Official Everquest Progression Server Release
 

The live date for the time-locked progression server has now been announced as Tuesday 15th February - so earlier than the originally suggested date of March.

A few interesting things from the offical faq -

What sort of items and content will and will not be available at launch on Fippy?

* For the Fippy Darkpaw Server we have done our absolute best to remove items which would give an inappropriate or undue advantage such as Defiant Armor or certain tradeskill related items. Generally the items that you will find should be items that came with the expansion currently available or were unlocked during that expansion. Augments created specifically for progression servers will be available.

Will there be Hotzones or Hotzone drops??

* Hotzones and Hotzone items will not be available on Fippy at release

How about Marketplace items, will Mounts be available?

* In addition to restrictions on items initially available within the game, Marketplace, Loyalty, and Claim items have been similarly addressed. If an item or buff offers stats, it will probably not be offered from any of those methods until a later date. Mounts will not be available until Legacy of Ykesha is unlocked or later, depending on the mount.

How will tradeskills work on Fippy Darkpaw?

* We have made efforts to limit tradeskills to the expansion when the recipe actually came out. Potion making and jewelry making have had the old recipes enabled, and these will stay this way until the Prophecy of Ro expansion is unlocked. Similarly the new poisons will not be activated until around Underfoot. The exception is spell research where we will not reverse it to the older method. Instead, we have limited recipes for the appropriate expansion and made ingredients for research available in more zones..

How will progression work on Fippy Darkpaw?

* As with the previous progression servers, players will need to defeat certain challenges to unlock newer expansions. Once these challenges have been defeated there will be a grace period where the server will stay in the current expansion. After the grace period, players will be able to vote through an in game poll to unlock the next expansion. The voting period will be one week.

Initially the grace period will be 90 days before voting will start for Kunark, then 60 days for each expansion after that. At some point we will even have a vote to see if players wish to change that grace period.

They're gonna have augments on a classic server..!?

/em revs up his engines..

No thanks $OE im partying like its 1999. After awhile who knows people could vote to have expansions open after 1 month. They could have done a much better job on this like someone else mentioned augments at start? . And im also suprised its opening up a whole month ahead of schedule. They could have used that time to tweak things and make them more original. Also I had a feeling the marketplace would be in... my 2 copper.

they can't vote to have them opened after one month. they have to beat certain targets and then the grace period of 60 days is applied. so that means at minimum 2 months.

the marketplace isn't in yet.

They still could have done better, I wont be playing though. Ive made good friends here and im having fun no need to run to them. I actually logged into my old station account and made a post about 1999 in the newb forums on a thread about the prog server :p also might have a guy joining our server he said if the prog. server doesent turn out to be his slice of cake he's a vet from release.

That sounds amazing.

First one was a fail and this will be too.

Sounds awesome. More people should play.
Shoo. Go. You know who you are.

harrison isnt playing

+1