hi. Alakamin has been re-re-re-released

[Davood]

For real this time!

http://alakamin.us.to

contains the charts for deity/race/pet etc differentiation

Please login and break (npcs heads!) stuff over your knee and enjoy yourselves.

a quick (unformatted) snippet from my own website, which you should visit... !

NO FILE DOWNLOAD REQUIRED FOR THIS SERVER EVEN THOUGH I MODIFIED SPELLS! THEY WORK FINE!
Two handed weapons are stronger and in line with dual weilding, giving people a real choice
Bows are viable now
Shields provide enough ac to make a difference
Spell focii have been modified to work at x2 to x20 their default status, allowing for a vast range of item qualities, and significant damage output from acquiring top end loot
Spell stats have been heavily modified
Eastern Commonlands has a little easter egg for veteran players, actually its quite obvious what "it is" you have to just visit the zone to see for yourself.
Spells like mudshield and other broken spells have been intentionally "broken" in the DB and have been proved through testing to not be exploitable anymore.
NPCs have been tuned to be killable by 1 group or less, this includes all bosses. This can be reversed by need, depending on server population,.. IE if things are too easy then I make things harder. "Classic" will never be made harder.
Tasks exist for all of the progression, simplifying the advancement of players
Progression is per character, so you will need to work on your kunark flag - there are plenty of people who can help you beat those pesky gods and dragons in classic - if you cant do it yourself
# of bots is variable depending on the tier of zone you are in
Everything is tradable up to and including the Velious loot; after that, everything is nodrop - as god level items cannot be given to mortals, it will burn them alive
All top end equipment has had graphics updates
There are SIX tiers of progression, each harder than the last, with commeasurate rewards, and a limited ability to trivialize older content through my dynamic limitation system.
There are REAL differences between the racial and deity selections that you make, so you pick a gnome, you wont have the same strength abilities as an ogre, this doesn't mean just the strength score, but actual % damage per hit differences that can be measured!
Understand that there are 16 races 16 classes and 17 deities, the possibilities are incredible. So incredible in fact that I have removed all class-race-deity restrictions, and allowed for the players to decide how to play their characters, and let them roleplay to their hearts content.
all items in the game have some PP value associated with them unless tehy are strictly a quest item
AA can be purchased up to tier 4, and starting at tier 4, AA can be acquired through experience points
there are hidden bonuses for those with alot of AA stored or spent, and things that players will be able to buy with their AA points at certain points in the progression story.
All fabled loot is in, either by spawning actual fabled mobs (some of the vanilla eq content), or through rare chance from teh regular npc; this has been balanced in the following way: fabled items are all part of the same loregroup, so you can only have ONE fabled item, but since they are so powerful and there are literally 1000s of them, the fabled item you keep will change as you progress through the levels and travel to newer and more exotic lands.
For classic through Velious, there are two hubs to choose from, the default Guild Hall, or the more "live-like" Eastern Commonlands.
Post-Game, Path to divinity, and post-divinity (will use better names once people get there i dont want to spoil anything), will each have their own hubs.
Many many more changes..... for some details on the tiers, racial and deity differences, see below for the detailed explanations.

[Davood]

What an embarrassing turn of events, my ISP decided t expire one of my ips, and at the same time the router handling the connection to the webserver which has auto update for dns, decided to not auto update the dns entry.

Please find the information about the server at

http://alakamin.us.to

it will work this time, for realz

[boweq]

damn how u managed to get most the AA'sfrom live on your server?

[Davood]

from the generous developers of the PEQ project.. i just steal their db and tinker with it just like everyone else does...

[kylekurth]

BTW not letting me join the server. "An unknown error has occured"



EDIT It is working now

[boweq]

Damnn , PEQ has all most of the AA's working now?

[Davood]

The PEQ team are doing magical things for the benefit of the community

[sorvani]

Actually a lot of the AA work was done by Kayen. peruse the recent months on the main SVN change log.
http://projecteqemu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/EQEmuServer/changelog.txt

[Davood]

My apologies.
Kayen has my thanks.
Anyways back to the topic at hand. there are a number of players now and some of them are almost into kunark!

[boweq]

cant wait till everything in the high-end :)

[supahsen1]

Great server here, A really awesome twist on the classic progression with some cool new charms based on your race/diety. one might have 500ac, one might have 500hp/mana, one might have something like 20 avoidance/accuracy/stun resist (Wich i use, on my Gnome monk !) at level 60, wich is not that time consuming of a task at all.

