I has a question about UA plate legs and the effect and description..

So which is it, does it increase the potency or decrease the potential of healing spells because one contradicts the other and it annoys me.

Tank

Many of the effects and spells you find on items were probably copied, reused, and modified - In many cases, only the effects, and not the description.

Don't bother with the description, most of the text won't make much sense - Focus instead on the actual affects listed :

For this particular item you'll get :

1) decreased healing taken by 15%
2) increased max hp by 20%

Awesome event Draca, I can honestly say this is some of the best fun I've had on EZ in a very long time - That said, don't you go scripting all kinds of nutty multiplayer content, we still do love our solo grinds, but this was GREAT!

Thanks for everything you do, and have done <3

//Ekiir

Not going to sugar coat it, HW is boring, the event is not an event, it's just stand in one spot and zone pull and loot....

We need a new event or something different...

Tank

Sounds like just the thing.

Would be awesome if you could whip up something with a brilliant story- and questline, maybe some next level boss scripts to really challenge and bring out the potential in everything from 1 team players to 4 team players - Loots should be plenty and juicy, but not too hard or time consuming to get, would be great - Sugar on top, would be if there are no high jumps that halflings cant jump.

When will you have it ready for us? 

QoL Change...

That lip around the first jump down in sleepers with the skull on the edge, can we please make it smaller, as a halfling rogue it sometimes takes me a good couple of minutes of jumping up and down to get over the damn thing and it really pisses me off....

Tank

Help yourself, and get an illusion clicky, or the shammy grow spell 

Wish that I could read 

KC sounds great!

Not sure tbh, never come across that one on eq
But it sounds like your system could be overclocked?, if running a new gaming pc it might be

I would check the bios to see if it is, might be the issue

only thing i can think of

Red

In the past I've had odd issues with mice that has hardware accelleration build into them (steelseries sensi) - If you are using a very fancy mouse, for testing purposes, try and pop in a 5 dollar simple usb/ps2 mice, see if that makes any difference.

Sarthin touched on what I already know: when we add content, people will come back here in droves.
Even with it's stagnation however, there are many new people here simply because EZserver has something noone else does. The system of rewards here as you progress are simply second to none until you hit that ceiling.

The established community, those that still remain here, are the most helpful and coolest and easy going there has ever been, we actively promote this server and help others progress in order to perpetuate what is honestly the best gaming experience we have ever had. It's nostalgia that gravitates us here, but it is the gameplay that makes us stay and want more. But we are growing board and long in the tooth and once we leave, EZserver will truly be dead. You can only restart so many times. You can only PL so many toons. Helping people is fun but it gets old when you yourself can't even advance, and knowing we are capped trickles down to those trying to fight their way up... where is the incentive?

We can move this server forward, and we can even monitize this place better than it has been in order to support the server indefinitely. What we need is a dedicated leader who can outsource talent and move ahead, and of course we have to have Akkadius on board and we need to compensate him financially. There is nothing in this for him other than to help others experience this.  Anything he has profited from this, if broken down to an hourly wage, would be an absolute joke.

I think we need a free service which would allow people to try this out and see if they like it, and a premium service which would allow you to accrue ezcredits over time (as well as the buy it now function with actually reasonable prices...most items are just out and out stupidly priced and would actually sell if priced right.)

We could have different tiers to make it affordable to anyone. Basically, if you love this place then you support it financially... and even help others to afford it (I know I would personally support a few people myself) and the ezcredits would of course be rewarded to the paying account.

I've been saying it forever, we need to open the market here also for players to buy and sell from each other and allow the server to benefit from each trade (something like 5% or $5 min from each trade.) This would allow us to truly fund development of this server. The platinum of this server was worth more than many third-world countries currency for years...think about that. That gives us actual clout in the real world economy. This is the kind of system you need in place to really get things moving. Put behind that driven people who do not wish to profit from this game, only to perpetuate it, and you have a system that cannot lose.

We need to get this boat back on track. I love this place too much to let it slip away.

I think you need to seriously consider starting your own server.

I run into this issue too, from time to time - In my experience, I will leave the session a minute or two, and the client will get a message similar to "zone is unavilable" - After that I am able to enter.

