Unsolved quests: a can of worms, but maybe not?

[mmiles8]

Alright, good stuff. I was going to ask the follow-up question of whether you're okay with those custom quests resulting in custom items (bringing in the whole itemization topic), but if you support custom GM events that's probably a resounding "yes".

The devs here may be more willing than the eq devs were, but getting items created for gm events was considered a big deal and done so few times throughout the history of eq you could count them on both hands.

I was the Quest & Event Coordinator for Xev Server back in '03. I ran nearly every GM event in the pool at some point. The standard GM event reward was a blue diamond, or if several were called for, the other "Upper Echelon" gems.

Edit... I actually think I still have the old scripts for the old GM Events on a backup somewhere. All the devs would need to do is generate the Quest characters to copy for the events.

Course those were all just thought up by guides anyway, and the only limitation in creating new ones is your imagination, and the OPCodes.

[Humwawa]

There was a quest text in the Necro guild in Neriak called The Scroll of G'han, where a necromancer GM would tell you about a legendary ritual which, if invoked fully, would allow you to speak directly to Innoruuk. He mentioned that half of it had been stolen by a fier`dal rogue and taken to Felwithe to ensure the tier`dal could never fully invoke the power of their god. I used to love roleplay in EverQuest, and to my character, a self-proclaimed Priest of Innoruuk, the ability to commune directly with God was worth any price.

I spent a month trying to find it.

I killed every single NPC in Felwithe, either solo or with some friends.

I spent days in Neriak, searching for a lead.

I never found it.

Many years later a dev told the community that the quest was never finished, and that it was only left behind as a kind of Roleplay flavor text.

....so it goes.

[Breuce]

I spent a long time trying to figure out the Tayla Ironforge quest. Long time. Lots of researching, killing, talking...

I just read now that it finally got implemented in 2003, and the reward was a combine weapon.

I always tended to think that as 'perfect' as classic EQ was, and as much as I absolutely loved it... it was SO CLOSE to being absolutely awe-inspiring. All these friggin broken quests and so forth really did frustrate me quite a bit.

Tho, to be fair.... they made me do a lot of work, learn a lot about lore, and fueled all sorts of gossip and rumors for years. Maybe they weren't so bad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]