EverQuest: Battle Royale

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by Swish2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

True night blindness for every race? For the extra sadistic.

Permanent night time?

We could do permanent night time, but it may affect some NPC scripts, so I am inclined to not do it.

[Izmael]

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

some NPC scripts.

What kind of content is there going to be? A restricted set of zones? From the PEQ database, or maybe P99 database? Or one that you built yourself/ves ?

[Secrets]

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

What kind of content is there going to be? A restricted set of zones? From the PEQ database, or maybe P99 database? Or one that you built yourself/ves ?

TAKProject content. It's accurate for late 2002 EverQuest both in content and mechanics, with a few changes.

The scripts referenced are like NPCs that spawn and walk from Highkeep to Qeynos. Sir Edwin Motte for example.


Other mechanic changes,
Newbie armor/weapon quests are removed, and the anti-twink damage caps / anti-twink AC modifiers are also not in the game.


Regarding resists,
I'm very tempted, due to it being classic, to use the bell curve that Torven described to me for resists, especially considering a lot of resist items will be out-of-reach without dedication and gear backups. Plus, if you hate the guy that's using the pet spell... just kill him and he'll unlearn it. Don't like the guy who's resisting all of your spells? Get a good 2hander and whack his ass dead, then you'll have his full resist set.

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[Secrets]

Patch Notes for this weekend's changes:

* Global loot concept redone; Any NPC now has a 15% chance of dropping basic gear/equipment/spells from a global lootdrop. The ultra rare stuff will only drop from NPCs that normally drop the item in classic. Better get those level 20 najena raids ready!
* Food / Drink beyond your initial supply must now be fished or looted from other players / NPCs, or crafted. The only food that will show up on merchants is food sold to said merchant.
* Water Flasks have been added to the global fishing table.
* The minimum fishing skill required to fish up fresh fish is now 0.
* Fixed a bug where the global lootdrop multiplier would be applied twice when an NPC has multiple items.
* A second roll will now happen with a 5% chance to provide more RNG spells/items to a single NPC's drop table.
* All Luclin-era newbie armor quest items have been removed.
* Spells have been removed from merchants entirely in the same way food was. Spells that are looted and sold to merchants can still be purchased.
* Players now start as a magician until level 10, at which point they become a ranger. This is to work around the issue of not having any mana at lower levels. A proper fix will be eventually applied.
* A translocator has been added to South Qeynos that will teleport you to a random druid or wizard spire.
* Selo's and other bard spells now work on non-bard players.
* Removed anti-twink damage caps from the game
* Removed anti-twink AC adjustment from the game

[Swish2]

PS - would definitely play the shit out of this [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Izmael]

Totally going to play this.

[Bedge89]

Big thumbs up for this concept! I'll be there to check it out!

[Izmael]

The most important thing will be how cheating will be dealt with. If it people can /warp around or magically guess your class, level and bee-line to you in the middle of a big zone, cool and normal players (such as myself of course) will give up quickly and it will be the same couple dozen of stay-at-home neckbeards who will fill the /ooc with their benzo induced garbage night after night.

Idea: make the accounts non free. Have people pay like $100 to open an account (in bitcoin, monero or whatever). The cheaters will think twice before risking a ban for a YT.

(if you think $100 is too much - stop posting and get a job)

[loramin]

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

or magically guess your class

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

• Classless system - All players are able to use and scribe any spell scroll, dual wield any item, and track down their enemies. Beware, for when you die, you lose knowledge of all your learned arts.

[Secrets]

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

The most important thing will be how cheating will be dealt with. If it people can /warp around or magically guess your class, level and bee-line to you in the middle of a big zone, cool and normal players (such as myself of course) will give up quickly and it will be the same couple dozen of stay-at-home neckbeards who will fill the /ooc with their benzo induced garbage night after night.

Warping will be quickly dealt with. We have serversided detection methods that are going to be hooked up to external resources, so if someone is warping we can make an accurate judgement in real time.