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mischief419
12-02-2022, 09:35 PM
The GMs mentioned this a while back, but are they still up for it? I bet the community can contribute all kinds of ideas, where the GMs can pick and choose or add some secretive ones themselves. There are so many abandoned locations, broken quests, and placeholder npc spots/houses. Use the old lore.

* Finish the glowing black stone quest.

* There are tons of quests that are quite EPIC, but give like a leather boot as a reward. Revamp these so you can do awesome quests that match the effort.

* Add an Ocean of Tears boss. There was originally one in beta. It just makes sense.

* The secret zone that was going to exist underneath Akanon, containing the mechanical dragon locked away. In beta, there was an underwater cave that was going to lead to it.

* All those worldwide obelisks that don't do anything but have symbols on them.

* The old, broken druid rings.

* Rathe mountains is mysterious as hell. Seems like they planned for a zone at that tower with the glowing blue symbols, with the statue hands sticking out. In that tower, there is something you can actually click and you hear a door opening, but nothing actually happens. Feels like there's a zone considered to connect to here.

* Port Beastlords over. Beastlord epic is already mostly in classic - could port some of the luclin ones to old world? May be a pain in the ass to add Beastlord to avail items, though.

cd288
12-02-2022, 10:03 PM
You’re thinking of Alizewsaur in oot. That exists in p99.

Beastlords are OP and poorly balanced. Would require a bunch of work to make them balanced

mischief419
12-02-2022, 11:27 PM
You’re thinking of Alizewsaur in oot. That exists in p99.

Beastlords are OP and poorly balanced. Would require a bunch of work to make them balanced

True, but these are long-term plans, after all. What a refresh it would be.

mischief419
12-02-2022, 11:27 PM
You’re thinking of Alizewsaur in oot. That exists in p99.


I think what I'm thinking of is a Kraken - or maybe that was in lake rathe

Coridan
12-02-2022, 11:30 PM
You’re thinking of Alizewsaur in oot. That exists in p99.

Beastlords are OP and poorly balanced. Would require a bunch of work to make them balanced

There was however Megalodon who was a 55 shark in Lake Rathetear.

I'd like to see Kerra made playable as a big project with the classic models and see Kerra Isle as a newbie zone along with more fleshing out of Odus in general. It won't happen, but if I had the skills it's what I would do.

mischief419
12-02-2022, 11:55 PM
There was however Megalodon who was a 55 shark in Lake Rathetear.

I'd like to see Kerra made playable as a big project with the classic models and see Kerra Isle as a newbie zone along with more fleshing out of Odus in general. It won't happen, but if I had the skills it's what I would do.

Lol I love it. You already have the boring zone no one visits - swap it out with some vendors and GMs.

Swish
12-03-2022, 12:03 AM
No joke I'd actually design/write quest lines for some good custom content if I was asked (nobody gonna ask)... with some level relevant rewards. And yeah if that gets people into some zones they normally wouldn't end up in then even better.

I've mentioned it before but also a casino bot giving out a chance at a legacy item (character bound perhaps) at some very long odds for 500pp/1kpp a ticket would help the mudflation.

cd288
12-03-2022, 12:26 AM
Lol I love it. You already have the boring zone no one visits - swap it out with some vendors and GMs.

Always crazy to me people don’t use Lake Rathe more. It’s actually an awesome zone with a variety of content

Infectious
12-03-2022, 02:15 AM
There was however Megalodon who was a 55 shark in Lake Rathetear.

I'd like to see Kerra made playable as a big project with the classic models and see Kerra Isle as a newbie zone along with more fleshing out of Odus in general. It won't happen, but if I had the skills it's what I would do.

Was originally a giant snake in oasis.

Jibartik
12-03-2022, 02:44 AM
No joke I'd actually design/write quest lines for some good custom content if I was asked (nobody gonna ask)... with some level relevant rewards. And yeah if that gets people into some zones they normally wouldn't end up in then even better.

I've mentioned it before but also a casino bot giving out a chance at a legacy item (character bound perhaps) at some very long odds for 500pp/1kpp a ticket would help the mudflation.

I would do your quests if you did them on the forums to larp that we are doing them in the game.

can I go on an adventure for the filthy bertoxxulous? Or maybe something gnomish?

