EZ Server

Please read this post for more information and follow the instructions for SoD Clients:

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31085

NOTE: You cannot use the #setlsinfo on the EZ server (yet!), so you need to login to PEQ or Storm Haven and use the command there. You should be able to login after that.

NOTE2: PEQ users can also login via PEQ's login, if you have a PEQ login account. Keep in mind all PEQ-only accounts are temporary, and if you would like to login there, you would have to use PEQ's website to claim your EQEmu account. It is more preferred to use the first login option provided by Gaeorn.

Is this reliable? I mean, how buggy is this patcher?

There is no patcher.

It is not buggy at all; it works the same as SoF practically. You just need to login via Gaeorn's loginserver on the SoD client. You can buy the SoD Client on steam here:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/24130/

Copy the directory out of the steamapps folder and you're set.

It works out of the box with EZ, provided you ran #setlsinfo on mentioned servers (PEQ or StormHaven). You need to change your eqhost to tsahosting.net:5999 though after you run the command on the aforementioned servers.

Great work.
Whats the benefit of switching to a newer client?

well i bought it back when it was like 2.99$ or whatever. However doesnt SoF have problems? thats why most people use Titanium, am i right? Just curious what kind of issues i should expect is all

what info do you put after #setlsinfo ?

Email and password, you can make up the password but the email has to be valid.

SoF has zero problems. I've used it since coming to EZ. You need the SoF spellfile for both SoF and SoD though. :)


Better stability amongst other things (you get 1k more HP due to the SoD formulas, you can click on a person and see their buffs, can resize the UI, you can use updated UIs, etc)

Alright, thanks for the info Secrets, will set myself up when i get home from work...

Im not at work prowling the forums....  :-X

We need some seeds on the only SoD torrent up  ;D

im seeding :D havent installed yet though

Here is a list off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Platinum no longer adds weight to your character.
2. Groups can now see each other's Mana and Endurance in the group window.
3. You can now see the buffs that other players have on them in the target buff window.
4. Most UIs from 2009 to now work with SoD with little to no extra changes needed.
5. You can now copy the UI setup from one character to another from in-game.  This means you set 1 character up perfectly, and all of your other chars can just copy it :D
6. You can set the frame rate of EQ windows running in the background, which makes boxing performance considerably nicer depending on how you set it.
7. You can re-size your window size to any size by stretching it like SoF, but in SoD, you can also lock the size so you don't accidentally re-size it.
8. SoD has multi-core support and works very well with modern PC hardware.  It sets your first instance of EQ to only use 1 CPU core, and if you start a second instance of EQ, it sets it to the next available CPU core and so on, so it helps balance CPU load when multiboxing.
9. WinEQ is obsolete in SoD :)
10. SoD is the most stable client I have seen by far, even more stable than Titanium.  It has never crashed for me other than when I caused crashes while doing dev work on it.  And I have been logged in 24X7 since I first got it working.
11. I haven't done too much testing with it yet, but I hear SoD is amazing for people who multi-box.
12. SoD has lighting that is much better than Titanium, so you will instantly notice that everything just looks better.
13. Facial features while using illusions works perfectly, where previous clients have minor issues with them.
14. Zoning time is generally noticeably faster.
15. Levitate no longer causes you to bob up and down and instead you just float there.
16. Holding down left click can now be used to rotate around your character while in 3rd person view, just like most current MMOs allow.

Here is a more complete list of changes between SoF to SoD in relation to the client itself, directly from the SOE patch notes:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showpost.php?p=185786&postcount=45

Plus, all of the new features available in SoF that aren't available in Titanium are also in SoD, so that adds a ton of new stuff there as well that I am not even counting here.

Not to mention that it includes all of the SoF content, which is a huge amount of content for server admins to be able to make use of as well as the SoD content, which itself includes:
1. 20 completely new zones, and some revamps of old zones that are really cool.
2. 40 new NPC races including multiple mounts
3. Many new Global Races, including some older ones that are nice to have loaded globally.
4. Dozens of new weapon models.  I haven't even counted them yet, but I assume there are quite a few.
5. Dozens of new Item Icons.

Really, considering the short amount of time we have been working on SoD so far, it is very far along and fully playable.  There are still a few minor issues remaining, but we are knocking them all out very quickly.  I think it is already the best client EQEmu has had yet, and it will only continue to get better.  Even if you are playing on a server that might not make use of the SoF or SoD content, the SoD client has clear benefits that make it worth upgrading to.  It is just an all-around-great client.

So how would we go about getting the SoD client if we already purchased it Digitally. I know I'm not the only one thats played live within the past year. And it would suck to have to buy it offa steam :(.

eq sod torrent

stick that in google.

