EQ Mac vs Project 1999

[MelxDruid]

Dull personalities (maturity), legit Sony, lots of raid mobs left up all week, AAs, pok books, etc.

Lots of pros and cons to both servers. The intel client is nice, definitely could have used it years ago. Lots of people have started up on eqmac over the years, most quit, some hang around. Mostly everyone trickles into already existing guilds. Will be interested if you guys can keep a guild going there with strong enough numbers.

[Raavak]

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

Greener pastures.

The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence.

Besides that it is somewhat intriguing, mostly because I rather enjoyed PoP. The zones, the lore, the raids.

[Flunklesnarkin]

But how are they going to make eq mac free to play.

Are they going to end up adding an item shop and all the other "Free to Play"" things onto the server?


If so that would slowly drown out the experience lol.

[Bruman]

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

[*]Raiding at the very high end is done via rotation, up through velious and some of luclin, there isn't enough people raiding to constitute anything of that nature

What kind of stuff is actually raided regularly? Do they even bother to raid Vanilla/Kunark mobs regularly?

I could definitely be misunderstanding something, but I figured if the server is at PoP level, that anything before that expansion would just be ignored, and you only raid the latest content, since the loot is usually better.

[Daldaen]

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

But how are they going to make eq mac free to play.

Are they going to end up adding an item shop and all the other "Free to Play"" things onto the server?


If so that would slowly drown out the experience lol.

No marketplace was going to be created last I checked Smed's statements.

They are leaving it up with minimal to no customer support because it doesn't require them that much resources. And they know that if they keep these people happy its feasible they may be customers for EQNext.


Al'Kabor is quite awesome from my experiences on it. There are a few things that I find annoying (that are classic):

• Can't scroll with mouse wheel. Only 1st person or F9 options
• Less command keys. No strafe for easy bard AE kiting, among others
• No auto-stand. If you're in a spellbook you can't press your run arrow and get you out of the book you have to manually stand then run.
• No auto-sit for camp. Small issue but you have to sit before you actually camp.
• No Mana value in UI information. The game doesn't register this if you try to modify your EQUI_Inventory file and add in the mana value.

The pros:

• You can box -- No getting stuck with crappy/afk people or having to sit LFG for 20 hours and never get a group
• No exp penalties
• There are some newbie armor quests -- These have Pre-LoY stats, which are way lower than what you see on allkahazam, but they are still nice goals to aim for pre-20s instead of just a mindless grind
• Buffs hit all levels -- Level 65 buffs make leveling cake.
• PoP... best expansion in game.

[MelxDruid]

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

What kind of stuff is actually raided regularly? Do they even bother to raid Vanilla/Kunark mobs regularly?

I could definitely be misunderstanding something, but I figured if the server is at PoP level, that anything before that expansion would just be ignored, and you only raid the latest content, since the loot is usually better.

The top three guilds have a two week rotation on lord seru and VT.

[Hitchens]

From reading their site and forums it seems like a nice bunch of people.

Even though Bazaar and PoK books are incredibly convenient, I sort of like the immersion factor of having to use EC tunnel and buy ports.

[loneless999]

pros : beastlords

Cons: bazzar dose not work if you use the modded client on the PC

[Happy]

Originally Posted by loneless999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

pros : beastlords

Cons: bazzar dose not work if you use the modded client on the PC

Correction: Bazaar "search" does not work completely, can still manually browse traders goods and buy/sell items.

[Zapatos]

Bard kiting WORKS there just fine, mobs don't have the crazy reach they do here. Also charm/swarm/kiting whatever you call it works.

Mobs RUNNNNN when they get low hp. You will need to be on top of snaring/rooting.

Players did not have the chance to stock up on manastones and other legend items; market for that is nill to none. Market for anything is fairly dead as well; the longer term players there have almost no need for platinum.

0 competition. If you have fun racing and batphoning, then eqmac is not for you. It can be like taking a zanex playing over there sometimes.

Before Hobart, there was practically 0 csr or fixes to anything. I know of a particular spot where you can level from like 30-47 or so with 0 risk. Or a bard can just /afk over night and come back after it's done leveling. As in, no consequences/fixes for those more discrete exploits. (there was a necro that botted for a few months killing captain boshinko in HK for massive AA's over time).

Edit: and perma-pacify is enabled on the server. That's probably one of the bigger things to mention, more game breaking than 2 boxing. Just pac twice something and it won't bother attacking to the server reset. That enables indivuals or people who boxed whole groups of 6 to wander around dungeons unmolested and get whatever named they wanted over and over.