Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

[Seducio]

Here is Secrets philosophy regarding raiding on PQ as posted on reddit, subject to change over time:

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With how many players are going to end up being in the rotation, I expect us to have to artificially speed up content (ie; dropping Naggy from 7 to 3 days once there's, say, 5 or 10 guilds on rotation) but the trick with this is doing it in a way that isn't going to flood guilds with loot pinata NPCs, while allowing everyone to reasonably see content.

Mischief TLP quantity of loot isn't going to be here. You aren't going to kill Fright and have 50 items drop. I'd prefer to see people decide to optimize their raids into smaller guilds over times if they really want to optimize loot output.

Double dipping is another concern, and we will actively disband guilds that partake in this, or prevent people from joining another guild if they violate that policy.

Today, we just made "Guild < >", which is a guild a CSR will force you into that you cannot leave. This is for extreme rulebreakers of that policy.

I have 26 guild leaders in a private section of our Discord, where they're able to communicate when they want to try out NPCs, and then they're put on the rotation after they kill the NPCs. And in the case of disputes, leadership is able to communicate.

As for how to do the rotation? We're automating it, along with a plat sink.

Long-term, we're making 'pseudozones' of say, soldungb with zero experience or loot - just the Fire Giants, Nagafen and a few charm pet NPCs that aren't in the way taking an optimal route (LDCs, Sonic Bats, Fire Imps) and none of the NPCs in the zone will have quests, either.

Spawning the zone will cost platinum. Completion of the raid target (eg; killing Nagafen) will award that guild with a rotation spot if they're not already in the rotation.

Over time, we'll decay guilds who aren't actively raiding to free them up, as well as our raid rules dictating who can and can't get these NPCs during guild-enforced rotations.

Quakes are wholly separate to this, and are there for the hardcore crowd to play the game their way. That's for the folks who want to put in a little bit extra time and effort to get more items, but not significantly more items given the frequency of quakes (7 to 10 days, currently)

We want to be able to support the 'dad guilds' and the 'high end, competitive guilds' in the same server.

That's an incredibly tricky balance to have. Though, we will eventually get to the point where we hit that 'tricky balance'.
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[aussenseiter]

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

As for how to do the rotation? We're automating it, along with a plat sink.

Spawning the zone will cost platinum.

Oh man if they bring guild dues back. 🤩

Also high pop+GM rotation means buying raid loot will be expensive as heck, as Brad intended.

[Vormotus]

Hey guys, anyone else enjoying Quarm? I have only been able to play a few hours, have a bunch of alts none higher than 10, wondering where this new path will take me and anxiously awaiting Beastlord in the future.

One of the things I have been enjoying so far is that some nice guys in the UI section have been slowly raising from the dead some archived UIs from the Archived section in eqinterface.com that works withouts issues in Quarm.

I can now play with some of my very old favorite uis of the day and well, seeing the zones so full of people is amazing.


Just wanted to let you all know that in this very tiny niche community of EQ lovers, I believe all Servers have something for everybody.

Give Quarm a try, its a blast!

One of the things I have found super vintage is how old and dated the base client is, it is truly an old client, P99 uses a much more modern one and it really shows, so that brings an extra touch of vintage nostalgia to it.

Come to Quarm guys, give it a try! Between P99, Lazarus and Quarm I honestly dont know how to get more free time to enjoy them haha.

[magnetaress]

Quarm is great.

[Vormotus]

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

Quarm is great.

Man Quarm is amazing!

Even the old mac TAKP Client is getting constant fixes and updates, not to mention that the camera jankiness is a thing of the past with the latest dll patch alongisde the nameplate visibility issue.

On top of that the Discord is full of very nice people, and my favorite, the UI channel has people actively working on rezzing old UIs for Quarm!

Heck they even had to downgrade some old forgotten archived UIS from 2005 as they had an extra spell bubble, and made these uis work without issues!

Honestly alongside the amazing unlocks in the future past Velious, which is what P99 is for, it means I will be able to play without issues a beastlord run for true nostalgia on my side,as of all the classes beastlord was my favorite, and meanwhile I have been slowly grinding my necro and druid for fun meeting truly new people and experiencing classical issues, like Varsoon killing every newbie he can find near BB entrance.

It has been a blast, it has a ton of people playing and honestly I cant really complain, go give it a try!


You can even enable for those retro hardcore people the very OLD ORIGINAL EQ UI ... and it fully works although in a very low resolutiuon, but I know a couple of guys playing it on CRT monitors at base resolution for ultimate vintage nostalgia.

Top that with the old midi songs and even the original 1999 eq combat song by toggling it in the .ini and its a real trip down memory lane.

Love to everybody guys, hope to see some of you there, you can find me there as Ikoparu or Euridun, slowly , very slowly leveling around as I walk, explore and even do simple old quests.

Cheers!

[Byrjun]

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

the UI channel has people actively working on rezzing old UIs for Quarm!

Has anyone made a UI yet that doesn't make your eyes bleed from staring at med ticks? Something like Haeldar or Rustle? Or is everyone just recreating more UIs that no one actually wants to use?

[Bisonzabi]

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

You can even enable for those retro hardcore people the very OLD ORIGINAL EQ UI ... and it fully works although in a very low resolutiuon, but I know a couple of guys playing it on CRT monitors at base resolution for ultimate vintage nostalgia.

They better be using dial up as well for true authenticity.

[Seducio]

Project Quarm CSR Lead Ailia posted a new experimental DLL file for Quarm. This means Secrets followed through on the initial promise to improve the camera with the current client. See below for details and the place where you can find the new DLL download is on Discord for PQ.

The ultimate release to fix this: Evolution client is still work in progress not due out for sometime.

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Ailia < > — Yesterday at 8:42 PM
EXTRA Experimental file with nameplate fix and improved camera smoothness (This does not fix third person mouselook, that is coming soon)
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[Byrjun]

Now if they could just make the camera pan up/down faster it'd be about perfect.

[Seducio]

Yeah just had to come back to say I'm super impressed with the improvements made to the camera system. Still not Titanium level, but much improved compared to PQ on day 1.