Everquest History, Mysteries, and More

[Lifebar]

This is the URL for the YouTube channel of Shawn Lord, former GM, content designer, game designer, etc. for EverQuest. He records interviews with the people who created EverQuest and I'm finding it super interesting. This might be old news, but I didn't see a thread on it in search.

EQ mysteries, spawn cycles, how zones got built, unfinished quests, their original intent with the game, all kinds of cool stuff. If you're interested I hope you find it as enjoyable as I did.


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFl_3ktLNPYUeicLmhSvB1Q/videos

[starkind]

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[loramin]

Nice. I added him to https://wiki.project1999.com/Videos.

If you really wanted to show off his stuff, you could make a new page for him, like the one for Michael's Shenaningans (https://wiki.project1999.com/Michael%27s_Shenanigans) ... but just having him on the main videos page should be enough to get people to check him out.

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https://i.imgur.com/f0d0ejA.png

[Lifebar]

Ralph pls go.

[Mblake1981]

Nice. I added him to https://wiki.project1999.com/Videos.

If you really wanted to show off his stuff, you could make a new page for him, like the one for Michael's Shenaningans (https://wiki.project1999.com/Michael%27s_Shenanigans) ... but just having him on the main videos page should be enough to get people to check him out.

Both me and Jibartik had fan pages already.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397229

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=389051

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[Lifebar]

I will play the shit out of M&M if it ends up as good as it sounds.

[loramin]

Both me and Jibartik had fan pages already.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397229

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=389051


Sure but forum posts fade off the front page, and then no one ever sees them. The wiki is there anytime anyone wants to look for new EQ videos :)

[Jibartik]

Both me and Jibartik had fan pages already.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397229

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=389051

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haha that is really looking great!

[Jibartik]

Sure but forum posts fade off the front page, and then no one ever sees them. The wiki is there anytime anyone wants to look for new EQ videos :)

So you admit it ruins the mystery by making solving it casual!

Or do you hate the thread and everquest :(

[Mblake1981]

haha that is really looking great!

It is.. I am sorely conflicted. After 20 years being dedicated to this hobby, getting ass-raped by Microsoft and the whole Apple-inspired smart phone w/ social media debacle.. seeing all the old classics get the Indiana Jones treatment.. seeing something smart and interesting being reduced to idiot drool.. edit: Who else survived by making Little Caesar pizzas last two-days so they could save up pennies to purchase the new video card.. rent is expensive. I have personally sacrificed for a hobby that turned around and took a giant shit right on my face..

I am so bitter with this hobby. 20 damn years looking for a new EQ and when I am finally fed up with this bullshit they come along and make what I was interested in.

My EQ friends are dead or gone anyway, just something to witness. I don't think I need a new EQ, after watching New World go down in flames this hobby can't get much better for me.

[Jibartik]

Yeah the odds are stacked against it.

But if the nerds in the room build it so we will come, and not build it so they can make money, then we'll get our field of dreams 2 one day.

I applaud rogean and nillbog banning the people willing to spend the most money first, and the insane people like us last.

[Danth]

...this hobby can't get much better for me.

I've said much the same, even with respect to P99 itself: The reality of aging and the trajectory of my own time spent on this hobby over the past decade (spoiler: trending gradually downwards) isn't likely to reverse itself any time soon. Some addition to P99 or some new as-yet unlaunched game could be the best thing since sliced bread and at best it'll be too late to do me any real good. By the time something like a Patheon or an M&M manages to launch I'll probably be neither able nor interested in doing much more than dabbling.

EQ was neither my first nor my personal favorite massively multiplayer online video game, but it represents the transition period when gaming began to shift from niche to mainsteam. It was the last of those types of games designed with small customer base sizes in mind (excepting those which deliberately chose to limit themselves like Shadowbane), where world building came first because they weren't too worried about losing an audience they didn't know they had. By the time DAOC and EQ's own expansions hit, and certainly by the time Warcraft hit, the market realized the scope of popularity for the genre and a lot of production was more of a sort of get-rich-quick dream rather than a passion project, coming with with the associated production and design compromises.

Danth

[Mblake1981]

What chaps my ass is my radio control racing hobby is still there, still niche and still basically the same aside from innovations and improvements that make good sense for it, like more efficient nitro engines, chassis and suspension upgrades and better radio/servo designs.

Video games cut their penis off.

[Jibartik]

What chaps my ass is my radio control racing hobby is still there, still niche and still basically the same aside from innovations and improvements that make good sense for it, like more efficient nitro engines, chassis and suspension upgrades and better radio/servo designs.

