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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.

Anyone still play this box? Leveling up and it seems pretty solid atm (from a lowbie perspective).

Apparently the Alpha build won't have an NDA attached to it and it starts soon. Very ballsy move. Guess we will learn pretty quickly if this is worth continuing to follow.KNEEL BEFORE ZOG! Alpha Test Information | Goblinworks If anyone has access to alpha footage, please post links here...

Calling it now. This game will be a sleeper hit. I imagine it will be much like Eve in that they start with a modest player base and grow the base exponentially over time.

So how does the experience bonus on Red work now? I heard +40% per person in a group. Is this the only bonus on Red, or is it on top of a double exp bonus (compared to blue)? Also, is the 40% exp bonus significant enough to make it worth grouping with someone, even if that other person just...

I thought EQ Live was f2p? How could it have paying subs?

I'd like some opinions on the best duo for starting fresh on the server. Factors to consider are leveling efficiency, strength at upper levels, and ability to be effective both outdoors and in dungeons. Was considering necro/chanter or druid/chanter. Druid/chanter may be weak in a dungeon...

You're missing the point of this setup. The point of the setup isn't to have two static EQ servers with high populations. The point is to provide a sustainable way to restart a progression server every couple of years. Starting on a new server and going through the content progressively is...

If that's the worst problem they face we have nothing to worry about. Not only is this the same problem any single shard game faces, but there are ways of resolving it, such as server purges etc. Rogean hasn't confirmed that the above is the plan yet, but I am absolutely 100% sure if it is...

So your plan looks like this: Server A- current blue server Server B- new blue progression server 1. Open Server B after Velious launch. 2. Run Server B through the progressions to a certain point in Velious. 3. Merge Server B with Server A. 4. Restart a fresh Server B, rinse...

Yep. The easiest solution in the world and no one running EQ servers can figure it out for some reason. Mentioned that earlier in this thread. Can't figure out why Rogean and the others can't put it together.

Everything about this game looks absolutely awesome on paper. The real test is how it plays. How does it feel when you jump on your character and start casting spells or swinging a sword? That's the true test. Goblinworks could do everything right, from the back-end stuff to the execution...

There will be plenty of fighting over spots once the game launches. The Landrush stuff is just a starting point from what I gather. There are obviously some advantages to starting in certain places over others and I think that's the point of Landrush.

Suppose you use a really conservative number for the amount of people that would be willing to pay a $15 sub monthly sub to play a professionally run classic progression server done right. Let's put that number at 2,500, which is even fewer than the total people that play the emu servers now...

The short of the long is that SOE refuses to offer what thousands of EQ fans want. So even though the emus have their problems, they are the only place we can go. As numerous people have already stated, most of us would prefer SOE deliver what we want and we would gladly pay for it for the...