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Regardless of the cash shop situation?

According to the guys deving the VG emu, you could probably shrink the scope of the world yourself if you wanted to. Would be kind of fun to shrink the world way down and repopulate the game with all new lore and different NPC placement.

Like I said in my previous post, it's very hard to get kills with a chanter. The cure disease shield Big Flex is talking about makes chanters pretty fucking dominant at controlling pvp, but actually getting kills by yourself is very difficult. That said, enchanters are beasts at group or...

The almost stand-alone story of young Roland and Susan Delgado in Dark Tower IV was one of the best stories I've ever read. I liked the Dark Tower series, but even if I didn't, reading it was worth it just to read that story.

The SNES Shadowrun was great, but pretty damn linear. There was a flavor or feeling of open-worldiness, but really it was appearance more than reality. It was still a good game though- they really captured the feeling of the SR world. The Sega Shadowrun...

Maybe you're right. I hope not, though. The dislike for cash shop games is a preference, like any other preference. You could argue all day about whether mmos are better with or without cash shops- just like you could argue all day about whether blondes are better than redheads. In the end...

I seriously doubt ALL games do- but regardless, it's not unreasonable to think that someone might make a game without a cash shop. Unlikely, I'll grant you, but not impossible.

Someone just make it easy and tell me if it has a cash shop so I can forget about it entirely.

I love chanters, but I'm sick of them. I was able to duo very well with the druid starting from scratch with no help. Plus, it's probably me, but I've never been able to do much with chanters in pvp post 50. High end people are so well geared that even with Tash everyone resists the shit out...

I'm rerolling on this server myself. Would be nice to level up with some forum pals. Not sure if I'm going wiz or necro yet. I have a 50 chanter and my roommate has a 50 druid. If you guys are interested in catching the PL train with me, let me know your in game name. The more the merrier.

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Beware the voice of Saruman! For even after he has lost aught else, his voice still has the power to deceive and mislead. Seriously though, Brad missed his calling as a politician. He has a true talent with words. He's been kicked out of the Orthanc, but damn if he hasn't found himself a...

I wasn't suggesting anything, I was just making an observation that he has done this type of thing before. There are dozens of differences between this scenario and original EQ that go beyond the fact that Pantheon does not appear to be as "revolutionary" as EQ. I give Pantheon about a 5%...

That's similar to how he got 989 on board with EQ I believe. Not with Unity obviously, but I think he worked up a basic framework himself and showed it to the studio.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on this. I also agree music is good (if it's original). Still, in my experience promo videos (even gameplay promos) are almost entirely useless at predicting how decent an mmo will be.

I'm not disagreeing, really. Even if I don't try Pantheon, I'll at least follow its progress and read reviews (then maybe try it based on what I read). I guess all I am saying is that it's a mistake to rely too much on EQ-nostalgia to maintain interest- and I have a feeling that's what Brad is...

An EQ clone will never work. There is a great scene in Apocalypse Now, after Willard meets Kilgore ("I love the smell of napalm in the morning"). Kilgore's men have cleared the beach and set up a cookout on the LZ. Willard narrates: ?They choppered in T-bones and beer and turned the LZ into...

Sounds like Kegz screwed a ton of people on these boards over the first time around. No wonder he hasn't tried to advertise Sleeper 2.0 on these boards.

Thanks dude, those are basically the details I wanted. I guess it comes down to: the guy who runs the server may have MH issues and will probably be unresponsive to (at best) and potentially hostile to criticism/suggestions/bug reports from the player base. Sounds like anyone who plays here...

Would love specifics before I invest more time. So far most criticism seems to be people who specifically have an issue with Kegz (which doesn't affect me) or they don't like the fact that there are some definite ways it isn't classic Velious. Please tell me specifics if there are other good...

I've played a lot of PEQ servers and it definitely feels different than a normal PEQ server. But it's also definitely not a true classic server. I would wrap it up by saying it's somewhere in between. You can tell what has been done required more than a "small" amount of work. But the server...

Hopefully, at some point, the emu will be at a point where others can run their own version of the game and correct/alter some of that stuff. That's what I am really interested in. It's been said a million times, but VG had a ton of potential that could be harnessed by passionate fans to...

TLDR; 30+ actual players. If you are looking for a "truly" classic Vanilla to Velious experience you will be disappointed, but if you are just looking for a low-pressure sandbox to do Vanilla to Velious content in then the server seems like it may be good. Full Review: They allow up to...

Damn, I got that same email several days ago. I definitely remembered something negative about the Sleeper server but I couldn't remember exactly what it was. I checked the EQ thread here but I couldn't find the thread on the Sleeper (didn't realize it had been Rickshawed). Since I couldn't...

I'm with you- I'm a 30-something who no longer has the time it takes to play an EQ-like mmo, but I'm all for such games being made. That said, I'm going to respectfully disagree with your assertion. I'm not sure what you mean by "most people" don't want to play games like EQ, but "most...

It's been stated before but I'll state it again to fill my monthly troll-feeding requirements: CRs weren't fun. Harsh experience loss on death wasn't fun. Long travel times weren't fun. These things weren't put in the game to be fun. Not everything in a good gameshouldbe "fun." If a game...

Hey Nirgon, me and a friend leveled a chanter/druid duo to 50 but kinda bored without a guild. Which guild are you in and are you still recruiting?

Early SZ definitely was a blast. I rolled from server opening to about 04. I ended up in Hate, but Ruin had a lot of great guys. For some reason the only name I can recall from Ruin is Jelis- or something like. Female DE chanter. Good times.

I'm assuming you were in Ruin on SZ- who were you?

Man, my drunk EQ experience is pretty much the opposite of yours. I pretty much always wake up to find myself without my gear trying to figure out where I left my corpse. When I find it I usually discover I gave my a few pieces of gear away to some newb. I had to start cutting myself off when...

To be fair, they only had one "official" QA tester. There were two other guys on site and always helping test in an unofficial capacity- one of which was the QA tester's brother.

I'm a level 50 Enchanter with 2 friends about to start playing. What is our best trio option for 50+ content and why? Getting them to 50 with me will be fast and easy, so I am only worried about 50+ I was thinking Monk+Cleric+Enchanter... Was originally going to sub a Shaman for the cleric...

I was under the impression that Ogre stun immunity made them the best shaman class- especially at high levels with all the chain stunning mobs?

Seems like the dude is being pretty honest to me. Instead of promising us a diamond and giving us a turd, he is admitting the game will be a turd (at least in appearance) but promising it will eventually be polished into a diamond. Frankly, this approach would only surprise people in the...

Duh. I didn't do very well on the LSAT either.

Not to overanalyze this, but it just seems like one of those logic games from when I took the LSAT years ago and I feel compelled to ask: You mentioned one sister but then made it clear that her "boyfriend" was also playing. Then you mention a "brother in law" but you never mention a second...

Just want to point out that no one has yet given a cogent, lucid example of what is toxic about the server's end game. When I asked the question I was wondering if the complaints were a case of a few disgruntled people that feel they got "screwed over" at some point simply venting their...

Care to explain more about the raiding scene's toxicity? Even from my brief experience on the server I can tell that Nihilum seems to dominate end-game stuff, but I have a hard time believing that on a server with a reasonably low population one guild can cock block everyone else...

Playing a chanter/druid combo with a friend. We are only level 30. Over the last couple days we stopped grouping to try and grab some items. Just finished the sol ro chanter mask quest. Starting to get difficult to level in cloth and no decent gear. They did something right with the group...

It's funny. For some reason whenever I read Ut's posts, I hear Dwight: Not necessarily meant to be an insult. Just being honest.