I just wanted to take a moment to thank hayward for putting this server together. I had originally joined EQEmu a few months ago with the hope to explore a "sandbox" style world - to enjoy all of the elements of EQ that I was never able to years ago, as I didn't have the time to spend on grinding out levels and practicing skills. Most of the other servers provide interesting versions of that idea, but the custom content and "reduced grind" is still a nuisance. Sayin's World is, by some margin, the best experience I've had on EQEmu, and, at this point, it's the only thing keeping me coming back. So, thanks very much, and please keep up the good work!

I completely agree and echo your sentiments. I've always wanted to just have a relaxed 2 man raid experience without giving up my life to get characters able to do it. Finally I can buzz around from zone to zone and get to see just how much of the EQ experience you can miss.

I'm so happy that you're enjoying yourselves!

I got into EQEmu for the same reason a few years ago because I wanted o be able to see the zones I wasn't quite ready for in live. I still maintain and play all Sony games on the all access pass, and it's great to scout out a zone im getting ready to enter on live eq.

As long as exploiting is kept to a minimum, and nothing anyone is doing is bringing the server to its knees... I'm happy with what ever anyone wants to do :) If there's any specific items you need, please let me know.

Is there any weapon that is comparable to the Soul Crusher that is a permanent one? It know it's a ridiculously powerful sword but when you're 2 manning it it's actually just about perfect. The damage is enough to kill things but when you fight level 65-70 raid mobs it still takes a good 5-10 minute battle. Actually, that's the fun part!

When you say the loot tables aren't complete for zone like sebilis, wall of slaughter and the time planes does that mean no servers have them? (I have no idea how server operation works)

I think the cloth and leather vendors need to have updated armors because they're only level 63-64ish. I think chain too but I haven't checked.

Anyhow, great job and keep up the good work.

Some servers have them updated and others dont. It depends on if the server op has found the .sql loot tables for them and imported them into the database or not.

Thanks
 

Just want to echo what some others have posted. This is exactly the type of server I was looking for. Was hoping to find a sorta playground to explore, see, and do things I was never able to do when I originally played the game.

I started about 3 months or so before Kunark came out and stopped playing about 4 months or so after PoP came out.

I really didnt like the original raids that required 30+ people and never got into them (hence, there was a lot of content I never had access too). With this server I am able to start seeing the stuff I never could so thanks. I'm certainly having a blast.

I do have a question about some quests. I tried doing a couple and could get the text for everything and even do miniquests that are part of the larger quest but everytime I turn everything in for the final reward I dont get anything (Lodizal Shell Shield Quest and Lost Map Quest). This is my first time ever with EQEmu so is this a normal issue? Should we not be trying to do quests? I was just assuming if I could trigger the text to start them they would work? Is that not the case?

Thanks again for your hard work, its appreciated.


Matt
aka the Loon's

pm or email me the quest specifics like zone and npc, and I'll have a look. Thanks for letting me know.

Been playin all night!
My ranger is tearin' stuff up.
A couple bugs i noticed though.

Tomes/Combat Abilites, for some reason are in the spell book.
Leaving pure bred melees unable to get there abilities. (I tried on my monk.)
and as for rangers.
Hail of Arrows isn't working properly.
It just says the target is to far...even if you're right next to them.

Make sure you try that ranger ability in several zones... that will help me determine if it's map related. I'm not familiar with tombs and discipline stuff, since I've never played anything but a caster... Tell me what's missing and I'll get it added. Might be easier to just turn the command on for everyone to raise them. Once I understand them, i'll add it to the leveler. There was a lot of activity this weekend, and it was good to see.

I'm planning on doing some work tonight on some broken quests, i'll have a look at the monk abilities as well.

Thank you,

I've tried Hail of Arrows in:
The Overthere
Skyfire Mountains
Chardok

And all just gave me some errors.
I'll definitely try in every zone I'm in though.
As far as the tomes things go.
It's not really a big deal (for hybrids.), all that it's doing is making it so instead of
CTRL+C (I think that's combat abilities.)
Instead of popping up as hotkeys, it's in the spell books and can be put into spell gems as a spell.
Which, initially isnt that big of a problem for hybrids, just means they have to manage their spells better.
But as far as pure melees go..they aren't able to use any of them because they can't pull up the spell book/spell gems.