I dont know what causes it, but, I am guessing it could have something to do with server not beeing able to load the instance into memory fast enough upon logging in.

As you named the topic of this thread : 'sucking plat off server' I assume you refer to the gazillions of plat that are being held by oldtimers and end-game players, since new people hardly make enough in their first playthrough to max out their main warrior - You seek to find some alternative use for this astronomus amount of PP, that we're all stranded with - To that end, you decided that putting a PP tax on (for instance RoA) is a great idea, the same RoA which almost exclusively are done by new players, the RoA which plays a vital part in progression, especially the first time through.

Who will this tax impact? - Me? you? Anyone with trillions of PP on their accounts? - No, it will impact all new and upcoming players who decided to try out EZ-server, who per definition are already poor, who will find it near impossible to afford this tax - So we're back at my previous argument, what does new_player_001 do, who finds himself out of cash, can't afford to progress his RoA(with PP tax), can't afford to buy strike augs, can't afford level his SoA, on top of trying to level UW.

- he can either grind it out (will be a very very long and mind numbing grind)
- he can seek to trade his way into some cash

And thus we arrive at the gsoa - The people who are holding all the money needs one thing, and one thing alone, gsoa - Sure, there will be the odd trade involving SLS, essencences or other trade goods, but the majority will be traded in the single only thing end-game people need : gsoa

You're right, the trade "PP for gsoa" has become more rare recently, but I am guessing that is partially due to the amount of PP people are willing to trade them for has gone so high that any one new player can probably progress several tiers  by selling just one gsoa.

I have no idea what kind of numbers you had in mind when you posted, assuming you really want to drain the server, it would have to be a significant amount (per RoA level) - It's not like PP is hard to come by, in the end-game, and it's the end-game money you're after?

EoA is different as it is purely end-game people who do this, adding a PP tax here is trivial and wont impact as hard, as we can just farm the PP, no sweat - Because of the tax, cash will then flow from endgame-players towards EoA, making it even harder for the new people to trade their way into it (less PP per gsoa traded)

As said in my first post, I do not know economics, and I do not know how to fix the server economy, or the PP situation - It would require an end to end rework, I do however not think adding a PP tax that will hit new players is the way to go or fix anything other than making it harder to start new on EZ-Server.

Hell, maybe we can ask Akka to open a GSOA vendor, that would probably make more sense XD

You read what you want into it....I never once said anything about bleeding anything from anybody...all I am suggesting is a way to fix the economy of the server.  If you want to get your panties in a bunch feel free.  I am just looking for a way to help the server as a whole....I personally thnk wiping all the plat from the server then implementing this is the best course of action....but I didnt go that far.  I also think GSoA should not drop in any zone prior to T7....but I also didnt go that far....
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You're just a fountain of great ideas, arent you?

How long did you play on this server again?

C'mon man, be serious here.

Anyone with more PP than they can ever spend has broken into t10 - Anyone well into t10 hardly needs anything but .. drumroll .. gsoa .. like yourself - Maybe the odd gss, which will hardly be sold for PP.

Play ignorant, talk about my panties all you want - Fact is, the only thing people with PP needs is .. you guessed it : gsoa

No? - Prove me wrong, and tell me what you'd trade your hard earned PP for to a new player who has nothing but bone chips and a tofs 1 essence he just got lucky with - Of course you're going to snag that gsoa, which is the only thing they have, that you want.

[Post feedback and/or concerns here, I'll do my best to address them]

Recently I've decided to start making SoAs for all my gimp off toons and the only reason it's taken me this long to do it is all of the damn clicking.  I figured this would be a viable target for a new macro, so I worked my way through combines from the template to maxed SoA.  One item of note, I put my magic box in the last bag slot because I don't want shit filling it when I need to do combines because that would require more clicking to clear it out first or adding more macro logic to do it for me and I am just sharing this as it is because I'm lazy.  If you have a clean magic box, the macro won't care what slot you put it in, but be aware that when it's buying ores they will go to the first open bag slot.  Putting your magic box in the last slot means those slots are the last ones to get filled while looting, but feel free to put it in any slot you want...if people care enough to complain, I can add logic to account for that level of laziness but not inclined to waste time on the off chance that someone might.  The macro checks what materials you need for the next upgrade and if you have essences, sls and EoN (when needed), then goes to the Crafting Hall imp vendor and buys enough ore to do the next combine.  It then puts all the materials in the magic box and clicks combine.  It's supposed to autoinventory the shield once it does but for whatever reason it can be stubborn.  Regardless, you can keep issuing the trigger text to do the next upgrade as long as you have the materials somewhere in your bags, every time the macro fires it's logic it checks your cursor to see if anything is on it and autoinventories it regardless.