Hellz yea and don't forget to seed when you finish  ;D

Thanks bro for the update.
Sounds awesome! Cant wait for my download from um... steam.

secrets ur awesome *tips hat*

and as for the torrent, ill be happy 2 seed, well, if it ever decides to finish that is :P

will the steam verison of SOD work?

So I am assuming that when we have the new SoD client, that we install it from scratch.

I also assume need to transfer any files over to the new client such as UIs, spell files, zone files, etc.  What about our characters? Anything for them or is that all saved server side?

Thanks.

*Dies* I love SoD already

Si when I have the SoD... i need to uninstall Titanium right?
Will character files work with sod?

You can have 2 EQ clients on your computer at once but they cannot be the SAME client (Titanium and SoF or Titanium and SoD or Sof and Sod are not the same clients obviously so you're fine either way. You can't install 2 Titanium clients or 2 SoD clients etc though) and they can't be installed in the same directory or they will end up "patching" the other client.

The only Characters files that are provided in a directory are UI files and no, with the UI changes they are not cross compatible i'm sure. You'll have to reset up your UI windows.

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You can have 2 of the same EQ client, just different folder names and stuff. i got 2 Titanium clients on my PC. "EQ-SOD" (Shards of Dalaya) and "EQ-EZServer" obviously.

Wow, sorry for previous post. I apparently cant read the contents of people's posts. Sorry for being retarded

So Seeds of destruction client will work with EZ?

Too bad there is only peers and no seed.. it will take forever

Also am I to understand that the SoD, being a 6.2 gig torrent.. is the whole chabang from classic to sod?

There was 1 seed for most of the day, and this torrent had only 5 peers earlier.  Now there's 0 seeds and over 45 peers.  Ruh Roh!

Anyone finish the download. Wondering if the download even works.

i got 2 days left lol

edit* I hate UAC ... *grumbles about stupid Admin crap in uac preventing install
Found what i needed to find, had to read the emu forums a few times to locate it but ... wow i hate windows 7, its the same security headache as vista with the uac ... personaly if i clicked the f'n file apparently i want to take the rick of fricken opening it.
FRICKEN DO WHAT I TELL YOU TO YOU MICROSOFT DISASTER

/rant off

Control panel > User's Accounts > Change User Accounts Control Settings > Turn off

No more annoying pop-ups when you install stuff

DL done. I'll continue seeding. Will test it when I get off from work.

and if you dont want to completely disable UAC, the lowest seeting (not off) works good too... or simply right click the setup file and "run as administrator"

Do we need a valid e-mail for every single account we box?

Yeah you do, but u still login with your usual login name.

ok so i set lsinfo used my email i used for emu forums and such but when i get to login screen i get invalid user/password error
I brokedded it .... again

you loggin in with email or username?
And why the email? do we have to confirm anything?

Still downloading for me so I didnt try yet.... lots of peers... 1 to 0  seeder heh

I guess we are all sharing the same torrents since its the only one i found haha

Got it working. Logging into my first character now. The torrent is indeed working.

Seems as though it uses almost double the amount of memory with the settings identical to my titanium client (disabled models and etc.). For boxing especially when I'm using my laptop it would seem as though this may not be an option.

Hmm this happening for the others using SoD?

Interesting. I always heard it was just the opposite.

Supposedly only the first instance uses more memory and each additional uses substantially less, I haven't tested it myself yet.

Had two boxes running each eating up between 500-600MB rather than my WinEQ box loaded up with the titanium client sitting pretty at 250.

well, Sony only tried to copy what wineq did, and they failed cuz i was gettin the same stuff, not to mention on my monk a lot of the skills were being lame and giving me the *invalid DB String* crap and some of my skills that worked with other skillz (like quick feet & fists of wu for example) just wouldnt work together where on titanium they worked just fine in unison. Guess its all about running SoD with wineq (if that can be done, havent tried it yet)

I can verify that SOD is using significantly more memory than titanium was.  There also seems to be another issue, we aren't able to add anybody to our friend's list using SOD client.  I've spoken to some others on the server using SOD and they have the same issue.

We are also unable to copy our UI from an existing SOD character to another one, when doing so it says there's an error and the other UI file does not exist.

Seems promising, but still quite buggy.

Having all the sames issues

Can't copy UI
Friends list not working

and again the memory usage is up there.

Copy UI works perfectly as long as you aren't copying it from a old UI file or something (like if you copied them over from Titanium).  Just setup your UI perfectly on 1 of your characters and log them out with /camp.  Then, log in one of your other characters and use the Copy UI feature to copy the one you just setup on your other character to the character you are currently logged in with.  I have used it dozens of times with multiple UIs and it works great.

