[Project Moth]

[m0th]

Salutations my fellow Norrathians.

I am announcing today my new project, codenamed "Moth" - an EverQuest passion project. I've played since I was 10, and quit LIVE / Progression Servers about 9 times after pulling several server firsts with your usual poopsockers. I spent a few years as a guide, played on lots of different eqemu servers and it was my first step into the larger game industry that is today.

All in all, EQ is in my bloodstream - but there was something I always wanted and that was to reach into Norrath like a mad god and turn it on it's head.

Project Moth will be just that. As a passion project, I am using this game as a sandbox to learn LUA and SQL more intimately.

The goals I have in mind (just to name a few for now):

- To take the concepts of Planes of Power flag progression and tie that to gameplay in earlier expansions in a fun way while players level, offering new quests and rewards for slaying nostalgic zone bosses like Emperor Crush, The Ghoul Lord, or King Xorbb, etc, etc, so on, so forth.

- To unlock and unravel the mysteries of race / class mixes and allow players to play in ways they want to play. (And if the server is full of Ogre Monks, so be it!)

- To push the bleeding limits of what can be developed, design new zones, new challenges and new gameplay never experienced on an EverQuest server while remaining (in part) true to the roots of Norrath adventure that was established long ago.

Everything is very much in early stages - so a lot needs to be done.
I hope the server will grow with time and people will try it out.

For anyone interested in the project, you can jump in early - but expect at least one server reset once firm decisions come into the picture.

Right now it is Classic Locked, testing and development are pretty much myself. If you are an active player looking to contribute their EQ knowledge to the server, find quest bugs and whatnots to be fixed, I welcome you and your input.

Thanks, and hope to see you online!