UPDATE !

After looting a 3.0 book in Qvic, I tried handing it in to various NPC's with no luck.

The solution was to have the book in my inventory and simply hail the level up wench, and she leveled me and flagged me with multiple hails I got my lvl 73 and zone access back.

Now to do this on 5 more characters lol

Thanks for everyones help and advice.

hail level up npc in FG then u will get all flags u already got really

Tried hailing Wench in either FG or CG on pally no change.

As someone who came back recently myself, if you have MQ installed the lore notes at the bottom of the item should say where it came from.   My tacvi armor automatically said it was Cazic Thule armor in the notes.   Also other than my weapon turning into a 3.5 aug from a 4.0 book, (which was easily replaced by a nice adventurer) I've had no problems with pretending my weapons were augs so far. flags for pod are to have the tokens from qvic and flags for hoh is T2 chest.  Neither of which have had any problems on my 3.0 characters.

Bbiggest changes are all covered in the EZ guide for the most part, and asking in game has gotten wonderfully helpful results, just make sure you investigate until you're absolutely sure it's something you can't look up on the forums.  That avoids most of the being annoying problems.

All my toons have full T3/T4 armor in all visable slots. All have 4.0 weapons. All toons did all progression, tokens ect from Qvic-Air.

When I hail Audyn (sp) in Nexus for Qvic prog he tells my toons congrats and you now have access to chambsa tacvi and dragons, but can't get into them.

Its every tier now that progresses that way. If you waqnt to go to the next tier you must have epic for that tier and 7 pieces of that tiers armor. So, for example, your SK would need 4.0 and all visible armor pieces (only need 1 bracer) to move on. Once you have this, hail the level up wench and she will 73 you.

Now, if you are somehow not able to level up with all this criteria met, then email Hate and Akk (I'd email hate, CC Akk) and let them dig into it; some people recently returning have claimed they've had issues.

Where can I find a class specific list of all armor from qvic-abyss so I can see exactly where my toons are?

I hope I don't have to redo armor or epics, if so I might go right back to retirement 8(

The requirements for flagging has changed, now you need the 7 pieces of tier appropriate visible gear and the epic from that tier.

Ok im pretty sure im past that, or atleast most of my toons are?

For example my paly has all mith mars or mith mars II and 4.0, sk has cazic thule and tae eww and 4.0 ect.

I have been gone a year or so.
My toons are I think all or almost in all T3/4 armor all slots.
They all have 4.0s

Only 2 of my toons were able to lvl up to 73 the rest even though they have abyss rings cant go anywhere past qivic.

I have hailed the wench and everyone and adyun (sp) ect and got nothing.This is on like 7 toons.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Please download new spell file 062412.

Teleporter Pet available on the Noobie Merchant for a price.

Doesn't work in Titanium due to over 9999 spell ID number. Need SoD or higher to use.

Requires an Emerald gem to click/summon the Teleporter Pet.

Re-added a quick list of city, outdoor, and indoor zones to the Universal Teleporter and to the Teleporter Pet.

Later will create saylinks to click on for the zone you want to go to (will just take time to create it).

Enjoy!

So we can now summon a pet anywhere in game and use it to port anywhere like in the nexus/qrg?

No more gating to nexus/qrg to get ported to another zone?

This is kind of a big change, but I like it.

You know also you could have just let people use mq2 /zone commands and not done the coding work to put this ingame, its pretty much the same thing.

Thanks eitherway Hunter  

PS. 277k!? ow dude, thats way expensive, how about 50k like the highest item previously on n00by vendor? I mean, whose going to have 277k per toon lying around when we're trying to save millions for augs, and millions for shields? Or can anyone use this untill the owner does like waypoints? Even then thats awfuly expensive.
Please reconsider the price.

login server bug, just keep relogging in.

I don't have any list of servers after 20 tries, but it sometimes says 0 of 21 expansions.  Sometimes it says 0 of 29 expansions.

This sucks.  Hooked didn't read anything from the post except the topic.  :/

I was trying to tell you the right way to do it because you obviously did something wrong, or it got interupted and/or corupted.

Hates link also does not state to uzip all the files by starting with file#1 and that it auto-unzips all the rest from there.

I was helping you ensure you did it properly
You were missing files and you had to redo it like I stated to correct it.

Your welcome 

Download the multiple files from hates link.
Download 7zip and install it.
Find you toons files in your old client, save them some where. they have your toons name in them. (This gives you some* of your settings so you don't have to redo them all with your new UF client)

Use 7zip to extract the file #1, and it will auto-extract the rest of the files.

Get the ezserver files and spells, and the missing bot files listed above.

Make a shortcut for the eqgame.exe, change the host addy, put patchme in your shortcut.


Copy your toon files back in to UF.

Login, fix any settings needed and rock on.