I don't think memory usage can be counted as a bug.  Maybe a slight downside, but depending on the settings you use, it can be fairly low or fairly high.  But, it does seem to work well when boxing more than 1 account at a time.  I would have to test it, but I wouldn't be surprised if my system could handle the same number of SoD clients as it could Titanium.

The friends list thing is definitely a bug, and I will add that to the list of things to work on for SoD development.  I hadn't tried it on SoD yet, and this is the first report of it.  Derision can probably get that working pretty easily.

For a list of what is still needing to be corrected, check here:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30909

Also, bug stuff can be found here too:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?p=185773#post185773

Keep in mind that this client is still very new.  Most of the important stuff is fully functional, but we are still finishing off the random issues here and there.  Updates are coming in every day to get everything worked out.  You can find the changelog (auto updates to most current) here:
http://code.google.com/p/projecteqemu/source/browse/trunk/EQEmuServer/changelog.txt

Depending on when EZ is updated, you guys may still see some bugs that are already fixed on the SVN that just haven't been added to EZ yet.

Hopefully we will have most of the remaining smaller issues resolved pretty soon.  But even as it is now, it is still better than SoF and IMO it is better than Titanium in most ways.  The more people that play the SoD client and report issues that haven't been reported in the SoD bug thread on the EQEmu forums, the faster we will be able to verify the bugs and fix them to make SoD more amazing :)

The friends list became a server-sided operation around this time because friends list used to be exported from a local file on the computer. So if someone used another client or another computer elsewhere, they're friends list did not show up. Likely this is going to require database entries for each individual character/account.

Regardless, the client is phenominal in so many ways that I encourage anyone to get a hold of a copy. CPU throttling for boxing as well as core fixxes are a reason alone. You can also use the /copy feature to copy another characters UI settings on your current toon. It doesn't matter if it's JoeBlowEZ or JoeBlowBOTA, it will copy those UI settings from different server settings almost instantly, and saves you a ton of hassle. SoF UI system was bugged on the solid box set release and download (they're the same) and patched shortly afterwards. This has the fixes in place.

Yeah, actually, I think the friends and ignore list was added to the Universal Chat Server in the SoF client.  I think the issue is that we aren't connecting to the Universal Chat Server on SoD properly yet.  Once the UCS is working, I bet the friends and ignore lists will work as well.  It may just be that the opcodes changed or something.  I will mention it to Derision when I talk with him next to see what he thinks, since the UCS is his baby :)

Aye, I'm sure it won't take long.

Yes Friends/Ignore is a Universal Chat thing with SoF (and i assume SoD as well). You can tell because anytime you do "/ignore Hiimarandomnamelolz" It'll respond with a UCS message (usually saying it can't connect. =/)

/afk does the same thing but it works fine so *shrug*

I set the UI up from scratch and attempted to copy it via the Options Menu and it's failing for me. Didn't copy any INI files from anywhere else.

If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7, it may just be that you don't have permissions to copy/edit files in your Everquest folder.  You may need to change permissions on the folder, or lower UAC if so.  The copy function definitely works, as I have copied the default UI as well as multiple custom UIs just fine so far without a single issue.  Also make sure you are using it correctly.  You want to be copying from a character that has the UI setup the way you want to a character you want to have that same setup on, not the other way around.

I've got my first character working with SoD, but I have 3 login server accounts under my 1 email.  How do I set the other 2 characters up as well?

You should be able to just log into PEQ or SH and use #setlsinfo for each account you want to use on SoD.  I think using the same email should work just fine.  It just doesn't tie them all together as only the Official EQEmu LS knows which ones go to which forum account and such.

I only have 1 EQ Emu account, with 3 login server accounts under it.  They are all tied to the same email address and password.

I can get my first account working, but none of the others will logon.

What should I do? Go do #setlsinfo 3 times with the exact same info?
I've tried with #setlsinfo account password.  That didnt work.

So was trying the copy UI feature again today and get the same error:

INI file does not exist.

Which is odd because it appears in the list just fine and can see the INI file in my eq directory.

Did you try disabling UAC, or checking the folder properties and making sure it isn't read only or something?  You are running SoD you got from a Torrent?  If so, it is probably related to the Torrent download specifically in one way or another.  Most likely you can resolve it by setting permissions or folder properties or something, but I really can't support Torrent related issues, since there is no way to tell what may or may not be causing issues due to it not being a normal install from Steam.

Trevius what directory are you running SoD from? This is from an XP machine I'm getting the error. Same permissions as other folders in Program Files.

