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#1 Jul 29 2015 at 9:17 PM Rating: Good
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Since nobody's posted it on the news yet (hint, wink, nudge).

Not much of an update to be honest. I was hoping to hear more about upcoming plans for our favorite game but there's only a teaser about a No Box Progression server.
Anyway, Cyliena, we usually like to read this on the news page...


Producer's Letter: July Update and What's Coming Up

07-29-2015

Greetings Norrathians,
I wanted to give you an update of what we’re up to on the EQ team.

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To start with, we have continued working on the Campaign content for later in the year and it’s looking great so far! At the same time, the team continues to add fixes and quality-of-life improvements in our monthly updates as we move forward.

We have been listening to a lot of feedback and discussing some options so we are starting a plan for a special rules server for winter for those people looking for a different experience. We are working on the details, but it seems like a No Bot/No Box Progression server could be a lot of fun (and we might explore some other additions as well). It requires some coding to enforce a single client per computer, so winter seems likely for that release, after the upcoming Campaign.

On the TLP servers – Ragefire and Lockjaw – we are still planning on starting transfers on Thursday afternoon ahead of the expansion voting timeframe for Ragefire (if you want to learn more about transfers, please see this post). We had an unfortunate (putting it mildly) failure on Lockjaw on Monday and are working through some of the issues with rollbacks and helping our CS team with petitions.

For all servers, we are chasing some crash issues. We have spent time getting data so we can address those problems.

I also wanted to take a moment and give a heartfelt thanks to our guides. The program is growing and they are back to doing what guides are great at – being players who help the player community. Feels like old times! (I used to be a guide way back in 2001!)

Stay tuned as we bring you more details as we move ahead!

Holly "Windstalker" Longdale

Executive Producer, EQ & EQ2
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#2 Jul 29 2015 at 9:47 PM Rating: Good
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Nice to see them putting some information out there, at least it means they've not forgotten live servers.
#3 Jul 30 2015 at 5:31 AM Rating: Excellent
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Aaikan wrote:
Since nobody's posted it on the news yet (hint, wink, nudge).

Not much of an update to be honest. I was hoping to hear more about upcoming plans for our favorite game but there's only a teaser about a No Box Progression server.
Anyway, Cyliena, we usually like to read this on the news page...


we are lucky she does the other updates....be thankful we have what we have....after she leaves we may not get any updates at all....so dont break her chops
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#4 Jul 30 2015 at 6:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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we are lucky she does the other updates....be thankful we have what we have....after she leaves we may not get any updates at all....so dont break her chops
Xsarus will pick up the slack.Smiley: rolleyes
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I know it prob won't happen but I would love to see a server that actually puts some new zones in the game to get from 70ish up. Again know its prob not in the budget, especially with heroic toons.
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I know it prob won't happen but I would love to see a server that actually puts some new zones in the game to get from 70ish up. Again know its prob not in the budget, especially with heroic toons.


Is there a problem with the number of zones from 70 on up? I get that for the most part each 5 level range has basically one expansion (sometimes two) available, but that has never seemed to be too much of a problem to me. Unless you're really min/maxing things, there's usually a pretty wide level range of opponents that will suffice for gaining decent exp, so I've never really had an issue. I've leveled a couple characters through that range in the last couple years, taking pretty radically different paths (paladin and wizard are about as far apart in terms of ideal opponents as you can get in this game), and didn't really hit any issues. Maybe my wizard a bit in spots, but that's mainly due to the need to avoid summoning mobs when possible. Not sure that gets fixed by adding alternate zones though.

Unless I'm missing something?
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New or more hot zones would be nice. But it's hard for me to fathom anyone thinking this game lacks for zones---at every level!
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#9 Jul 31 2015 at 7:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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Rukkuss wrote:
Aaikan wrote:
Since nobody's posted it on the news yet (hint, wink, nudge).

Not much of an update to be honest. I was hoping to hear more about upcoming plans for our favorite game but there's only a teaser about a No Box Progression server.
Anyway, Cyliena, we usually like to read this on the news page...


we are lucky she does the other updates....be thankful we have what we have....after she leaves we may not get any updates at all....so dont break her chops

I was out sick the past two days, but did get it up. ;)

It is a shame the letter didn't have more details about the campaign, but a no-boxing progression server sounds interesting.


If anyone is willing to learn the ropes of news (trust me when I say it's ancient compared to modern blogs/news), I'd be willing to train you to post here. (hint, wink, nudge) Downside: it would be unpaid. Upside: keeping the community alive.

Edited, Jul 31st 2015 9:39am by Cyliena
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#10 Jul 31 2015 at 8:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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New or more hot zones would be nice. But it's hard for me to fathom anyone thinking this game lacks for zones---at every level!


I was just thinking about that. It seems if you look at the dates of the list of hot zones, we should have had new hot zones in June. New hot zones would be great. Im tired of WoS.....
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I was just thinking about that. It seems if you look at the dates of the list of hot zones, we should have had new hot zones in June. New hot zones would be great. Im tired of WoS.....

Last time I mentioned the hot zones to Holly she did comment that they are on a to-do list.

https://twitter.com/Cyliena/status/594579198796238848?lang=en

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Who knows what is possible with this newer-smaller and perhaps more free to try things? dev team.

