Nektulos Forest is gone!

[Veritas]

Well, I think it is still there, I just can't see it.

When I zone in from EC the zone is black... no ground, sky, etc. I can't tell where I am so can't move into zone to see about mobs, etc. I can see PCs running past me in/out of the zone though. I can also hear the sounds of the zone. Even when I zone in and try to take 1 step back to zone out again, nothing happens. The UI doesn't seem to know where I am so it doesn't know I am at the zone line.

Thinking it might be a corrupted .S3D file, I copied the 3 nektulos .S3D files from the "clean" Titanium backup directory I made when installing, but got the same results. (Files dated 10/17/2005.) Figuring maybe they were bad from the original install I copied the same 3 files from a EQ Trilogy directory (file dates 1/25/1999). Same thing - still no Nektulos.

Any suggestions on what else to try? Other files to try overwriting? Would like to go tear around LS a bit. :-)

Thanks!

[Sirken]

locate Nektulos.eqg and rename it to Nektulos.old

;)

[Auvdar]

locate Nektulos.eqg and rename it to Nektulos.old

;)

Or just delete it. What I did like 3 years ago ;)

[Veritas]

Yay. Thanks so much for the fix!

With Nektulos Forest resuming the creepy visage I remembered, I ran up to Lavastorm and found it to be a void like Nektulos was. Camped there, renamed the Lavastorm.eqg file and voila it works as well!

Definitely making a note on this one in case I run into it down the road. Thanks again!!!

[Selly]

I think those are the only 2 that will have that problem but not sure.. Something to do with the new map files in the titanium client not being the right ones

[fethdor]

hey guys, i had the same problem. Deleting or renaming them both work ? Thanks for the help. BTW first post here, woohoo !

[Savok]

Don't forget, Arena zone needs to be fixed as well.

[Lyra]

I swear sometimes the EQEmuLauncher is more trouble than its worth. And I can't believe all the information regarding setting up P99 without the Launcher has been removed...

Here goes:
1) Default install of EQ: Titanium (other clients will NOT work). Copy/pasting the EQ folder from another install works just fine here. (For consistency, I'm going to assume you installed EQ to C:\Everquest so that the eqgame.exe path is C:\Everquest\eqgame.exe.)
2) Right-click on the eqgame.exe icon within your everquest folder, select Create Shortcut.
3) Right-click on the Shortcut to eqgame.exe you created in step (2). Select Properties.
4) In the Properties menu that appears, edit the target line to say "C:\EverQuest\eqgame.exe" patchme. The quotes are only needed around the destination string if it contains spaces. Select Apply and then OK to close the properties box.
5) Open the C:\Everquest\eqhost.txt file in the text editor of your choice.
6) Delete whatever is in the eqhost.txt file and replace it with the following two lines:
[LoginServer]
Host=login.eqemulator.net:5998
7) Save and close the eqhost.txt file.
8) Download the latest eqchangesvXX.zip file from the patch notes. As of this post, we are on v28, found . http://www.project1999.org/files/eqchangesv28.zip if this post is out of date, just update "28" with the current number)
9) Extract the eqchangesvXX.zip file into the C:\Everquest directory, overwriting any files it asks for.
10) Within the C:\Everquest directory, delete the following files to allow these updated zones to function properly on P99:
arena.eqg
arena_EnvironmentEmitters.txt
lavastorm.eqg
nektulos.eqg
Nektulos_EnvironmentEmitters.txt
11) Log into the server with the account you created at EQEmulator.org (http://www.eqemulator.org/).
12) Select Project1999: The Ruins of Kunark from the server list.
13) Enjoy playing on P99.

[gotrocks]

I really need to add this to the FAQ. Going to do that right now, thanks for reminding me everyone :)

Next time this happen just direct them to the fAQ :)

[Damaja]

there we go, all fixed, now the last thing I gotta do is find the old spell icons because these are not even correct, least some of them arent
Where can I get the classic spell icons for my hotbar at?

[Coriolis]

I know this is a slightly old thread, but just out of curiosity is there a reason Lyra's post is not in the "Getting Started" thread linked from the home page? I swear... I've done the P99 setup three times and every damn time I forget to delete these files lol. Only remember when I'm running over to Neriak or SolB and hit insta-black on Nek ZL.

[Dru]

Same. Just zoned into Neriak and had a wtf moment heh. Forgot i had reinstalled.