Does this server exist anywhere?

[Jahosphat]

Is there a server out there that matches something close to this:
1) Attempts max live level... 100
2) Allows Merc + Bot, more geared for soloing
3) Disables all "FLAGS" so you can do what you want
4) Enabled #zone
5) Higher rate at XP gain
6) Not as important, but disables no-drop

Thanks guys! I have yet to find anything like this.

I wish we had a server list that had check boxes for what the goals of the server were;)

[kaos00723]

The problem with servers that offer the features you are looking for is that they run out of content within 1-3 months max.

You get to 100 fast and easy with higher xp gains and bots/mercs make it that much easier. Once you have all the best items, max level, and a ton of aa's there is simply nothing left to do on these kind of servers.

They eventually run out of players and the owner ends up shutting the server down.

[jabedoben]

I miss Last World so much. =(

[Burningsoul]

/agree Jabe

[atrayas]

Swing by Imperium. We have a few of those on that list but not all.

Level 80 max level.

All zones up to GoD unlocked via progression. #zone enabled as well.

Custom content being developed beyond GoD with some already released.

Most items are not no drop.

2 Bots per client.

Server is setup as a solo level and duo+ raid. We have been around since november of 2014 and still keep an active player base and an active GM Staff so you won't have to worry about not having anything new to do.

[ggizzo44r]

Swing by Imperium. We have a few of those on that list but not all.

Level 80 max level.

All zones up to GoD unlocked via progression. #zone enabled as well.

Custom content being developed beyond GoD with some already released.

Most items are not no drop.

2 Bots per client.

Server is setup as a solo level and duo+ raid. We have been around since november of 2014 and still keep an active player base and an active GM Staff so you won't have to worry about not having anything new to do.
I was just going to say this. Best server I've found so far.
-jezril

[Davood]

alakamin is still floating . the server code hasn't been updated in over a year. its quite custom. some of the stuff on leetsauce productions was inspired by alakamin. I think I gave that dev a copy of all my stuff like 2 years ago when I basically gave up development to work on RL project.

alakamin was just a technical experiment by me, and i just kind of let it run . there are top 10 lists, player deities (granting powers to your worshippers etc) and other ridiculous stuff like monster races (100+ varieties but mostly lacking the skills atm since i dont have time) and the server itself basically is devoid of lore. it is a 100% dungeon crawl that will last you months and months. and you can switch classes and gather AA abilities from multiple classes .

if you want to just sit there and slaughter things non stop forever and collect loads of loot

please visit!

i think i have 400 zones opened up and 30 tiers of progression completed and available to players. there are another 40 tiers of zones that are almost ready. they have the npcs and the loot drops, but are missing some of the boss npcs and the quests and flagging steps to open up those zones.

[Davood]

oh and there is an npc in the guild hall that lets you grow a p***.. seriously try it out it works hahaha. its the halfling in the pool. there is also a hat changer (human female wearing erudite hoody) and some other trickery aviailable as well

[Davindarv]

http://alakamin.us.to doesn't work for me. Kicks me to a page where I can get alakamin as a subdomain. No files no forum. Tried it in Chrome and Firefox.

[nenelan]

You can get an old snapshot of the website here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729145953/http://alakamin.us.to/

I know Davood has been working to get back into the swing of devving, maybe he'll put it on again in the future. 2 or 3 of us have been enjoying it here lately.

[Karnon]

Imperium is a good one, but the warpers / cheaters are ruining it more every day. It has great potential, it truly does.

The custom high level content just put out is fun, but you can buy all the new gear in the bazaar because basically everything is tradable. So, pay to win, and warp ahead!