But all around, amazing server and im definitely here to stay, especially once some things are smoothed out it will be A++++++x1000.


Btw, did you take teh weapons merchant out just a bit ago? :P
Its missing!

He seems to come and go... I know he's 100% spawn, so I was wondering if someone was killing him. I'll try and have a look tonight, my list is long and my Wife is home tonight...so we'll see :)

Thanks for the feedback.

Plugins folder was empty :) should be good now, but i'm going to check and make sure

ok, quest turnins are working now :) thanks for the heads up! One thing though... I turned in a quest and Everquest immediately closed. I'm running on Vista Ultimate 64 bit and things like that can happen... so i'll look for input from you guys. I logged back in and they seem to be good now, so im guessing its my pc.

Lol, the merchants have an attitude of their own.
Last night..Danny, and the buffers wouldn't answer me, UNLESS i stood behind them lol.
And then the little weapons girl ran away.
NOW THATS CUSTOM.

:P

When do you suppose you're going to be on, in-game again?

Watching a movie with my boys right now, I'll make it a point to be on tomorrow from 7pm-9pm unless something comes up. I'm really sorry, I just don't get a lot of time to play :)

Okay, no problem :).
I'll definitely be on.
I sent you a PM btw, let me know what you think!

Well last night was an interesting time. We had about 15 players logged on, and thats the most I have eve seen on this server. So we're deffinetly growing slowly but surely. xSUFIx ran a pvp event in the arena and asked everyone to create a level 1 pally to attend :) it was fun to watch, the hightened regen on the server made it almost impossible unless they teamed up and some random weapons were spawned to help out. This is the first of many little events we hope to have

The winner last night was Goodloona, and she was rewarded with a title, and epic 2.0 for the character of her choice went to Loonie
Congratulations!

Some things that came up last night I want to address here.

Gear and content. The vendors are carrying what I felt was good gear for level 70... it's by no means the best, simply because I dont know what the best is. If there's anything that you would like to see added, please message me on these forums and I'll add it to the vendor, or your inventory.

Special Items. I will probably be added things like J-Boots and other gear to the vendors, but really unique items that exist in live and are really rare will be reserved for prizes and quest rewards. I will also be adding some server special items in time that will be added to the pool of reward items.

Server Forum. I didn't want to do it, but I think I need to start up a website and forum... We're getting busy enough that I think it would help.

Zones. Yes many zones are closed, and although I can open them... they simply aren't done and for the most part have no loot tables setup. I opened up Timeb and wallfoslaughter last night so you can explore, but don't expect a lot of action content. I really don't mind opening them all up, but I don't want complaints that the loot is missing, when I know it is.

Events. Right now I have one extreamely active GM, I can't tell you how much help that is! We will be planning some little social events with good rewards, and here are some ideas we have discussed.

pvp event - happened last night, and it was a good time.
Naked Gnome Race - Start a level 1 gnome and run from one area to another. (With zoning speed due to peoples computers we might have to keep it to one zone... maybe even make it a swimming race across iceclad or something :) watch out for them turtles!)
Bounty Hunt - We place an NPC somewhere in the world and give you a clue about where he is. The player that returns with his head is the winner ;)

Any other ideas that poeple have are more than welcome!

I've really enjoyed running the server, and with cold weather coming I hope to have much more time to devote to it. We're not going anywhere!