Live servers would really benefit from "time passing". In short what I mean by this is the content moving up levels... example: LoY zones become 70-105 (any critical drops/quests get congregated or moved in a lore-logical way).

This would meet one of the itches for long-term players of having newish things to do if not playing at current end-game. Some completely new zones would be great too (even odd infill like they did with Chardok B and Sol C years ago).

Hotzones... change the zones more often and don't worry about the questline? [should make it a minimum of programming...]

Easiest way to get me playing on Live again would be another TSS style expac that goes from 1-endgame and gives me at least one new race to play in all new zones. It's certainly the only way they'll ever get me to by an expac/campaign while it is new.
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Chill Ruckass, wasn't busting chops, just making suggestions...
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Chops..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........
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Aaikan wrote:

Anyway, Cyliena, we usually like to read this on the news page...


Aaikan wrote:
Chill Ruckass, wasn't busting chops, just making suggestions...



That sounds like busting chops to me....
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Rukkuss wrote:
Aaikan wrote:

Anyway, Cyliena, we usually like to read this on the news page...


Aaikan wrote:
Chill Ruckass, wasn't busting chops, just making suggestions...



That sounds like busting chops to me....

Smiley: lol It takes a lot to upset me. But I'll gladly take some pork chops.
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#17 Aug 01 2015 at 12:32 PM Rating: Excellent
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Cyliena wrote:
Rukkuss wrote:
Aaikan wrote:

Anyway, Cyliena, we usually like to read this on the news page...


Aaikan wrote:
Chill Ruckass, wasn't busting chops, just making suggestions...



That sounds like busting chops to me....

Smiley: lol It takes a lot to upset me. But I'll gladly take some pork chops.


just seemed kind of ****** is all. we are all ( i hope) grateful for the updates Smiley: nod bone in or boneless chops???
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A no-box server might be pretty darn fun depending on how the progression lock is determined. I lean heavily in favor of a preset time locked server. Maybe 5 months for original EQ and 8 months for Kunark?

Daybreak is making an honest attempt to meet customer demand, and doing it on a consistent and timely basis.

Bravo!
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I want a discord server! Now, THAT would be a blast! It's also inherently anti-boxing, methinks. Boxing is hard enough in full-blast PvP and even harder under Discord conditions.

For those who don't remember, or weren't around, many years ago EQ introduced a Discord server. It was PVP-enabled and when you died, YOU WERE DEAD. You de-leveled back to Level 1. No rezzes, no hope for you. You just had to start over again. (Not sure how it worked with gear. Maybe it was lootable by whoever killed you.)

The server had a fixed duration and whoever was highest level at its termination one some uber prize. (I don't remember what it is but prolly something like a goblin illusion clicky, or something equally uber!) I seem to recall the winner was a cleric, somewhere in their 30s.

A Discord server would be a blast!

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I want a discord server! Now, THAT would be a blast! It's also inherently anti-boxing, methinks. Boxing is hard enough in full-blast PvP and even harder under Discord conditions.

For those who don't remember, or weren't around, many years ago EQ introduced a Discord server. It was PVP-enabled and when you died, YOU WERE DEAD. You de-leveled back to Level 1. No rezzes, no hope for you. You just had to start over again. (Not sure how it worked with gear. Maybe it was lootable by whoever killed you.)

The server had a fixed duration and whoever was highest level at its termination one some uber prize. (I don't remember what it is but prolly something like a goblin illusion clicky, or something equally uber!) I seem to recall the winner was a cleric, somewhere in their 30s.

A Discord server would be a blast!

Edited, Aug 1st 2015 3:06pm by Sippin



I seem to remember in very early EQ if you were on the pvp server and you killed someone you could loot 1 item from them. To your point I think that would add some excitement to the EQ world, for sure .
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Yeah, 'tis true. I believe the only items on the corpse that couldn't be looted were primary, secondary, range and anything bagged. And no-drop, of course, but in the early days of PvP there wasn't much, if anything, that was no-drop.

Hence players about to die in PvP would rapidly try to bag their best armor pieces before they croaked.
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Rukkuss wrote:
bone in or boneless chops???


Could go for a bone-in chop, nom nom nom.

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For those who don't remember, or weren't around, many years ago EQ introduced a Discord server. It was PVP-enabled and when you died, YOU WERE DEAD. You de-leveled back to Level 1. No rezzes, no hope for you. You just had to start over again. (Not sure how it worked with gear. Maybe it was lootable by whoever killed you.)

The server had a fixed duration and whoever was highest level at its termination one some uber prize. (I don't remember what it is but prolly something like a goblin illusion clicky, or something equally uber!) I seem to recall the winner was a cleric, somewhere in their 30s.


I don't recall a discord server, but that sounds like a fun challenge.
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Info is right on this site!

Everquest Discord Server

Although, reading the posts does remind me that a lot of the fun of this server was spoiled by hackers and cheaters.

Edited, Aug 2nd 2015 1:15pm by Sippin
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Discord server would be a blast, I might even survive for a pretty long time on a barbarian shaman.
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There may not be a site update today, I'm still without power following a huge windstorm yesterday afternoon. So no panicking if there's nothing. :)

edit: yup no updates, still no power :/

Edited, Aug 3rd 2015 5:56pm by Cyliena
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All will be forgiven if you can convince them to open a Discord server.

Smiley: lol Smiley: lol Smiley: lol
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