Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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EQ2002: The Better Planes of Power - PoP-Locked, Single Box EQ
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Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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I suppose it's just a matter of timing, but countless other Emu servers have come up, never was interested, for EQ or WoW or otherwise.
Then I am drawn to this post via the qwerty post complaining about being banned from this thread, and I decide what the hell and go ahead and install it. Weird how things happen sometimes I suppose.
Last time I had fun in EQ was on Vulak progression server, no-lifing it keeping on top of batphone kills and shit from Classic-Luclin. Maybe this will bring back some of that magic!
Then I am drawn to this post via the qwerty post complaining about being banned from this thread, and I decide what the hell and go ahead and install it. Weird how things happen sometimes I suppose.
Last time I had fun in EQ was on Vulak progression server, no-lifing it keeping on top of batphone kills and shit from Classic-Luclin. Maybe this will bring back some of that magic!
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Plan is to migrate hosting to dedicated hosting via Akkadius' servers. It's not cheap to do that, but it will at least get me a dedicated machine, with full backups, that I can host the server on. Paid for it out of pocket and intend to do that indefinitely.
I will keep the server down for 1-5 days while I migrate hosting. The next testing phase will be an open testing phase and should require little or no downtime. I am shooting for Friday for when I have the migration completed. I have a full work week and that leaves me about 1-2 hours a day to work on this during the week. Either way, there will be 24 hours advance notice as to when the server returns.
Here's some of the changes I have made since the server has come up:
Changelog 3/11/2017:
-Server files now include a copy of commons_obj.s3d; this is required if you were having issues with west commonlands.
-The zoneline from east commonlands to west commonlands is now functional and does not take you to Kithicor.
-All journeyman mercenaries have been removed from the game and players' inventories.
-The 'Origin' AA should now properly cost 0 mana, and allow non-casters to cast the spell.
Changelog 3/12/2017
-The "Slam" skill now functions for large races.
-P99-style IP limits have been implemented. You can only log on one character per IP and this is enforced before you log in. The timeout period is significantly less than P99, however, and logging out via [ESC] or the Quit button will allow you to always get back in instantly.
-An annoying message that appeared while looting duplicate lore items is now gone.
-All items from Jan 2003 and later have been removed. Some quests may appear broken if the quest mob is not dropping a specific item required for an out-of-era quest. Please let me know of any quests that are broken as a result of this.
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Okay, that wasn't too bad, took me about 30 minutes to migrate hosting thanks to how awesome Akkadius had this machine set up. Props to him.
The open testing period begins officially now instead. Sorry for the lack of 24 hour warning. I had an opportunity to get this done this morning and didn't want to waste it, and it's stupid to wait if it's ready now.
Here are the patch notes since yesterday:
The open testing period begins officially now instead. Sorry for the lack of 24 hour warning. I had an opportunity to get this done this morning and didn't want to waste it, and it's stupid to wait if it's ready now.
Here are the patch notes since yesterday:
Evernothing
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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I mean, at the end of the day, I can't really tell if you're using MQ2Maps if you don't target things through walls. Automated gameplay and active cheats are mainly what I am concerned about.
For those of you that are having issues finding the appropriate client, a full install of the game client, with the latest patch for my server applied, is available here:
I just adjusted my original posts with information about the game client, the current testing phase, and added the discord link to the main post for ease of use.
Here's a shameless changelist of the last few days:
Changelog 3/14/2017
-Melee DPS mercenaries have had their damage reduced by 33%, HP reduced by 5%, and AC reduced by 50%.
-Tank mercenaries have had their damage reduced by 33%, HP reduced by 5%, and AC reduced by 25%.
-Caster/Tank merc HP/Mana regen has been normalized.
-The slam skill will now act as if it has one point in the bash skill when determining damage if the player has 0 points in bash.
-The Secrets of Faydwer style consider system has been implemented. Please report any anomalies in experience gain.
Changelog 3/15/2017
-Merc AC has been readjusted to be merc level * 3.7 = AC, rounded. This is across the board for ALL mercs. The reasoning behind this is to make mercs more like a mage pet in terms of damage sustained, as they follow NPC AC rules. Previously they were set to client AC values but using NPC formulas.
-Slam damage has been readjusted once again.
-Tradeskill recipes have been re-imported from the default PEQ database, and merged in with the TAKP public release data for tradeskills.
-Zones will now process NPCs while no players are in them. This should fix NPCs that do not return home.
-Mercenaries can no longer be suspended by removing them from the group in combat.
-Melee DPS mercenaries will no longer try and dance with NPCs in which they have the highest aggro on.
Here's a shameless changelist of the last few days:
Changelog 3/14/2017
-Melee DPS mercenaries have had their damage reduced by 33%, HP reduced by 5%, and AC reduced by 50%.
-Tank mercenaries have had their damage reduced by 33%, HP reduced by 5%, and AC reduced by 25%.
-Caster/Tank merc HP/Mana regen has been normalized.
- HP Regen is equal to level / 10, if regen is less than 2, it's set to 2.
- Mana Regen is equal to level / 5. If regen is less than 3, it's set to 3.
-The slam skill will now act as if it has one point in the bash skill when determining damage if the player has 0 points in bash.
-The Secrets of Faydwer style consider system has been implemented. Please report any anomalies in experience gain.
Changelog 3/15/2017
-Merc AC has been readjusted to be merc level * 3.7 = AC, rounded. This is across the board for ALL mercs. The reasoning behind this is to make mercs more like a mage pet in terms of damage sustained, as they follow NPC AC rules. Previously they were set to client AC values but using NPC formulas.
-Slam damage has been readjusted once again.
-Tradeskill recipes have been re-imported from the default PEQ database, and merged in with the TAKP public release data for tradeskills.
-Zones will now process NPCs while no players are in them. This should fix NPCs that do not return home.
-Mercenaries can no longer be suspended by removing them from the group in combat.
-Melee DPS mercenaries will no longer try and dance with NPCs in which they have the highest aggro on.
It actually was causing strain on the server as every frame it would try and reposition each NPC behind each other, and update the NPC's position via the network layer.
It looked amusing though.
Madikus
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Couple things I've noticed
NPCs at a distance, near the edge of my clip are not textured, just all white.
Casting on a mob from range returns mixed pathing results. Sometimes they run at me, sometimes they freeze for a sec, then warp on top of me.
Looting is hit or miss. 50% of the time I need to /target the corpse to loot. Some corpses I cannot target at all.
Same experience on 2 different comps, using the same client install.
NPCs at a distance, near the edge of my clip are not textured, just all white.
Casting on a mob from range returns mixed pathing results. Sometimes they run at me, sometimes they freeze for a sec, then warp on top of me.
Looting is hit or miss. 50% of the time I need to /target the corpse to loot. Some corpses I cannot target at all.
Same experience on 2 different comps, using the same client install.
With Daybreak's latest announcement, it puts this server in a weird spot. I am curious what you all think about it.
I don't want to step on Daybreak's toes and fragment the community that they would grow there.
Does this still appeal to anyone - given that Daybreak's server is essentially the same thing without mercs?
I don't want to step on Daybreak's toes and fragment the community that they would grow there.
Does this still appeal to anyone - given that Daybreak's server is essentially the same thing without mercs?
Deruvian
Lord Nagafen Raider
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I had been thinking that a slower progression server like this really needs a critical mass of people to be truly viable. Seeing how the sponsored server will almost certainly provide that, I decided to just wait for that to release before putting serious effort into EQ again.
