it always on top, fade it a bit. then while im auto running, ill hit my /loc macro, and itll show me where i am, how far off I am from being a certain place etc.
Hey, I have just finished updating ZlizEQMap to match Velious. It's strange that you had to create a 06Velious directory - maybe you had an old version? Regarding the dimensions, check out the How it Works section of the readme.

For those who don't know, I wrote a map program that haxx0rs your legit EQ log file in order to display your position on a map (old school eqatlas.com style map) with a red x. The basic features are:

quote:

  • Complete EQAtlas map library for the old world, The Planes, Kunark, Velious and selected other zones (some maps slightly improved and edited)
  • Player location on the map, marked with an 'x' when you perform a /loc in-game
  • In addition to marking the player location, can show direction arrow (based on Sense Heading)
  • Automatic zone switching as you zone in-game
  • EQAtlas map legend (some slightly edited)
  • Automatic detection of which character you're playing
  • Multiple maps per zone, for example in dungeons with multiple floors
  • List of clickable connected zones for each zone
  • Waypoint functionality
  • Adjustable transparency and always-on-top
  • Server-agnostic; supports Project1999, The Al'Kabor Project, and can be extended to match any server
  • Classic eqatlas.com look

Screenshots:


General map view; player location marked by red arrow.


Displaying map overlay feature; adjustable window transparency.

Here's the full info:

http://www.zlizeq.com/ZlizEQ_Projects-ZlizEQMap

I just uploaded version 5 (download here), which doesn't really have anything new in the program itself, just metadata updates:

quote:

v5 (August 3, 2015)
  • Adjusted zone names in the ZoneData-Project1999.txt file to properly support Velious on Project1999.
  • Added missing map data and image for Plane of Mischief.

I'd be happy if you goons will spread the word about it to your guildmates and P99-playing friends (lol?). Just don't post too much about it on the P99 forums, because whiners will come out of the woodwork to claim that this is "not classic" and should be illegal. It uses simple log file parsing that has been possible since classic times, and even though you couldn't alt-tab back in the day, I'd say this program is within the spirit still.

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




Please dont post about it on the p99 forums at all :ohdear:

Pillow Armadillo
Nov 15, 2005

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!"
How do keys in Velious work? I guess I need to run around and grab teeth or something?

insulated staircase
Aug 21, 2014

Pillow Armadillo posted:

How do keys in Velious work? I guess I need to run around and grab teeth or something?

you only need to bother getting cobalt scar tooth, it works for all of them

Pwnz0r
Sep 21, 2005
Much appreciate on the v5 update Pilsner. Yeah I do agree, A lot of people complain its not 'classic' but to me, p99 isn't classic at all to begin with. This is a great tool and I am glad their new eula they didn't decide to take action against /log reading programs (gamtexttrigers, gamparse are amazing especially GTT for pvp on red). I will spread the link to the updated version to my pals that use it for new velious update. Truly is great, I made one in VB but it was crude and not nearly as good. Didn't have a lot of the functions yours did such as auto zoning loading the next map etc. I remember there being a thread though, One of my major things was a must have overlay always ontop with a transparency and your p99 map just happened to be perfect.

As far as teeth/porting keys go in velious, Cobalt Scar key is considered the 'master key'. A druid can port himself into great divide, or wakening lands and CS as far as I know without having the keys. If you are on blue its super easy, check out this quest: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=940

Basically you want to take 200 plat with you, You have to run through kael to wakening lands, run to skyshrine. There is a drake not far in up the stairs to the right then left. You say to him "I am worthy" and he hands you a message to Wenglawks, You take this message + 200 platinum pieces BACK to kael, and turn both into Wenglawks(Non kos giant, but there IS a KOS noble giant dark blue con wizard at 60 in the same room) I was able to do the turn in as a rogue sneak hide, break sneak hide turn in, and i don't know if it was a server tick or luck or being level 60 gave me a big enough aggro radius to avoid aggro but the noble did not aggro and i hit hide within 2 seconds immediately, then snuck back out. The house for wenglawks is around the middle betweel wastes and wakening lands. like #4 #5 or #6 on the map IIRC.

Once you get the turn in from Wenglawks "message to herald" you run that back to the same drake in skyshrine, in return you get a Shrine Key. This allows you to go up to pool room and click on the statue to zone into cobalt scar. Then its literally a straight walk about 1 minute sowed to the CS portal area, and a tooth is on the floor respawns every 15 seconds. Once you get the CS tooth your done, AFAIK you have to keep the CS tooth and shrine key on you. I haven't tested yet, frankly its annoying though its 2 extra bag slots that I don't have room for. I already kept my VP key banked except when raiding I would OT hammer, grab it out with resist gear and go in so that wasn't bad. Hope this helps.

