EQ-Heroes (Alpha)

[songie]

Hey, pretty much first time i post here but waited long enough to put it out on the forum and stop lurking.

I am currently, like so many others working on a server at the moment it's hosted on a dedicated 2.4 Ghz duo core with 3GB of ram and a 100mbit connection running windows 2003 Server.

Ive not had allot of pre-experiance making a gameworld, but i do have 17'ish years worth of pen and paper GM'ing under my belt for content creation.

ok so here go's,

The server will be mainly pve until lvl 55 anyone doing the lvl 55 quest for either the Hero or Shadow side will be flagged for pvp, but until then no ganking the lowbees.

Three Factions:
The Heroes:
The main good guys faction, their veteran rewards favor Health, AC and regeneration and in that aspect they make for very strong melee fighters. The Epic 51+ quest line is about becomming the main Hero of the server and is limited to the 4 people that complete it first. Upon completing it at lvl 60 they recieve the title "The Hero" and hero equipment.


The Shadows:
These are your normal villains, their veteran rewards favor Mana, Special Spells and mana regeneration and in that aspect they make for very good casters or great hybrids. Their Epic 51+ quest line is all about becomming this server main villains and the first 4 Villains to complete it recieve the title The Shadow and their own Raidzone with themselves being the bosses and there very own(ed) Cursed weapons.


The Centurions:
These are a neutral faction, their veteran rewards contain both heroes and villain equipment and they do not have an epic quest line to complete, most likely the better choice for dual boxed characters.


Other Server Featueres:
Multi account up to 3 characters
Normal XP gain: No 5x easy mode, sorry
Double AAXP gain: Ok ok, maybe a litle easier
Max lvl 51 trough normal xp means: from here on out it's questlines or raids to get that lvl up
All Expansions enabled: but with a catch being lvl 51 max will pose problems to those who venture out of classic and so equipment and AAxp becomes that more important.
Custom Legendary, Fabled, Mythical equipment to offset lvl penalties
Unique single drops and powerfull Cursed items
All level restrictions disabled on equipment
Every Named has 900+ custom item drops in their loot tables (no diablo stuff) (Working on this atm)
Veteran Point system, the longer you are active on the server the more powerfull you will become, rivaling the power of raidbosses over time.
lvl 51 starts the Epic questline, and is the only way to reach lvl 80
lvl 55 quest that enables you to pvp against the ones who also did this quest or gang upon a Veteran player with raid powers

and last but not least, the Epic Quests won't have a linear path to them, they will have multiple choices and it will affect their outcome depending on your choices. And yes you can fuck them up, Epic-ly as what happens most of the time when players try something in pen and paper RPG's.

The new tutorial has for an example 4 diffrent endings. (you will know that you screwed yourself out of 3 possible endings when you recieve the Quest, "Only one choice left...." wich isn't exactly a choice anymore at that point.

As a note, i won't be going for fancy webpages, all custom UI content etc but i will be going for a more classic EQ feel with that powerfull Hero/Villain type outlook trough enhanced items, spells and a pretty engaging storyline that will pull across Norrath starting at lvl 51.

Oh and no it's not going to be easy


Currently i got a simple webpage up at www.eq.cobra-games.com (used my pen and paper domain to host the site under a subdomain) and for those who wish can try it out by downloading the patches on the download page. But for the moment i am leaving it on my private login server as there are to many things not finished yet but for those who do like it already, there won't be any wipes when it go's live on the login server here. Only a little xp modifier bonus.

Anyways, hope to see some to try it out