A progression type server would absolutely breath new life into this. Don't delete the old server, which is low population and will be almost 0 anyways if we do this, just make a new one and start at like tier 3, then every 3 months, release a new tier.

Or just copy paste the server and have everyone start at 0 again, This would be fun as all hell and would give us at least a full year if not two of distraction until some new content could be made for the "classic" server.

There are all kinds of possibilities with this that would get everyone back just like that. There are also many ways to make this a revenue generator since that aspect cannot be ignored if we want any real dev involvement/content creation not to mention just the costs of keeping this damn thing up. Let's take a vote on this idea with the commitment of everyone who votes offering to donate $25 a head if this takes off. We can then do this every 6 months, averaging out to $5 a month to play unlimited toons and support a project that means so much to us. This can be a litmus test to see if such a concept is what people really want, make sure to reach out to everyone you know that might want to be apart of this. We seriously also need to open up transparent trading on this site with fees to keep the stream going.
I remember a time when people donated and traded literally thousands of dollars to buy characters/resources here. Let's bring this shit back, people!!!

The reason EZ has gone downhill (from a high end, long time player perspective) is due to getting away from the winning formula. We need a new zone and then you make the previous zone more accessable. Simply put, the time spent vrs reward is laughable now. And you don't have to make T10 ez mode, honestly just unnerf it so it actually drops sun shards. Fixed.
What we did instead was nerf the drop rates, tease that new content was coming and it never did. The community offered up so many good ideas we figured T11 was a lock.
It also didn't help that the greatest version of the halloween event that ever happened was nerfed along with server wide drops. I understand that the drop rate was stupid common at first but now it's not even an event. What is the fear of people having zone pulls and double loot boxes that put the time and effort to farm them? They genuinely made the game fun again, it was like a reboot and our enjoyment surged but now it's all fallen off. This game now quite simply is an utter waste of time which deeply saddens me because I would have played it forever.
Also, what is the harm of free trade? Toons and items were literally worth thousands, now worthless. You could even charge 10% to do so, netting life sustaining gains for this server. It was never a problem that people bought and sold here, only that you failed to profit from it, thus the shutdown. Make a trading place on our website, all above board and legit and you get a share of the profits, easy peasy. This is the greatest opportunity that EZ missed out on. Of course it's going to go to shit without funding, making new content is work and you should get paid to do so. Also, the RL prices of items on the trader are laughably high, your bread and butter in such businesses are the small transactions in volume, remember people buy these things times 11+ accounts.
Having items and toons actually worth something does something you cannot do any other way, it gives people vested interest in this endevor. Using this model, we would have grown and grown instead of stagnating and dying. Our currency was worth more than some third world countries when this was running full steam back in the day.

TL;DR Let's make EQemu great again! We need T11, unnerf the goddamn sun shard drops, allow us a way to get the zone pulls and open up the halloween zone (unlimited instances, it's stupid to go to every instance to see one guild in all of them) which will at least give us something to do until T11 is done. Also, let's bring back the free market!!! .
I want to play here again so bad, and everyone that's been here does too.

We definitely need instances this year or it will likely become a big poop throwing contest. Best way to cause drama on this server is to have a public only or limited instances zone. Advance notice would also be nice, hopefully this runs late as usual as I had to put my time off in early and earliest I could get was the week of Nov. 4th.

I run all modern games with 0 issues. I just installed Destiny 2 two days ago and have been playing the hell out of it in glorious 4k, no problems or lag at all. Also I do have 3 different computers with wildly different hardware and all have this issue. One has a GTX 780ti haswell I5 cpu, other is a gen2 I7 with an ancient GTX 260. I think it has to be my settings due to the problem being across them all. I always just ran in 16-bit and even then, I could not run more than 8 reliably on the old hardware, which is why I updated to the Ryzen 7.
I did re-dload all rof2 files and put in the ezserver files and tried many settings in game (and ran the options editor and turned all graphics down, sound off) and had the same reslults.  I mean even without all of the .ini tweaks this game should not run so horribly with one instance.

As for my OS, I run it really clean. I am an old school tech and always have payed attention to my running processes and have everything in the nvidia display properties set to performance, and pre-rendered frames 1, aa off etc. I also Have windows settings set to performance and cpu minimum set to 100%.

I am wondering if my Gfx card is throttling down or something, I am thinking I will force it to run at 100% full time and see what happens (I think I can do this with EVGA precision.)Also, I am going to use the Blarr files if I can get them. I tried once and it was a broken link. I do not run an anti-virus, but I do scan with a remote service once a week and re-load my OS from known good (and recently from scratch.) I have 0 issues with any of my pcs in any other games or applications. My internet is also not the fastest around, but consistant with 30MB dload, 2MB upload. ( I know eq does not stress this at all, especially running just one instance.)

