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.