The charms alot of variety to the classes, and the bots are able to be equiped with these charms too.

And i know everyone wants gear! People are gathering the stuff up and handing it out to new players all the time, come on by and we'll get you going.

I also have no problem helping people in getting their flags if needed, to get kunark unlocked. they aren't too hard. You can also level up to 60 in classic before you ever get your kunark flags now.

Flag mob example in toughness: Server first CT kill, who is the toughest mob in old world, took 3 people with their bots. It was an awesome fight and we had alot of fun. Most of the other guys are a 1 person deal, 2 makes it easy.


Come by guys. It's fun.

[Davood]

The hamsters have been busy.

As of 8:44 PM EST, 2012, october 13

I can now boast the following for tiers 1,2,3
I just added 106 tasks (tested-ish) now to complete, with over 1800 npcs / zones to visit / hail / kill and many many rewards.

enjoy!

Also the task for progression into tier 4 is available now, I haven't yet prepared tier 4 for launch though... i doubt anyone will finish the tier 3 task set anytime soon.

Did I mention I love the task system.?

[supahsen1]

We have steadily been gettin people flagged for higher zones. Log in and have some fun guys!

[Davood]

For those of you who played in beta... there are rewards in your shared banks

[boweq]

People still playing in the lower tiers ?

i can see im going strugle with CT ,
But i could use with some help on Phinny , ive always hated underwater fights


really love the OOC regen , its pretty good :D

[supahsen1]

This server DESERVES a larger population. If you like a server that IS doable solo, with some toughness, come on by. plus people can raid up with their groups of bots and do some real damage. The lower tiers are becoming more trivial with us passing out gear. So it's not so tough to start anymore, just catch someone on with access to the better stuff. Say HI to the server in ooc, we will take it from there and make sure you get started off right.

Give us a chance guys. You won't be dissapointed. We get 1-2 new people a day saying they love the server and continue to play semi-regularly now, We just need the word to get out. Davood puts a ton of time into this making new things and fixing any issues almost immediatly (And the result is quickly becoming a masterpiece of awesomeness) and is hands down the most involved-with-the-public GM i've ever come across.

Come join us while we are still new. Help lead the way, and give yourself a treat.

[jerluwoo]

Been playing here about a week now and its a fun server. The ability to have any race class lets you change it up so its not the same ole same ole. The staff is friendly and helpful. Lots of tasks to keep you busy while you lvl and earn aa points early so when your high enough to use them you can so you have a head start. Come by and check it out, and if you see a fatty ogre rogue named Brew running by throw a wave.

[Davood]

Tier 5 is open - there are people that are about 50% done tier 4 now so I am busy trying to finish tier 6.. Tier 7 is ready but i need tier 6 to bridge them together :D

Website has been updated with a new tier chart and guild creator, char mover, fakelo, etc.

[boweq]

You still taking off key requirments or?

[Davood]

hs and vp key reqs are gone for now

[boweq]

Dav ,

VP works fine now , No key required

Butt HS still requires a key , and Someone farmed the key and it still said locked

[Davood]

Server might lose internet today due to weather.


Server will not lose power however.. i have built a new host and wi be bringing.it online tonight.

[boweq]

Dav , Weve farmed the Howiling Stones Key , And it still saying Locked

[Paladinsteve]

UPDATE `doors` SET `keyitem`=0 WHERE `id`=7145 LIMIT 1;

[Davood]

that didn't seem to work (removing door key in overthere) i just aded an npc and called it a day :P that works now

[boweq]

Since you reset the server and updated , i logged in once , Then went out of sync , Since then i havnt been able to log on :(

[supahsen1]

For you people who haven't tried it out yet, This servers population has been soaring lately! Come see what all the hype is about and have a good time.
Multiple new people are joining every single day!

[gibroni]

just wondering if davood played on the rathe server with brotherhood of the spider? name sounds familar to me. That is where i played. BoTS on the rathe server.

[Davood]

Yes tahts me how is my favourite iksar monk doing../??? I sold all my accounts like 5 years ago :)

[gibroni]

im doing good. aint played live in about 5 or 6 years myself. been playing on peq server on and off for 2 years or so. i will have to log into your server here and give it a try. Just hang out and say hi

[Davood]

cool dude

people are beginning to stay online..... my work is cut out for me.. tier 7 is available and someone just broke into tier 6 so i gotta build more stuff :P

[boweq]

Wheres Tankz been these days or Zheal?