I am currently investigating performance issues I am having with RoF2 client. As I posted on another thread, I have a Ryzen 7 cpu, 16 gigs of DDR4, a 960 EVO M2 drive, GTX1080 gpu.  RoF2runs like shit on this system in anything but 16-bit color in Windows 7.
In windows 10 and all current drivers (and fresh install of all software and system, it is NOT my OS or software,) I literally fired up a single instance without my isboxer or any other mods, ran the graphics configure and turned everything off or down. I went into the client and turned clip planes off except for 10% on main clip and actor clip plane then spun around and stuttered horribly anytime there were toons around (nexus players or npc in any zone.) I did every optimization listed in this guide and still had similar results, even stick figures.
I just re-downloaded ROF2 from the wiki link and am going to do everything all over again and see how it goes. So far it's the same, I turned all graphics down, models and sound off and it's a stuttering mess. I need to do all of the ini tweaks still and filters.
Am I the only one having such issues? I can't even play one windowed instance, let alone actually box. I can run 16 in Win7 in 16-bit desktop color mode no problem.

I thought the $5m pricetag was temporary. Also, this does punish casuals as they pay $5m for a 3-day instance they will use maybe an hour or two a day. (Personally, $5m to me is a joke, but I see this point.)
The entire thought of "sucking plat out" has been shown to be misguided, look at what happened this Halloween when we were to pay for getting into Halloween. This isn't a way to help the economy, it was never the problem. Let plat be worth what it is. Inflation happens. We make plat fast, inflation is just reflective of that reality.
I do think some items should be available for plat at vendors, but the issue of who sets the prices apparently is beyond reconciliation at this point, and the devs don't play the game so have no realistic way of viewing this. The economy really isn't so bad, though. Plat is NOT useless nor worthless, just inflated... and we have a very healthy barter system going through items.

Christmas would be better, lol. Let us beef up so more people can do it this time around! Slap santa hats on all the npcs in nexus and call it good, theme twisted xmas.

I love the stats, looking forward to being able to do more in the next iteration. I had a great time and love the new items, thanks Akka and Rent for the fun!!

That's just it... I cannot preview the items. I do not know why... also... I cannot view my in game screenshots. At first I thought it was my windows 7 and settings, so I booted into my windows 10 and it sais 'this file type is not supported.' It is a .bmp file, and I have always been able to see my screenshots in the past, so I am confused. I tried other viewers and my browsers, this has always worked in the past.

Can someone please link the halloween quest weapon drops here? I can't see what goes to what classes, my preview button will not work. Using ROF2.

Hailed foxy with 2,060 coins and she only saw 1060. I did turn in, nothing. I went to her again with 2,600 and she only saw 1600. So, I ran around, gated out, back in and she wouldn't even respond to a hail. I went out again, came back into new instance and she saw 1600 again. I restacked, moved around in inventory then she saw full 2600. Turned in and got lucky this time.

tl;dr Make sure she lists your total correctly before hitting turn in, especially if you have like 10 stacks. Dunno what or how this works yet, but I think it rolls in terms of 1k stacks is my guess.

How about selling am item for 200 credits that allows a 1 hr double instance per day, along with a zone pull tool for 200 credits that holds max 10 charges and resets every day? This would have three positive effects. It would be an influx of capital into our server, it would aid the casual player in maximizing time spent each day, and would be a much needed infusion of essences and GSoA we need.

So, turns out there are boss chains!! We are starting to get chains of bosses, looks like up to three and you get special loot. Lots of coins, zone pull items, 20k-50k aa crystals and one person got a 300k hp earring! Amaizing stats, starting to get excited about this again.  Kills are damn slow still but will be worth it if I can get a couple of items like that.
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Also saw a kick ass monk wep drop with proc effect:krackin2. Looking forward to discovering more.

Guys, we need to band together and figure this out. We have been given an opportunity to be apart of a living, progressive event. Let's figure out how to move forward. I have pieced this together based on clues from others and what the gms have said.

This is a unique experience for this server and may only be a one time thing, so let's see what we can truly do as a team. I have no doubt the rewards are going to be cool and unique as hinted at, we have not even scratched the surface. We nee to clear the zone and see what happens.

I also understand more about the event after seeing some oocs from Rent and whatnot. Seems our thinking of this as a typical halloween very limited event is what is clouding our judgement of it.

This is a more long time event with elements that will unlock as we progress. Attacking it with this mindset makes everything seem much more logical than it otherwise did, although it is still very slow going for me.

I will put in more time today and see how it goes, this is a server wide event that will have some undoubtedly cool rewards.