One other thing to mention... I want you to think of this server as your sandbox. It's meant for fun, and hopefully a place you can see and do things you didn't get to in live EQ. If you want to level its a good bit faster, and if you simply want to auto level to 70 and gear up to kill stuff in high end zones, please feal free to do that! Anyone not happy with the way things are should talk to me or a GM about it and see what we can do for you. If we can't or don't change things the way you like there are plenty of other servers out there being run by people with much more skill than myself. I'm simply an Everquest fan that wanted a server where I could explore a zone before going to that zone on live (Yes I still play live EQ... SOE All Access for the win!). Thank you

I just wanted to say I'm very pleased with the server. I'm doing the planar progressions now. :-D

Thanks
 

Just wanted to drop a thanks to Treshu the GM for "escorting" some of us around last night and spawning some stuff for us to tangle with. My personal favorite was the Boss that hit for 8k and knocked you unconsious...heh, needless to say I lasted all about 1.5 seconds. On the plus side though, I dropped so quick my Cleric didnt even have time to get a heal off so never drew aggro and managed to survive the encounter with her :)

On a side note, for any planned "encounters", as much as I hate to say it, its probably best we leave that Uber Sword in our bags. It really seemed to make things hard to balance for the GM when you are quad hitting for 4k and is probably unfair to the Pure casters....just a thought.

Thanks again,

Brachiator
the Loon's

You are certainly welcome.
I'm glad you and a couple others got to have some fun, and see some content you couldn't see otherwise. That's the purpose of this server!
Also, congrats on the loot :).
It wasn't as hard to get as it would be normally, but you still had to work for it! Sounds like a good deal in my book.
;)

The server appears to be down.

strange... we are experiencing some bad weather so maybe the network dropped... I'll restart it now.

Vex Thall Key Question Answered
 

Just to clarify...I found out what the issue was gaining access to Vex Thall.

That Scepter of Shadows was the original "key" to enter the Palace. Anybody can zone into Vex Thall by entering via Umbral Plains or the #zone Vexthall command. However, a key is needed to actually enter the building inside Vex Thall. The Scepter was the original "key". Things were changed by Verant (darned if I know when though) and they made entrance to Vex Thall not require the Scepter of Shadows ("key"). I would assume because the quest to get the Scepter of Shadows is so long and time intensive to get nobody would enter the zone anymore if they had to do the quest for every single toon who wanted to enter after other expansions came out (I am pretty sure the original intent was EVERYBODY had to have a key to enter...not just one person in the group with a key to unlock the door).

What they did though was still make the entrance into the Palace require a key but the "Scepter of Shadows" was deactived and they put a "Palace Key" on a mob outside of the Palace but on the walkpath to the Palace from Umbral Zone in.

I think what happened is that mob with the key (and it only requires 1 person to unlock, not everybody needs the key on them) does not respawn with the other normal mobs (around maybe 6 min or so?) but is on a seperate timer and maybe only spawns every 24 hours or something because I visited the place a few times but could never get inside and never saw the mob that had the key up. So if somebody else kills it there is no way for anybody else to get a key apparently for a bit (how long I dont know...guessing 24 hours or longer).

It is apparently a "named" but hard to tell because all the mobs names in the zone are confusing (no articles like "a" and "an" to differentiate named from common). It was some form of larger rock thing that you see at the zone it and it had the "Palace Key" on it.

Hope that clears up what the confusion was earlier.

I don't remember anyone having an issue with this over a period of time... I was asked yesterday by Loonie and I told her it needed a palace key that drops from inside. I gave her a key to get some of you started out, since she's on a lot.

thats not how it was

l my guild did VT in summer 2004 (just in period between GoD and OoW releases)

You needed a sceptor key to enter the VT itself- which was an ass long camping shard quest + Emperor of Sssra component drop
EVERYONE needed to have this key to enter VT
this was the key just to enter the zone.

in the court yard you had to kill a giant stonegrabber mob called Va... something - who droped the palace door key. - you only need 1 such key.
The Va... was on 1 hour respawn timer, and took our pre-elem geared 2 groups 45 min to kill (a shit load of hp)

Inside VT there were some more keys which were locking out the door into Main hallway
atleast one of the Mini-bosses before main hallway had to be killed for this key

inside the main hallway there were 2 towers on the first floor, and at least 1 of the Tower bosses had to be killed in order to depop the wardens leading to the 2nd floor.

with 8 pre-elem groups it took us rathly 5 hours to do the 1st floor on day 1, camp the mage at the portal to 2nd floor, and another 4 hours to do the 2nd floor on the day 2 inclduign Aten Ha Ra kill.

Wow, that makes Everquest sound hard. :shock: :D

Heh, I was going off websites I read. I had never been there before.

