My EQ EMU idea

[urza]

Ok here goes , I was thinking of building a EQ server for head to head battles only
I would make all race start point in a arena with no way out just that zone .
now in the zone I would have a few venders selling gear ranging from common items
to epic .Now players would log in with there champions to battle in the arena for fame and cash,
with in tern they can buy more gear to become more powerful.
A rating system could be made on a web site we players could challenge or sigh up for battle royal
any player that battles out side the arena would be ban to keep order and so on .
Now how much of this can be done Im not shure , Any one want to help be get this started ?
Events would have to be GMed always someone will have to pass out the prize and so on .
Also if players could gain Experience from the battle .

What i can do
I have a server up with a static address that could run 24-7 but Im more of a webmaster
than a server admin . I can help Gm and do the web site CGI So on im a ace with graphics and flash .
I have many friends that would take part in the battles and they really think this could be a cool server just to battle in and help the EMU community grow :D

A logo
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[Shawn319]

Sounds like a cool idea. zones would be easy do constrict (just delete all the zone shortname from DB exept for arena and maby 1 other zone u can restrict to admin >= 200 in DB so only serverop can zone into it)

logo might be a bad idea though..

[urza]

Great thx for the help keep the idea's comming!

[Shawn319]

Everyone can start with lvl 40, leather armor and a small weapon.

Everytime thay kill a player thay get some cask depending on level of other char and thay can buy armor/weapons at nearby merchants..

[urza]

how about spells?

[urza]

The perfect Zone would be (Bazaar)
It has that under world feel to it and a bank =)
also a horse stable and a most awsome arena
(The Palaestra) see pics ... got these zone numbers?

I would love so help writing the DB for this ...

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[Baltar]

starting to sound like counterstrike lol

[DeletedUser]

You know what you could do, is take Freeport and Qeynos and make them connect to each other by east commonlands using the zone mirroring, and you could have one team in Freeport, the other in Qeynos, nifty eh? :)

[urza]

verry cool !

[Nada]

I agree with image for the qeynos and freeport, sounds totally awesome. For weapons i suggest maybe auto generate, like have only like fine steel weps, or have like ykesha's and club of ykesha, stuff like that.

BTW the zone you posted pics on, that could be the zone also, but i like the qey/freport idea a bit more.

[dablasta]

or you could use qeynos and freeport as the home stations and the zones could be connected liek this:
Freeport - Nro - Bazaar or a nice battle zone - Sro - Qeynos
that way they could have home, then a prep zone, then the clash

[Ryozu]

Once the EMU gets advanced enough, you could probably do a huge domination game, DAoC style.

[lokidecat]

Heh,

Freeport > N Ro > de_dust < S Ro < Qeynos

/chuckle

[Razzle]

I love the idea, as my server is going to be team PvP, and I like the use of the EQ Engine for fights (something like Rune Deathmatch, only more strategy to it..)

As some constructive critisism though, what happens when someone who plays a lot and has really powerful gear signs on, and beats the hell out of all of the other fighters?

[Bardboy]

npc's that sell everything, skills, levels, equipment, spells, for a price...

have some quest npc's set up to give you a level when you hand in the right amount of gold or item (players head).

I was thinking an item called sosandso's (the player's) head that could be looted off the players corpse. turn that in and get exp, or whatever. if its possible to make it soulbound like newbie tome of discord or sebilis keys that would be great.

Id like to see some npc's guard the arena exit. when players are in combat, if a player trys to escape before its over they die or if someone trys to enter in order to aid someone during combat they also die.

[Soreal]

People can form grps and can submit designs for their grps armor, or you can make armor for them so that they can be unique, or you can use it to help to distinguish two grps from each other, like 2 sets of armor with same stats, but one is red and one is blue. Also, you could have tournaments, complete with brackets on a website. You could divide the levels that compete in the classes by "spell" levels (1-3, 4-7, 8-11, and so forth) to keep it kinda even. You can have an entry fee for the tournys to add to the final prize. Well thats my ideas, hehe, but a battle arena would be extremely fun!

[Bardboy]

I would like to take this oportunity to bump this thread. I think it's a great idea.

I think that whatever else you do, you should make the zone(s) as low bandwidth as possible. Use the older and smaller zones so that us poor folk with older PC's can compete.