EZ Server

All,

I've been very busy to say the least, and so has Hate. But I hope you all are having a great summer and have been enjoying your time on the EZ Server.

I have a few announcements to make.

Donations:

• I will be running donations for one more week, through the 24th and they will be shut down indefinitely
• There is completely new pricing for EZ Rewards, a lot of the more ridiculously priced items by Hunter from the original days have been cut to a more reasonable number. These adjustments have been as a result of discussion/listening to players and executed by Hateborne

AA Update & Server Code Update & T10:

• We have a rather large update to add AA's all the way through Live EQ, this is a massive rewrite on the back-end to allow all of the new AA data but it also poses a challenge for us on EZ because all of these spells have to be retrieved from the Live Spells data in order for a lot of these AA's to actually work. We will make a post on how this update will be handled, if there are any game breaking AA effects, as well as AA effects that don't appear to work at all etc.
• These updates also include a variety of optimizations that will help us with the new T10 zone and for all large zones combined. While T10 is impressive in its architecture, it definitely puts strain on the limitations of the EverQuest client because of how things were built back in the day. I will clarify as to when I plan to land this update.
• When this update lands, Hate should be able to proceed with his BETA testings of T10. He has been making changes even since the last BETA and should allow us to make any changes to make it an enjoyable experience.

If anyone has any questions about any of this feel free to post.

Thanks,
~Akka

Consider double credits for the last week?

No

Just for transparency can you share with us the reason for the cessation of donations?

I am not complaining just looking for clarification so we the humble masses can understand:)



thank you in advance for your compliance with my humble request.

No idea the exact reason for this, but I've been expecting this for a long time. The amount of BS you have to go through for online donations of any kind increases annually....often exponentially. No way in hell Unca Sugar would let any amount of online transition of capital go on without gettin their cut....and whenever that happens the amount of labor involved just keeping compliance standards about requires a full time CPA.

Not saying thats why, but even if thats not the reason now it will be in the very near future.

Will there be any alternative ways to gain credits? I would hate to see new players lose out on the option to use some of those awesome reward items.

To clarify, it could be a month, 2 months, whatever. I'm just putting them on hold  for now. Indefinite does not mean forever.

Just want to say thanks for adding raid summon reward item, works well
Just wish i could trade in group one now its obsolete, but nm

Thanks again Akka and Hate =)

Not exactly true, there are times where you want toons parked around a zone as summon anchors with group coh, raid coh would yank them out of their spots. T7 is poopy without a few CoHers littered around the zone.

I've always thought the prices were too high, good to see a few of these come down a bit.

Personally, I can't bring myself to do a sizable donation without double credits as I can't justify the expense otherwise. IMO a lot of items are still "hedge fund manager" status.

I'll hope and pray for DC at some future date.

Did some items get removed? I didn't see the instant cure group item when I checked it out about an hour ago.

How much is the summon raid?

This pisses me off and I dont know why would someone please give me a valid reason. Damn you akka even taking away my ability to know why im angry at a change that hasnt happened yet. sadfacedays man sadfacedays....

Tone down on the crack there buddy.

I've been trying to find a reason to play, this reason may be the answer......

I've been having a lot of sex with a lot of goats lately and it is getting in the way of my game play time

When I have sex with goats I imagine I am playing in T10, that is the only way I can finish!

lol, good changes though, I will have to log in and take a look at the prices.

Also, wow, a hell of a lot of work to do that AA change thing, I can only imagine it will boost game play quite a bit and give everyone a lot of great new abilities both passive and activated. Very awesome indeed sir.

This will massively impact knights ability to tank, too.....especially SK.

How will it impact knight classes?  Explain further.....  ???

SK and pally tanks were unable to benefit from the Cleric's stonewall spell (because their own stonewall blocked it), while all this time us warriors have been rockin quad stonewalls  :P

hmmm I never use cleric stonewall....have the spell.....just never used it.

88% stonewall for the win people...come on!

Two AA stick out (for me) as potentially huge here: Mortal Coil for SK and Twinproc for both knights.

I just logged in after some time off and I still don't see the instant cure group item and I see no essence's on the EZ Rewards guy in Nexus, was that all removed?

It was. Barring a few select items, a lot of the pay-to-win has been gutted from EZ. Those that have them already will not be penalized, but the pay-to-win aspect is being toned down significantly.


-Hate

Hi Hunter,

Its have been a couple of years I had to leave playing on EZ due to family and heath reasons. 
I had 6 characters running (beastlord, mage, warrior, paladin, ...) but can't find none of them.
Can you help me to re-establish connection ? 
You can use my personal e-mail :)

With kind regards,
Alrazor (player from Belgium)

Oh my god, I've just read in this Forum that Hunter passed away.   I'm deeply sorry.
But who is taking the lead now ?
And who can help me with my previous questions ?

With kind regards,
ALRAZOR

Hateborne runs the day-to-day and design/coding. Akkadius does the... advanced coding?

At least that's my understanding. If what you ask is possible, they would be the ones that would be the target of your question.

Search your everquest folder for this ...   

*_characters
 
(http://i.imgur.com/tllDlhA.png)


The text I removed is the account name. This should at least tell you what accounts you were using to play.