[knowom]

alakamin is still floating . the server code hasn't been updated in over a year. its quite custom. some of the stuff on leetsauce productions was inspired by alakamin. I think I gave that dev a copy of all my stuff like 2 years ago when I basically gave up development to work on RL project.

alakamin was just a technical experiment by me, and i just kind of let it run . there are top 10 lists, player deities (granting powers to your worshippers etc) and other ridiculous stuff like monster races (100+ varieties but mostly lacking the skills atm since i dont have time) and the server itself basically is devoid of lore. it is a 100% dungeon crawl that will last you months and months. and you can switch classes and gather AA abilities from multiple classes .

if you want to just sit there and slaughter things non stop forever and collect loads of loot

please visit!

i think i have 400 zones opened up and 30 tiers of progression completed and available to players. there are another 40 tiers of zones that are almost ready. they have the npcs and the loot drops, but are missing some of the boss npcs and the quests and flagging steps to open up those zones. What's this geared towards level cap (65) solo/group/raid/xp/aaxp rate/zone xp bonuses new/old?

Looking for something Titanium compatible anywhere from Classic up through GoD which has no bots/mercs/boxing or worst cases 2box limit and allows for soloing to a point, but is group/small 2 group raid focused. If it's also a little bit hardcore level loss on death mode, but retain items and no corpse retrieval that would be a added bonus. What you mentioned though sounds interesting you defiantly played off some ideas I spoke about on forums in the past so grabs my attention naturally. That's a nice server base at least.

If you could make deities open to all races/classes and lump the deities themselves into TZ/VZ flagged factions I'd be absolutely sold on this server's potential to get better and better over time.

[mpano66]

Looking for something Titanium compatible

Just out of curiosity....why titanium?

[knowom]

Just out of curiosity....why titanium? Hard coded zone compatibility for classic era zones like old highpass.

[Davood]

knowom:

levels go to 100, it works like this

tiers 1 to 6 allow you to go to level 60, if you beat tier 6 then the level cap goes to 70, and each tier above that raises the level cap by 1. I think the max level right now is 92 or 93, as tier 30 is the highest tier that I have opened up.

Levels, gear abilities etc are temporarily reduced if you go to tier 1-6 zones as those are considered the lesser planes and the prime material plane.

After tier 6 you are considered a "Demi god" and after tier 15 you have the option to ascend to actual godhood and attract followers by spawning interactive avatars around the world. followers and gods get various bonuses. if i ever have time to do proepr developmetn cycles again, i willi expand this to be more "obvious" and create "spheres" of influence that can be fought over by player gods.

monsters are essentially the same as PCs but with amazing extra abilties, so they don't get to enjoy some of the heroic benefits of being a pc race (special augs / charms)

[Davood]

knowom:

note 2, i like your signature, I agree with leetsauce, we are all on teh same team.

on that note:

if anyone really wants to know how i did something, i can and will share. and i have shared in the past already. im surprised nobody has asked me about the well endowed halfling in the guild hall. seriously nobody has asked me about it!

i apologize about the lack of website, i will decide something today and just turn it on and update my sig etc. ive been insanely swamped IRL for the past year and half

[Davood]

oh to answer the rest of your question

tier 1 to 3 is "vanilla eq", you save the world by tier 3, then tier 4-6 is kind of like trials of ascension for the heroes who saved the world. Tier 6 i have received alot of positive feedback.

nobody expects tier 6

haha.

[Leetsauce]

I liked the Powergamer one better. That's where I got a lot of inspiration. If you were to toss that server up today, I'd shut mine down just to start playing on it again...

[knowom]

I liked the Powergamer one better. That's where I got a lot of inspiration. If you were to toss that server up today, I'd shut mine down just to start playing on it again...

Perhaps if he continues development he could merge some of those idea's together for something even better than both. Truth be told expanding upon ideas in new, different, and better ways is the best development methodology look at the wheel's progression path it's nearly unfuckwitable outside of rocket science which is rather difficult, volatile, and not nearly as accessible to everyone.

[knowom]

BTW is this solo/box/bot what's the situation like I didn't see any info on that, but kind of a make or break scenario for a lot of players and server types there are differing opinions on those subject matters they all kind of have vary degree's of yay and nay aspects.

