I'll be pulling the server down sometime this weekend to make the switch over to Linux. I'm getting fustrated running it on Windows with the somewhat frequent zone crashes and ghost characters... I know my way around in Linux better anyways ;)

Server has been taken down. I'm running a full backup and will be switching to Linux throughout the day. This work should be done within 12 hours depending on how my day goes :) Once the work is done ill announce it here.

Thank you,

This sounds great. As soon as I get a copy of Titanium edition I'll will be joining you.

Get this back up!!
I'm so anxious to play! :P

Coming back up now... had to throw the Windows system back on it after struggling with it all night. The Debian guide is good, but there are several areas that don't flow right, and you can't follow it step by step. I know LInux pretty well, but compiling is a whole different story :) I'm just glad I used a new hard drive and kept the one that was ready to go in Windows :)

Ok, I apologize, but I'm bringing it back down to take another stab at the Linux setup... One way or another I'll have the server up tonight.

Ok I have it running on Linux, thats the good news :) the bad news is I had to start up with a clean PEQ database... I'll continue working today on getting the account, npc, and quest files moved over. Until that work is done, the server may be up and down a little.

Well that went better than expected :) from my initial tests, everything seems to be rocking! I'll be online for a while stress testing and if all looks good I shouldn't need to restore it again. All characters have been restored, so let me know if anything is out of place :)

Thank you, oh and a special thanks to Angelox if you see him ;) he helped me through some errors I was seeing.

Well..figures when its back up..my computer takes a dump.
Went to sleep last night..woke up this morning to a blank screen..
Restarted, BSOD.
Format-still BSOD can't even begin to install windows.
wtf. :mad:

havent seen anyone on yet... hope everything is setup right. I kept the firewall settings the same so I should be good.

Nice. I like being able to bounce around from zone to zone. I'd keep the #zone command for everyone. You need a jewlery vendor and some bard armor. Otherwise I like being able to jump around and kill stuff. It's fun soling dragons :)

I've been adding armor and weapons to the free vendors as I find stuff that looks nice... If there's anything that you feel should be on there, please let me know. I'm going to add a bag and jewelry vendor tonight... can't believe I didn't think about jewelry sooner :) I put the Bag of the Tinkerers on one of the vendors for now, of and I went ahead and lowered the requirments to 65 on the fabled spear everyone was asking about ;)

Also, yeah I think i'll be keeping the zone command in... Now that I don't seem suffer zone crashes, or ghost logins I don't see anything wrong with it. I want this server to be fun for everyone, and I do have plans to add special items and quests... I just lack the time :)

I'd like to hear some feedback on pets though, going through and buffing all of them took some time, and I want to fine tune them where needed.


Thanks for all the feedback so far! we're up to over 300 accounts now!

I noticed something this weekend that sort of bothered me... There are at least two other servers with the same name as this one :( I don't see them active as often, but I don't want anyone to get confused... I might play around with the name of my server a little over the next few days and change it.

there are 3 freedoms server
what one do you own or they all yours?

there are 3 freedoms server
what one do you own or they all yours?

Just a suggestion but you could put something like Hayward's or Silverwolf's infront of the name. Though I am always able to find it with ease even with the other 2 or three that start with Freedom.

On a side note, have you considered allowing #peqzone instead of #zone. Seems to keep people from bypassing content to get at named mobs. I think it also can not be used if the character is engaged, removing the instant escape route, but I could be wrong.

Good suggestion, I'll check it out. I don't really want to restrict anyone too far, the main reason I put the server together was so it could be used as a sort of sandbox for everyone to enjoy. I just don't want one person to zone in to every end zone, kill all the bosses and then log out leaving everyone without those bosses. What I would love to see is a few people banding together to take those bosses on, If I could get that number of people on at the same time and really working together I would be more motivated to create new reasons for them to do that.

ok, server has been renamed to Sayin's World and I've bumped the level up to 70. I was also notified about a bug today regarding the plane of knowledge brochure not showing up on characters and then not letting you get another due to it being lore... rather than removing the lore title and covering up the issue, I have removed it from starting items. Go ahead and reroll if you have a character like that, or let me know and I'll clear the inventory for you.

Almost forgot... I'll be going through the item vendors tonight to get them selling better gear for level 70 and also jewelry and other misc items.

