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Elid, if that gets green lit, get me and a couple FoH buddies of mine in F&F alpha as soon as you can, because I'm telling you there is nothing we do better than play classic EQ. Check out my youtube channel (Torrid01) for some of my no-lifery. I'm capturing material for my best video yet right now.
if it gets turned down and EQN becomes hello kitty online 2, get me into the alpha so i can clean online dishes as my girlfriend complains about me not doing real dishes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torrid
Wuuu online dish washing sounds fun!
LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Zappo
What is the timing of EQN?
Good question, any idea how far along they are in development Eli?
I hope for a death penalty, i liked the one in EQ1.
I hope the dungeons are not instanced =/
Back to playing EQ2 with my son who is now 7 years old so starting him off early :welcoming:. I can't wait for EQ Next just let me know what server Hoss will be playing on. Recently promoted to Director for Emergency Medicine so I have allot of office time which equates to more playing time lol.
more lumpia!
No server list is up atm so we don't know yet Renshin. As soon as people are on beta or pre-release I am sure there will be more on what server and what not.Quote:
Originally Posted by renshin
Lumpia Hubad!
Contested content!
https://www.everquestnext.com/round-...tested-content
Looks like stupid fucks want both instanced and non instanced which as WoW figured out, is just lame.
WoW's "mix" was never balanced; the majority of the content was uncontested with very few "contested" bosses.
What I would really like to see is some way of creating contested content that encourages competition but still allows some possibility access for those who may not be top tier. For example, top guild on server kills WorldBoss-X (large scale encounter, let's say 40-50 people required), and the boss drops 5-6 items. The top guild would then continue farming this boss as per usual in the EQ days on it's respawn schedule (whatever that may be, 5 days, 7 days, etc.). However, after maybe 3 days, a guardian spawns in place of the boss - this guardian would be *much* weaker, but have similar mechanics to WorldBoss-X. The top guild can walk in and kill it if they want for no reward (and maybe put a 24 hour respawn in this case); or they can leave it for other guilds who can kill it - experience the boss fight concepts - and be rewarded with 1-2 pieces lesser quality (but still better than dungeon) loot.
If the top guild isn't paying attention for a future boss spawn, some other guild may waltz in and take the main boss on the main respawn. This type of system allows multiple guilds to experience encounters, but maintains a level of competition between guilds and will drive a handful of guilds to lead the server.
Now there is a well thought out idea
I wish the dungeons were non instanced and contested too.
That was half the fun of eq I agree Wsp
Dungeons camps were a lot of fun , hanging out doing stupid crap, mass killing, crazy accidents, lots of fun
Actually just crawling down to join a group through all the mobs was entertaining too. Or rushing for the zone in from the bottom of a dungeon bringing the train behind you was a rush too!
I completely forgot about the fact that not every class had a Gate spell - so leaving the dungeon was sometimes as much work as starting them if you didn't have a druid or wizard to take the group(s) out.
Yes please. Don't homogenize everyone with everything like mmo's have done since eq to greater and greater extent.
I don't want to roll a wizard/mage/et all to be a healer / tank / rog / off tank
Make folks depend on other folks for crying out loud. The answer IS the holy trinity, not giving every class the same mechanics with different names and spell colors and calling it a freaking day.
I still remember how amazing it was in a crazy dungeon with a skilled enchanter keeping control of an overpull with multiple mobs mesmerized while they charm another to help clean up the pull (back before the "AE everything in 1 pull days").
And you remembered that person's fucking name and friended them for groups later. You made damn sure that person was in your groups going forward if you could help it, because a good enchanter made everyone around them better.
Agree'd
Gunter and I already have this one zeroed in. I did the kickstarter for garriots game looking for the same "throwback" atmosphere with whatever "next gen" they can come up with. Youd think that building/destroying will be a nobrainer, and if you are worried about whether or not kids these days like to be competitive in MMOs, my 7 yr old is a griefer/pk in minecraft. So I think you could really bring that guild mentality into play with actual defend/attack modes that a guild could participate in nightly. Blend PVE and PVP, with faction, and world economy impact. And as a guy who used to spend hours mapping the world from up on the tops of walls, hearing that there is extended travel time is welcome. Beats playing neverwinter for 36 minutes a day
I do miss the adventure that traveling in itself can offer. Some times it was mind numbing, but all in all it added something positive in my opinion.