Can people seed or can some one make a direct download for me plz? Its at 44% going at 0.1 kbs.( not kidding.) So plz can some one seed. I am wanting a direct download. It will go faster.

1. start Titanium or SoF client
2. Log in to Grand Creation (eqemu login server)
3. do the #setlsinfo email password
4. quit
*** do the same for all accounts, log with them like you would on EZ... same info is fine.. worked for me.

5. start SoD client
6. Log In to ez (new SoD login server)
7. Play

thats it...
login is the same for both client... the user you always used

Yeah i tought i could save time for all my account by simply copying the ui but apparently not lol... file is there i see it... only ones i can use are the resolution ones...

Dont know about you but when you login... scroll back up your chat.. me its saying that some XML files do not work with this everquest bla bla.. not sure what its for but everything seems to work fine beside maybe the HoTT window which is a little off

Has anyone else experienced a huge problem with multi-boxing with SoD? i got mine up and running today and tried to log on a handful of characters to buff for a 1-47 RoA run in CoM and i thought my computer was having a seizure. After i logged back down to one i was fine. i dunno if its something i did on my computer or if it is SoD. As an fyi i used to be able to easily run 5-6 characters (less than i had up today) with SoF.

Well I heard SoD suppose to support more the multi-core of processors and reducing the framerate of background instance (you can change that in eqclient.ini)... It is also suppose to take less memory apparently but I dont see that as a fact yet... I am running SoD with 3 box easily. Did not try with more though.  Some report says that it is taking more memory than let say wineq2 (well it is).

Have you tried running SoD within WinEQ2?

I have a question. Now i have had SoD in the past on my official everquest account. Now if i wanted to can i just update my Everquest and tell it to install SoD and SoF files and nothing else? Then try it and see if it works?

What lvl of graphics settings were you using and how much RAM do you have?

The FPS for running in the background can also be set right in the options from in game.  Adjusting that can really help performance when boxing.  Also, you should be able to adjust settings down considerably if needed for your system to perform well.  Even on lower settings, SoD still looks better than Titanium in most cases, since the lighting is 10X better.

just got SoD up and running.  looks pretty nice so far.

Are there any special files needed for SoD?  or will the spell file for SoF work with it?

SoF spell file works for me.

Hunter suggested we take advantage of the steam SoD sale for $2.99 a little while back.

Are there any directions on how to set it up from the steam install or should I just say screw it and just DL it from the torrent?

should be the same i guess.
The torrent is not a setup but rather a full folder structure you just put where you want

Well sense server is down, maybe someone can help me with this problem. I just finished downloading SoD off of steam. I put it into its own folder etc.. changed the eqhost to the original eqhost so I could log onto the PEQ and do that one command etc... then change it back. The problem im having though is when I put in my account name in the login screen and password, it just says logging in forever, but never goes anywhere. Sorry, I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I think you need to use Titanium and do #setlsinfo. I could be worng.

You'll have to do the login to PEQ and run the commands through the titanium client. After you've done that, you should then modify your SoD eqhosts.txt file to reflect the new login server and port number (as described in the link of the first port.) Only then will you be able to connect to anything using the SoD Client.

ok ty, my problem was I was trying to log in to the the #set thing through the SoD client first haha

Ok since server crash yesterday, i try to install SoD.

So i use steam to download it. Once it was done, i move it out of steam folder.

Then i make a shortcut on desktop with c:\blabla\eq\eqgame.exe patchme

After that i launche the titanium client en log on serveur to run #setlsinfo myemail@domain.com <password>

Then i log out and go sleep.

this morning (2 hours ago), i launch SoD Client (with eqhost.txt modified) enter login/password, and in server list i only see Storm haven PEQ and an other server. So no EZserver.

My question is, can we log on EZ with SoD client, and if yes how do i get the server in list ?

Thx.

The ez server is down and been down for several hours now so that might be why you do not see it listed.

ok, you probably right. I was thinking he was up.

I will check this evening.

Thx for you answer.

K im encountering a weird bug and the SoD is not playable at the moment for me. Any spell I try to cast gives me a message saying that "this spell cannot be cast while out of combat" message.

Anyone know what causes this or know of a fix for it?

I have had that bug with a spell file problem.  Download the SoF spell file and try again.

everything working for me, but i got more lag with SOD than titanium when multiboxing.

I maybe miss somthing in configuration

Thanks Zartaxis! That did the trick. I was using the Titanium spell file before.

