We are very excited to bring the community up to speed on our newest developments.

So far we are about to release and open up the LoY expansions upon our server, and PoP will be next.

PoK, thanks to Breea and Suzuka is nearly complete!

We have also enhanced our players game-play by allowing GM's to play with the populations of the server on non-flagged accounts. Thats right every GM! We do not need GM's online on our server to fix things! =)

With the past release of our software our server is almost 80% run from a browser! Everything from Petitions, to account management, Quest writing, database NPC edits (PEQ Admin), and character management.

We have released our petition system to the community under the GNU/GPL license.

We have also developed a ranking system on our server where, you can see the overall progression of our server: http://emu.norrath.info/browser/ranks.php

Also we are also building one of the largest and community based wiki's known to the EQEMU community at http://emu.norrath.info/wiki . This is in light of the wiki here being totally destroyed by spammers every week.

We have created a wiki that is very secure and requires email verification (SO CHECK YOUR EMAIL!!! =) ).

So far our hotzones have remained the same since we have started, however for some of the old timers on our server, this will be upsetting some balences that it has created! On Wendesday we will be changing our hotzones completely around, making the leveling process VERY rigerous and challenging!

We will also be opening the first ever EQEMU TeamSpeak server! This is for ALL servers to utilize for support, general chat, or anything else they might need.

To recap...

1. LoY is on the brink of release.
2. PoP is very near.
3. Our Server is 80% webrun.
4. Secure Wiki created for all at http://emu.norrath.info/wiki
5. New TeamSpeak server for the community.

We hope to contenue to be able to bennifit this community and bring the absoluete cutting edge EverQuest Emulation!

I like what you did with the hot zones. 2x exp but 2x exp loss upon death. Is the information on the current hot zones in the wiki?

Only in the forums... The wiki is more for the players, we are trying to keep the GMs out of there... So yeah, wiki = Players Forums = GMs/Players =)

Server looks nice and all but the amount of players kind of lacks...


I miss being able to do the big raids I guess:(

There is not much we can do about that. Right now there are just GM events to encourage participation on the server, but not great enough for those few playing to severely off-set the server for when we do get population on the server.

The only thing we can do is encourage people to play and have fun, the more they do, the more people that will participate and the more fun you will have in return.

As this is being severely overlooked I would like to announce this here as well as our own forums so it doesn't get too out of hand.

Our server forces the start zone of tutoriala (yes its working) and you quest in that zone to go to tutorialb.

However, there are a lot of people with the basic Titanium config, in which being we are leaping foward into the DoN zones, you'll need to change your eqclient.ini file slightly so you aren't seeing shadow figures and "grey-screens".

This is because when Titanium was released, it was released a little too early and they hadn't anticipated some of these shaders modern day video cards are able to process. So the problem is a cross between your install of the client, and your video card.

The simple fix is on our website but I'll post it here.

Under [DEFAULTS]

add the following line:
HardwareTNL=FALSE

if you have a pure hardware based video card that does all of the shaders, you should not have a problem (I didn't), but some people with intergrated, new pci-express, and other either extremely high-end or extremely low-end video cards will see this problem.

What happened to this server? I don't see it in the list and the last post on their forums was like 2 months ago. Is it gone?

Hrmm... I just noticed the 2 contributers Lalolyen & Breea both had Banned under their name? Is that why the server doesn't show up anymore?

wasn't that good anyways.

also worth noting, that change to the ini isnt nescesary, just fix the zone headers in the zones table and everything works.....

I never really got a chance to play on this server, but from the look of their website and hardware backing these posts say it appeared to be awesome. I mean it certainly is typical for emu's to go up and be down within a few months but this one seemed to vanish. Even reading their forums there was no indication of it stopping or even "where are you guys" type posts. Then I notice that banned thing. Just odd.

So why wasn't it good?

they wanted to be like classic. Same thing you can get from Angelox (sp?)
i tend to look for the customizations, even if the server is still legit.
Alot of GMs do not understand how a very small (compared to live) player base makes EQ playlife very different and much more challenging at low level and even harder thru higher levels.
To be an int class searching for spells that must be researched without a bazaar or hundreds of other players to /auction out to for pages needed, or to be a melee class soloing alone (NO i do not "box") without the helping hand of a kind hearted priest class granting those first buffs.
It makes for a gaming experience more like work than fun.. Not that great.

Vast

Yeah the server appears to have fallen off the to do list of the owner's for some reason, not sure if it's just a lack of interest, player base, or they have some stuff happening in RL that's conflicting or what. I have 5 - 60+ characters on there and I thought it was quite a good server personally.....certainly it needed work but don't all the server's need some work :P
Lag was virtually non-existent, possibly due to the low player base, but I'm guessing the server's were actually pretty darn decent so it's a shame it seems to have fallen to the way side.
The player base was extremely small but then the server hadn't been around that long either, I'm not sure what people expect with a new server but if your thinking your going to open up a new server and have over 100+ player base inside of a week I think you may be leaning alittle on the unrealistic side.....heh
As far as the buff bot aspect, yeah they didn't setup any buff bots but most of us that were playing were pretty good about buffing each other an so forth...anytime I went to PoK I advertised I was heading there and buffs were available, and to be honest I kinda liked the lack of the buff bots, but then I was generally 5 or 6 boxin :P
Anyways, just alittle heads up, hope that answers your question on what happened to the server :)
the server was kind of up an down for a bit, like a east hastings prostitu ...erm you get the picture...heh, I'm not exactly sure why that was...there were periods where the server was gone for a few days and would return, but it's been awhile since it's been back up so I can only assume it's down for the count now :(
too bad.... imho it had great potential

Droz