All Sleeper Server Threads Moved Here, Love Sirken - Page 26

Allizia · #**251** 04-13-2013, 07:50 AM

Got the email and had a couple free days so checked it out:

Server is pretty jacked. It's just stock PEQ DB that's trimmed some of the obvious out of era content, although it's half-assed and they missed a lot of it. The same bugs, pathing errors, velcro walls/corners, zone server disconnects, pathing grid problems and loot/quest(4/6 broken quests so far, including n00bie tunics) issues as any other stock server. You would think they would have caught some of it in beta (I think it went on at least a year?).

Experience gains went from "terribad" to "faster than P99 on a twink" to "OMFGBADCANTEVENPLAY" to "terribad" to "ehh, it kinda works but still sucks."
Tons of white knights claiming the exp is ok because a few bards swarm kited to 20+ after 4 days, and the people who grinded through the "faster than P99 on a twink" stage before it was nerfed and shot up to 15+. There have already been balance issues (some iksars noobs earning 200+pp each the first day because of coin drops, first day huge experience bonuses for some zones)

The current exp rate for a decent group in hotzones/dungeons killing reds is around 4-6 hours per level in the low teens. I'm at 23 hours /played at level 9.1 ~ Can I haz backstab this week please?

Just can't justify putting any effort into a server that has been in beta for so long and still resembles one that I could cut up from the stock DB in a few days or less.

SamwiseRed · #**252** 04-13-2013, 08:23 AM

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Got the email and had a couple free days so checked it out:

Server is pretty jacked. It's just stock PEQ DB that's trimmed some of the obvious out of era content, although it's half-assed and they missed a lot of it. The same bugs, pathing errors, velcro walls/corners, zone server disconnects, pathing grid problems and loot/quest(4/6 broken quests so far, including n00bie tunics) issues as any other stock server. You would think they would have caught some of it in beta (I think it went on at least a year?).

Experience gains went from "terribad" to "faster than P99 on a twink" to "OMFGBADCANTEVENPLAY" to "terribad" to "ehh, it kinda works but still sucks."
Tons of white knights claiming the exp is ok because a few bards swarm kited to 20+ after 4 days, and the people who grinded through the "faster than P99 on a twink" stage before it was nerfed and shot up to 15+. There have already been balance issues (some iksars noobs earning 200+pp each the first day because of coin drops, first day huge experience bonuses for some zones)

The current exp rate for a decent group in hotzones/dungeons killing reds is around 4-6 hours per level in the low teens. I'm at 23 hours /played at level 9.1 ~ Can I haz backstab this week please?

Just can't justify putting any effort into a server that has been in beta for so long and still resembles one that I could cut up from the stock DB in a few days or less.

lawl bet not.

Awwalike · #**253** 04-13-2013, 08:48 AM

sounds stupid

Kieu · #**254** 04-13-2013, 09:24 AM

I never even bothered to try it, all I see in its path is despair. Who is a druggie by the way? I wasn't aware that having an opinion makes you a druggy. I must be a hardcore heroin addict by now.

SamwiseRed · #**255** 04-13-2013, 09:57 AM

why do you have a 12 year old albino chick as your sig and avatar?

Kieu · #**256** 04-13-2013, 10:06 AM

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why do you have a 12 year old albino chick as your sig and avatar?

20, and maybe I like the music? I'm sorry I don't have your tastes in looks/music. Why do you have a ginger hobbit as your avatar?

SamwiseRed · #**257** 04-13-2013, 10:12 AM

how am i supposed to know that is a musician? i was seriously asking why you have it, i guess i should have asked who is that not trollling.

i have samwise as my avatar because im samwise?

Kieu · #**258** 04-13-2013, 10:22 AM

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how am i supposed to know that is a musician? i was seriously asking why you have it, i guess i should have asked who is that not trollling.

i have samwise as my avatar because im samwise?

Lol sorry, wasn't jumping the gun. Just felt like a troll question. I don't mind what anyone has in their avatars. To each his own.

HeallunRumblebelly · #**259** 04-13-2013, 10:47 AM

I'm having a great time on sleeper server! It's buggy as fuck, but honestly, anyone around here in '09 could've said the same thing about p99.

Some old p99 favorites: melee being hilariously useless in all regards (ac, damage, skills), then poisons stacking and never fading, being able to seriously exp in 1 fucking zone from 30-50.

It has warts but they seem serious (and quick) about fixing shit as it goes. We'll see what happens! I haven't been this hungry to play EQ in a while.

Allizia · #**260** 04-13-2013, 04:20 PM

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lawl bet not.

With the right tools it's really not that hard to get a cut up version of the stock DB that resembles classic. I know for a fact I can redo Nek forest(a zone that pretty much needs to be completely recreated, most do not) within 3 hours, because I've done it.

Remove out of era NPC's (15 min)
Change models for some of the spiders etc (10 min)
Redo pathing grids from scratch (1 hour)
Redo/adjust lootdrops and loottables (1 hour)
Recreate and Adjust a few NPC's and stats/levels for existing(20 min)

Is it fine tuned? No. Is The Sleeper fine tuned? No. Do I have any desire to actual do it and deal with peoples problems? No.

I'm just saying they don't have much done for the amount of time they have been working on it, with the exception of a few specific changes such as AC calculations.