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[abarron]

Well i was able ta play for the very first time

and i was wondering if someone could send me a some info on how do i raise hp attack skills and ...well everything ..

and explain ta me how to Port myself to any zone,and how ta give me self like epics,and items and what have ya..

thx a TON!:p

[Zeitgeist]

type #help then come back if you have questions

[Zeitgeist]

hmm clarification, type #help and then when you try to execute a command such as #itemsearch or #summonitem come back if you have a syntax question =) it should give you basic syntax if you type a command with no parameteres passed.

[abarron]

i beg you...dont let eq emu die PLEASE

dont let sony take you out!

dont go out like napster! and all the rest!:(

[madborg]

Napster is actually in better shape than a lot of other dot coms. The whole fight was in trying to get pieces of Napster pie, which was and is a big pie.

If eqemu ever gets to the scale of Napster, that would be a major accomplishment indeed. And I would be the first to apply for a job.

I don't think that Sony is crying over any loss of business today because of eqemu.

[Zeitgeist]

true enough. most people playing with eqemu do so because they tired of EQLive and SOE/Verant's World and wanted to create new worlds or play by their own rules (uh oh that sounds like an 80s buddy cop movie now! Officer Borg, Officer Zeitgeist, you get back to the station NOW!).

[Hmm]

heh im one of few people that ISNT tired of eq AND isnt banned too.

what pulls me to emu is possilies to create my own events.

[cbreaker]

Yea, speaking of being banned..

[RANT]

Right. This guy on my server (non pvp) goes and trades me 5 bags of stuff. He apparently meant to trade it to someone else, but the dumbass didn't look at the name, clicked trade, and so did I. I logged out after that, was going to anyways. He didn't say anything at the time. Actually I thanked him.

Heh so yea it was about 150K worth of stuff it turns out. And then he and his friends go and bitch at everyone around, everyone in the guild, etc and they are all calling me a thief even before I ever said anything.

So a GM pulls up, and not a guide, the head honcho GM dude. He says that I either give the stuff back or he puts a warning on my account. Well, because the idiot that hit trade was such a basterd I said no way. He put a warning on my account, for no other reason other than the fact that he thinks I should give back the stuff. I didn't abuse a bug or exploit, so this is ridiculous.

So I used the web form and I contested the warning and requested a name change. Was going to request a name change anyways.

So this same GM gets the web form post, tells me no name change will be done EVER and that he will not take off the warning.

I ask him how to contact his Manager. He ignores me. I ask again. I then ask for his phone number. I ask who else I can talk to. He finally replies after days, and says that if I don't stop e-mailing him he will warn my account again for GM Harassment. What an asshole.

I was very polite in all my e-mails to him, I explained my views on the topic, and he's just a prick.

No wonder why there's never any GM events. They are too busy abusing their power.

I'm not a 15 year old kid. I'm not going to let him think he is god. I am going to call any and everyone I can to get his ass on the burner for this. Maybe nothing will happen, but I'm sure if I make enough phone calls and send enough e-mails to the upport e-mail address they will at least question him about it.

These people forget that we pay for EQ. It's not cheap, it's $10 a month. That's almost half the cost of the Cablemodem. Not to mention the game and the Luclin expansion cost about $70 right now. This is an entertainment service not unlike Cable Television. It is NOT a privelige to play EQ, you PAY for it.

[/RANT]

These are the reasons that I think something like EQEmu would be a lot of fun. There could be different servers with different rules, more of a friendly atmosphere, and you're not paying for it month to month.

As long as people can contain their temptations to give cool stuff to all their friends and anyone that begs enough, and not ban people over nothing (even the morons), EQEmu will rule.

-CB

[Zeitgeist]

damn fine post CB I'm sorry you fell victim to an attack by raving morons. hope that works out well for you in the end.

[abarron]

I was on about 6 hours last night..ya know just messing around makeing items and stuff...i was going to like poh and pof..and what was odd is that the boss monsters dident look like thay do in EQ thay had the human models.

does this mean thay havent been loaded.

and i wana ask#1 do u know if all items will ever be loaded into the Emu servers?

#2 Is there a way ta change item stats?

#3..it was odd..i started a hum/monk last night and i found an item that was like 45 attack and 4 dly ;P and it was for hum/monk
only..what was odd..it what it said my race/class stuff was rong......whats up with that??

[madborg]

re: abarron

you have to be patient. In december about the only thing you could do was log on. A lot of progress has been made since then.
But right now the focus is on getting the basic parts working.

Capabilities are being added all the time. And often things work better than you think -- such as spawning mobs -- but it takes practice. For example, you can't spawn an orc in Qeynos. It's the way that EQ is designed. The model and skins for an orc is not available. But you can spawn a gnoll.

You have to experiment a little. I have probably spawned a couple hundred npcs and mobs and I still don't have a complete hang of it. But I am better at it today then a month ago.

Eventually the documentation will catch up with the implementation. Then you will see that mobs have a gender of 2 and that you can spawn npcs with various textures and different races -- not all bald humans. A lot of the stuff you ask about is already available, but how you do some of those things is not documented. That's why no one can send you the handbook yet -- it doesn't exist.

[Zeitgeist]

and as far as items go, check the news area, quag released packet info and a download of a proggy that captures info on items to correctly import them for use in the emu exciting stuff, especially when you consider how old the project is. good work as always, folks=)

[abarron]

I was just wondering..

Do ya think down the road there wile be an everquest zone editor..like the quake editor?

if so thats good news for me

I was a freaking wiz at makeing Quake,Halflife,Hexen2,Haritic2,Unreal, and just about any other quake type game (Sorry ta brag ;P)


Holy CRAP! I just rememberd! i think there is!

I remember before SoL came out Sony had a screen shot of a sneak peak of SoL and it looks like it was made with a 3d engin.

Every little thing was in 3D hallowed Box's..down to the buildings, groves in the road,everything..

I just went to everquest.com
i guess thay took the old screen shots down...BUT I DO REMEMBER! :eek:

Btw...are the zones in eq in Wad form...if not..if you can figure out a way to convert the zone's into wad's I could SO start makeing new levels!

please..LET ME KNOW!

[Windcatcher]

We ARE working the problem. HARD.

All I can say for now...

Windcatcher

P.S. Being sick sucks :(

[cbreaker]

Yea, being sick sucks. I felt fine yesterday morning, and throughout the day I progressively felt worse..

I hate it. I hope you feel better, I'm right there with ya.