EpicEmu(Classic to Velious) now in open beta.

[Cosette]

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

If you want SoV so badly, why not just play on p99 where SoV will actually be accurate?

Apologies. A little late to the show here. But out of curiosity, how can we assume p99's SoV is going to be "actually accurate" in comparison to EpicEmu when they indeed hold the EverQuest Classic fucking lexicon?

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Although it's new and not yet renowned as a legitimate classic EQ server, it doesn't mean those working on it aren't capable of making it just as accurate as P99.

However, only time will tell for sure.

I'm sure the creators of P99 were in the same boat at one point.

[Nizzarr]

so a bunch of printed up allakazham pages and eqatlas pages? thats the velious lexicon?

Wow theyre holding GOLD right there!

[Flunklesnarkin]

There is enough interest in velious "classic" eq for 2 servers imo.

P99 isn't completely classic or will it be.. hence the term emulate. They strive to be classic but it's not going to be completely attainable.

To be fair though, the sleeper server won't be completely classic either. I think it will be a little less classic in some aspects but a little more classic in other aspects.

P99 would be more classic because the sleeper is going to do Hot Zones.

The sleeper would be more classic because of stuff like say the enchanter exp pet nerf. It won't be in the game, but it is on P99. The enchanter pet exp nerf was a Planes of Power fix.

There are many other differences that it would take forever to list them all. Needless to say, the two servers won't be the same and I consider them both a different take on classic eq, neither being fully classic.


They do seem to be more open to changing stuff in classic that would be considered a fix .. ie something like "well a monster was stuck in a wall in classic and had retarded pathing, so it should remain as such until the appropriate patch in the time line occurred."


The sleeper will have the benefit of past experience though, ie nobody will be able to exploit the plat creation bug to sink the game economy.


The sleeper is going to be fun when it opens (who doesn't like new servers, heck I think P99 could more than double its pop if they ran a second blue server)..

but the dark horse in the "classic" eq race will be the EQClassic project that everybody seems to forget.

Sure its been in development for years and some probably consider it vaporware, but its making progress and Its getting done and there updates and new code written each week. (last I checked their progress bar thing it looked about done). It's actually cracking the packets of classic data and reverse engineering it, as opposed to every other emulated server that is just modifying a version of eq to make it classic-ish.


My hope is the two servers don't try to become the same exact thing.. they need to differentiate themselves. and the plans for the sleeper to go to luclin after a server vote / waiting period seems to already make them different enough to justify its existence to me.

P99 would be cool if after velious is all out.. they release side-grade armor / weapons with custom classic-ish content. While the sleeper moves on to luclin.

[Cosette]

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

so a bunch of printed up allakazham pages and eqatlas pages? thats the velious lexicon?

Wow theyre holding GOLD right there!

.....What?

Ooh, honey.. Noo. All I am saying is EpicEmu allegedly has a series of printed documents from Classic to SoV that were printed during its time. As we know, not all Alla and EQTraders information are just as they were back in the day. Some of it has been modified to keep up with the growth of EverQuest over the years.

Does this book make EpicEmu the jesusgod of Classic EQ emulating? Well, no. It doesn't.

I simply asked this: what constitutes "actually accurate", and why are some making the assumption that EpicEmu does not have the capability to be "accurate"? What does P99 have that they don't?

They had their sources, and I'm sure EpicEmu does as well. And like I said, only time will tell. But in the meantime, there's no reason for everyone to be so upset about it. It's just a server.

[Cosette]

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

The sleeper is going to be fun when it opens (who doesn't like new servers, heck I think P99 could more than double its pop if they ran a second blue server)..

but the dark horse in the "classic" eq race will be the EQClassic project that everybody seems to forget.

Appreciate the mature, kind response. I didn't come here to step on any toes. I'm just wondering why people seem so offended by EpicEmu.

Unfortunately, you're right. No server will ever match up to the real EQ classic. And a LOT of that is because it's 2012 now, and many of us are here for the nostalgia. Much of the magic from EQ classic has left us as we've grown up, no matter what age we started playing. Raiding Kael for me at age 23 will never be like raiding Kael was at 12, and killing crocs on P99 wasn't like how it was when I was 10 either.

EpicEmu is starting in Velious to appeal to those who miss oldschool Velious. You can visit in in present day EQ and in other emulated servers, but its hard to find a similar classic version. Because P99 already offered Classic and Kunark, I believe EpicEmu just wanted to do something different. They don't mean to be malicious and take over so much as just offer something old, but new that may spark interest in some people. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Hailto]

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

I'm just wondering why people seem so offended by EpicEmu.

Probably because they are advertising their server on the P99 forums, which will potentially take players from our server, it's just bad form. Really not too difficult to understand.

[nilbog]

I'll go ahead and lock this. It will never be off topic.