Hi,

I sat here and wrote a bunch of stuff in response, and you know what? I changed my mind.

The blind will never see, and the deaf will never hear.

I will go back to being anonymous, and quiet, untill I can't stand this uc crap anymore, then im out.


Sorry to have disturbed everyone.

Ho0ked

Bottom line people times change, technology changes life moves on, keeping an old archaic system in place simply because thats how it always was is not a valid argument.

By this logic we would still be in england, US would not exist, and we would all have horse carts and slaves, while bowing to the king.

We need to make the UCv1 MUCH more accessable to the regular players, keep the UCv2 super hard so only the best most dedicated veterans can earn it. Stop tuning content around having the UC, which is what is making this item required in the first place.

Hunter if people are advancing to fast (same problem for all games there is no answer btw) find ways to make things harder without being rediculous or sickeningly boaring, lower drops on armor, or epics, but a 200 item quest over mutiple zones with random rare drops that takes months is not helping, when I joined here I was told expect 4-6months for my first UC, if eqlive had something like this that was required I would have quit a long time ago, thankfully they made these kinda awsome items optional.

Does anyone have a real logical or technical reason why this shouldn't be done?

So far all I see is high end (read done with UC) people saying we had to do it this way so you have to also, if this is the case, go walk to the nearst farm and help slaughter some meat, then go pick veggies in the field then have your family walk over and help you carry it all home, to cook on your open pit fire while you wash your laundry in the creek lol

Times change, I believe we should change with them.

I have said my peace, thanks for reading Hunter thanks for everything
I dont want this to devolve any further so I am done, I will sit back and see if you are willing to make some adjustments, if not, life goes on, I will keep playing or leave for another server, I just wanted to express my feelings constructively

Thanks again for an overal very well done world to play on sir!
Ho0ked

Thanks for trashing up my serious discussion with useless tripe, way to contribute. And here from researching I thought you were decent guy....

So much for that idea.

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Nothing personal friend, but no.

I've got only 3 UCs, cleric is nearing his (4th). Take time to read through the forums. Hunter has already said that the revamp of ToFS will become the alternative to LDON for UC (with some new goodies mixed in). It is designed to give players a challenge while giving a similar (if not slightly faster for top-level players) time frame.

1) 46 hours is nothing compared to live. You said you played live and should know this. Hell, even some of the vanilla/BC raids in WoW took this long to clear and gear up. Here you can be in T3 in a day or two, so why shouldn't there be something time consuming?

This is part of the reason I left live, few people have or ever really did have this kind of time to spend. 46hours is also the most uber players timeframe, most of us won't match that.

2) What is your gear looking like? >_>  You mention in 3 that this is supposed to be a "Server defining veterans item", but mention it is too hard for 2.0-3.5 players? Also, 46 hours isn't months unless you are sitting at ~1h a day max. Even then, that's still not bad considering that would get you NOWHERE in any other game.

Let me clear up some ignorant misconceptions now, (nothing against you hate, some other jerk wanted to sling n00by mud at me) I have been here since about feb this year, playing almost full time mon-fri. 4.0 toons> war clrc pal pal sk mag nec rog ber 3.0/3.5 toons brd mnk all armor T3/4 war is T4

3) Actually it's T5 that seems to be the requirement. However, technically warriors could skim by with a combination of the Shield of the Ages and the 4.0 epic...but warriors are whores, so we won't count them.

T5 is barely doable with my crew I die every fight on trash and named are unkillable for me.

4) Nope. WoW requires a useless ilevel average across your gear and/or some trash achievement to consider you good. Despite the fact that you may be god awful or mind-blowingly amazing, if your item level doesn't average out to a certain score and/or you don't have some achievement for downing a raid end boss...you won't get in. Meaning you need to be overgeared for the raid being run to be allowed in. Is this WoW? Thankfully not. Is this EQ live? Also thankfully not. Is EZ a cakewalk the entire playthrough? Nope.

Why make a required item SO hard for every one to get? if its a server defining "best" item in game it shouldn't be for everyone, yet everyone needs it to progress, this is a double standard really.

5) An UC is not required for T5 if running a whorrior or loladin (maybe). If running a shadow knight or a lower-geared paladin, you will need it. EZ is quick and fun is, but the time investment curve increases in somewhat of a bell curve as you advance in tiers.

UC is pretty much required if you want to kill any named, which is kinda the point, and the game has a HUGE roadblock once you get to T4 in the form of a months long quest for a required item thats also the best item on the server? I don't call this a curve I call it a road block.

I think you misunderstand the intent of the UC. It was not designed around a certain content level, but it is VERY strong. It is not technically a requirement for any certain tier, but at MCP/T5, it should be closely considered such.

Again, this boils down to where are you in the game, what are you running (character(s)), what epic(s) are equipped, etc etc.