Loving the SoD

Anyone else noticing far plane cliping seems to be locked at a very close distance?  Your slider bar shows 100 even though it's clearly pulled back quite a bit.  Tried editing the ini file which has the value 20.  Raised it to 100 but goes back to 20 automatically...

Anyone know a way around this?

I have now updated to SoD client but one thing is confusing me. In Titanium it says 25 out of 25 expansions enabled. In SoD it says 0 of 0 expansions enabled. Will this make a mess on the server? A testlogin on a character being on Nexus seems to be fine working.

ya, just ignore the 0/0 expansions, doesnt really mean anything on eqemu tbh

It actually means nothing on EQEmu...

Further issues with SoD client:
a) /friend list is not working. Can not add any friends to it.
b) sometime looting impossible because corpses are not targetable. Even with /target command they are not targetable.
c) Hotkeys poofing sometime out of the hotkey bars

A. Has already been brought up, SoF does it to. It'll work when EZ gets updated so SoF/SoD works with the chat system.
B. Never had this issue, you sure it isn't the typical EQEmu "Under the world" glitch that causes corpses to go all over the damn zone cause that's the only time it happens to me.
C. Never had this happen either, make sure you aren't hitting "CTRL+any number" because that auto-rotates the hot button bar to the page of the same number you hit which would make it appear as though hot buttons have been lost even though all you did was accidentally switch the pages.

A) Ok waiting for the fix.
B) It is becoming more crazy. When I dual box it can be that one of the 2 characters can not see the corpses while the other sees  them clearly. But even when the corpses are clearly visible can they sometime not be looted. It appears to be a SoD issue.
C) That with accidentally CTRL+Number is already checked and this is not the issue. Funny is that it only affect now only one character which still lose the content of the hotbar.. All other characters are now fine!

I have the same issue. Sometimes corpse dont show up on some of my box, sometimes its invisible (still targettable).

If you cant target it, I made a hotkey for it...

/tar a
/loot

/tar a is because most mobs starts with A (modify as needed)

Hope that helps for now till a fix is in place

Got SoD, now time to get it figured out.

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I've heard conflicting things about whether SoD works better or worse for boxing than using WinEQ2 with Titanium, anybody have some info? I pretty much can barely run 3 right now, was wondering if it would run better or force me to run with 2.

well..the game is 10 years old...the only ones d/ling a torrent of a 10 year old game are us addicts :D

I seem to remember Rogean saying somewhere, never discuss Torrents and downloads in game or on any public boards. Maybe I dreamed it, just a heads up!  :P

Can he really moderate Hunter's boards though? seems kinda unrealistic.... but i do remember reading something like that now that you mention it. so will take down my link post

It's up to Hunter whether he wants to allow it or not.

Of course, SoD is only $19.99, and that's like what... two papa johns pizzas you could buy?
You aren't losing much. :P

Oh by the way.. official LS should support SoD soon. KLS finished the changes to the official LS, and we just gotta wait for Rogean to put the changes on there.

Which spell file should we use for SoD?  I assume SoF file?  I'm using this, but some things don't seem to work right.  First off, the ranger epic (1.5) clicky says "unknown spell".  It does seem to work, I get something like a bard song for a few seconds..

Also many item descriptions will say "increases the power of XX up to 0 percent"... not sure if that's a spell file issue or not though..

SoF spellfile should be used.

Also, yeah, the description will be missing from a lot of items. That's normal.

Thanks to KLS, we now have SoD/Live support on the official LS.

Fun times were had.

Yay!

That's

Host=eqemulator.net:5999

?

yes port 5999

Quick questions:

1)  As of right now, is the friends list still broken?

2)  Also, once you use PEQ #sls function to get the LS Accounts accessable to SoD, can you still later log in with a Titanium client?

Working.  I like it better too, more servers and it shows how many on. 

It also means people without Titan/SoF can login and create a new account without having to beg someone to do it for them (like I did..)

So I assume this means the Steam install doesn't come prepatched to the live servers and acts just like a clean install from CDs?  And what do you mean by copy the directory out of the steamapps folder?

Thanks in advance, I'm thinking of setting up with SoD so I just want to make sure I don't screw it up.  :)

That is correct.  As long as you don't launch it without changing the login server / "patchme" so it doesn't connect to the patch sever, it will work.

You don't actually need to copy it out of the steamapps folder, but it's probably safer if you do.  Steam *will* update games, though I don't know if it will do that for EQ.  (Probably not, is my guess.)