Quick and dirty directions, have your SLS, essences and EoNs in your bags, /echo buildshield, repeat as needed.

For anyone running the EZLoot.inc in the EZMac.macro, you need to add this include file to it for it to be able to see it,  Save the linked file into your Macros subfolder in your MQ2 directory.  In your EZLoot.mac file, add a line near the top, example below. 

Open EZMac.mac
Near the top is, just below #Events is the include section and you should have one value in there for EZLoot.inc

  #Event Stuff "Things"
  #Event OtherStuff "OtherThings"

  #include EZLoot.inc
  #include SoALogic.inc              <--- The new line goes here

Post feedback and/or concerns here, I'll do my best to address them

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1crscyK4RUax-_5jsclGl4isB0pXQCwv-

You kick so much ass dim, Im baffled - And where fk was this when I clicked my fingers bloody making mine 

Just a thought but how about either making the EoBA or RoA or a new item that will require plat to upgrade instead of AA? This will suck plat off the server and possibly make plat something of value again.  Just a thought but seems like an easy enough fix to help with the server economy.

What I read  : How about we add yet another way to bleed the gsoa from new and upcoming players.

The server economy is what it is - Currently it does not favor PP.

Server does not have the population that it used to - PP is relatively easy to come by, as with almost anything else.

I did not study economics, and I do not know how to fix it, I might even doubt it can be fixed, or needs to be fixed - Adding another PP sink like this certainly wont fix it - If anything, it will unload PP from old players, and bleed the gsoa from the new and upcoming. I think a fundamental rethink is needed, if someone truly cared to do something about it.

All great suggestions. I'd also like to add can we see rogue UA chest piece show on the character. Monk T9 outfit instead of robes. We want to see cleavage on the female toons  

There are no T10 UA robes

https://imgur.com/a/7J6JV26

Kerafyrm Changes:

1) Eliminated 3 of his adds
2) Eliminated Plat bags from his loot table
3) Increased the chances of loot overall
4) Added "Powerslave" components to his loot table
5) Removed Retribution's Edge from his loot table
6) Added NEW weapon to his loot table

This change seems to not be the case or it reverted to the old loot table. I killed Sleeper 3 times and got plat bags on each of them. And as you can see the loot is just not worth the effort at all. Getting extremely fustrated esp with lack of Powerslaves.

Rent fixed this issue today

There is definitely still a substantial issue regarding zone pulls since the update. I realize that zone pulls aren't something that is accounted for in normal EQ, but it's obviously a pretty big feature on this server, and would love to see something looked into regarding the cause. It's not an increased damage issue from new combat, most of the time it's either mobs warping on you at the intital zone pull, or mobs coming in behind you through walls, when you can no longer reposition. I don't know anything about the back end code in Everquest, or coding at all, but this is something that didn't used to be an issue, and is now a pretty annoying one.

As an aside to that, is it possible to add the spell effect from the zone pull to something that you can turn off, like NPC spell effects or something? I believe I have all of the spell effects off, but zone pull effects still show up, and with the warping mobs all showing up at once (currently averaging 150 warpers in HW zone on pull), it can be an overwhelming amount of graphics lag and makes it hard to use the skills/discs/items it takes to survive the pull.


Drac

This should be resolved now

Thanks a ton Akka!

Confirmed - No more warping during the zone pulls I've done - Heard a few other people in /ooc comment that they're not seeing warps in LP and TOV either - Some people saw a fair bit of wall clipping (leaving the map to emerge behind, or from the sides) - That is probably an entirely different issue.