Hello Natedog,

Problem is that my PC crashed a year ago and that I lost EVERTHING !!
I've managed to recover 5 of my characters (loginname, password - that I enter in the box 'Station Username' and 'Station Password'),  so far so good, but......

Unfortunately I lost the password of 2 of my chars wich are it is VERY IMPORTANT for boxing (Beastlord named 'Alrazor' & Cleric named 'Pikuur')
Both chars are still there in the Mangelo's list. (see attachment)

What can I do to recover these ?

With kind regards,
Alrazor

Alrazor is your warrior named the same in game?  I may be able to provide some assistance.

Hello Waraesh,

Yes, this character has the name 'Alrazor' in the game.
But it's a beastlord, not a warrior !

I just need to recover my loginname and password for this char.

With kind regards,

Alrazor

Alrazor ... hello

i watch Magelo and seen u are 71 sorry but whatever u lost u can get easy again in a short time ... isnt like u lost an T8 Monk with UW IX and UCv2 + UCv3 ( 75%) done ... no pain create an new one !!!

Will literally take you 5 or 6 days of semi steady play (call it 20 hours or so) to recover a BST and a cleric to match the profiles of those 2 characters if you hit Nexus whenever anyone offers a buff. If you man up, roll an actual tank (war or maybe SK), another healer (pally, surely) and a couple decent dps (say zerker and necro) and box a 6 man team you could get ALL of them to at least Alrazors gear level in that time.....and thats being very conservative.

I vote for necro...guy has a way of reviving dead posts so maybe that is his niche  ;D

Hi guys,

I've managed to recover my BST, yes yes yes  :D ;D :D
Back on track.....

Kind regards,
Alrazor

Hi guys,

I need your advice.

I have now following chars : BST, MAG, SK, CLER, PALLY and WAR
They have ALL an epic 3.0 and some are auged with ninja, mossy tundra, .. and some have a Oracle or Guardian charm lvl25.
I would like to box 3 or more as I did a couple of years ago.

What should I do to progress and which characters should I give most attention ? (And dropping others ?)


With kind regards,
Alrazor

War should be your priority allways.

Pally would be #2

Mage would be #3

Cleric/sk/BST are the left overs...
if you just want to 3 box the war pally mage would be strong until the end game...

I didn't know where else to post this so I'm choosing here.

In the exp thread from October.

I wanted to give me 2cents since it seems this is still the plan if I understand correctly. I may not be as accomplished as many who have come and gone and are still here on this server, but I've been off and on on this server for a very long time. When RoA was changed to be AAs I was excited. The idea of things being implemented on this server that were to me, something I could do outside of trying to progress tiers to advance my character. To allow me the opportunity to possible do things I couldn't before from spending time upgrading this ring. Later there has been more stuff added and it excited me greatly. I may be more fond of the AA system then I should, but when I think of EQ, I think of AAs. I know in the grand scheme of things a grind is a grind whether it is AAs or not, but I am just attached to the AA system. Reasons I always come back to EZ when I get the craving for EQ is because of said system, the idea that there was powerful gear I could build up with AAs. I know it sounds silly, but please somehow reevaluate your plan for AAs if you have not already. Again, that thread was 6 months ago so I could be venting for no reason.

With that being said, I would like to see the AA system expanded in AAs. I'm talking about a paragon type system similar to D3. Something like planar power that could be upgraded infinitely. Class specific AAs that could be upgrade infinitely (with a rising cost of course).

I propose to just rid yourself of what sounds like large numbers is just cut EXP gains across the board by 75% and lower the current AA reqs on upgrading things like RoA by 75%. I then propose to solve the r100 rings for a new players, cut exp gains from anything before HoH by like another 75%. Doing so doesn't require any nerfing of the exp mask imo.

Again, I apologize if this has already been talked about to death, but I love the AA system and really wanted to give my opinion though probably irrelevant.

With the warrior in the group the SK IMO is about as useful as a second set of tits on a nun....sure, fun to look at and in theory cool, but you're never gonna get any use out of em. Pick one or the other, were it me, war or SK. All in all I'd take the war, but some like the SK....I guess they like second rate tanking, smaller pulls and way lower dps :D

Were it me I'd add some AE dps to the mix, which means necro (my first choice and atm my highest AE dps class) or zerker. BST according to Hate is decent dps. My parses dont match his results, but parsing here is always a bitch. Cleric....keep, you'll need it. So all in all I'd add a necro (OK dps initially, ungodly later) or zerker (awesome AE and solid ST dps right out of the box, still strong if a little behind necro later) and drop the SK. After that....work on a 2nd dps group, you'll probably need it.

There was a pretty big discussion about this a number of months ago. I believe this is exactly what Hate wanted to implement. Everything would be scaled by a large percentage to help avoid unreasonably large numbers of AA. Unfortunately, enough people complained about the possibility of their 1000% donation clicky or their MoE getting nerfed (in reality it would actually just be scaled) so Hate nixed the whole idea and said we would just move away from AA in the future.

Aww, I thought the idea was to just nerf the mask somehow, my bad for reading over that.