As for the grinding, don't try and faceroll it out. Bits and pieces. Get an hour here or two there. If you don't, you will burn out and quit. Keep in mind, you probably got up to or near t2 in less than a week. What other game allows you to max level and then advance THREE tiers of gearing in such a small time frame?

I am not trying to do it all at once, ive already spent weeks working it 1 UC and like I stated it sucks so bad it has killed any interest I had in playing but if I don't get this item, on most of my toons, my career playing here is over, because its required, I find this extremely offputting, the UC should have never been considerd when making content it should have been treated like a bonus item so everyone doesn't "have" to get it, making it elite like Hunter seems to want it to be.

Yes this server is faster then eqlive, thats one of the reasons I came here, to feel like i accomplished something in this lifetime. This item throws a huge monkey wrench into an otherwise awsome setup imo

-Hate

There was a time before UC...  People got their 4.0 epics and T4 gear without teams of T4 geared toons with 4.0 epics and UCs... 

I can remember going up to T3/4 with my guild and taking 30 minutes to down a boss with 3 groups (made up of, gasp, 4 or more people).  Every piece of armour, every new bit of dps, and every success made it go faster and faster, and we got better geared up.  We made alliances with other guilds to share the drops (because you didn't know which boss you were spawning back then) and we helped each other out.  Eventually, we got to the point we could kill fast and we moved on to the next thing.

I guess my point is this...  When faced with adversity there are two options...  Overcome, or do what you did.

I understand and respect where you are coming from, but.

The bottom line is times have changed, people don't group much, and run alot of there own toons to play eq, all types of eq not just live or emu.

What was once uber elite is now required and simply is not fun, its time to streamline old ideas for the future health of the world.

We all did things the hard way in the begining. but times and climates change, it is best to adapt to them for survival, imo

I feel the structure of this item and its requirement is holding people back and diminishing their desire to play considerably, to me that is a negative impact to an otherwise awsome world I totally enjoyed up untill recently.

Not everyone agrees with me, and thats ok, but I feel its an important issue to discuss as it defines my continued presence here.

Ho0ked

Hunter,

I am still relatively new here, thank you for this world it is fun to play, I enjoy it alot, untill now.

I like everyone else really like the UC you made. BUT you have stated many times it is the server defining item here, which means to me its the highest of awards for the hardiest of veterans. I am totally cool with this.

However, it is also basically required to finish T4 and to progress beyond that point, unless you intended us to all box 24+ toons and zerg everything beyond T4?

The issue is simple,

1) It takes a herculean 46+ man hours to complete 1 UCv1 and this is with a full army of the right toons to support this rapid pace. I was told this figure by some of the uber players here, for me its going to be months 

2) You have to go BACKWARDS in progression to get this item done effeciently, trying to do it when your getting you 2.0-3.5 is a joke, it could take years at that gear lvl.

3) You have made this "Server defining veterans item" a requirement to progress, how is that fair? we all want to play on your server, but once you get to T4 its pretty much game over for most of the players here, unless they go backwards and spend months doing uc's for however many toons they have.

4) Its rather unfair to have an item both be the best trophy for veterans, AND be required to play here, it really should be one or the other.

5) Since you have already tuned your T5+ content around having this item when it should have been treated as a bonus making you overpowered in that content, there is to much work to tune down all that content.

The only viable solution I see is to either cut the items required for UCv1 in half, or to increase the drops rates for ldon drops/coins, and hoh drops by 100%

You can and should make it this hard for the UCv2, and you should NOT build new content around having the UCv2, so it can be the veteran reward/server defining item you want it to be, without being required for every single toon to play here.

I understand that people are progressing to fast for your liking, I get that, but your holding this item hostage forcing us to no longer have fun, if people don't have fun here, they will leave.

I do not want to leave, but honestly I get physically sick playing in ldons for hours on end endlessly pulling the same mobs. It's to the point now that I don't even want to log on and play because its sickening, boaring and totally not fun at all.

Perhaps its a change to how you aquire the charms thats necessary, but honestly its still way to long for a required item.

You might take this as complaining, im sure all the uber players will, having walked uphill in the snow with no shoes to get there UC's But I really am trying to provide contructive feedback, playing on your server went from awsome fun to I don't even want to play anymore because this is not fun, or entertaining.

You have other options, there are other ways, please consider them thoroughly.

I came from 12 years in EQlive, since beta, eq taught me computers, and has provided me with over a decade of entertainment and edjucation, untill I gave up last year and retired for good. We all know the many reasons for this.

Please consider my thoughts Hunter, you have proven to be really reponsive to your playerbase in a way I could have never imagined before finding your world.

Regardless of your decision I am honored to play on your world and call you god.

Thank you for having me,
Your subject, Ho0ked