Your Ideal EQ Server
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Lenas
Trump's Staff
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Client - Underfoot
Style - Semi classic (+ mercs)
XP Rate - 100%
Spawn Timers - Faster with some variance. Maximum 3 day spawns.
Difficulty - Would like to see all content retuned for 1-3 groups.
Boxing - No
Expansions - Up to Omens of War
Progression or Full Release - Custom progression (Fight's post seems perfect)
Red or Blue - Blue
Transportation - Classic until your character unlocks PoK
Soul Binders - Yes
Style - Semi classic (+ mercs)
XP Rate - 100%
Spawn Timers - Faster with some variance. Maximum 3 day spawns.
Difficulty - Would like to see all content retuned for 1-3 groups.
Boxing - No
Expansions - Up to Omens of War
Progression or Full Release - Custom progression (Fight's post seems perfect)
Red or Blue - Blue
Transportation - Classic until your character unlocks PoK
Soul Binders - Yes
Does the tech exist to make the old raid zones instances? My ideal EQ server would allow instanced raids for raids that aren't top tier. So like if velious opened then ntov, sleepers and aoe are contested and the other stuff is spawned on demand with a lockout. Up to luclin since after luclin the classic era really ends. In POP everything gets inflated so much, the stat cap goes away and for the first time a new expansion truly trivializes all previous gear to the point where it is trash instead of maybe slightly worse. Ex robe of azure sky to vulak robe to aten robe is small reasonable upgrade but aten robe to timeworn is 2x stats plus effect.
Mercs balanced correctly are better than allowing boxes, boxes makes people anti social, mercs are just a shitty version of a real player if done right so grouping is still preferable.
Titanium is a fine client, it's not classic but it's good to go so that counts for a whole lot.
Mercs balanced correctly are better than allowing boxes, boxes makes people anti social, mercs are just a shitty version of a real player if done right so grouping is still preferable.
Titanium is a fine client, it's not classic but it's good to go so that counts for a whole lot.
Fight
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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This is true. I use mercs, but I am always on the lookout to replace them with a real player. Not to mention there are significant exp bonuses for doing so.
Boxes have turned into a necessary evil of a game that requires so many different roles. It is not fun though and can be headache inducing. Being able to devote 100% attention to one character in a group full of other players is still and will always be the "best" EQ experience.
Short answer, yes, you can configure instances like you are describing.
I feel like EQEmu Bots could replace Mercs in a classic environment in a way if you add some sort of penalty (IE; can only use them while solo & have all the associated costs of mercs.) for using them and making them harder to obtain - harder, as in, harder than using a #command to summon them.
What are EQEmu bots?
EQEmu bots are just player characters that you can gear up with your extra gear. So if you want to have a bot tank with your cleric player, you can give him the extra warrior loot you get and he'll equip that loot and start playing with it. They can also buff specific people on demand, port people, maintain CH rotations with other bots, and manage their own set list of buffs. In other words, they are just an extra player and can be configured in any style imaginable. You can group with however many the server operator decides to allow. You can even have a raid full of the little guys.
yerm
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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I loved tz way back when, but emu servers seem to do nothing for me vs prog servers I really enjoyed. I think the problem is that you pretty much have to be a hardcore player and pvper if you're doing eq emu pvp so you end up with none of the lukewarm pvpers. What made the original pvp fun for me was that many people were just there to add challenge, or play with friends who liked pvp, or do it sometimes but not others, etc, and that's impossible to reproduce on an emu server I'm afraid. It was totally normal to run into casual players that heavily pvped, or hardcore pvers on a pvp server, etc. Not on emu.
With that in mind, I would love a pve server that has pvp days. Preferably coinciding with massive big mob spawns. Or, on the flipside, a pvp server with pve offdays. Also non-shitty gms.
With that in mind, I would love a pve server that has pvp days. Preferably coinciding with massive big mob spawns. Or, on the flipside, a pvp server with pve offdays. Also non-shitty gms.
