Not to mention the relatively uber quest armour you can get by level 10, the soulbinders, and the free teleports via the planes of power.
The game is exponentially easier than when it came out and I had a level 14 Paladin with 10 days played.
In most ways I’m glad the game is so much easier now but in other ways I’m a nostalgic old codger who yearns for the red-in-the-face ultra difficult game from 4 years ago.
It certainly commanded a lot more respect to have a last name back then then it does to be level 55+ now.
I think I’m one of the only people on my server without Planes of Power and no one is really high enough to teleport yet so I’ve had to take boats a lot lately. I’ve felt kind of bad for the boats because I know they’ll be getting VERY little use in the future.
What is TPTB by the way?
I just started the addiction myself. As a matter of fact I was just checking the boards first before I got engrossed in my game.
I have two people I play.
One is a second level Druid wood elf and the other is a ninth level Druid wood elf.
The first one (Ardelle) I am solo, the second one (Aslynn) I am role playing with a friend who has been playing for a while.
My computer lags so bad I have a hard time keeping up with him.
I play on the server that begins with a Z or an X, I can’t remember but it’s the only one that starts with one of those two letters.
If any of you ever get on the same server as me feel free to hail me and let me know.
I’m getting up there in my buffs with Aslynn but Ardelle is slow going since I am just learning and solo. But I buff and heal as many people and as often as I can when I am buy the newbie lifts at the trees. Faydark I think?
See, I’m still pretty new.
I will be on with Ardelle tonight since my partner is currently offline.
No way I’m starting that again… after logging over 200 days played in a time span of less than 400 days. Now as for EQ2… here are some screenshots to the people who haven’t seem them yet: http://www.gamespy.com/e32003/gallery/pc/1002050/. It looks amazing, but I really don’t think anyone is going to realistically game like that especially with large groups of people.
I will admit… I played Anarchy Online. I -so- wanted to like that game. I like sci-fi, and I found it all very pretty and the tech was very fun and fascinating, and I liked interacting with others, but… Well, the game just sucked, technically speaking. I’m sure others can back me up on this. My friends and I started saying, “FunCom- we take the fun out of the game and put it in our name!”
What exactly are you saying here? Do you mean that people will turn down their graphics for smoother gameplay or that people won’t like EQ2 or…er…(I just seriously don’t understand the statement )
I was wondering something: I was on the EQ bandwagon at day 1 of the full release, but I dropped off fast. I didn’t like the controls, my card wasn’t really up to handling it, and I wasn’t having fun with no monsters available to kill. Now that you know my pointless EQ life story (anyway, I was a Ranger, and they sucked until they got Archery Mastery or something.)
I heard about a supposedly unbeatable monster that the programmer implemented, one was, well, not supposed to be killable. Then someone did it, and they banned him. Anyone got a link to some information about that?
You’re probably thinking of the Sleeper, smiling bandit. I don’t think he’s ever been killed. There’s a good page about him here.
I’ll play EQ2 when it comes out, and SWG. We’ll see which one wins out - EQ, EQ2, or SWG. As a certified EQ junkie, it’ll take a bit to pull me away.
Life is a lot easier for the beginning EQer. I’ve been playing RPGs since the first version of Wizardry came out in the early 80s (and text adventures before that), and I had a hell of a time starting EQ. No good docs, no tutorial, idiotic UI… but massively addicting.
Nowadays, you wanna go somewhere? Hop to PoK and click pillar nearest the town you wish to go. Die a lot while learning the game? No worries, until level 10 your corpse pops with all your stuff. The Nexus has become a gathering place for high levels buffing people for donations, so you can get Uber Buff X for a few plat (or free, if you’re that type). 'course, that one may change - the bug that allows high level buffs to be cast on newbies is fixed on the Test server, and will probably go live soon. Wave goodbye to KEI, newbs.