But guessing its either Sion or Grinum thats broke into T6 :)

Also theres Guilds Now coming out more :)

believe theres 3 now
Tenacity
Black tower
Foreign Object :)

[djlegit83]

Really fun server. I am having a blast, its not so easy that you can immediatly own all the bosses, if you want to kill them w/out some farming you need to ask for help or get some friends etc. I duo'ed Kunark with a person I never met until that day. It was really fun.

[Davood]

Grinum broke into tier 7 last night.... there are no tasks yet for tier 7 so hes gonna just farm loot i suppose :D

[Kavanah]

Tankz is busy opening a specialty coffee shop and battling cancer right now ;)

[Davood]

added player zombi-fying from certain zones / npcs, also a rewards system is in place which will notify players automagically via tells from the server if they have pending rewards, every 15 minutes.

tier 7 will be finished this week.... had some rl snags but the plan is already structured and written for the next few tiers.. it just needs to be implemented.

[Kuldiin]

I seem to crash alot in Nagafens Lair, the zone seems to anyway (I get the packetloss counting down).

Is there a reason this keeps happening? Was enjoying the server till I kept getting booted off =/

[boweq]

how logn does the packetloss take to take place?
What are you doing at the time
i will try to replicate the packet loss later tonight if i get a free 10mins ,

So we can identity if any problems server-wide or Client - Side :)


I arnt part of the Gm team , but a freindly helpful player on the server :)

[Davood]

I have a suspicion..ill check tonight


i believe this will get sorted out when i trn the yest server into the main server

[Kuldiin]

My character "Tann" Tried zoning from Lavastorm to Nek forest, and now seems to be stuck between zones. I have tried relogging and it doesnt release him.

Could you move him back to the hub please? I've been unable to get him out of zoning myself.

Thanks

[supahsen]

http://alakamin.us.to/z/alakamin_chars/charmove.php


Theres a toon mover on site.

[supahsen]

Seen you stuck earlier btw.. on /who all.. you were showing up twice lol.. Just use the site and youll be good to go.

[Kuldiin]

Marvelous. Thanks :)

[Kuldiin]

Would it be possible to get all the Rusty etc (and free starter) weapons reduced from minimum level 70 usage please?

Thanks :)

[Davood]

Use the char mover on the website for now

[rdnck]

meh...every time I log in, as soon as I open my spellbook, or sit to med, my character falls unconcious, I get a * you are bleeding to death * message and I have to go thru my task manager to log out...pretty annoying...this is on a clean install of Underfoot, it works fine on PEQ, dunno what's up, but your server is unplayable for me because of it. /shrug
:confused:

[ChaosSlayerZ]

the server most likely uses a custom spell file which you are missing

[supahsen]

The server does *not* use any custom spell files, I'm not sure what your issue could be..
Strange for sure..

[Davood]

There are no custom files.

I have only tested with titanium. sof and sod though



What is your character name?

[rdnck]

There are no custom files.

I have only tested with titanium. sof and sod though



What is your character name?

Gitter- lvl 1 halfling ranger - Karana

...as soon as I sit for any reason...try to camp, or mem my single lvl 1 spell, it doesn't matter...I fall unconcious, and get the " You are bleeding to death " message which makes it impossible to log out normally...this is why he's still lvl 1, and still in the GH...

I think I have a copy of SoD around here somewhere...I'll do a clean install in a separate folder with it and see if that makes a difference...I figured UF was allowed on most of the servers...Titanium is WAY too limited in features, imo, and shouldn't even still be an issue these days.../shrug...

[Davood]

That is still very strange there are plenty of uf players on my server
in other news. i have finished implementing an item courier

[Davood]

Two big updatea
Monster races have been fixed. Equipped items work now.. and i figured out i will do some cool stuff with the player profile at the same.time aa learning a tiny bit more about c++

also.the test.server will be online tomorrow. if people can connect to it then the server will be moved to it as i have fixed loot lag on the test server

[amenda]

Thanks for the hard work Davood. Very nice server, epspecially if you can fix the "loot lag" problem which is my number 1 complaint. Ive been logging in when I can but have not caught you online, and I wondered about playing the monster races which intrigues me.

