EpicEmu(Classic to Velious) now in open beta.

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

EQmac blows.

This.

Lemme know when EQmac can at least do mouse view zooming classicly.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Well gave it a shot and made a character on the velious server and It does seem to have most of what I want in an everquest emulator.


I really like their raid rules over there.. raid tokens instead of variance.

I guess it depends on your flavor of a non classic raid scene whether you like this or that heh


Classic textures and doesn't seem buggy at all to me yet.


It does say there is legit 2 boxing there but no more. not much of a difference from P99 though because many people on P99 dual box by tethering smart phones to a computer etc anyways.


I hear what you guys are saying about eqmac and the mousewheel scroll in and out.. but thats mostly preference.. I always play first person anyways.. helps with immersion imo.


I do think its kind of overblown to say a game sucks just because you don't like one aspect of its version.. like I could say "P99 Sucks because I don't like the raid scene!!" but that wouldn't be true.

Bottom line.. the sleeper server is up.. not laggy.. not luclin models like most of the other emu's (yuck).. and has a different flavor of non classic raid scene than P99's non classic raid scene.

Seems like they are going to minimize racing over there in favor of just limiting raid content with tokens for guilds with people who want to only play a few hours at a time. Sure beats endless poopsocking / alt camping imo.

[Danyelle]

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

not luclin models like most of the other emu's (yuck)

Speaking of hating something based on one aspect. An aspect that can easily be turned off.

Also, P99 doesn't have Luclin models either. Unless you're referring to my 'patch' which isn't officially supported and is also easily turned on/off.

[Flunklesnarkin]

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

Speaking of hating something based on one aspect. An aspect that can easily be turned off.

Also, P99 doesn't have Luclin models either. Unless you're referring to my 'patch' which isn't officially supported and is also easily turned on/off.

I think you missed the purpose of my post.. you would be right in the fact that I'm not completely unbiased and I do hate aspects of games.

My point is that just because you hate an aspect of a game doesn't automatically make it suck.. as you seem to be a proponent for luclin models proving what I was saying. (i dont like them but you do)

On another note, one aspect I never understood about P99 though is how its closed source.

My view on these emu projects is they should all be supporting each other in creating great content that caters to a variety of different likes/desires. Not trying to jam everybody into one server.

I can understand the fears about losing population.. but they have lost way more active players overtime just from the way the server is crowded at the top.


It also is kind of a philosophical thing too i suppose, I mean they are on one hand using as a basis for this server code that was written by Sony, then on the other hand saying nobody should have access to it but them.

More people working on servers means more people fixing code, modifying it, figuring out how it works and improving it in the different ways that the various interests want.

I think that velious server intends to release its source when it gets out of beta.

[Danyelle]

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

On another note, one aspect I never understood about P99 though is how its closed source.

My view on these emu projects is they should all be supporting each other in creating great content that caters to a variety of different likes/desires. Not trying to jam everybody into one server.

I can understand the fears about losing population.. but they have lost way more active players overtime just from the way the server is crowded at the top.


It also is kind of a philosophical thing too i suppose, I mean they are on one hand using as a basis for this server code that was written by Sony, then on the other hand saying nobody should have access to it but them.

More people working on servers means more people fixing code, modifying it, figuring out how it works and improving it in the different ways that the various interests want.

I think that velious server intends to release its source when it gets out of beta.

I do agree with this part 100%. It does kind irk me that they have gotten things working on here (corpses retaining illusions, items unequiped from npc corpses when looted, npc pets staying up when owner dies and having a loottable. And more) that still works on Live TODAY, and they keep it from the rest of the EQEmu community (which supports the server, and of which Rogean has a decent position in I might add) which doesn't have any of that working yet.

Not that I don't appreciate the devs and what they do. But seems kinda off that they would withhold that bit of the code. I can understand certain parts of it, I can also totally understand not releasing the database etc (which would enable someone to create a direct clone of P99 to compete etc) but to withhold tiny snippets of code and game functions like that? Why? Honestly from my perspective it implies they don't want to assist EQEmu in growth, or maybe even fetter it.