Kerafyrm the Sleeper cannot be killed. Or couldn’t be; I don’t think you can even get to him now.
bandit is probably conflating The Sleeper with the famous Ultima Online incident where someone managed to kill Lord British himself - actually being played by Richard Garriott - though it was supposed to be impossible. The dude was banned even though technically he didn’t break any rules.
When did you play, though? I just finished a little playing and I had a lot of fun. The impression I got was that the game has changed a LOT from the way it used to be.
I dunno, what we’re seeing is screenshots at their absolute best with all the graphic options turned on, and so forth. And keep in mind the technology upgrade cycle between now and when it comes out.
I don’t care if, by then, you have the latest Prescott CPU with a gig of DDR466/500 and the latest and greatest offering from nVIDIA or ATi, it just isn’t going to happen, at those settings.
But if the game sticks around for as long as EQ1 (4 years so far) then people will have no problem running it at those setting with the latest and greatest hardware. I like that they’re planning for the future.
I agree. All I’m saying is that no one is going to be able to play it with the eye candy shown in the screenshots when EQ2 comes out, and probably also not for quite a while after. The screenshots shown are simply amazing, and I think it will be a long time until you can play like that with 50 people around you. (Granted, EQ2’s gameplay may be designed to avoid large groups of people, but that’s not known yet.)
Furthermore, when technology is available to properly run the game like it was meant to be seen, and this technology is available to a decent fraction of the gaming populace, expansion packs will undoubtedly emerge, further pushing system specs.
I too like how game designers design with the future in mind – I heard most major developers make games with the prediction of what technology will be like in three years. I’m just saying that we can’t expect graphics like that when the games actually come out.
You’re right. I don’t know how or if at all things have changed since I left but I know early Vox and Nagafen raids used to crash or linkdead a huge majority of players.
Pretty much everybody over level 50 had particle effects and clipping plane turned off because it just wasn’t practical when there were 50-75 other people standing around you.
I did a lot of raiding back in my time and, while gods weren’t usually much of a problem, load that dragonskin and I invariably went linkdead. I’ve fought countless dragons on EQ and to this day I still haven’t seen one in the action of eating dirt. It was always cleanup time by the time i got back in the game.
All that said though, a top of the line system right now can do some pretty amazing things. There are gonna be some people that can run EQ2 at full acceleration, it’s just that the vast majority of us won’t be able to.
Even running EQ1 still requires a pretty damn good machine. Mine is a 2.53 Ghz/1GigRAM/Ti4600 machine, and I’m lucky in that the only thing I need to turn off for raids are spell effects. Once they’re off, I get virtually no lag, except in the bazaar area (a place where there’s typically 400-500 people).
Last night for example - dragon raid with, lessee, about 50 people. My machine ran pretty good, but others were complaining. Even people with pretty good middle of the road machine (1+ Ghz, decent video card) were complaining.
Yeah, EQ2 is gonna lag most systems… no doubt about that!
I played EQ for about 3 years. Once I got my troll shaman up to 60, got my epic, and became the only troll GM smith on E’ci, my interest finally evaporated. I don’t think I’ll ever come back or take up EQ2.
One thing that will help the lag in EQ2 is that most hardcore gamers have broadband by now, and even more will have it by then. Very few people had it in early 1999.
I had dial up for the first year I played and went linkdead about once a day on average. I haven’t gone linkdead since I got cable in 2000.
Oh, I fibbed, there are servers starting with both Z and X.
I’m on the one starting with Z.
Anybody know what I can do to get my game to run a bit faster? That and my graphics look all boxy.
Hubby says that we should have enough memory but maybe not enough RAM? And I think we just got a new video card.
I know nothing about any of this.
I know the little round button turns my computer on but nothing about the guts.
Ideas and suggestions that I could give to hubby so I don’t lag on my end graphic wise so bad.
And that tree house is still driving my crazy! I get lost everytime I go up there if I’m not falling out. Good thing I’m still below lvl 10 so that way I don’t have to collect my body and gather up my stuff. It kind of creeps me out to see my corpse.
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