The Sleeper - facts

[Phats]

Fun facts about our friends over there on the Sleeper. (And the guy ddos'ing p99)

K since I really do not like their forums here's my beef after getting a monk to level 30.

Everything after lvl 25+ is broken. By that I want you to imagine every zone, mob, named, loot, drops, pathing, quest...you name it.
- The only classic items that are currently dropping are Manastone, Guise of the Deceiver (Mask of Deception & Guise of Deceiver both dropped at the same time), Rubicite apparently (I've logged 10 hours in there and havent seen any). Sarnak Liberator is dropping.
- Chief RokGus is spawning inside Droga and outside in FM. FM is double spawning the named cycle. Moss covered twig does not drop (Cracked Branch does however)
- All named mobs apparently have a larger chance to drop NOTHING than their actual loot. At 25+ just be prepared for all named to drop nothing.
- I ran through Skyfire without being accosted. EVERYTHING in Skyfire cons indifferent. Even Dry Sapara (pally 1.5 epic and VP key quest replacer). Even the sperm things are your buddies. I ran to Chardok because I thought maybe I'd be indifferent and snag a ring. Nope.
- XP is maybe ok if your in a 6 man group killing mobs 3 levels higher than you. It scales 10 base logarithmically from that spot though. Im pretty sure killing blue con mobs go not give you xp even though you get a 'you have gained xp' message.
- Cranking down the Xp because you remember it being hard to level when you were 14 years old is not classic.
- FD doesnt break when your cast on
- Hide / invis does not break/kill charm/pets
- NPC's do not assist their pets. Pets are easy xp.
- Some named spawn 95% of the time instead of their ph. Some named haven't even been seen.
- Mobs have no indirect hate table, meaning, you can train around a group of mobs and someone else can range pull a mob from that train. The person training can FD and grats your group on a single pull.
- From what I've heard lvl 34 mage pets are hitting for 18 on even con+ mobs. Lots of mage tears at the moment.
- Faction is crazy weird: Spend an hour in EC killing orcs and grats you on max faction in freeport. Kill gnomes in Sol A and never see your faction drop despite getting -neg faction messages.
- Blue con guards in HHK are hitting for 200 a swing / 400 a round. No phat guard xp for you!
- Mobs kick stun at lvl 1?
- Clockworks in Sol A dont use clockwork poison.
- No xp cap. We brought in a lvl 1 to Sol A and let it get full xp off 1 mob and it dinged to 6.

These are just the things that I have seen.

Now global /ooc has been turned off despite some frustrating issues. Kegz, however, HAS been present but he's the only one. Whatever staff there is is non-existant. I would like to see Kegz open up his project to some trustworthy individuals. I am offering our melee/spell logs amounting to about 800 megs from raids in Velious while on EQMAC. Recorded data from basically every zone. Spell resists / melee etc. A few talented <Inglourious Basterds> are asking to help implement info into the database (data entry).

ALSO

So we spoke to kegz about the obscene xp loss on death at around 20% of a level.

So he fixes it and went a little overboard. Next idea? Stupid fuck makes it more like 22-25%. This happens only after the one group with 50% Rez on the server requests it.

Gave him info on classic pets with all stats, logs and ss's of pet damage. He still has them underperforming.

Gave him several game breaking exploits. Dude took four days to fix a basic fucking quest in return.

Beta testers: the following zones are fucked:
Sol a
City of mist
Sol b
High keep
High pass
Beholders maze
Befallen
Lower guk
Cazic Thule
Kaesora

These problems range from imps with 3x normal HP in sol b, bats in sol b hitting for 120+, mobs in COM aground ghosts as they run through walls, sol a pathing all over the fucking place anywhere south of zone in, pathing and npc regen in nearly every zone.

Kegz spent 20 minutes explaining how CT is perfect and he did it by hand. There is z axis mobs nmeleeing through floor/roof, not a single fucking alligator in the gator pits. Itemization on all named is fucked. Lol it just goes on and on.

Nearly every names NPC in game doesn't drop any loot. Crystal caverns? Grats on the same neck piece 509x and nothing more.

Once his 'founders' (beta) tagged mates stopped exping on specs in oasis he ninja increased spawn time from 6 to 15mins for the next grp.

Trash drops from kaesora are vendoring for 50-400pp. Lol.

Whole beta crew are corrupt and stupid as fuck it seems. Even basic level one quests are broken. Koalandi fish? Broken. It takes under 90 seconds to do that quest from character creation. Fuck knows the extent of all this.

Literally hundreds of out of content mobs, drops, items, spells. NPC casters chain cast ae's, random mobs in beholders proc a massive range as blind.

Factions are fucked. Nearly every character in game is non kos to ring of scale, zones like skyfire? Every mob is indifferent and the pally epic 1.5 mob is guarding VP ala sontalak style.