Video games cut their penis off.

You should get into flying RCs then, because this is some cutting edge shit going on in there right now:

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[Danth]

What chaps my ass is my radio control racing hobby is still there, still niche and still basically the same aside from innovations and improvements that make good sense for it, like more efficient nitro engines, chassis and suspension upgrades and better radio/servo designs.

Video games cut their penis off.

Never got into gas powered R/C cars. I did fly R/C planes a bit. Didn't stick with it because while I could do it, better than most of my friends could, I couldn't come to enjoy it because it's a very delicate sort of flying and I naturally tend to manhandle the controls. Hence it was always something I had to think about all the time and could never really feel natural at. I liked the real thing better, flying a Yak-18 was some of the most fun I ever had behind a piston engine. In a ship like that you've got to manhandle it around as normal practice since the stick pull is measured in pounds per G and not fractions of an ounce like in R/C. Suited me just fine.

Nice thing about a video game is if you screw the pooch and die, you get to respawn.

[Mblake1981]

You should get into flying RCs then, because this is some cutting edge shit going on in there right now:

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Cool stuff but that is already done in First Person Drone Racing. Not my thing though. I think the old warplane design is more interesting but form follows a function.

https://rivalsmanager.com/events/15
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This is more me:
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[Jibartik]

Cool stuff but that is already done in First Person Drone Racing. Not my thing though. I think the old warplane design is more interesting but form follows a function.

https://rivalsmanager.com/events/15
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This is more me:
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These camears are on rotating gyros, so you can look around like in a flight sim in a ww2 plane, which i dont even care if that was something they had in drone racing because drone racing is for a generation of people i despise.

[Mblake1981]

These camears are on rotating gyros, so you can look around like in a flight sim in a ww2 plane, which i dont even care if that was something they had in drone racing because drone racing is for a generation of people i despise.

..ok

what kind of motors/engines were the planes you like using?

[Jibartik]

idk I just like the little men with cameras that can look and see the superior wings of a plane to that of the many loud trashcans of a drone :o

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:p

[Mblake1981]

idk I just like the little men with cameras that can look and see the superior wings of a plane to that of the many loud trashcans of a drone :o

been an interest of mine since 1991.

Team Losi.

https://i.imgur.com/rbR8csH.jpg

[Jibartik]

yeah now imagine your flying taht around with a little gyro camera, and shooting 22 cals at your friends blowing it out of the sky now that's podracing

[Mblake1981]

yeah now imagine your flying taht around with a little gyro camera, and shooting 22 cals at your friends blowing it out of the sky now that's podracing

lol.. won't need a 22 cal when it will 100% crash into a tree or the ground.

[Jibartik]

you could totally build an RC plane with these babies in them lol

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this is what Id be doing if I wont the lottery

[Mblake1981]

you could totally build an RC plane with these babies in them lol

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this is what Id be doing if I wont the lottery

Sure but that would be more fun to shoot like these guys are doing, while I can really appreciate your idea and would love to do this with some guys.. the reality is unless you had them in a far off area it wouldn't work and you would not want a cop to see it.

R/C planes are unstable at best, prone to wind sheers. You would have little .22 bullets flying every which way. Rednecks, at least the ones I have experience with, mostly all shoot into embankments or at a range.. maybe some trees if you are wayyy out from everyone else.

Lot of fun to think about. When a bullet hits the gas tank and the nitro-methanol fuel caught fire.. crash and burn Maverick!

[Jibartik]

yeah im day dreaming but like, this is pod dreaming.

it'd prob drop out of the sky like imagine a 22 cal sized bullet cannon for a jet that size, on a real jet lol

[Mblake1981]

yeah im day dreaming but like, this is pod dreaming.

it'd prob drop out of the sky like imagine a 22 cal sized bullet cannon for a jet that size, on a real jet lol

https://i.imgur.com/BqyCv4u.jpg

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[Jibartik]

I wonder how you could accomplish this without killing some random person.

On an island?

God damn the A10 lmao

In like 20 years it'd be like, you could print this idea.

[Mblake1981]

I wonder how you could accomplish this without killing some random person.

On an island?

Abandoned places would probably work, like if New World was real life.

[Jibartik]

New world: Roasted

[Vormotus]

you could totally build an RC plane with these babies in them lol

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this is what Id be doing if I wont the lottery

I ... I want to do that ... wow wowowowow! :D:D:D:D:D:D