For great divide, go to the map #4 i think it is, the dragon portal(druid port in) and there will be a tooth on the floor as well if you want to pick that up for the time being. However if on blue, keying up should not be an issue. On red, I personally sat at the kael/WL ZL for a few hours, and I must have coined a dozen people for 200pp alone, in total group got around 90 kills, more then half were otw to get their CS key.

Kalaxus
Dec 8, 2003

Battle Master
Rolled up an Inky SK, on Blue named Desireecstasy
Newbie leveling takes longer then I remember, thought I level 9 would take like 3hrs by memory guess that was the nostalgia. Feel free to add to me to friends, and shoot any pre-kunark odd ball lore/dungeon type questions my way; learned a lot weird facts attempting the Bayle Notes hidden quest back in the day ^_-

Dirt
May 26, 2003

I hate this game sometimes.

Died in TT, no clue where my corpse is. Whoever thought of making a zone full of see invis, faster than SOW frogs, in a zone where you cant see 20 feet in front of you, is a dick.

Siets ,if you are around later today, if you could hop on Xeriak, Ill give you some cash to summon my corpse.

Siets
Sep 19, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Dirt posted:

I hate this game sometimes.

Died in TT, no clue where my corpse is. Whoever thought of making a zone full of see invis, faster than SOW frogs, in a zone where you cant see 20 feet in front of you, is a dick.

Siets ,if you are around later today, if you could hop on Xeriak, Ill give you some cash to summon my corpse.

I can get on anytime. I'll keep tabs on this thread and just post when you are available. Happy to help!

Kalaxus
Dec 8, 2003

Battle Master
I've been trying to do Death of Lyda with my Shadowknight. I got the quest from Tani the Rogue GM then I tried to talk to Giz but she ignored me. I managed to get Lyda to spawn by having my Bard talk to her dad, but Lyda despawned before I was ready and further attempts to get her spawn failed. So I waited till night again and tried to talk to Giz to see if she would hear me this time; which she did, but she ended up calling me liar for saying Tani Sent me and killed me. Thinking Wiki may be wrong and the quest might be Rogue only, starting quest over and seeing if she doesn't kill me this time after refreshing Tani's quest. classic EQ quest hehe

Edit: turned out the timing on my convo with her father was coincidence, Lyda spawns at 9p and despawns at 6a. First time I lured her out, I got her down to 7% and 6a clicked over and she despawned. You can get someone not KOS to go in while she's there and tell her "the ship is docking" and she'll head outside for a minute. If you miss the kill there, she will not be able to be lured again with the convo though still triggers dialogue. missing the lure, the other option is to have someone pull her out and Feign Dead; as long she is out of the building she'll stay put until attacked. otherwise she ports back to spawn point. Turned in quest and got reward from Tani, just had to skip Giz convo which is pointless and rogue only

Kalaxus fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Aug 4, 2015

Dirt
May 26, 2003

Siets posted:

I can get on anytime. I'll keep tabs on this thread and just post when you are available. Happy to help!

You don't happen to have a coffin or two in your bank do you?

I can go make a level 1 DE to buy one, pretty sure I'm KOS in Neriak on all my characters.

It's dumb they only sell them in Neriak, but you can buy the smaller ones(for the level 57 spell) in Paineel.

Siets
Sep 19, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Dirt posted:

You don't happen to have a coffin or two in your bank do you?

I can go make a level 1 DE to buy one, pretty sure I'm KOS in Neriak on all my characters.

It's dumb they only sell them in Neriak, but you can buy the smaller ones(for the level 57 spell) in Paineel.

No need to summon if it's in TT. I have spells that let me track and find the corpse easily. You just need to be in the zone with me and then I can run and drag it back to you.

Dirt
May 26, 2003

Siets posted:

No need to summon if it's in TT. I have spells that let me track and find the corpse easily. You just need to be in the zone with me and then I can run and drag it back to you.

Ok well that makes things easier.

Later on hopefully I can get a evac to EJ from FV, or I can meet you at the TT/Swamp of No hope zone line.

Thanks man.

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Siets
Sep 19, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Dirt posted:

Ok well that makes things easier.

Later on hopefully I can get a evac to EJ from FV, or I can meet you at the TT/Swamp of No hope zone line.

Thanks man.

Yeah work on getting that port and post again in the thread when you are there and I can log in and help ya out.

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