I just want to make clear, he is speaking about Kingly.

In my fantasy world, Maze is Velvet.

Just so that is clear.

I still have the entire quest file from Kp's last iteration if you guys plan on going forward with this. Some may be useful some may not but better than rewriting allot of the broken quests and such.

Wasn't aware anyone had any of the original stuff, I'm sure that stuff would be simple enough to re-write if necessary. Is that from when it ended, like is some of it re-written already from where I fixed some of the scripts for Bront?

Everything up to when i left, which was after you and bronts falling out I believe, and maybe a month or so before server shutdown.

Ah that's cool, do you have it compressed and ready for transfer already?

Side note, what's happening with Imperium? Haven't seen any active development there for a while, players always freak out when I log in because apparently everyone else has left or just given up.

My promotion has me working around 60-70 hours per week...i get maybe 2-3 hours a night at home with the family so yea, priorities...Server isnt going to go down just a hold on development for the time being.

I can get those files compressed and sent to you tomorrow.

Okay, sounds good, and understandable, no worries.

I still have the old NL source and quests from Pre-Kunark...........


but between the acquisition of my company, and the fact I totalled my car recently, I don't have time to do a damn thing.

And theres the fact we switched from Fiber to Comcast at work, and I can't host jack shit.

That sucks, Atrayas already sent me the Kildrukaun's Prophecy quests, not really looking to start it up or host it, more of a preservation of the code and maybe some maintenance or remodeling of the scripts.

Is your bandwidth at your home too slow to host it?

Are you asking me or Maze_EQ?

Could always just see if Akka has some hosting space available for this project....

Yeah, that is an option; however, hosting isn't free, especially if you're getting quality hosting.

Well a server such as this needs a population and unfortunately I dont really think it would garner that much popularity among the eqemu community this day and age. The last couple iterations of NL and then KPEMU started strong both times and ended up just dwindling down to less than 10 players online at a time. I can see the exact same thing happening if it were revived.

Reason I say this is because content up to pop is golden. Everything is pretty much already n the db and ppl can progress. Beyond that development slows down, devs get burnt out, players get impatient and it all comes crumbling down. So unless the dev's that undertook the project devoted most of there free time to the project I feel it would just be another waste of time for something thats already been done before.

For me, Id be much more interested in custom projects testing the limits of eqemu and just being unique all together.

The combination of new tools to make development easier, and new management would likely mitigate that.

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I disagree. Beinga player on that server - the server died out cause the Dev team stopped making improvements and content was buggy due to too much customization.

I think a reitteration of KL/NL - a semi legit Classic-GoD content server geared towards small group raid (2-4 groups) with a 3 box limit would be VERY popular.

If anything - Custom content servers die quicker than classic content servers by far. Yea - Hidden Forest does well - but so does P1999 which is classic.

To be completely honest - the project has Classic-Velious and most of POP pretty good in the coding. The adjustments that would be required would be XP / mob hp and damage / quest for progression / and spawn timer modifications.

But that's just my 2 cents.

Well trentn you hit the nail on the head with your post and confirmed exactly what i wrote above you. it died due to a combination of factors, one being the dev team got burnt out and did stop working on the server as much. This is because after all of the content that pretty much comes pre-loaded in a standard db install has been released then the dev team has to spend countless hours, and im talkin hundreds of hours here, to release quality content.

Most teams give up at this point, sometimes real life happens and sometimes they never intended the server to become that popular. All in all the team has to be very dedicated to keep on releasing content for there player base.

As i stated above, if the server was released again it would most likely be popular at first. But as soon as PoP is released and that gets old it would again get boring while players waited around for more content to be released and people would slowly find better things to do with there time.

All of the quests and scripts for that server I sent to Kinglykrab so if he or anyone else decided to try and bring it back its all there, maybe a few tweaks here and there in the code but its there. Adjusting mob stats is a trivial thing to do and could be done fairly fast with a small team.

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I think GoD would be a VERY popular expansion to continue past POP - no need for custom content. GoD needs a little tweaking - but the foundation is there. after GoD - do OOW. There should be ample time for the players to progress from Classic-POP to finish off GoD and do a good chunk of OOW. Yes - the fights on OOW mobs won't be the same as there's not scripts - but you can always just make it tank and spank. You can get a good 1.5-2years out of this server no problem.

Like you reitterated - most the tweaking from Classic-POP would be pretty easy - GoD will take a little work and then OOW possibly - but there should be at least 1-2 months per expansion if done correctly with small group raiding. Solo servers go way faster - but small group raiding would take longer to progress due to flagging and gearing.

I think it'd be worth the time - but I'm not a dev. I wish I was and knew coding and I'd do my own - I've tried a few times.

Akka's new tools have lowered the difficulty quite a bit. Albeit they will not code for you... ;)

If theres enough interest, I'll start from scratch. Early NL was so cookie cutter it was insane, but people loved it because 2 groups could down raid targets easy enough.


ill work on something once i find reliable free hosting cause i'm a jew.

Honesty at it's finest my friend.

lmao

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Nagafens lair was my favorite EQemu experience. I think quite a few people would play through a reiteration. A classicish server where you can 3 box and down raid targets with a couple of groups has a lot of appeal. Cause I ain't got time for P1999 :P

Naggy's lair was definitely some of the more fun raiding I did on EQEmu; I'd definitely try a new NL. Someone call Nisea we might have something here :p

Got 2 offers of hosting.

Guess y'all are gonna make me do work.

Which is good because I'm pretty much just sitting in my office either sleeping or sending id10t memes to the helpdesk guys.

I loved KP, issue i had was that I wish they went above pop, and that they had a server where mages dont suck so bad and can be powerhouses. things that KP had that were amazing were for chanters charms lasted 20 min + and did not break, very fast mana regen. was a great community

The enchanter charm thing was actually me working with Tamius, since in NL, he was the only enchanter.

Figured I'd give enchanters a reason to use charm.

It was also +5 levels to your current level for ALL charm spells.

You going to bring back the no PH's thing? that was one of my favorite parts, just cruising through old zones and seeing what dropped :P cuz I aint got time for that rare spawn BS hah

Uncommon drops from uncommon spawns were always my biggest beef with EQ, too. lol. That 'feature' is what made it poopsockable and earned it the epithet EverCamp.

Will be removing placeholders, but having the drops uncommon will still be in play.

And to stimulate economy all those awesome rares will be tradeable and not lore, due to the mechanism I'm going to put in that allows them to be sold for points etc.


All drops will be tradeable because in life, you can give anyone anything...just some times what you give them can't be given away...like herpes, or attuned items. And there will be a way to un-attune an item.

I would love to play if you do the enchanter charm thing not breaking and + 5 levels with enhanced mana regeneration. I have always played a mage cleric duo, but emu servers seem to not have pets up to par as to what my live mage could do (essentially mage was great dps with great tank in 1 toon). Keep me updated ill be looking

Maze PM me, I have room for VM for server

Anyone else super excited for this already? Are you guys going to have the west freeport regen and mayong clicky too? Another thought would be too is some servers have it where casters innate twincast or something to make it more interesting since melee procs rates are enhanced. let me know when this is coming up im having stress incontinence over it.

Stress incontinence? Someone amazon prime this guy some EQ Camper's Delight brand Depends!

Gonna give this a whirl! in @ ROAR

Very excited about this. How's this project coming along? Need testers?

I am very excited too keep checking in every few days.

Yeah any ETA'sfor Alpha,BETA,Test

This still happening? =)

i hope so!!!!!!!