Exp rate is easily 30-50% down on what it should be. All caster research is broken or cockblocked by no itemization of rs components.

And the best anecdote of today alone? From a GM. "Velks floor is excellent because those haste gauntlets drop from random spiders there"...there we have it, a GM who sat in velks groups for hours on end while someone pulled the top floor named frenzy to ground level has a definitive view on a loot table and itemization of a zone.

I could write for days about this shit, it truelly is pathetic. Absolute expert hardcore/nightmare mode EQ.


Moral of the story, Toop ddos's p99, here is your alternative

[Phats]

Let's face facts. We helped you with informative and detailed reports, anecdotal evidence and plenty of candid nature conversation about he nefarious actions of many. You ignored everything that wasn't as per your memory. It's a very clear cut and distinct lesson that if you didn't play EQ as an avid, elite and attentive player for a decade, you shouldn't have a crack at running an Emu without support.

Lets recap in under two minutes on an iPhone some of the game breaking bugs that existed, and those I reported to you.

NPC's do not assist their pets.
Unlimited y axis corpse drag.
Effective no aggro on buffs.
LD player despawns charmed pets.
Mobs running at high speed seemingly at random.
Whole dungeons on incorrect factions.
Entire zones not itemised, spawn tabled, pathed or stable.
Zone pausing effect with no PC's inside.
Totally fucked NPC regen too high.
Raid mobs with no regen.
Zero effective research drops above level 24.
NPC mobs casting out of content spells.
NPC mobs with insane mana regen out of combat.
NPC mobs chain casting spells as a set cast list.
Client to server miscalculations on mana, AC.
Multiple quests not rewarding anything, missing completely, missing faction.

Now that's just shit that I personally sent or told you.

Multiple PC's caught cheating (I turned a blind eye after I realized why they did).
Multiple EMU related dupe, hacks and shit attempted to be made functional on your server and pointing out those people's names.

So before you start having a dig at Friday, look back through your logs and have a check to see how much him and I did report shit to you. We started here wanting a fair, honest and fun server with an open minded admin and a raiding community that exists in harmony. What we got was multiple occurrences of knee jerk reactions, absolutely zero consideration to experienced player testimony, and you yourself said that the game was beta tested with out of content buffs, and gear.

Kegz favorite quote to me was "we tried a few dragons in tov, but couldn't kill them so they must be balanced". That is second only to "cazuc Thule zone was perfect, I made it by hand, its absolutely classic and was beta tested for weeks and folks with no twink gear, just crafted, cobalt and Lamentations had no problem". This is after giving him (one of many) zone wide fault lists from exploratory/experience groups.

All this had of been fine too, if you took the time to answer for the fuckups. But your only answer to date on any subject has been a shady and ill conceived attempt to refute evidence and argument, based on your obviously limited experience at the game.

Dozens of people left here in the first few weeks, some of those players were some of the best to have ever sat in front of a keyboard and played eq. You're own GM mate sat in mumble and made himself look like a fucking moron by incorrectly explaining a game mechanic to a group of hardcore eq vets. Embarrassing is an understatement.

Friday is right. Epic EMU/sleeper is an absolute classic reproduction of Everquest from the point of view of a complete moron who didnt understand the game. The gameplay speaks volumes about how certain mechanics were always a mystery to you on live or your eq history. The way drop rates are, how fucked casting rules are, where loot drops from etc.

There was some pearler displays of this misunderstanding. Your wife argued with me that "those haste gloves drop off any random spider in velks".

This is a classic example of how your or her eq experience was spent sitting in a bottom or zone group in velks while some poor cunt pulled named from the top floor for you and you paid that little attention, there was no realization it was a rare mob?; and as such all that loot was random drops.

Same goes for Mithril arms/legs from all random fire giants, not skarlon.

Same goes for all rubicite.

And then there is your argument about manastone drop rates. Because you never saw one, they must have been super über rare.

[Daldolma]

stopped reading at The Sleeper

[pharmakos]

phats = motec?

[Zadrian]

Technically, Dry Sapara was always indiff.

[Ele]

sounds awesome

[Malphite]

Sounds like someone banking for an RMT server is mad

[Gadwen]

I never got past level 5 on the sleeper, so I don't really care what goes on there but...

This server got to where it is because of years of development, and crowdsourcing quests, mechanics, mobs, drops etc etc etc. Players on this server have contributed an insane amount of information to the devs. That has been invaluable for P99.

If you were going to join a "classic" emulated server a few months after launch and expect something better or equal to this you were setting yourself up for a rage quit. If they really are as unwilling to listen to people as you paint them, then the server is screwed. But don't think that P99 was golden from the start, there were a lot of the same types of issues here...shit...HIDE just got fixed.

[Malice_Mizer]

Originally Posted by Hasbinfat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just don't even care

lol'd

[Motec]

Originally Posted by pharmakos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

phats = motec?

No, but that 2nd post was my writing.