Non No-Drop Server? (FV style)

[Baruuk]

Hey folks - this is my first post here (iirc) and I have been spending most of my time on PEQ and Project 1999 (both great servers in their regard). My question is a simple one - and after doing a search I wanted to get clarification. I played on Firiona Vie for years and found it fit very well with my play style with the non-no drop ruleset. I'm curious as to why the non-no drop ruleset isn't more common on EQemu servers and if it's possible to make a server similar to FV. A RL bud and I were chatting the other day and thought that perhaps in the future it might be feasible for us to set up a server with a FV style ruleset - but if there are some quality ones already out there, then no need. Any thoughts on this and or if it's possible to set one up this way?

Thanks much.

Baruuk

[Baruuk]

43 views and no replies? :(

[bowmaster]

there is one
akamikal or someting like that
spelling is terrible , but theres a classic , and a powergamer , one , when it first came out it was popular , but seems server has died downa bit now which is sad

[ChaosSlayerZ]

to have a true FV server, we are missing Trivial Loot code

[ojamajoe]

I don't know that non-no-drop thing matters if either: your server population is as low as most 'legit' emulated servers, or your content is as trivial as a lot of the 'custom' emulated servers.

There are many other aspects of the old FV ruleset that I loved; but, of course, the lack of no-drop is the only one that Live retained...

[Baruuk]

Thanks guys. Any info on how hard it is ( or isn't) to remove the no drop from all/most items on a server? I might try this in the future to play with when PEQ is down

[bowmaster]

whats this trivial thing?
and i would imaigne not hard , if i can get into server making , im lookin at tryin sort quests // mobs and content upto soD for a server , if i can , I might even run my own server with no drop disabled

[Baruuk]

Trivial loot code was something that went into effect for a while on Firiona Vie I believe that it prevented loot from showing up on a mob if the character who'd killed it was over a certain level - basically preventing/discouraging high level characters from farming lower level mobs.

Thanks also - got my answer about how to change a server from having any no-trade items in the Developer forum.

Happy gaming!

[Ikeren]

The Realm, Congdar's BoT test server, runs with No-Drop and Lore tags disabled.