Will monster races always just be cosmetic skins, or will there be abilities/restrictions etc? Will there be a racial charm for each monster just like the other races? At the moment my halfling ranger becoming dragon still has her halfling/bristlebain charm equipped with all those bonuses.

Could the charm become the base of more monster like bonuses/penalties? The dragon charm might give great melee boosting stats, hps, ac etc, and have a clicky dragon breath for example. To balance this out the charm could block certain slots from equipping anything--for example weapons. I know blocking out all item equipping would make it too boring to play a monster in a loot centric game, but blocking out some and balancing off the power of the charm may be a good way to make monsters different from normal players.

So a dragon might have very powerful charm-granted abilities, but half its equip slots or something might be blocked. A goblin, on the other hand, might have minor charm granted abilities, but can equip every slot etc.

Those were some of my ideas. I was curious what you were planning for it, or if it was just going to stop at cosmetic change--which would not be very attractive in my opinion, since with the monster skin you never see anything you equip unlike the basic races. So hopefully the monsters can be a different play experience than normal characters.

Some more classic monster ideas:

Mind flayers--charm grants a buff that gives them a chance for massive crit if meleeing a stunned enemy. Melee attacks have a chance to proc an aoe stun like color slant or something. Charm gives them negative hps and stamina, but gives immunity to mind effects and major magic and elemental resistance bonuses. That is how I remember illithids from dungeons and dragons.

Beholder--Charm ability summons a "throwing" weapon whose graphic looks like a light ray or bolt or something. These "throws" have a chance to proc a wide variety of damaging effects--dd, dots, stuns, mez, charm, pushback, fear, debuffs, even instant death. Powerful, but a wild monster to play as the random factor could get you into deadly trouble in certain places.

Just a few random ideas of how you might flesh out the variety of characters you can play on your server. Its already great and getting better day by day!

Hallyjade

[Davood]

Im looking into almost.exactly.what you have suggested

typing from phone so bear with me


I am researching what functions and.methods already exist.. for now size differences and.flying and movement speed will be used as base dofferentiaton.. as some monsters will have one or more of those efects

also i want to addbsuch things as swarm procs from fungoids and poison procs from bixies etc

ultimately ill try and.implement nrw things serverside... which ill share of course

[Davood]

I willbsee about feasibility.of.your suggestions thank you for taking the time tobplay on ky servern

[amenda]

Looking forward to trying some of these out. Always have wanted an expansion on the kinds of characters one can play, and alakamin will be the best for that.

Making and balancing 17 monster character races seems daunting. Wish I could help in some way since I'm an enthusiast for it, but all I know of coding is mucking around with modding my old baldur's gates game.

[Davood]

There are 24 monster races. thst number is tripled.for bot races (coming soon)
Differentuation is in now... i just need to update the permabffs and it will be done

best part?

Stlli no client changes required

[boweq]

since moving to the new server

I havnt been able to connect yet , it just keeps sending me back to Login page

[Davood]

that is odd, two people ARE connected and online... what is wrong i wonder.. i am using the same files, same everything.. only thing that has changed is the external ip address of the server and the hardware running it.

I could try running it off the other network and use the old ip address..????? that doesn't make any sense though

the error im getting in the world log is

unable to resolve stream before connect.

never seen that one before.

[Davood]

now quests just stopped working on their own.. multiple restarts no quest restart. also nothing in the log dir.. wtf?

[Davood]

ok tier 7 is almost complete. all of the content can be completed now, but the hub for it is still missing some quests... armor turn ins are done, epics, god editor, bot editor and misc task npcs will go in tonight or tomorrow, then i will activate the progression npc so you can complete tier 7... tier 8 and 9 will be challenge tiers like tier 4 and 6 and will take place in a small number of 100% custom zones as before.

also..... server is on a stand alone beast and everything is very fast, but the server has limited ram so only have 220 static zones (only haha!) once i sort out the problem with 2 nics on host, i will get it back on the main host and be able to serve as many zones static as needed (I think will be 400ish zones for players that have everything unlocked once the content is done).

[Davood]

oh and i will update the website sometime in the next week with a chart of the 120-140 or so choices of custom races (triple for bots) and what it means to play a monster on the server... and where that is headed later.

just a reminder as i always like to do

NOTHING REQUIRES CLIENT DOWNLOADS all of my customization is server side only and friendly with the client.