I haven't tried it yet today, but last night whenever I tried to go to Hateplane, Sebilis, and Plane of War (I think) it said I wasn't high enough level. I was 65 last night. Anyhow, I'll log on in a few hours and try this again.

I saw that in the error logs this morning and thought something was up... let me know if anything changes. I'll do some testing on my own now that I have my vendors setup :)

Ok, I'm experiencing some kind of issue... I'm thinking I might have pushed the database too hard saving the changes I made. restarting the world now.

rolling back the database to just before I made the merchant changes... something isn't working right :( there's nothing in the logs, but i'm unable to log into the server like this. Should be back in about 10 minutes.

still can't get in those few zones. The 70 cap and spells all seem to work though.

I think I see what happened there. A ton of zones have a minimum status of 100 for some reason. I changed the ones you mentioned, but doing more than that might be a bad idea... in PEQ they may have done that with some bugged areas. I'll check it out tonight.

I went through the zones and tested out many of them. Basicaly if its been locked it's because the loot isn't done or some other item is missing. I'll open them up and see if I can get started on that.

I also replaced all the memory last night with brand new... I can't believe the mismatch of ram I had in this box... lets hope this helps.

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Server isn't too bad man, a few suggestions:
Cleric armor isn't listed on plate merchant, would be nice to have some mana. There's also no shield or anything else cleric can use besides 1.0.

Groups get bugged, a lot.

Would be awesome to have #itemsearch and #si, would make me play the server a LOT more if you had that.

Anyways, you're putting a lot of hard work into this and it's going very well, just wanted to put a post up of my opinion.

Take care!

I agree with ruude. Also, I'm not sure what the respawn is supposed to be but Naggy has been down a few days now. (killed him on Mon or Tues i think). Killed Vox tonight.

I'm really enjoying the server. I'm two boxing it with a SK and cleric. It's a good time.

I won't be adding item summoning due to the exploits that can come from it... just how it is. Groups are bugged across most servers right now, I'm waiting for the next update to address that, keeping my fingers crossed. I know the vendor armor is bad, I need to replace it but I need the time to do that. I went all through it the other night and some of the items broke the server :(
My biggest fall back on updating items is not knowing what the best stuff is that works in the emulator, so it takes time to research each class. If there's an item you want and I'm online just ask and I'll drop it in your inventory... I should be around more this weekend... been real sick, and sitting here editing tables is not high on my list when I'm feeling this bad.

Bahh! Haha, I just got my computer back up and now there's no summoning :(.
oh well..you said you could summon us stuff if you're on..that sounds pretty awesome of you

Nagafen should respawn in 7 days, and Vox in 5. I really don't have any plans on directly changing spawn timers any time soon... I like Everquest for what it is, and I'm trying to keep things accurate but a little easier. Were you able to fight your way to those bosses, or did you just zone to them?

I fought my way to them. At level 70 with 2 toon's it isn't that hard. But I've been messing around on the Plane of Fear, Hate, and Nightmares with my enchanter and SK. It's actually pretty fun. It's not raid difficulty with 2 level 70's, but the stuff deeper in the zones offers a 2 man challenge which is really what I wanted. The boss for Kael and Cazic-Thule (the god) pretty much kicked my arse all over the place. I'd need a group to do those. It's fun. I'm legitimately AA leveling. I've also been gearing my toons with stuff from the raids.

The server keeps dropping me after 10 or 15 minutes of play :x

Anyhow, the Wall of Slaughter zone needs to be opened...there are so many cool drops there. :-D It still says I'm not high enough level. I'm not sure what that means since I'm max for the server.

Yeah I keep getting booted too

There's no loot setup in that zone, so its turned off. I've been waiting for people to log out so I can update it, there's been a steady 4-5 people on all night :)

The server keeps dropping me every few minutes. It's pretty much unplayable atm... :-?

Yeah I see the same thing, my network is taking some kind of hit thats unrelated... I'll bring it down now and update it anyways.

I put a bag on the bag vendor and some faithbringer on the plate vendor... I'll try to get more done later, wife is home tonight keeping me from updating :) If a mod sees this could you change the title to Sayin's World in the subject please?

Ok, the armor merchants are now carrying level 70 armor ;) next I'll probably add some better weapons, and of course... jewelry

love the new armor, but the weapon vendor disappeared :) hehe

actually nevermind...i must've been bugged.