Unsolved quests: a can of worms, but maybe not?

[JayDee]

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

There were 50+ page threads on Everlore about dozens of broken quests back in the day. I remember spending hours just reading about all the speculation about how to complete the "blued two handed hammer" quest. Everyone thought they were missing something obvious. Turns out, the quest was simply broken. It was eventually fixed a few years later, but IMO, not the way the original developers had intended.

Holy Shnikees (dru/shm) ... Are you putting this in ?

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I vote yes !

[Icecometus]

When this comes up I always mention the fact that the Glowing Black Stone is a quest item in a unsolved quest involving Varsoon and the various weird NPCs in qeynos hills.

[Humwawa]

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

When this comes up I always mention the fact that the Glowing Black Stone is a quest item in a unsolved quest involving Varsoon and the various weird NPCs in qeynos hills.

Varsoon's Black Heart!

[Reiker]

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

Holy Shnikees (dru/shm) ... Are you putting this in ?

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I vote yes !

This quest has worked from the beginning on P99, unless it was recently removed. It was actually a lot easier than live, as the Staff of Slime wasn't nearly as rare of a drop.

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

No shit you mongoloid if you actually read that page you will discover it isn't solved. The reward at the bottom is a blank lore no drop item you get for turning in the book of scale. Useless.

Then I guess it answered your question? His classic quest was always unfinished, you could either turn in the Unrest book for a Golden Torch, or the Book of Scale for the Paladin epic.

They also implemented this quest that involves the oracle: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=2652

[astarothel]

Terrorantula Heart >.>

[JayDee]

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

This quest has worked from the beginning on P99, unless it was recently removed. It was actually a lot easier than live, as the Staff of Slime wasn't nearly as rare of a drop.



Then I guess it answered your question? His classic quest was always unfinished, you could either turn in the Unrest book for a Golden Torch, or the Book of Scale for the Paladin epic.

They also implemented this quest that involves the oracle: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=2652

No wonder Jeremy is trying to sell his barb hammer.

Thanks, gonna tell my buddy about this.

[mmiles8]

Alright, good stuff. I was going to ask the follow-up question of whether you're okay with those custom quests resulting in custom items (bringing in the whole itemization topic), but if you support custom GM events that's probably a resounding "yes".

The devs here may be more willing than the eq devs were, but getting items created for gm events was considered a big deal and done so few times throughout the history of eq you could count them on both hands.

I was the Quest & Event Coordinator for Xev Server back in '03. I ran nearly every GM event in the pool at some point. The standard GM event reward was a blue diamond, or if several were called for, the other "Upper Echelon" gems.

Edit... I actually think I still have the old scripts for the old GM Events on a backup somewhere. All the devs would need to do is generate the Quest characters to copy for the events.

Course those were all just thought up by guides anyway, and the only limitation in creating new ones is your imagination, and the OPCodes.

[Humwawa]

There was a quest text in the Necro guild in Neriak called The Scroll of G'han, where a necromancer GM would tell you about a legendary ritual which, if invoked fully, would allow you to speak directly to Innoruuk. He mentioned that half of it had been stolen by a fier`dal rogue and taken to Felwithe to ensure the tier`dal could never fully invoke the power of their god. I used to love roleplay in EverQuest, and to my character, a self-proclaimed Priest of Innoruuk, the ability to commune directly with God was worth any price.

I spent a month trying to find it.

I killed every single NPC in Felwithe, either solo or with some friends.

I spent days in Neriak, searching for a lead.

I never found it.

Many years later a dev told the community that the quest was never finished, and that it was only left behind as a kind of Roleplay flavor text.

....so it goes.

[Breuce]

I spent a long time trying to figure out the Tayla Ironforge quest. Long time. Lots of researching, killing, talking...

I just read now that it finally got implemented in 2003, and the reward was a combine weapon.

I always tended to think that as 'perfect' as classic EQ was, and as much as I absolutely loved it... it was SO CLOSE to being absolutely awe-inspiring. All these friggin broken quests and so forth really did frustrate me quite a bit.

Tho, to be fair.... they made me do a lot of work, learn a lot about lore, and fueled all sorts of gossip and rumors for years. Maybe they weren't so bad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[frefaln]

Hmm, that's interesting mmiles8. Do you happen to know why the creation of items was such a big concern on their end? I can understand that concern if custom items were far and away better than any weapon/armor piece/whatever currently on the server, but if it were comparable to gear already available and even just had a custom name, I'd still think most of the "hey, look at the cool kid with the unique item!" factor would still apply.