Dumb rumors from classic

[Clark]

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

people insisting that merbs wont spawn if you are in the room or whatever is pretty classic.

LOL or like if you stood on a certain floor panel in the room it would activate a named to spawn instead of normal mob.

[Cecily]

Anti-camp radius!

[Jfertal]

great thread, only one I remember was the monster that swam in lake rathe, so I would always run on my ogre along the edge of the water to get back and fourth from qeynos and oggok etc.

[pasi]

2. In all of the zones there is a special “developer’s box” at coordinates 0,0,0. They are just grey box rooms with no doors or exits. One of the boxes has a clue to a GM only quest written on the wall.

There are a few zones with GM boxes. They don't all have coordinates. The VP one for example, has cats.

3. There is a hidden prison, I think under Rathe Mountains, that Senior Guides can bind really obnoxious players to when there is no GM around to issue a ban/kick. The prison has no exit, and you can't use any abilities, items, or spells.

No idea about a prison in RM, but there is a prison in Qeynos Catacombs where they would summon/bind players. It was just a tiny square tube (maybe 5 steps by 5 steps) with no ceiling.

5. The default model for mobs is a human male. The Sleeper's model wasn't finished before a guild was able to spawn him, so he spawned as a giant naked human.

This is how the game is coded. The player has specific NPC models enabled for each individual zone. Like, if you tried to dbspawn a frost giant in EC, it would likely come out as a giant naked human male because thats the default for any NPCtype where the client does not have the correct files for the zone. The default EQ install does (and did) have some extra models enabled for some zones meaning either oversight or incomplete content!

Anti-camp radius!

This was actually implemented according to Prathun. I believe it was for a spawn in Najena.

[stonez138]

5. The default model for mobs is a human male. The Sleeper's model wasn't finished before a guild was able to spawn him, so he spawned as a giant naked human.

I can vouch for this one. Way back in the day I installed EQ on a new PC and Im not sure how or why but when I logged in to play ALL mobs appeared as naked male humans.

[Feathers]

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

There are a few zones with GM boxes. They don't all have coordinates. The VP one for example, has cats..

Ohhhh but do the coordinates on the walls of the boxes lead to a quest!?

[Colgate]

you can look through the walls at the entrance of befallen and see the catbox there, if you're interested

[Stormfists]

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

When the sleeper awakens he rampages every zone on Norrath, starting with EC

No myth, true story. Only if he awakes and guild wipes within certain amount of time from what I heard. Xev server, I remember being in Velks and everyone was spammed with about 20 lines of red text followed by loading please wait... theres an MPEG of it floating on Youtube somewhere.

Not sure if counts as a rumour but something cool that I liked was the GM private zone, a white circular zone, probably the size of an arena, with steps into a middle courtyard and clicky pictures of every city (not that they needed them). I got summoned there once by accident for about 10 seconds before the dude realised what he did. Looked pretty cool and had a sick zone name but it escapes me.

[Mentathiel]

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

Using piercing or slashing weapons would yield lower chance to get high quality pelts as opposed to blunt weapons.

I think this was to do with the low drop rate for HQ pelts; players would try to find any pattern which increased their chances and that one actually sounded almost plausible...

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

There are a few zones with GM boxes. They don't all have coordinates. The VP one for example, has cats.

The only trouble is that nobody knows if the cats are alive or dead.

[leewong]

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

I think this was to do with the low drop rate for HQ pelts; players would try to find any pattern which increased their chances and that one actually sounded almost plausible...


The only trouble is that nobody knows if the cats are alive or dead.

It depends on what interpretation of QM you subscribe to. Copenhagen would say asking which state it exists in is nonsensical. It is existing in many states simultaneously. Observation causes a deterministic collapse of the wave-function. In other words, reality is in the observation not the cat.

Many worlds theory would also have the cat dead and alive simultaneously. The key difference is that the wave function doesnt collapse. Putting the cat in a box created multiple universes within the multiverse. Ones with dead cats and ones with live cats. When you observe you see which cat world you live in.

There are quite a few other interpretations of the nature of quantum mechanics but I will spare you.