[Davood]

alakamin is merc and bot friendly. you can solo all the way to whatever with just 1 toon. you will need a merc and or bots though.

jhust be warned that mercs are unkilable, they will do weird stuff when they die. i'm trying to figure it out. its probably because the code is 11 months old. merging is going to be a pain since i have so much custom code, not just scripts. i did bad (good?) stuff with the server code a few years ago and was always struggling to keep it current.

[Davood]

Leetsauce. alakamin is loosely based off of the powergamer server. the problem with the power gamer server is that it was essentially just vanilla eq up to the end of PoP and then nothing after that. so it was fun then poof. alakamin is really power gamer 2.0. i took the pricing algorithm, and just created my own dungeon crawling progression after PoP ends (pop is tier 7 to 12 i think) all the way to the end of crystallos where tier 30 ends. I do have plans that will encompass everything up to the end of RoF, i just need to finish placing the bosses and re run my ability/loot algorithm so they have goodies and unleash it.

if only i didn't have to earn money to pay for a mortgage and car and family and food and etc i could work on this all day haha. ahh real life you are a harsh mistress.

[Davood]

ok it isn't pretty but alakamin.com is up

ill take offers to clean up teh garbage website if anyone wants to

im just fixing up teh DB related links and then it will be ready to roll. this includes the magelo and forums

[Davood]

ok everything is working on the website now. its garbage but it works :)

[Burningsoul]

Leveled a monk to 30 here tonight - pretty decent, the one noob not knowing his ass from his elbow aside. Seems the progession kinda sucks though. I've done old-world levelling so much and being locked out of crystal caverns until I'm WAY past the level point of caring is a real buzzkill. Grinding through guk/soldung is so tired and played out. If I have to grind, let me grind is a zone that isn't the same old played-out p99 junk. Can only do oasis-mistmoore-guktop-gukbottom-solB so much.

Rant aside, I'm pretty sure the game gets split wide open at later levels, but after being on Roxxor's/Zarn/Leet/Last World/Akka's, old world prog is a real downer in the early levels.

Happy Edit - Bots (zone crashes aside) and Merc are a VERY welcome addition. Makes it not so mind-numbing. Again, I sound harsh here, and I'm pretty damned sure it'll be a blast later on. Pushing through is real grindy though.

Trying to give a bot a secondary-only weapon before being a dual-wield level crashes the zone, and I just crashed the zone again for no good reason - so tread lightly.

[knowom]

Leveled a monk to 30 here tonight - pretty decent, the one noob not knowing his ass from his elbow aside. Seems the progession kinda sucks though. I've done old-world levelling so much and being locked out of crystal caverns until I'm WAY past the level point of caring is a real buzzkill. Grinding through guk/soldung is so tired and played out. If I have to grind, let me grind is a zone that isn't the same old played-out p99 junk. Can only do oasis-mistmoore-guktop-gukbottom-solB so much.

Rant aside, I'm pretty sure the game gets split wide open at later levels, but after being on Roxxor's/Zarn/Leet/Last World/Akka's, old world prog is a real downer in the early levels.

Happy Edit - Bots (zone crashes aside) and Merc are a VERY welcome addition. Makes it not so mind-numbing. Again, I sound harsh here, and I'm pretty damned sure it'll be a blast later on. Pushing through is real grindy though.

Trying to give a bot a secondary-only weapon before being a dual-wield level crashes the zone, and I just crashed the zone again for no good reason - so tread lightly. Most of those zones wouldn't be so bad if they simply changed the mobs around a lot from what they normally are and tweak some spawn locations pulls/splits themselves differently. I get what you mean though with p99 being a bit played out the whole thing is a bit static really. Comes a point where you need some more different and unexpected that adds new excitement and suspense. That's the one thing I liked and miss about UO it was such a player driven experience always sort of felt different every time you logged in to play.