Aye, and lets not forget death meant running back multiple zones. This mechanic in itself made players better or the ones that sucked just up and quit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Widespreadd Panic
Hope all is well WSP we miss ya~
Death meant something Aind. It meant you didn't try hard enough, lol. Back then when you wiped. It could mean hours of your life gone for someone fucking up. It was both awful and awesome at the same time. It was how you could not have to make the event itself mind numbing, just fucking hard. I hate how wow made events just weirder and weirder and along the way they just stopped being fun and started being run here then run here then click this button and then don't step in that and run here. Remember Qvic? remember those mazes that you had to figure out and it took days!!! That was fun... that was awesome.
I don't know if anything will ever come close to Everquest (original). Dying in EQ actually meant something and your corpse could possibly rot!! I remember when I was level 20 and I died somewhere in Orc Hill and my cable went out. I drove at 2 am in the morning to one of my friends house just to get my corpse back haha! There exists no mmo that gives that sense of fear.
PoH raid with a old guidl and they wiped and gave up , I paid every plat i had to a wiz and a lock to get my corpse back i got 1 hour sleep before work i was so stressed . Oh how i miss that lol
My first trip to Lower Guk, got a bag, got a manastone, then on the way out group wiped in the mino maze. Ran back and got my body, but didn't have time to loot so tried to corpse it out to zone in and got lost. It was 2am in the morning and I had made probably 6 trips through that maze clicking /corpse. Ended up going to bed with such a sick feeling. Next morning, got up, and ran down to lguk again and did a petition and a very friendly gnome gm came and got the body. Said it was stuck in a wall. Never had a feeling like that again in a game.
Try to run out and then have the rogue drag your corpses to the zone in for rez! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andaas
Mmm.. yeah that was good times.. especially with Lyynch 4 boxing the rest of the group and his necro's pet backstabbing my mez mobs!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andaas
Unfortunately the days of EQ like games are likely gone. WoW has pussified an entire generation of gamers.
Even EQ fucked that up with the TL to bind once the world got "too big".Quote:
Originally Posted by Andaas
Keep your eye on Kickstarter. I'm guessing 'something' will hit within the next 4 to 5 weeks.
Oh.. and you'll have to keep an open mind due to a couple things, but I believe it's on the right track to be the game WE all miss (challenging, engaging, and social).
Yay, EverQuest for Facebook!Quote:
Originally Posted by Elidroth
Ewww
Um... No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andaas
Hello again...
Career and family can kill a gaming habit! My gaming is currently limited to leading a mobile game 'Modern War' faction, and playing 4e with remote tools like MapTools/Vent on Sunday nights. If you guys pick a game that several folks will be joining (other than WoW), I'm in. Let us know when the kickstarter listing goes active Elid.
Good to see some of the old names!
Kat
EQ was a blast, but I don't ever wish for another game of its kind because I'm selfish and I don't have that sort of time to devote to a game. I'd like something challenging that doesn't require you to play it like a part-time (or full-time) job.
Key-camp requirements in EQ1 essentially enforced selection bias towards the group of players that could enter the zones with the biggest reward. Whereas, for VP, sleepers, and Vex Thall you needed a mix of raid groups, single groups most importantly-- free time to gain access. This really made it so the players that could spend ~8 hours to camp the key, could shift their time to raiding.Quote:
Originally Posted by depen
I don't know if a ~3+ key hour camp applies for EQNext, where SoE aims to create an ever changing world. However, what might work is a multiple hour dungeon-wide ring event that lasts a few hours. I could totally get behind that. Now I think a perfect raid duration would be under 90 mins, which puts me in the super casual category, HOWEVER I think some super-hardcore raiding option should be available. But I have no idea how it should work! Off the top of my head, faction grind mixed with gear and ability is probably the best way.