[Davood]

I know tier seven has dragged on but ive been busy making tier eight and nine which are almost ready for public consumption! ill turn the tier seven progression quester on sooon

[sariel1]

Having problems connecting to the server after last nights bouts of lag and crashes. Friend is also having trouble so it's not just me.

[Saltylopez]

I've also been getting 1017 errors today whenever I try to log in.

[Davood]

Damnit

I will switch back to the backup server.again.... i had like ten people on.. whycan some.connect butbnot others???? its not an opcode issue... the files are the same


sigh

[Davood]

Ill do it first thingbin the morning

[xlqyppp]

where to learn the skills ?
is there any guild masters in pok or somewhere?
for instance ,i made a def ranger,and i wanna learn duel wield.
or its just autogained the skill when you hit the level?

[Saltylopez]

I believe the server greeter in the guild lobby will automatically set all skills to 50, as well as give beginning players 50pp and the Gate charm.

Also, thanks very much Davood for the server. I really enjoy the task-based progression, and tying AA's in as a reward for completing tasks was a pretty good idea.

[Davood]

Tiers 8 & 9 are done. 9.needs some.polish but you can startcworking on it if you are that far

[xlqyppp]

i have played this server serveral days and level my halfling mnk up to 59 ~its a nice server,very fun~.i like it very much.
here is my suggestion:
race charm scales with level is fine,but to the deity aug ,i think it should not only scales with level.
as a deity aug,it should get power from the god,the more piety you are to the god(do more things for your god--tasks,could mix with tiers) ,the more the god reward you his/her power。and it dose not make sense that a innoruk follower need to kill inno to pass his tier 1~。

[Davood]

There is a revamped god system in the works.
your suggestion is possible .. but that is only part of the new system

[Davood]

Tier 13 is done i need.some spawn info for.rest of the tiers
Monsters in tier 8 onwards are becoming diffetentiated througj ubiqitous events and stats
Bot clerics no longer forgey to use ch at 70+
Loots are ready for.every.zone. raid zones from tier 8 to 30 are in
item courier bugs should be workes out
there is a hotzone shouter in the guild hall now

[wulnar]

I have been playing on the server for a little while and have made it past kunark and decided I wanted to get some AA's, but my characters are unable to pick up any of the custom file tokens (AA tokens, vibrating tokens, etc) so I cant hand them in to the priest of discord. I am able to right click to inspect the items, and I can pick up any other item

[microlo]

Can we get this server working again please its an awesome server when its not broken

[J3wish]

Can we get this server working again please its an awesome server when its not broken

It is up right now. Check the server list, necromancer.

[provocating]

I think he knew it was working, I think he is saying it needs some T.L.C.

[Movement]

nurf necromancers.. :P

[steve2517]

Been having fun on this server so far. But I am stuck in a zoning loop in Dulaks Harbor. Is there a website for this server that I can get help on or is my character stuck and I need to reroll?

[provocating]

Return Home button?

[steve2517]

I tried 3 different clients and I couldn't use return home on either of the two toons that I have created

[provocating]

He may have it turned off. You could be out of luck. When a GM / Owner is MIA then you kind of take it in your hands when you play there.

[microlo]

This server is bad ass but stuck in zoning loop as well if someone could reboot this server as their own i would definately play

[provocating]

Zoning loops are nothing a reboot will fix.

[microlo]

I meant reboot as like host it by themselves. I have been looking for a solo / duo server with content god+ for a while and this had it. where mage and healer duo could rock it

[Davood]

i know this is a necro. i just wanted to apologize posthumously.

the database and other stuff are still intact. someone is taking it from me to try and revv it back up again. wish him luck :D

[nenelan]

I would enjoy that. It was a very fun experience that unfortunately petered out a bit at the end. A few tweaks, and I'd still be playing were it up. Just man, some of those walls you'd hit were beefy.

[Davood]

I would enjoy that. It was a very fun experience that unfortunately petered out a bit at the end. A few tweaks, and I'd still be playing were it up. Just man, some of those walls you'd hit were beefy.

agreed. i look forward to see how it pans out too :D

[Davood]

litlte update on this

published everything to github , including the quests.

its in a private repo for now until we figure out what is happening. i am considering going full public on it. if it does "come back" it could be motivator to have many people contribute. and also to 'borrow' ideas.

like these ones which i bet nobody has been doing much if at all. (serverside btw)

https://imgur.com/gallery/btnB2

[boweq]

Great server, would love to see it come back weither its davood hosting or a fellow community player:0