Evernothing
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Would love to see this instead of Teams99 as a feature on blue - maybe for a week or so, after Velious, as some sort of event.
Oh the tears that would happen...
Xeldar
Silver Squire
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Name: Fate's Demise
RULESET: Custom. Race PVP outside of dungeons/raid zones. In dungeons/raidzones, full red (lvl 1's can be attacked by lvl 50's). Furthermore, in dungeons, dying to another player or pain and suffering results in a non remomoveable 1 hour rez sickness within the zone of your respective death. FV with respect to items, no restriction on zoning into Fear/Hate.
LOOT: Rubi/Guise/Manastone stay in. Rubi after a certain point is replaced by Iksar Ceremonial, Guise and Mask are both on the table at a certain point. Manastone has two variants. One where the mana c works in old world, and one where mana c works in Kunark as well. 50:1 ratio between old world manastones and everywhere manastones. Bladestorm drops off a draco and procs lvl 49 mage AE rain spell.
UNIQUE: Qeynos/FP message board has the option for bounty. Like Soandso could place a bounty on Tyen's head. The next time he is killed, his killer is rewarded x plat from Soandso's bank account (this is exploitable form of money transfer). Also, for a rubi bp and GEBs, Soandso can place a bounty on Tyens head where he is deleveld from 50-35, the next time he is killed.
I also want a ruleset server where backstab/flying kick effectively reduce a mob's hp by 75%, bash lasts for 10 seconds, causes normal hits to be criticals if bashed, and criticals to crippling blow. Warriors ATTACK/ATTACK SPEED increases exponentially the closer they are to death. And all spells are .5 second casts; you get 8-10 spells before you go OOM. 2x cast for spells of your own class, 1x cast for spells from the same group as you. 2-3x spell slots for a spell from another group's list (groups are INT, WIS, HYBRID). If a mob is feared, rogues auto double backstab or critical backstab. INTIMIDATE is a more effective fear.
RULESET: Custom. Race PVP outside of dungeons/raid zones. In dungeons/raidzones, full red (lvl 1's can be attacked by lvl 50's). Furthermore, in dungeons, dying to another player or pain and suffering results in a non remomoveable 1 hour rez sickness within the zone of your respective death. FV with respect to items, no restriction on zoning into Fear/Hate.
LOOT: Rubi/Guise/Manastone stay in. Rubi after a certain point is replaced by Iksar Ceremonial, Guise and Mask are both on the table at a certain point. Manastone has two variants. One where the mana c works in old world, and one where mana c works in Kunark as well. 50:1 ratio between old world manastones and everywhere manastones. Bladestorm drops off a draco and procs lvl 49 mage AE rain spell.
UNIQUE: Qeynos/FP message board has the option for bounty. Like Soandso could place a bounty on Tyen's head. The next time he is killed, his killer is rewarded x plat from Soandso's bank account (this is exploitable form of money transfer). Also, for a rubi bp and GEBs, Soandso can place a bounty on Tyens head where he is deleveld from 50-35, the next time he is killed.
I also want a ruleset server where backstab/flying kick effectively reduce a mob's hp by 75%, bash lasts for 10 seconds, causes normal hits to be criticals if bashed, and criticals to crippling blow. Warriors ATTACK/ATTACK SPEED increases exponentially the closer they are to death. And all spells are .5 second casts; you get 8-10 spells before you go OOM. 2x cast for spells of your own class, 1x cast for spells from the same group as you. 2-3x spell slots for a spell from another group's list (groups are INT, WIS, HYBRID). If a mob is feared, rogues auto double backstab or critical backstab. INTIMIDATE is a more effective fear.
Project M, but you can spawnanywhere, like BoT as a Kriger. You can select your zone.
This should totally be on a major EMU server. Who wouldn't want some of that?? Even if only for some nights so to avoid any raid training. Gang warfare between the 4 sections of BoT. Sign me the fuck up.
This should totally be on a major EMU server. Who wouldn't want some of that?? Even if only for some nights so to avoid any raid training. Gang warfare between the 4 sections of BoT. Sign me the fuck up.