Ennewi
12-03-2022, 07:51 AM
Was originally a giant snake in oasis.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020302151648/http://www.everlore.com/bestiary/beastdetails.asp?BID=136670&mode=show&pg=6&sortby=2

Tiche Virm
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[Original Image] Image #1 Image #2 Image #3
Beast Name:
Tiche Virm Location:
Oasis of Marr
Known Level Range:
35 / 35 Quest Related: No
Magic Caster: Yes
Faction Hits:
unknown Loot:
Golden Star Amulet: +4 int
Platinum Karnelian Wedding Ring: +7 agi
Combine Dagger
Description
NOTE: This was on the Test server so it may not be live for the other servers yet. It happened a couple days ago (5/13/00 after midnight CT I believe)

VERY large snake that poked his head out of the ocean at the beach near Pillar 2 in Oasis. It conned indifferent and even to a lvl 35 player who was present. After several minutes of just sitting there it slithered onto land and headed for the lake surrounding the Spectre Island. Somebody pulled it back onto land near P1 before killing it. During the fight the only spell it cast was Deadly Poison.

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

https://i.imgur.com/YlF7HCd.jpg

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

https://i.imgur.com/vR53mkq.jpg

Ennewi
12-03-2022, 08:19 AM
There was also Big Bynn in WW...

https://web.archive.org/web/20010624162315/http://www.tokyo2001.com/game/eq/cgi/freebbs/nbsr.cgi?page=10

https://web.archive.org/web/20020329072054/http://www.darkaffliction.net/achievements.html

https://i.imgur.com/O2sCKLz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GtJK1Ex.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/w3gsDQx.jpg

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

Coridan
12-03-2022, 08:49 AM
No joke I'd actually design/write quest lines for some good custom content if I was asked (nobody gonna ask)... with some level relevant rewards. And yeah if that gets people into some zones they normally wouldn't end up in then even better.

I've mentioned it before but also a casino bot giving out a chance at a legacy item (character bound perhaps) at some very long odds for 500pp/1kpp a ticket would help the mudflation.

I have ideas for a custom server that reitemizes and repopulates classic EQ for a kind of fresh experience (with new quests and all) but I can't imagine trying to recreate all of Nilbog and Rogeans work to bring EQEmu down from Titanium nonsense back to classic.

mischief419
12-03-2022, 09:48 AM
That snake and clockwork dragon are badass! Nice snag on the rare screenshots

Another thing is to finish the Terrorantula quest - clearly, it was tied to that bug quest guy in Misty. Some of the boss mobs that do/drop absolutely nothing could use some items/quests added to them.

mischief419
12-03-2022, 10:10 AM
https://wiki.project1999.com/Tome_of_Ages

Tome of Ages set of quests could be finished too

Chortles Snortles
12-03-2022, 10:18 AM
no

Danth
12-03-2022, 07:08 PM
I've mentioned it before but also a casino bot giving out a chance at a legacy item (character bound perhaps) at some very long odds for 500pp/1kpp a ticket would help the mudflation.

Even beyond timeline items, there are a ton of special event items that have never made their way onto P99 which could serve as a natural bank of ready-made items for this purpose. Most of them fit within their respective era's itemization and generally aren't overpowered; the exceptions could be omitted or made exceptionally more rare.

Danth

Vanifac
12-04-2022, 12:33 AM
Handmade zones designed to look (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638572007981842462/1008875979709620284/Outside_building.png) and feel (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638572007981842462/1006656910604390420/Pyramid17.png) as classic as possible. Call me.

New quests.

Finishing old quests and finishing old quest lines. (Iksar weapons/helms)

Finish some of the clearly unfinished zones. (Swamp of No Hope)

Rebalancing of bad items.

Rabalancing of rewards for some quests.

Rebalancing zones to incentivize leaving the normal path.

New classes on other races.

There are so many storythreads that are open that could lead into some really cool content out there.

Challenge flags for characters. Self Found, hard core. Stuff like that.

mischief419
12-20-2022, 10:58 PM
Hardcore would be fun - quadruple the exp, increase chance of item drops, but make them all no drop. On death, if you reach a certain lvl, your corpse gets a little memorial tombstone above it and allows you to leave a witty comment until the corpse decays.

