All Sleeper Server Threads Moved Here, Love Sirken

[Swish]

The problem with hotzones is that until everyone can bind themselves or until there's enough binders to pick one up casually, everyone is streaming into the hotzone that's local to them and there's not much left for people to kill.

Really on the fence about the server, still taking a look but I fear for its future when Velious is launched here...there is talk of cats on the moon though.

[Noselacri]

Have to wonder what in the fucking hell they spent the two years this server was in development on. It certainly wasn't common bug fixing or content testing, there's something wrong with literally every single thing you look at. I hope it means the endgame content is absolutely perfect, otherwise it's quite the joke. It's been in development since 2011, but so far it looks like a two-week project. Just absolutely riddled with bugs, non-classic shit, and all in all rock-bottom quality at least in the 1-20 content.

I would love to see all the complainers in this thread back in 2009 or whatever when P99 came out. There was shit tons of bugs here with everything from pathing to loot tables and beyond, and P99 devs responding to the playerbase certainly wasn't as quick as it is on The Sleeper.

P99 was so much better at launch that it can barely be compared. It had its bugs, but nothing like this. We're talking basic aggro mechanics being way off, zones missing half their mob spawns, evidence of zones not even having been looked at once (GoD models in some places etc.) and other shit that should have been weeded out in three days of testing. Bugs that we reported in the beta and were told were "fixed on the test server" are now on the live server, proving that they've literally been lying to the beta testers all along. Starting to see why there were never any changelogs or other forms of communication between devs and players.

they've most likely been concentrating on the ac shit

Their "AC tests" consist literally of like four brief tests done with a level 11 warrior. It's laughable to draw a conclusion from something like that. When asked why they'd only tested it with a level 11 warrior, no answer was given. That whole test looks to have taken approximately ten minutes. That's the kind of quality The Sleeper offers.

[Swish]

Kegz is fixing bugs as they're reported, putting in the hours... but yeah, you have to wonder how shit the beta really was in terms of people's feedback and/or fixes coming from that.

Signed into the beta a couple of days before it launched and thought I'd run the bard mail quest from Felwithe to Kelethin and kill a few things to test the XP rate. 4 blues (16%) for a hand-in at level 1. Killing wasps/bats/etc... seemed slow.

Live then launched. I ran the mail quest from Kaladim and Felwithe to Kelethin on a dwarf rogue... ~0.5% XP for each hand-in.

The question is, why did Kegz nerf the XP to a crawl when live launched? I know it has since been adjusted but not by much, and people can't take advantage of hotzones properly because they're overfarmed and it's a struggle to get to 12 or 14 to be able to bind. I have to say I don't remember Velious being THAT slow for XP.

Problem is, if he lets loose and gives the server an XP rate that's more rewarding - he'll risk pissing off the hardcore crowd who have battled their way to 18-20. Quite the hole he's dug in a way.

Global OOC is funny however, people calling "server first" on just about everything from levels to starting their epics. You ask the population if they can name all the server firsts (who got L5, L10, L15 etc first) and nobody knows... or cares [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kevynne]

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

Global OOC is funny however, people calling "server first" on just about everything from levels to starting their epics. You ask the population if they can name all the server firsts (who got L5, L10, L15 etc first) and nobody knows... or cares [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

SURVUR FURST lvl 2 and 3 PALLY RIGHT HURR
also survur furst illusionists stone


lol nothing was funnier than that iksar who hit lvl 5 and then people went all FUCKYOUCHEATERHAXHAXHAXHAX

[Kevynne]

also; BDA is moving to sleeper by the looks of it

talisman= best guild ever cause it has p/r99 legends such as Chellsea, Swish, and Maybach

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

also; BDA is moving to sleeper by the looks of it

False.

[Nune]

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

also; BDA is moving to sleeper by the looks of it

talisman= best guild ever cause it has p/r99 legends such as Chellsea, Swish, and Maybach

Maybach confirmed GM of own guild and non-factor on Red after month 1. Unlike the picture of the guy in my sig, I keeps it 3hunna

[impact]

A bit off topic but I have been watching this group who decided to develop EQ from scratch in order to get a 100% classic experience, including the small UI and staring at the spellbook. They are developing slowly but surely. I probably won't play the server much but I will definitely check it out when it's done just for the nostalgia.

Here is their progress road map for the dev:
http://www.eqclassic.org/roadmap.php

[feanan]

Yeah, dunno why anyone would leave p99, its obviously more fun pooping in socks and sitting around with your thumb up your ass at level 60

[SamwiseRed]

dont think anyone is mad really. people just get defensive about their emu. honestly i think 2 servers is great. competition brings improvements. this may or may not be related but the ban wave happened right after server released, probably a coincidence but it also could have been to flex on one of the strengths of the server which is supposed to be a hack-free environment. its better for the eq classic player to have choice, hopefully toop sticks with it.