Oh I see, you mean just move it somewhere else after it is downloaded.  That makes sense.

every time i see this i wonder 'wtf does EZ support shards of dalaya.'...

lol same here

Has anyone else had a problem using the Paladin ability Lay on Hands? I just upgraded to the SoD client and found I had to use the AA window to train in the ability to be able to Hotkey it. I trained in it once to get the ability and saw that you can train in it again up to 17 times. Thinking that maybe it gets better if you train in it multiple times like Live I trained 2 AA points into it but now clicking the LoH button doesn't do anything for me. Does LoH not work in SoD or did training the AA points into it mess mine up?

Thanks,
Amerzel

Lay hands is a skill, the AA lay hands is not working. You can still find lay hands, in the skills pages in actions.

I don't see it in my Actions -> Abilities page. Is that the one you are talking about? I have 6 open actions able to be hotkeyed and my list is:

Bind Wound
Bash
Sense Heading
Fishing
Begging
Taunt
Remove Trap
Inspect
Open

Is it possible a custom UI is hiding it?

I don't have LoH either.  I don't use a custom UI.

Are you a Paladin using the SoD client? Does the AA version of LoH ever work for you?

Thanks,
Amerzel

I have a problem with SOD where I cant get past the Server Select.  If i click Play everquest the screen goes black and stays that way.

Make sure you're using port 5999

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5999

Actually that sounds like the problem I had before the login server supported SoD.  Make sure you're using the correct LS (see above).

Thank you Thank you.
For some reason I had login.eqemulator.net instead of just eqemulator.net changed that and now it works.

IIRC, the steam SoD client no longer works with EQ Emulator.  Is that correct?

No that's false. Steam client is Underfoot now which does work but it's not as stable as the SoD one yet.

Still plenty of ways to get SoD though.

Yeah when I get home I'll look for a torrent probably.

I missed something very cool here I think. ZomgDanyelle, do I understand this to mean we can now use the Underfoot client from Steam on Ez?  If so I missed that bit of news, but very cool!  I'll buy a copy asap if that is correct.

Thanks for the tip!

Underfoot will let you log in but it still has the following problems:

Last Update - July 11th 2010


Top Priority Work:
1. Buffs - Buff Icons now show correctly and the effects of them show on the client correctly until you zone. Still need to figure out how to make buff effects show after zoning (icons work still after zoning).
2. AAs - AAs don't display purchased AAs properly and aren't able to be purchased.
3. Zone Points - Zone points in zones with more than 1 zone point are broken. This seems to be a simple structure issue.


Medium Priority Work:
None ATM


Low Priority Work:
1. GM Speed - GM Speed doesn't seem to be working properly or at all.


Client Issues:
1. Drakkin Male Animations - The Steam download is missing the file dkm_anims.eqg file that controls Drakkin Male animations. This causes Male Drakkin to hover over the ground frozen sideways. This can be resolved by copying that file from a previous client (SoF or SoD) into the Underfoot installation folder.

You can read the client development here: http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31635

Excellent!  Saving the link. Thanks much!  I'll watch that going forward.

In other words, just wait another 6 months or so before going for it =/

So I tried SoD today and got it so I can login and all. But when I got back on my warrior I noticed Flurry is missing. Under combat abilities its not listed and if I look under skills I don't see it either.

Also to me thats a big part of the warriors dps early on..

About 18 combat abilities show up as JC - Placeholder (melee revamp) and have the lvl of 255 so you cant use them.

One of them being flurry I'm guessing. So thats tons of dps taken away from the warrior with SoD. Not to mention all of the other classes that are messedup the same way I'm sure.

So in my opinion SoD as it stands it not fully compatible with the current version of EMU.

Really? Because every other server i've been on people play Warriors on SoD with no problems. Even here people play them on SoD with no problems. Also, granted i haven't played a Warrior because i view them to be OP and generic (especially on EZ), however this is the first I have heard of this issue so either you're blowing it out of proportion or there's not actually anything wrong with the client and it's something you did wrong. No offense.

P.S. Flurry was actually removed from EQ due to it being OP but the disc was still left on the spell file...with no recast. See here for more details: http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31126
So if you ask me it's working as intended and if anything this is good news... it's about damn time something was done to put Warriors in line...

Sounds like someone is running the Underfoot expansion of steam not SOD ....

That was my thought to :P

Like i said bro no offense, but please ensure you're correct before making a statement that can completely destroy the reputation of a client like that one can. SoD is fine, and honestly the sooner EQEmu players drop Titanium the better.

Anyway in regard to Underfoot. It sounds to me bro that you bought "SoD" off Steam recently. That's not SoD that's Underfoot. I know it says SoD but actually the two clients for purchase on Steam are the exact same, the only difference is the price and the CD keys for expansion access you get from the purchase. Since we don't use CD keys obviously that fact is void. Underfoot is actually coming along quite nicely. Tbh once it's fully up and running you'll hear me say how much better it is than SoD... and it will be :P. But atm it still has a few bugs. Two examples of which are a couple bugs with the spell file and AAs. You can see my post not even 3 posts up for a link to the development of the client.

