Did you require assistance getting started with Project 1999?

[nilbog]

After installing Everquest Titanium:

Did you have issues understanding the Getting Started thread? Did you require technical assistance, or were you able to figure it out yourself?

I'm interested to know how many players would benefit from an automated patch process.

[Behemoth100]

Having installed it all fairly recently for the first time its all still quite fresh, the biggest hurdle for me was sourcing titanium and feeling somewhat concerned about the source of it. I fear that's going to be the case for most.

I do however think that and automated patcher would entice more in that are on the fence.

Has there been any exchange between yourselves and Daybreak about an official titanium download?

[captnamazing]

Personally, I had no issue. But, I've had to set up EQ & P99 a couple of times for technophobic friends of mine. So my vote goes to "needed assistance"

[Bboboo]

The moment my friend told me about it I was on the server the second I got the client installed. No issues here.

[Tapatio]

Took a long time trying to help trouble shoot install issues with RL friends. They were not able to get any forum support because their new accounts had to be approved. Took 2-3 days for their technical discussion post to be approved before it got any views and eqemu website is not very user friendly for setting up p99.

[maskedmelon]

While early indications suggest most of our playerbase encountered little to no difficulty, I do not believe our playerbase is representative of p99's potential player awe and therefore believe the project might benefit from an automated patch process. The question is, do we want more players? ^^

[Kushie]

Everquest is the reason I got into computers. Setup was a breeze.

[Swish]

Mounting CD images was the hardest bit but I'd already done that for other things elsewhere so it wasn't too tricky to remember once I got a program to do it.

[Conky]

I needed help, not the best with comp stuff, still can't figure out changing UI for sideways hotbars and such.

[perditionparty]

I needed help, not the best with comp stuff, still can't figure out changing UI for sideways hotbars and such.



for being a hand puppet, it seems you've come along way than expected.

[curtischoy]

I started playing about 2 and a half years ago and I had to visit the forums a couple of times to get it up and running but it did'n't take long and wasn't a hassle. Delete this file, move this file here etc. or something like that.

[bktroost]

I have a friend i just got him to install the client and added the files and updates and constant error message when he right clicks and says "only start everquest" on the launcher. Works fine for me. After 4 installs, same message.

Not so simple.

[myriverse]

The fact I don't really remember starting to play tells me it was uneventful.

[LGraves]

I had no issues but my brother did. So I ended up doing it for him.

[Man0warr]

I used Duxa's installer that was posted in the forums that basically did everything for me, including making a batch file to make sure P99 runs with only 1 CPU core.

[Sorn]

Ran into various issues the multiple times I had to set everything up, but only due to the fact that I'm on a Mac. I am tech-savvy, though. Have helped a few people get up and running with the new patches.

An automated patch tool would help most new players out, especially ones who haven't ever ventured into their game files before, but the biggest hurdle is finding a copy of Titanium that doesn't cost 100 bucks. It was less painful when it only cost 10 dollars and was easily found.

[Taminy]

P1999 instructions were fine, but I had to underclock my PC to play.

[falkun]

I had no issues getting EQ: Titanium installed onto a USB drive and I originally ran it off my work computer via USB. Then I built my own desktop, stuck Ubuntu on it, and it took me ~2hrs to get P99 operating on Linux from Titanium discs. I've reformatted/changed/reinstalled Linux a few times and now I can generally have EQ up and running within an hour of getting my video drivers straightened out. PlayonLinux is amazing.

[Gilder]

My biggest issue was going into the EQ Emu folder and doing a file search for "Launch Titanium"

It doesn't work for me. I have to manually go through the folder. Such a subtle, but annoying "issue."

You normally don't expect that sort of thing to stop you.

[Troxx]

Having installed it all fairly recently for the first time its all still quite fresh, the biggest hurdle for me was sourcing titanium and feeling somewhat concerned about the source of it. I fear that's going to be the case for most.


That right there was my biggest issue as well.

[contemptor]

Personally, I had no issue. But, I've had to set up EQ & P99 a couple of times for technophobic friends of mine. So my vote goes to "needed assistance"
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automatic patches classic!

[Sage Truthbearer]

No issues for myself, but an automated patch is a great idea.

[Swish]

An automated patch/setup would really REALLY boost numbers here imo.

[ryachart]

The responses you're going to get from this thread are probably pretty heavily biased in the favor of the "did not have problems" camp.

Largely because you probably lose a large number of players who would benefit from this assistance before they establish themselves on the forums.

[Lamil]

Didn't have any problems that 5 minutes on the forums didn't solve.

[Slave35]

After installing Everquest Titanium:

Did you have issues understanding the Getting Started thread? Did you require technical assistance, or were you able to figure it out yourself?

I'm interested to know how many players would benefit from an automated patch process.

An automated patch process would have helped even 25% of EMU players, according to the poll. That's a very significant number. Imagine that extrapolated to the general community of gamers and it's certainly a lot higher. It's a complete given that an automated patch process would increase the population and ease of play for a majority of gamers.

[Gnime]

It was pretty straight forward.

I do have a question and this might be the wrong place to ask but I see the new model for Mage pets. How can I go back to seeing the ugly old floating block models.

Thank you

[Gnime]

It was pretty straight forward.

This may be the wrong place to ask but how do I go back to the old block floating Mage pet models. I only see the new ones.

Thank you

[Destron]

Fixing or updating to a new EMU type launcher would help for newbies.

[Chokan]

Voted that I needed the forum only because I needed it for installing on my MacBook. PC installs are easy peasy.

[Oleris]

only issue I had was with game when it launched. I had to download "eq cpu fixed" or wineq to be able to play the game.

[Bwils]

Not sure if forum votes would give you the best results. Seems like people who sit around on forums tend to be more computer savy. I had to help 4 of my friends getting it going even my brother.