Edit: What would self found entail? No trades to others?

Coridan
12-21-2022, 07:44 AM
Adding Frogloks playable could be fun too, instead of putting them in Innothule though put them on Kunark.

Naxy
12-21-2022, 12:45 PM
Hardcore would be fun - quadruple the exp, increase chance of item drops, but make them all no drop. On death, if you reach a certain lvl, your corpse gets a little memorial tombstone above it and allows you to leave a witty comment until the corpse decays.

Edit: What would self found entail? No trades to others?

I wonder what the dynamics of a server would be on a no dro server, essentially a server with only no drop items, other than maybe tradeskilled items, or things like foraged items required for quests.

Encroaching Death
12-21-2022, 03:53 PM
Megalodon in Lake Rathe!

Make it so

Nibbles
12-23-2022, 08:59 PM
EQ is half the game it could have been if they were not rushing then fixing the game of bugs for the next year. EQ release was the beginning of games being rushed out and taking $$ from people to beta test it.

ragontx
12-23-2022, 11:46 PM
Mayong mismoore as a boss

Coridan
12-24-2022, 08:35 AM
Having Rallos Zek spawn as a 7 day timer in the center of the Arena would be fun. Just don't have FTE rules for him.

Vilkata
12-24-2022, 10:19 AM
Just add Jaggedpine, Sol C, Veksar, and the zone they added to Chardok.

Ooloo
12-26-2022, 06:15 PM
They should pick a handful of zones from planes of power and add those. The next expansion after velious should have always been an expansion of additional planes, since velious introduced two new planes it seemed to be trending in that direction anyway, but then instead we got... moon cats and weirdo sci-fi themes that don't mesh at all with the rest of the game world and lore.

Omit plane of knowledge entirely, because it's lame a shit to have a central hub that sucks everyone out of the rest of the world. But just adding the rest of the planes for the other gods makes more logical sense, and wouldn't even really be "custom" content per se.

Sirquestalot
12-26-2022, 08:44 PM
Always love (hate) the argument that moon cats and aliens don't fit with EQ. Go take a look sometime at Kerra Island... the GM type npcs, all the tradeskill stations and the vendors, and try to tell me Kerrans weren't originally intended to be a playable race. Then go take a really good look at the Temple of Life in Qeynos. It's a flying saucer. And look up the concept art for Rodcet Nife. I'm using the Prima Guide from the Ruins of Kunark expansion. He's an alien. All of those ideas were in the game from day 1. There is nothing in the Luclin expansion that doesn't fit the game lore of EQ from the outset. Peace, and Merry Frostfell.

Ooloo
12-26-2022, 09:53 PM
Fair enough. I respect your passion fellow nerd.

cd288
12-26-2022, 09:53 PM
Would love pop raids at least a couple of them coming into Blue. Or AAs from luclin just to help fix some of the class issues the devs didn’t get to by velious.

Chortles Snortles
12-26-2022, 10:04 PM
cats on the moon cope

Vanifac
12-27-2022, 04:22 AM
Hardcore would be fun - quadruple the exp, increase chance of item drops, but make them all no drop. On death, if you reach a certain lvl, your corpse gets a little memorial tombstone above it and allows you to leave a witty comment until the corpse decays.

Edit: What would self found entail? No trades to others?

Personally I wouldn't change the drops or exp at all for hardcore, let it stay EQ but painful. Lol

That's basically what self found would be yeah. if it were an actual server mechanic, you'd probably want to get rid of other ways to transfer items/disable help from the outside somehow? I don't know, that's a big question. Lol


I wonder what the dynamics of a server would be on a no dro server, essentially a server with only no drop items, other than maybe tradeskilled items, or things like foraged items required for quests.

That's basically how <Legacy of Ik> plays. You can trade/sell/buy all non-equipment items and tradeskilled equipment (to guildies and at fair price) but everything else must be looted/quested on your own.

It really changes the way you approach the game, instead of just grinding to 8 then hitting kurns and not leaving until 22. You mix in a lot of equipment goals that you need to work on instead of just making EXP go up.

If it were server wide, you'd see a lot of wild zones that no one ever goes to at-level being used.

