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[NegaStoat]

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

That's why I love this server. Anything post velious will never happen. Thank God...

Actually, on Sirken's stream it was kicked around that custom content wasn't something off the table completely - once all of Velious content up to pre Luclin was finished and bug free on the server.

Veksar, Stonebrunt Mountains, Warrens, and a few other pieces of content could be fair game in being installed with a judicious eye towards the existing classic content of the game.

All of the dungeon settings introduced with LDoN? I'd say - go for it. As long as they are NOT instanced. If they were added as persistent dungeons with altered content to meet the server's needs, let 'er rip. That fake Zone wall in Oasis could end up going somewhere.

[Kika Maslyaka]

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

That fake Zone wall in Oasis could end up going somewhere.

now I curious - where exactly is that?

[NegaStoat]

The fake zone wall is commonly camped in Oasis for orc highway poaching. It was intended pre Original launch of the game to connect to another zone, but it didn't pan out.

[Swish]

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

That's why I love this server. Anything post velious will never happen. Thank God...

As if there was zero enjoyment out of Luclin/PoP/etc... you guys are weird [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by prc018100 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is another private server called Shards of Dalaya that basically did everything you describe.

I played SoD in late 2008 for a month or so. It was exciting because the guy I was in a relationship with found it for me and I was eager to show him something akin to the classic EQ experience, but then his computer broke so I stopped and moved onto other things.

The game itself was a good attempt but there wasn't enough of a playerbase and I would prefer an accurate Norrath with added content that fits into the existing game world. Plus the mechanics could definitely be better.

They did do a good re-make of Acrylia Caverns on that server. Had better monsters than the stupid, weird Neanderthal crap that was in the zone in Luclin during live (the game world of that expansion was so nonsensical, ugh).

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

As if there was zero enjoyment out of Luclin/PoP/etc... you guys are weird [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Luclin is really, really bad for EQ. The zone designs were poor for the most part and just didn't make sense when taken as a whole. The expansion drastically hurts the game world because everyone goes up to the moon so easily, the itemization is ridiculous, and zones like Paludal Caverns turn the lower level game into EZ mode. The old zones drastically empty out and the whole game starts to feel artificial. That was definitely a massive detriment for me. Plus, the AA's turned the game into even more of a gigantic grind fest. Ick.

Beastlords were lazily designed, and as such they were unnecessary, but the different pets were cool. I was perfectly fine with them and liked seeing them in the old world zones. I was very open to having the cat race as well. That's a standard RPG thing they fit into the game world. Everquest did have the Kerra who weren't seen enough because they were placed in a completely "dead" area.

Planes of Power ruined the game. Plane of Knowledge destroys any semblance that was left of a real world. Everything just becomes a lifeless go-to. I found the Planes themselves to be terribly designed (except for maybe Plane of Torment). They weren't interesting or awe-inspiring in the least. The original Everquest "Planes" could definitely be better, but at least Fear and Hate had personality and were scary before everyone got overpowered in the expansions.

Legacy of Ykesha had the GPS maps, which is bad, and it would have made way more sense for this zone to be accessed by a raft from Innothule Swamp, but I was cool with everything else about it. Adding to the old-world zones is good thing, I was fine with Frogloks as a playable race, and I liked that this expansion actually tried to have a world-changing event.

Lost Dungeons of Norrath is the perfect idea for an expansion if implemented correctly (ie - NOT instanced and actual good dungeons). It completely sucked as implemented, though. The era of this expansion was the last time I ever logged onto EQ. When I would actually try to form groups in cool zones people would just be like "yeah, I'm gonna go to an LDoN". Ugh. Terrible.

[Cyrano]

I think eventually they should open up some AA's once Velious has been out for awhile. The only thing keeping TMO and IB going at this point is the thought of Velious coming out, once there's no new content to work for would be cool to see less hardcore people get a shot at raid mobs which AA's would help them out with immensely.

[Laugher]

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[SCB]

I don't care about instances or AA's (unless totally redone somehow), but seeing all the other "non-classic classic" zones as mentioned on Page 1 (and in my old map of Norrath I have in a box somewhere) would be super legit once the server has run its course.

[Ikonoclastia]

I think everything that came after Luclin (pretty much everything SOE) was total garbage.

I hate to say it but Luclin was classic EQ. Sure the cats sucked but the very first time I went into Nertherbian Lair was cool as crap, scary freaky place Luclin. The bazaar wasn't that bad, you had to still click on each character. Havin spent yesterday off and on for 8 hours /auctioning stuff I prefer that to the EC tunnels.

Regards the bazaar, we still have that, just in a forum version anyway.

If you ever did grinding in Luclin, death was never very far away, still had naked corpse runs, still had to travel to get places.

That mini expansion, forgot what it was called, and PoP were however complete shite and things went downhill from there IMO.

[jaybone]

PoP was amazing.