What era is The Hole, and will it potentially be implemented here?

[Nedala]

lol stupid soe devs dont even know when the hole came out

[nilbog]

On their own timeline, they placed it after Velious. I do not understand whats up with them, but I do know it was post-Kunark lol.
It will be implemented when the time comes. (Couple of months after Kunark release)

http://livinglegacy.station.sony.com...r_timeline.jpg

JUNE 22, 2000

<hr size="1"> The Hole:

We are pleased to announce the opening of The Hole, a high-level dungeon on the continent of Odus. The Hole is a complementary addition to EverQuest, available to all subscribers regardless of their Kunark status. The files necessary to enter The Hole are available via the "Optional Patch" button at the bottom of the patch program interface. The files are quite large (about 9MB total), so if the download is going slowly, you may want to postpone downloading the files until later.
As mentioned above, The Hole is a high-level dungeon, designed to support characters starting at about level 40. It should be regarded as extremely dangerous. As a note, jumping in The Hole from Paineel is NO LONGER A SHORTCUT TO TOXXULIA FOREST. The GMs will not recover corpses for people who fall, or jump, or attempt to levitate into The Hole.

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000622.html

[binibren]

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

On their own timeline, they placed it after Velious. I do not understand whats up with them, but I do know it was post-Kunark lol.
It will be implemented when the time comes. (Couple of months after Kunark release)

I think their documentation from the era was spotty at best. IIRC they even managed to lose all of the source prior to Velious or so. They must have been using VSS. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] My guess is they're relying on human memory which is always suspect (I know I don't trust mine).

The Allakhazam patch notes are a great historical archive but if you want something even more definitive here is a Wayback Machine link to Graffe the day after the Hole was released.