[Davood]

one thing that hasnt been experienced by you yet, because i havent been using static zoens recently.. is the zombie mode.

right now when you die, your body will animate as an exact copy of you at your level etc. it can be quite nasty. I've just been profiling the behaviour of my server in the last while to figure out which zones etc to make static as it now runs in a vm isntead of a physical box. when i was runnign it on a physical box. i received alot of "wtf zombies!" messages.

regarding zone crashing on equipping bots and other bugs.. lets play those by ear.. i am going to try and upgrade the server code to current code base sometime very soon. if i succeed then its balls to the wall on fixing bugs

regarding the vanilla feel. yes that is the intention. its a little pretend "oh you have saved the world!" fun and games, then things start unlocking and getting a little nuts. my intention was not to spend alot of time messing with vanilla eq. everyone knows vanilla eq, so let them have that taste then everything starts becoming closer to 100% custom as the game takes a twist into dungeon crawling ridiculousness

the progression is like this
vanilla, kunark, velious = 5% custom
luclin = 5% custom
LDON = 100% custom
something after LDON = 100% custom
PoP = 20 % custom
everything after PoP = 100% custom
also.. i have something in store for the endgame .I'm calling it "newgame+"

[aleution]

As far as early progression, the xp and kill rate is very fast. It isn't a huge time sink grind to level old world, you can just pick up a merc and go. I seem to remember 1-60 being maybe 5-6 hours max time.

At 60 is when the progression starts, really NTOV and VP are the first parts where you can't just mash the attack button and win, makes you work on building your bot composition, learning to control your bots, and starts preparing you for the coming tiers.

Also in the guildhall check the upper tiers to check out the custom tasks, that might help make it a bit more enjoyable for you.

I do really enjoy this server, and it's great to see people back on it. I like the way that AA (and platinum) is used as a currency for many things, leveling, super buffs, class changes etc.

[knowom]

1-60 in 5-6 seems fast, but suppose that depends on if it's a twink perhaps and being PL'd still seems quite quick, but seeing as the whole leveling experience has been done to death I can see why it would be sped up a lot on just about any server.

[Davood]

glad to hear you are enjoying it.

little note about class changes:
passive AA stack between classes. its quite magical actually.

by the way i have successfully merged + compiled my code, it seems my build configuration from two years ago was still good and merging was a breeze.

next steps ->
1. update sql (like 200 updates since last compile)
2. test it (after midnight tonight likely) and roll it back if it fails :(

[Lodor]

Doing that broke the spawn in every zone. You now need to go in and update your spawning code.

[Davood]

yeah i will in a moment, just updating db right now

[Lodor]

Any ETA when you may bring the server back up?

[Ougher]

I've been playing on the server for most of the week and have been having a pretty good time so far. I do however think the early game (teir 1-3 so far, I've only recently got to teir 4) can feel a little lacking in direction. What I mean by that is you've got your tasks sure, but as for getting gear in order to be able to complete them, the best method I found was just to sell everything and try to find stuff in East Commons. If that's the way you want it to work, that's perfectly fine, but from what I can tell the stuff available there is just a random assortment of items that look like they were sold to the 'merchants'. I don't know if they ever restock or if it's entirely dependent on people selling stuff to them. If they don't get any new items it could be kinda tough for someone new to find stuff they can even use.

I'm just of the opinion that early on is when you have to get people interested in what you're offering on your server. If someone comes along and manages to level to 50-60 then wonders why they don't have any or very little gear, they might start to lose interest. Also being stuck with no aaxp until teir 4, maybe kick it back to 2 or 3? When you can hit 60 before even finishing teir 1, not being able to 'advance' your character anymore until later makes a lot of the killing feel less rewarding or even pointless to some people. Yeah you can get AA tokens from tasks, but I don't know its just kinda a bummer to get all this exp from killing doing absolutely nothing.

I'm not trying to sound like I'm telling you what to do with your server, just voicing an opinion as a player. I like a lot of the concepts here, and will continue to play here.

I did encounter a bug(?) with the teir 4 tasks where not all my kills would count toward my task. Sometimes i'd go 2 or 3 kills without seeing an update, and other times I'd be able to get some back to back without issue.

[Lodor]

You can get aa in tier 1 by tasks but not getting aa via xp till you hit tier 7 is kind of sad. All those wasted kills...

