NPC Spawn Issue: From ~Fall 1999 to Kunark release, fire goblins gave additional faction hits

[Dolalin]

One of those cosmetic touches.

From fall of 1999 (October 1999?) until what looks like Kunark release, fire goblins in Lavastorm and Sol A gave +KunarkFireGiants, +GoblinsofCleavingTooth, and -GoblinsofMountainDeath.

11/25/99

Patrick Foley <pjf...@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8E89D6B95U4422T78@207.69.128.120...
> Has it been announced what factions will belong to the Iksar, or will they
> all be brand new factions not currently in EQ?
>

Not sure, I know that the Fire Goblins in Lavastorm give a positive hit with
KunarkFireGiants.

As far as the Iksar proper, Brad has said that they;ll be Neutral Evil in
alignment and will most likely be KOS in most "good" cities, so I imagine
that will hold true with "good" races in their lands as well..

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....M/Gm4hj4eGktUJ

3/3/00

According to the storyline of Norrath, Kunark is the last refuge
of the Combine Empire. If you kill in Sol A or B you'll notice
you'll lose or gain faction with KunarkFireGiants. This seems to
indicate that the FGs have their home in Kunark. The information
about Kunark seems to indicate that there are a lot of giants there
too.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....w/Z2PHmYtFjjkJ

3/7/00

Now that's realistic... *supposedly* the continent has
been there a while in game story terms (even killing gob's
in SolA raises faction with the "Giants of Kunark").

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....g/lH70DrEKddAJ

Submited by: Syzygium On: 3/3/2000 10:15:55 AM

Another thing too; you kill any fire goblin nowadays, and your faction with FireGiants of Kunark goes up...hmmm...getting ready for the expansion

https://web.archive.org/web/20020106...&pg=1&sortby=1

EQ Necros corroborates this, it has a KunarkFireGiants faction section:

Faction listing with the Kunark Fire Giants

Where: Lavastorm
Who should I kill? Fire Goblin Scout

What quest should I complete? -

Faction standing modifiers: Raises faction standing

Other faction standing modifiers: Lowers faction standing with Goblins of Fire Peak and Goblins of Mountain Death. Raises faction standing with Goblins of Cleaving Tooth

Faction Standing info submitted by Dadok

https://web.archive.org/web/20000526...firegiants.htm

I don't see any mention of this before October 1999 and no mention of it after Kunark release. Guessing Verant had some initial ideas for Kunark and changed their minds about it.