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