New Player Experience

[Bumamgar]

The maps only work in cities or newbie zones. Once you venture forth beyond those safe areas, you won't have a map and will be glad for max sense-heading. This is a client issue and it's not really possible to disable them. That said, if you want, you can always delete all the .txt files in your Maps folder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the UI has a variety of settings for transparency and when to fade in and out of being transparent. You may have to use the right-click menu on each window and set it's transparency settings individually. I can't remember for sure.

As others have stated, working boats are pretty much impossible. The reason for this is that we're using a post-DirectX9 client, and even Verant/SOE admitted that old-school boats can't work with this client and replaced them all with translocators. The only EMU I know of with working boats is Shards of Dalya, but that is because they use a much older (pre-DirectX9) client.

That said, the devs have done a good job with the translocators, by having them spawn and despawn on a schedule that matches when the boats used to come to the docks back in 1999 on live. So although you don't get to enjoy the ride on a boat itself, inter-continental travel is still fairly slow and arduous without finding a player to port you. This is one case where the 'spirit' of 1999 is kept alive, even if the actual details are different.

[km2783]

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

I remember back in 2000 when i first played EQ the boats were not working in live until a few weeks later.

I rode the boat to Butcherblock many times in 1999

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

As others have stated, working boats are pretty much impossible. The reason for this is that we're using a post-DirectX9 client, and even Verant/SOE admitted that old-school boats can't work with this client and replaced them all with translocators. The only EMU I know of with working boats is Shards of Dalya, but that is because they use a much older (pre-DirectX9) client.

That said, the devs have done a good job with the translocators, by having them spawn and despawn on a schedule that matches when the boats used to come to the docks back in 1999 on live. So although you don't get to enjoy the ride on a boat itself, inter-continental travel is still fairly slow and arduous without finding a player to port you. This is one case where the 'spirit' of 1999 is kept alive, even if the actual details are different.

I just hope the Oasis to TD Translocator drops people off a ways away from that little outpost for baddies [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Also, how lazy of SOE to not update the boats for the new clients.

[Yellow]

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

That said, the devs have done a good job with the translocators, by having them spawn and despawn on a schedule that matches when the boats used to come to the docks back in 1999 on live. So although you don't get to enjoy the ride on a boat itself, inter-continental travel is still fairly slow and arduous without finding a player to port you. This is one case where the 'spirit' of 1999 is kept alive, even if the actual details are different.

Yeah and the wonderfull part is there is a bit more struggle for us Evil chars thent he goods/nuets due to locations of the translocators, which is fine by me i just like complaining about how i have it just a wee bit worse. xD