Alternate Questing?

[Ivory]

I was trying to come up with some ideas for good challenges and fun..... ogre meat selling archer can only go so far :P

Anyone got some suggestions?

I was thinking

1) A pacifist. No killing or helping kill anything. Basically, you gotta see how far you can get peacefully in the game. No twinking either, so from the start it is pure social quest and trying to advance that way. Probably a rogue is the best class for this, since you can get around easier (though enchanter race changing might be good too).

It also makes things like factioning pretty hard, since you aren't allowed to attack anything or actively try to take part in battles or cause things death.

2) Chef Quest - Trying to be the best chef in the world! No grinding for exp or anything, but if you want to kill some bats it is ok. Also no twinking.

3) Fish master - Like chef quest, only with fishing! (maybe combine with chef quest?) I've never gotten the clockwork cod in akanon before.

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Hmmm maybe all of them? Into one giant pacifist chef fisher quest? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Leveling delivering mail as you travel the world for rare ingredients? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Any other ideas?

[MiRo2]

When you say pacifist, do you mean vegetarian or vegan strictness?

I think there is something to be said for a pacifist leveling through quests with pick-pocket sourced bone/belts/ears etc.

[Ivory]

Originally Posted by MiRo2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When you say pacifist, do you mean vegetarian or vegan strictness?

I guess you could do that.....but I think it would restrict what you can do and quest with too much.

Just needing to level up without fighting at all (or grouping for exp) and untwinked would be hard enough.

[Foxplay]

Pacifist is easy, play a cleric and never heal during fights only after

[Ivory]

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

Pacifist is easy, play a cleric and never heal during fights only after

That is lending your powers to the continued death of things! It would be like trying to loophole your way out of it by making a necromancer and going "well, I didn't kill anything, this crazy skeleton did! :P"

[skarlorn]

BeggarQuest

See how much money you can make begging from NPCs.

You can move on to begging PCs but you can't so it in EC. win condition is when you can finally afford an apartment and aren't homeless anymore.

[loramin]

Inspired by WoW's achievement system I've dreamed up lots of EverQuest "Achievements" (ie. alternate quests), many of which aren't directly leveling related. Stuff like ...

(Trade)skill Achievements:

• Tradeskill Master: 200 in every non-class-specific tradeskill
• Tradeskill Grandmaster: tradeskill master + 250 in one tradeskill
• Class/Race Tradeskill Master: alchemy/poison-making/research/tinkering = 250 (on multiple characters of course)
• Gone Fishing: alcohol tolerance and fishing = 250 + baking = 142 (Rolled Cutlassfish trivial) + brewing = 68 (Fish Oil trivial)
• Cunning Linguist: master every language skill
• Master Beggar: earn at least 100 plat from begging
• Master Pickpocket: earn at least 1k plat (not items worth 1k plat) from pick pocketing

Exploration Achievements:

• Master Explorer: visit every non-planar, non-Sleeper's Tomb, non-Veeshan's Peak zone
• Master Planar Explorer: visit every zone in the game
• Dungeon Explorer: visit every marked room (ie. every number on every dungeon map in the wiki) of every dungeon
• Unique Location Explorer: visit a list of hard to get to places, most of which require clever levitate usage (eg. inside KC in the Dreadlands, on top of various famous statues that require levitate, places you can only reach by traveling over lava, etc.)
• Master Thief: successfully pick every lock and disarm every trap in the game

Faction Achievements:

• Ally to the good: Get ally faction with all "good" factions (ie. all good old world factions except corrupt guard factions, plus Firiona Vie)
• Ally to the evil: Get ally faction with all "evil" factions (all corrupt guard factions in good towns plus Grobb/Neriak/Oggok/The Overthere)
  Ally to Norath: Complete both ally to good and ally to evil with the same character (not at the same time; I think the corrupt/not corrupt guard factions make that impossible)
• Beloved in Velious: Become an ally to all three Velious factions (obviously not at once)
• Truly Beloved in Velious: Become an ally to all three Velious "boss" (Dain/Tormax/Yelinak) factions (again, not at once)

Quest Achievements:

• Coldain Quester: complete the 10th Coldain Ring, 7th Shawl, and the Spirit of Garzicor quest
• Velious Armor Quester: acquire a piece of armor from each of the Velious armor sets (Dwarf/Giant/Dragon/Plane of Growth/Plane of Mischief)
• Epic Quester: complete every epic quest in the game (with multiple characters obviously)
• Classic Quester: complete at least 50 (100?) different quests
• Classic Quester Extraordinaire: complete at least 100 (200?) different quests, including one from every zone that offers quests

Solo Artist Achievements (http://wiki.project1999.com/Solo_Artist_Challenge):

• Solo Disciple: solo 7 Solo Disciple mobs
• Solo Master: solo 8 (minimum one from HS South and one from Sebilis Crypt) Solo Master mobs
• Solo Grandmaster: solo any 6 Solo Grandmaster mobs (minimum one L56+ and one from HS East)
• Solo God: solo any 5 Solo God Mode mobs

Duo Artist Achievements

• (similar to the Solo Artist ones)

Those are just some ideas, but you get the point.

I've always thought it would be fun to someday make a wiki page for all of them, and make it sort of like the Magelo pages where each player could track their own achievements (and maybe even post screenshots of them accomplishing certain ones). However doing that would require working with dirty PHP code ([You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) so I've put the project on the back burner.

[skarlorn]

An ideal alternate quest, which sadly would have to take place on Red, would be to get appropriate level and ally faction like Mistmoore, or Dragons.Then you defend the heck out of your favorite NPCs

[Ivory]

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

An ideal alternate quest, which sadly would have to take place on Red, would be to get appropriate level and ally faction like Mistmoore, or Dragons.Then you defend the heck out of your favorite NPCs

I wish there were a place to raise faction with agents of mistmoore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loramin]

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

I wish there were a place to raise faction with agents of mistmoore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Got curious about this so I checked, and not only is there no way to fix this faction on P99, even after all these years there still isn't any way to improve that faction on live either! Although they do have some sort of general purpose "faction fixing" potion you can buy now [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

One guy implied that in the past there was a bug which made HS mobs give positive Mistmoore faction. If someone could track that down and prove it happened in the classic era ...