Just got this email:
Greetings fellow Norrathians!
Announcing the official opening of The Sleeper server tonight at midnight (4-10-2013 12:01AM EST).
Our dev team has been hard at work for over 2 years to bring you the world of Norrath as it existed in the Scars of Velious expansion. Visit
https://EpicEmu.com to get your account started.
A great thanks to all the players who helped us from alpha testing closed beta, and open beta - your characters will survive you and have access to Luclin on the new test server within a few months.
-EpicEmu Game Staff & The Sleeper Development Team-
A reminder of the Unique Features on The Sleeper
2 Boxing
Don't have time to look for a group? No problem, box an alternate character and you can have your own pocket healer or whatever helps you progress.
Dynamic Raid Spawning
In the event of overcrowded raid encounters, guilds will be allowed certain tokens per week to spawn raid boss encounters on demand, no need to wait around for random spawn timers while sacrificing valuable real life time. Enjoy the fact that your raid can have a set time and place, without dispute, incident, or provocation from other players.
Randomized Hotzones
Experience boosting hotzones will be randomly chosen and rotated through on a weekly - bi-weekly basis, providing you and other players the ability to group more often in higher risk / reward zones. Sometimes these hotzones may be announced without specifying the zone, making it a fun hunt for you and your friends.
Classic Items/Zone to Start
Remember the 'fire-pot' room? Manastones? Rubicite Armor? Dark Elf Masks? These items are now available, and will be for a limited time after launch.
Epics
The longest, sometimes most annoying and tedious quests are available for you to grind away at and you can get started on your epic quests as soon as you are able to!
Dedicated Development Team
You will have developers who are working hard to bring you content set as close as possible to the accurate era. Community feedback is appreciated, the developers will listen to your idea's to assist in reproducing the ideal Norrath.
Unique Resources
Sometimes the wayback machine just doesn't cut it, in order to get classic content you need classic data. Our development team has been dedicated to keeping track of EverQuest information since it's beginning. Be prepared to play an emulated EverQuest as close to its original content as possible thanks to our developers hard work from years ago.