Mages were HORRIBLE at launch

[Quinas]

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

At least he could copy-paste, that's all I care about.

I'm reminded of that manuscript of boring old Bible writing where they put it under the X-ray and found the monk had written over a copy of a mathematical treatise by Archimedes.

Nobody cares what the monk wrote over top, it's what he accidentally preserved underneath that had value. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well-played.

[Hagglebaron]

So what was the verdict on the mage issue? Was OP right or wrong?

[kylok]

Looks pretty correct to me. Shit sounds extremely classic

[Quinas]

What's amazing is how unfinished this game was in March 1999, and yet how much it was loved despite that. Goes to show how a lack of competition can really have an effect. And how something truly novel and revolutionary can be forgiven for its faults!

Nowadays.. unfinished + rehash of 10 other games = Twitter hate.

[Dolalin]

I found another lost patch message. This www.notcrazy.com site seems to have a lot of them.

http://web.archive.org/web/199904290.../notcrazy.com/

Server Update 4/27/99 7:30 pm
Citizens of Norrath,
We are pleased to announce that the hardware upgrade that was performed on our router this morning has appeared to resolve the severe packet loss problems that many players were encountering over the past week. We have been, and will continue to monitor the load on the new hardware to assure that the packet-loss problems will no longer occur on our end. During the router upgrade we transported the Karana server farm to the AT&T; CerfNet facility to further reduce the load on our router. Also, the new "Rodcet Nife" server was just brought up to accommodate the additional users that have joined over the past few weeks. After thoroughly testing changes made only for Rallos Zek (PK server), we have activated the new code for the PK server ONLY.

The changes include the following;
1) Pets will no longer kill themselves if their master has invisibility cast on them.
2) Pets will no longer attack other players while they are in guard mode if their master goes link-dead.
3) Pets will now attack opposing combatants while their master is dueling.
4) NPCs will no longer respond to invisible PCs.

Other fixes and changes include:

1) The corpse class tag will not be listed as "Unknown".
2) Players will be given text messages for items that they cannot obtain while looting a corpse, instead of the item disappearing.
3) A number of quests and combat related exploits were fixed.
4) Characters are no longer able to use the disarm command while using feign death.

At Midnight, on Wednesday the 28th, the servers will be brought down for an update.

- The EverQuest Team

Edit: actually I spoke too soon, it only has this one, the news archive links don't work. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[DMN]

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

Edit: actually I spoke too soon, it only has this one, the news archive links don't work. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Changes exclusive to the RZ server.

[DMN]

I remember a lot of people being convinced that pet spells were harder to make, both necro and mages.

But I think the main problem was so many people had garbage for research skill since there wasn't an easy way to raise it. No one really cared that much about the other research spells so if they failed it was like "meh". But the pets? necro/mages won't soon stop ruminating on that, nor complaining about it on the internet.

[Fammaden]

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

I remember a lot of people being convinced that pet spells were harder to make, both necro and mages.

But I think the main problem was so many people had garbage for research skill since there wasn't an easy way to raise it. No one really cared that much about the other research spells so if they failed it was like "meh". But the pets? necro/mages won't soon stop ruminating on that, nor complaining about it on the internet.

Not only pets, but for necro you have Call of Bones at 34 which is HUGE, and then DMF at 44 and Lich at 49. The research problem is easily the biggest drawback to rolling mage or necro to start IMO. Maybe it won't be that bad but research can be a major pain in the ass and I think people used to blue don't realize how trivial getting their spells has been prior to this.

And now research components might not stack right away? Oof!

[DMN]

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

Not only pets, but for necro you have Call of Bones at 34 which is HUGE, and then DMF at 44 and Lich at 49. The research problem is easily the biggest drawback to rolling mage or necro to start IMO. Maybe it won't be that bad but research can be a major pain in the ass and I think people used to blue don't realize how trivial getting their spells has been prior to this.

And now research components might not stack right away? Oof!

DMf won't exist for a long time. The lich spells aren't nearly as useful beyond your normal regeneration rate because necro lifetaps aren't very mana efficient for most of 1-50. Bond of death, the first really efficient tap, also doesn't show up for awhile.

[Dolalin]

You're right, that patch is PvP servers only.