If you want SoD you HAVE to Torrent it now. Inb4 "Don't talk about that, Torrents are bad news :(". It's honestly not as big a deal as you guys think, but i'm gonna respect Hunter's wishes anyway and not post a link. However if you want a link to the Torrent PM me...

So your telling me your client on SoD doesnt look like this for a warrior?
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3049757/sod%20client.PNG)

It sounds like you may not have downloaded the spell file for this server.  Mine looks nothing like that.

Oh I see my mistake, I thought the spell file was only for spells not combat abilities. Now I can fix this I hope thanks. =)

Everyone that plays here needs the spell file.  It is not only for spells you cast and abilities you use, but all spells cast on you.

`2. AAs - AAs don't display purchased AAs properly and aren't able to be purchased.`

any progress on this?

AAs work fine in SoD.  If they aren't working for you, then you either do not have the spell file installed from the link on the left, or you are not using a proper version of SoD.  The version available from Steam is NOT SoD anymore and it is not supported.

Actually there are 2 AA's that do not work that being HT and LOH as far as I know those are the only two that do not work with SoD client.

I have SoD. I also have a working HT from AA's, but LoH doesn't work.

Regarding SoD client, I have now dl'd 4 diff times from links given to me or from isohunt etc. I dl the ezserver spell files, I change my port setting to read 5999, i change  my directory to the new folder and subfolder for SoD.... and everytime I hit the server select page it says "I own o of 25 expansions, and I have no servers at all up to select. This has happened to me everytime with Sod, can anyone help inform me what I am doing wrong. I am not sitting through another 5hr download of 6.3 gig of data, only to have it tell me no servers exist.

And so you know there is nothing wrong with my client or pc, I can go into my emu launcher and select titanium again, its folder, set port to 5998, say yes to patch eqhost.txt, and be playing again in 1min.

Id really like to use SoD, but ive now wasted 20+ hrs trying to get it running with no luck at all. HELP !!!!!!

Thank you for any and all input

Did you setup SOD so it can run? If not here is the guide to how get to work. taken from Eqemu forums for getting SOD to work.
This was what I had to do awhile back for SOD to work.

Do this to get in before doing the step below http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=GetTit (http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=GetTit)
Another useful link for setup on left side Wiki and getting started and where you setup your user accounts. http://eqemulator.org/ (http://eqemulator.org/)

You need to get your login information set on this login server. To do so, you need to log in to "ProjectEQ: The Grand Creation" or "Storm Haven" via the eqemulator.org login server and use the #setlsinfo command. The #setlsinfo command expects two values, your email address and your password. This will update the alternate login server so you can log in via it. Once that has been done, you can set your eqhost.txt to either www.tsahosting.net:5998 (Titanium and SoF) or www.tsahosting.net:5999 (SoD).

Once your done with the top sectionc hange your eqhost again to reflect the changes below.

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5999

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NO SPACES AFTER THE END NUMBER 5999
IF YOU DO HAVE SPACES BACKSPACE SO THE CURSOR IS RIGHT AT THE END OF THE 5999

IF you do not do this then it can give you the error of empty server list or unable to connect.

Post if you need a solid complete walk through of install for SOD to work correctly.

Anyone know of a way to trick on the SoD client to make the Vote screen during login think I have already voted so it quits showing up?

It's not a big issue, but just one of those annoyances.

 I think I just clicked on it and let it try to open the page,then closed it out before it loaded. Its never popped up again,dunno if thats why tho.

HI THERE,

AFTER USING EQ TITANIUM FOR A WHILE, I INSTALLED NOW EQ SOD(Steam) and EVERYTHING WENT OK.   NOW I WANTED TO ENTER "LOPING PLAINS" TROUGH "Steamfont Mountains" but I can't find the passage !!   I have level 59, should I get to a higher level before access is granted or do I have another problem here ?

KIND REGARDS,
AL RAZOR (Beastlord level 59) - EZ is GREAT !!

What is Loping Plains?

Your best guess is, if it's a SoD zone that was added after Titanium, it doesnt exist on this server.

OK, but I saw that EZSERVER(online) supports also SOD (seeds of destruction) and SOF (secrets of faydwer) for a 100%.   Loping Plains is an SOF-zone.  So, I should get access or not ?

AlRazor

Hi, me again..

I found some other info about "Loping Plains" on this Forum, but I have any clue what it means !!!???