[Ougher]

You can get aa in tier 1 by tasks but not getting aa via xp till you hit tier 7 is kind of sad. All those wasted kills...

I was getting aaxp in teir 4 today, so it's at least not THAT far, but honestly getting to teir 4 could take someone a while if they only have a small amount of time to play.

[Lodor]

I see the server is back up and it shows people on it but when i try to log on my character i get dumped back to the log in screen.

[Davood]

servert seems to be back up and spawns seem to work.. ill check in tomorrow to see how people have fared.

and load times seem much faster too for zones


keep in mind this is over a year worth of updates i updated to.. i used many special forbidden hand seals to get it working.

[Ougher]

I see the server is back up and it shows people on it but when i try to log on my character i get dumped back to the log in screen.

Same issue here.

[Davood]

ok ill try and debug it now i havent changed teh xml config file and no ips have changed . i can conenct to it but thats not a good test ;o

[Lodor]

I see it shows 9 people on but I cant log on my main or even a new toon. It tries to load the game once you select your character and it crashes to log in. I am using HoT client as a fyi.

[Ougher]

I've tried logging chars in different zones ( guild hall, east commons) and creating new characters. Same issue, hangs after selecting/creating and kicks to login. I'm on underfoot client.

[Davood]

is anyone getting in successfully?

[Lodor]

It shows the server has people on it on select screen. How accurate that is is anyones guess though.

[Ougher]

I think it just goes up in number every time someone tries to log in, seems to be higher every time i get kicked back.

[Davood]

rebooting server - checking some configs

every now and then eqemu xml file and the way that the server start batch file work change ever so slightly. im trying to figure out if that is the case by unpacking the "serverpack" that is provided on these forums (is it up to date ? hah)

[Davood]

ok there was some weirdness in the server boot batch file. seems the recommended order of boot has changed again in the last year. lets see if that helps???

this new boot menu on the server is tellign me my database is not up to date as well. so i am going to be looking into that now.

[Davood]

it was working before the update.
ip addresses both external and internal haven't changed.
i can connect from my lan

i suppose i need to test from outside and see what is happening

[Lodor]

still crash to login

[Ougher]

Yeah, still getting the same issue on my end too.

[Kailow]

I'm trying to log in to play for the first time after reading about the server, I'm getting into character select and then when i try to enter the world, it freezes the character spinning, then says "The server is not responding" and then quickly followed by "You have been disconnected". Hopefully that helps you in what is going on.

[Davood]

im not sure what is wrong. maybe i have to roll back :(

i tried compiling with debug mode on and nothing useful popped up in teh logs or console

[Ougher]

I wish there was more info to give you to help troubleshoot.
Everything is normal up to character select.
If you pick a character and hit enter world it just freezes, no Entering guild lobby or wherever.
If you make a new character, it does pop up with the entering message, but still freezes and does the same as trying to log in an existing character, server not responding, followed by you have been disconnected.

[Kailow]

it's almost like its behind a firewall or something, but that doesn't make any sense because i'm able to reach the character select

[Davood]

yeah i'm just taking care of a few RL things then I will hunker down and do some testing with the debug version again.

fyi: i think my scripts are breaking entering the world.

[Davood]

oh

character_ no longer exists. seems that they broke up that evil blob

maybe i need to de-activate all of my scripts and do a bit of house keeping.

[Davood]

I have a nasty function that depacks the character_ blob (from before) and i use (used) it alot! now i guess i don't need to so. i searched for its use in my perl code and

37 hits in plugins
18 hits in quests

not too bad. i just need to fix it once and the references will fall in line.
for now i changed all reference to character_ to character_old

if that fixes it, i will leave it for now and slowly hand convert the 30 or so scripts that need to start using the new character tables ~

[Davood]

ok ill stop spamming the thread check alakamin in a few days

i started a thread with the problem:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?p=241876#post241876

hopefully soem kind generous network ninjas will provide their input and ill provide more details etc.