SOE Live

[SamwiseRed]

im going to call to register with my r99 char as well.

[Raavak]

I think the future of gaming involves paying RL money for advantages in the game, ala Second Life, Entropia, etc. Hell even Farmville and those Facebook games follow that model. Do things like make it take 1 minute to respawn after death, but you can speed it up for $1. In game money and items bought with RL money. Etc. It can work if there are plenty of ways to spend in game money on, i.e. the old Shadowhaven casino, exp bonus potions, special items. Use the players greed against them. Subscription stuff is outdated. It might feel "dirty" to us old timers, but the next generation of players won't know they are being scammed.

[Hex]

Bring back Star Wars Galaxies PRE Combat Patch!

[SamwiseRed]

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

Bring back Star Wars Galaxies PRE Combat Patch!

swg emu up, its pretty good but last time i played wasnt much pvp yet.

[Hex]

Yeah, I looked it up, and it says "NO TORRENTED." Is that just to save them, or can they really detect it and ban you? Which is funny, because I totally had two CEs, and threw them out after the game went down for good.

[Gadwen]

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

Yeah, I looked it up, and it says "NO TORRENTED." Is that just to save them, or can they really detect it and ban you? Which is funny, because I totally had two CEs, and threw them out after the game went down for good.

They have to say that, there is no way for them to tell.

[Hex]

That's what I figured.

[Malice_Mizer]

Any idea if they're going to announce a new time-locked progression server for original EQ at SOElive?

Fippy & Vulak (especially) are fading fast, from what I hear.

[stormlord]

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

Any idea if they're going to announce a new time-locked progression server for original EQ at SOElive?

Fippy & Vulak (especially) are fading fast, from what I hear.

Don't think so. They'll probably merge those.

I think that anything without the mercenaries and the tutorial and the defiant gear is so different that it's worht having a server for that, even if the experience rate is high and other changes remain. Without the (overpowered) mercenaries, you really have to learn your class quick. The pressure is higher. Without the defiant gear, the rewards in the older world have more value. You can't just go anywhere and get raid-level gear (defiant gear), you instead have to know where the names are and where the quests are. And starting in your homecity is a lot different than starting in the tutorial. Granted, the homecities are old and the graphics are bad, but some of the quests in them could be updated, at least. Overall, it gives the game more character.

Fippy and Vulak (not f2p) interest me, but EQ Mac also interests me. For one, EQ Mac is capped at POP. Fippy and Vulak are almost at POR and TSS and will not stop the progression until they're normal.

The problem with EQMac is that many windows users won't try it and it's a buggy codebase, dating back to 2003. EQMac would be more popular if the codebase was newer and it was windows-friendly. To give you an idea of how old EQ Mac is, IT HAS NO IN-GAME MAPS. See what I mean, now?

To be honest, if EQ Mac was more windows-friendly, I'd be playing it on it now. I've read that windows users can somehow get it to work, but I think it's too much to ask of a normal user. What makes it worse is that the good things in EQ Mac are spoiled by all these things. It makes my heart break in two.

Here's some discussion about EQ Mac vs Fippy:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/foru...192629144&h=50

[Gadwen]

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

To be honest, if EQ Mac was more windows-friendly, I'd be playing it on it now. I've read that windows users can somehow get it to work, but I think it's too much to ask of a normal user. What makes it worse is that the good things in EQ Mac are spoiled by all these things. It makes my heart break in two.

Here's some discussion about EQ Mac vs Fippy:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/foru...192629144&h=50

EQ Mac is not hard to get running, all you need is the secrets zip, a fresh install of titanium (i just copy/pasted my p99 directory and it worked fine) and a working login for SOE.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...=64802&page=66

Last post has instructions with what should be a working DL of secrets file, just make sure your anti virus isn't stopping it from downloading it...it won't like the winsock.exe

Oh, and use this launchpad link https://lp.soe.com/eqmac/live/