******************************************
QUOTE :
11. Steamfont Mountains (revamped during Secrets of Faydwer to allow access to Dragonscale Hills and The Loping Plains, via a new area where the remains of where Steam Factory and Fortress Mechanotus once stood behind the minotaur caves. Both versions available to SoF/SoD)
Steamfont Mountains (Old)=steamfont, zoneid=56
Steamfont Mountains (New)=steamfontmts, zoneid=448
*********************************************

Anyone can help me ? 

Thanks
Al Razor

Hi, me again  ::)

Could me problem be the reason I've linked to "Host=eqemulator.net:5999" for SOD and have to link instead to "Host=eqemulator.net:5998" for SOF. Perhaps then I could access Loping Plains which is a SOF-zone.
 :-[

AlRazor

I think they mean clients, and not content?

Anyway, I havent heard or seen of Loping Plains on EZ.

Loping Plains is a level 75+ zone,not required but you would die in a few hits I would assume anyhow if your on titanium you CANNOT access any of the content in those expansions you have to have SoD client to do so doesn't matter what your port is listed as. Supports just means if you have the correct client you can enter the zone.

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?zone=529

Mobs level 73-90 in the zone.

On live people used to use kiting classes at the gator camp to quad kite and farm AA's.

Hope this helps Goodluck

Hello Dragonmist,

Thanks for the info  :D

But what do you mean with "if you have the correct client" ?  For the moment I play free on the EZserver.  Isn't that enough ?

Kind regards,
Alrazor.

For clarification ... "supported" only means that you can connect to, and play on, the server with that particular client.  However, EZ server does not give you access to the zones and content from beyond Titanium at the moment.  Those zones are locked and can not be accessed.  Hunter has made it clear that he wants EZ's content to be available to Titanium users, therefore, adding custom content that uses the SoD expansion zones would dis-include Titanium users.  So don't expect to see the ability to access any SoD content in the near future.

OK, thanks for the information.

Although I have 2 others questions :

1/ Are the other servers which supports the SOD-zones ?

2/ Do EZservers supports SOF-zones ?

Alrazor.

Listen yes it supports them Im not sure if other emu servers do but you have to HAVE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION VERSION of the client if you DO NOT you CANNOT ZONE INTO THOSE ZONES

Its like EQ live you have to have the expansion bought and added or you cannot access the content it has NOTHING to do with what server has what content it has to do with the CLIENT VERSION your using man.Theres 4 types listed below.

Titanium
SoF
SoD
Underfoot

HI,

My installation is a SOD (Steam) V 1.0.0.0

AlRazor

Then im not sure man what the problem is un-install and re-install is all I know if not must be missing some sort of file as before that other content was released zone was re-vamped is steamfront mts loading in as oldworld or new school zone? and sorry if I seem hateful man just trying to help ,and have a lot going on in RL to lol.

Hi there,

No problem, no hard feelings.  Thanks for the help..

EZ rocks !

Hi there,

Hi Alrazor, Titanium wins vs sod all day, dont let these haters talk you into using SoD, tell them NO!!!!!! Say NO to SoD, all day every day !!!!

mmmmk, SoD is bad for ya mmmkk

(oh and Alrazor ROCKS!!!)

-Lightblade

SoD rocks

You are so high off your rocker friend! How can you defend Titanium like that?

*Note* This isnt an attack, just kinda like a friendly "Haha, what? How?!" Dont take it to seriously. Just curious

Hi guys,

For me it is not a problem to stay with Titanium.  Just tell me how than how Titanium-players can get armor, like "Elaborate Defiant Leather"-gear which can only be found in SOD-area's such as "Loping plains" ?

Bye,
Alrazor

Alrazor, I think you don't quite understand what a CUSTOM server is.  That gear is likely not in this server's database, nor is the zone available.

The zone is available in the sense that it can be used by Hunter for whatever he may need. It is not available for accessing though as a player.

The gear from zones you had concerns about, can be added to another zone's loot tables. So Hunter could easily make Qvic's loot available in Crushbone, or Loping Planes loot available in Western Wastes.

An example of this is how Hunter made the PGT available outside of Highpass, for people with Seeds Client

Thanks for the info.  So Hunter is pulling the strings what zones are accessible.
OK, I understand.

Just curious,  what's is PGT stands for ?

bye,
AlRazor

Polished Granite Tomahawk for the Fighter's guild quest.
Drops in Highpass only, however with people having issues after upgrading to Seeds, Hunter created a spawn in the Karanas for it to drop as well

Niceness even thought i dont plan on doing anymore FG/CG for while may just come in handy!