Coridan
12-30-2022, 09:14 AM
Always love (hate) the argument that moon cats and aliens don't fit with EQ. Go take a look sometime at Kerra Island... the GM type npcs, all the tradeskill stations and the vendors, and try to tell me Kerrans weren't originally intended to be a playable race. Then go take a really good look at the Temple of Life in Qeynos. It's a flying saucer. And look up the concept art for Rodcet Nife. I'm using the Prima Guide from the Ruins of Kunark expansion. He's an alien. All of those ideas were in the game from day 1. There is nothing in the Luclin expansion that doesn't fit the game lore of EQ from the outset. Peace, and Merry Frostfell.


Which is why they should've just made the Kerra playable and built out Odus more. That should've been a free update with the Luclin stuff being all high-level content. Biggest problems with Luclin was Paldual Caverns killing every other zone for leveling.

Ennewi
12-30-2022, 10:51 AM
If any race was going to find its way to the moon, best guess would've been gnomes or erudites.

cd288
12-30-2022, 11:11 AM
Which is why they should've just made the Kerra playable and built out Odus more. That should've been a free update with the Luclin stuff being all high-level content. Biggest problems with Luclin was Paldual Caverns killing every other zone for leveling.

Yeah agreed. Would’ve been cool if luclin built out the continent and made Kerra playable, and then there’s also an aspect where like some erudite figured out how to use the spires to get to luclin and they throw some high level zones up there along with some raiders content. No bazaar or like race living up there

Coridan
12-30-2022, 02:20 PM
Yeah agreed. Would’ve been cool if luclin built out the continent and made Kerra playable, and then there’s also an aspect where like some erudite figured out how to use the spires to get to luclin and they throw some high level zones up there along with some raiders content. No bazaar or like race living up there

Possibly even have the only port to Luclin be on Odus, making the west side of the map less of a dead area.

Also I hate the Vah Shir models, I think the Kerra are cooler looking, and I love the polynesian aesthetic which isn't something common in RPGs.

Encroaching Death
12-30-2022, 04:14 PM
https://i.ibb.co/Bt7H8Qc/63073.webp

Vanifac
12-30-2022, 04:26 PM
If any race was going to find its way to the moon, best guess would've been gnomes or erudites.

Well it was the Erudites who sent the cats to the moon.

Reiwa
12-30-2022, 08:22 PM
Well it was the Erudites who sent the cats to the moon.

I rate this claim as true

Coridan
12-31-2022, 07:25 AM
It is. The hole is where Shar Val used to be, it got teleported to the moon in the Erudite civil war. It's kinda dumb still, but the whole idea of Luclin is that it's where the remnants of all the old kingdoms/empires ended up.

Cen
12-31-2022, 02:52 PM
Ogre beastlord with bear pet but the pet has to be named henry.

Chortles Snortles
12-31-2022, 03:45 PM
Cen your signature is terrifying

Cen
12-31-2022, 04:21 PM
Cen your signature is terrifying

thanks friend, I wanted to spread the good word of battle relm, the new queen of the merit badge

edit: and ill update again at new green when I figure out what my next character is to animate a banner for ;p

mischief419
03-19-2023, 11:10 PM
Another unfinished quest:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Maggot_Ridden_Flesh

This boss in tofs was tough.

There's another in tofs - a dude drops a Signet ring that does nothing, but hints some connection in Kael where his brother is missing his signet ring.

Tormmac
03-19-2023, 11:35 PM
just give iksar cleric option i mean it makes zero sense they cant do it

ryandward
03-20-2023, 12:26 AM
I would kill for finished quests

Coridan
03-20-2023, 03:08 PM
Cen your signature is terrifying

Click through for maximum weirdness.

branamil
03-20-2023, 03:41 PM
There hasn't been enough time to code unfinished quests yet. The project only launched 10 years ago.

skorge
03-22-2023, 05:26 AM
There hasn't been enough time to code unfinished quests yet. The project only launched 10 years ago.

P99 launched in 2009, that's 15 years+ in the works. I think 15 years is plenty of time considering Shards of Dalaya has been doing it since they launched. They even had their own epic quests back in like 2007 when I was playing. Hell they even redid the stats and made shamans need charisma so they don't get resisted (charisma affects overall resistance there).

Fammaden
03-22-2023, 08:45 AM
The only custom content we should get is a way to reset the sleeper.