[vilesid]

No assistance needed, but I am an IT Systems Engineer.

[jarshale]

Anyone who couldn't figure it out probably doesn't even know the forums exist tbh.

[Ebener]

Didn't have issues installing. Did have some wtf moments trying to connect though. I'm usually connected through a VPN and didn't realize that the IP must have been blocked or something.

[Tasslehofp99]

I'm not super tech-savvy, but I figured out the installation. After that, though, I was unable to log in due to some technical issues on my end. That's where I had to seek help from forums/friends.

Anyway, after putting EQ into compatability mode and running it as an administrator my issues went away.

[Shjade]

the biggest hurdle for me was sourcing titanium and feeling somewhat concerned about the source of it

^

[NegaStoat]

Getting the client installed and updating it via the "Getting Started" instructions thread worked fine. Including tossing in the Velious UI and enabling it within the game.

My problem stemmed from attempting to play the game on a stock Win 7 home premium OS with a decent Nvidia card. Constant crashing, movement rate wackiness, etc. It wasn't until I had spent over an hour researching the issue and understanding it was a CPU speed issue.

Meanwhile, the game worked without adjustment at all on a Win XP SP3 OS machine. Which of course makes sense.

I think a lot of players using modern windows OS of 7 or higher could really, really use additional instructions and links in getting the client to work for them the very first time they log into the game.

[pathius41]

Tbh I am self taught when it comes to PCs, and once I got through getting titanium via a certain torrent site that gave me a few viruses, fixed those and from there it was easy step by step following instructions, the hardest part is obtaining Titanium.

[Swish]

the hardest part is obtaining Titanium.

If you're not someone who delves into that side of the internet, definitely. If you're not someone who "downloads", ask someone who is and say what you're looking for...even point them to the forums here ;)

[Issar]

While early indications suggest most of our playerbase encountered little to no difficulty, I do not believe our playerbase is representative of p99's potential player awe and therefore believe the project might benefit from an automated patch process. The question is, do we want more players? ^^

This was exactly my thought.

[Galvatar]

Of course not I'm not a moron.

[Octave]

I recently tried to play P99 with my girlfriend (who plays other mmos like GW2 and TOR) and the process kind of highlighted how obtuse it was. The installation, forum account, eqemu account.

Then she finally gets to character creation where I explain that she cant be a catperson or a frogperson. And that annoying tutorial voice starts to play whenever she changes races. She's then thrown into a newbie town and forced to figure out how to get out. She chose an evil eurdite which means she was lost a good 15 minutes and had no idea that you had to ask the skeleton for a key. The client also crashed a few times in the process and the unhelpful tooltips/tutorial were showing up all the time.

In the end, it showed that the player base here is very accepting of bad user experience.

But then, that's old everquest. Those that play here know it's not going to be as easy as as playing a current mmo and theyre fine with that because they've already played old everquest.

[cormag]

After installing Everquest Titanium:

Did you have issues understanding the Getting Started thread? Did you require technical assistance, or were you able to figure it out yourself?

I'm interested to know how many players would benefit from an automated patch process.

Theres a little more to it than installing and setting up a commercial game but fortunately most gamers are computer nerds and can follow simple file/folder/directory instructions. I had no issues.

[Thulghor]

I recently tried to play P99 with my girlfriend (who plays other mmos like GW2 and TOR) and the process kind of highlighted how obtuse it was. The installation, forum account, eqemu account.

Then she finally gets to character creation where I explain that she cant be a catperson or a frogperson. And that annoying tutorial voice starts to play whenever she changes races. She's then thrown into a newbie town and forced to figure out how to get out. She chose an evil eurdite which means she was lost a good 15 minutes and had no idea that you had to ask the skeleton for a key. The client also crashed a few times in the process and the unhelpful tooltips/tutorial were showing up all the time.

In the end, it showed that the player base here is very accepting of bad user experience.

But then, that's old everquest. Those that play here know it's not going to be as easy as as playing a current mmo and theyre fine with that because they've already played old everquest.

I had this exact same experience with my girlfriend. Are you me? :eek:

[thufir]

Personally, I had no issue. But, I've had to set up EQ & P99 a couple of times for technophobic friends of mine. So my vote goes to "needed assistance"
Yeah. This would help. The PC era of do-it-yourself is coming to a close. Steam is weaning the new generation away from such tricks. Nothing wrong with making the place more accessible.

[perditionparty]

Yeah. This would help. The PC era of do-it-yourself is coming to a close. Steam is weaning the new generation away from such tricks. Nothing wrong with making the place more accessible.

If I wasn't big into cracking and patching PC games from 2002 to 2006 or so, the patching process for p99 would probably be over my head.

[Behemoth100]

If you're not someone who delves into that side of the internet, definitely. If you're not someone who "downloads", ask someone who is and say what you're looking for...even point them to the forums here ;)

Yeah, I'm not often to be found using torrents et al, due to the perceived risk, I usually buy all my software, films, music because it feels the right thing to do and I like having original official products. Buying titanium wasn't an option. However, after a little diving through forums and enabling the built in iso mount feature in win 10 I was ready to go.

You guys being able to supply an official link to a titanium dl would be a huge boon,couple that with a patcher and I'd imagine a real surge in interest.

[Whirled]

+1 vote for easier.
I know a few people that would play if the process was more streamlined.

[Champion_Standing]

A patcher definitely couldn't hurt but I don't really think the patching process is something thats going to stop a whole lot of people from playing. I think getting Titanium is the biggest hurdle for a lot of people. If DBG would let you guys distribute the client that would be the best way to make this server more accessible.

They don't even sell the client in any form now so I honestly don't see the problem people have with using an "alternative" source for it but there are just some people who refuse to do that even when all of the content on P99 is up for free download from DBG.