Boy, that sure is a lot of work though...


p.s. Just wanted to add that the problem was all me to begin with. I misunderstood what I had read online for what it took to get into Vex Thall. I had zoned into Vex Thall from Umbral Plains oringinally without the Scepter of Shadows so when I read that you needed one, I just assumed it meant to actually get into the Palace not to zone in.

thats only the part of the story =)

the VT Sceptor consisted of:

the Sceptor frame (box) - rathly 2 hours of camping with atleast 2 groups to have enough dps to kill phs fast enough

the 10 shards - took me personaly 2 month to get them all with camping them rathly 4 hours a day (3 month to get themf or entire guild - 60+ people)

the Emperor Ssra drop - this one a whole separate story on ist own:
you needed to get internal Ssra key-ring to get to the Emperor Chamber- rathly 1 week of camping 3 hours each to get all 4 parts

kill Emperor of course - no trivial task


travelign around VT- is another major pain - trash mobs repop at machine gun rate, hit in 800+ range and have 200k hp each, and come 5-6 at a time
a hallway path from oen named to naother had 50+ of these guys to clean up
I swear in was much harder to clean out the trash than to kill actual named.

and of course entire Vt had to be done in specific order - you had to kill specific named first to dispawn the wardens or you could not get to the 2nd floor. Wardens themselve could not be killed all had Death Touch

of course after all this pain- VT was truly a candyland for loot even 4 expansiosn later. The gear was MUCH better than Tier 3 PoP (inclduing gods like LMM, Saryrn, TT, Bertox and even Ro) but somewhat worse than elemental.
but the good part was than each named was droping 5-8 items at once!
During our first clearing the guild scored a total of 25+ truly nice items - it would taken us a YEAR of farming Tier 3 pop gods to get this much gear

Out of all time in EQ VT was my favored raiding ground - i could realy feel all the time invested was WELL paid off

ofcourse elemental or GoD items were way better but that was entirely diffirent level of dificulty. Our guild marched victories in VT was ripped to shreds on lowest rank raids we atempted in GoD, like Smith Rondo event =)

of course once DoN come out in 2005 with raids for casual players with ala-ldon style points reward system, VT was quickly adandoned

Hmmm. The server isn't listing on the EQemu login. Is it down?

Yeah, I tried getting on after work today and cant find it either. Ruh roh!

I think it has something to do with what happened 2 days ago to all of emu, and he hasn't gotten it back up

Brach when this gets resolved we need to finally finish a Veeshan and Vex Thal run.

-EST

Aka
Drops Mobs-Warrior
Heals Drops -Cleric

I agree 100% :)

aka
Loon's

Sorry Guys, i just got in from a business trip to Chicago and never had a chance to check the forums or server status... I'll reset it right now. I probably should have mentioned that I would be away.

Grouping and Instances
 

Im not sure if I am the only one running into this (maybe Im not even doing it right).

I was trying to do some PoP flagging and some of it involves being transported to an Instance to run an encounter. I cant seem to get my entire group sent into the Instance. Basically, whoever initiates the text in the group is the only one sent over. Needless to say this is causing me some issues.

I am running 3 toons but I cant even find a way to get just 2 of them in at a time.

Also, what I have noticed with groups is that whoever I have invite people and create the group is the only person who can "see" in the group box all the other group members. My other group members dont have anything showing up in the group box. I have tried to have the group leader initiate the text for the instance hoping that because the entire group shows up on their screen that the full group would be sent to the instance but still only the 1 person.

I logged in to the server yet none of the commands are working. Is this intentional or something that's being worked out?

Thanks :)

I guess that depends on what commands you were trying. The only command I know of that works for the average player is #zone.

There is an NPC in PoK that will level you and there is free gear on the merchants behind the leveler.

The #summonitem and #itemsearch do not work for the average player.

Oh, yeah - that's what I was trying to use was #summonitem and #itemsearch.

I would really like to use these two commands. I was logged onto this particular server a couple of days ago and could use the commands just fine so I'm not really sure what changed...?

Are there any servers out there that have them enabled for the average player?