page from the RoK strategy guide

[utenan]

So I was doing some light reading when all of a sudden I stumbled across this page:
http://i.imgur.com/p49LJYF.jpg
what is any of this? nevermind whatever things my 10 year old self marked with a pen, what is that other nonsense? WHO ARE THEY?! clearly there's an area of ec that I havn't seen yet

[Lhancelot]

So I was doing some light reading when all of a sudden I stumbled across this page:
http://i.imgur.com/p49LJYF.jpg
what is any of this? nevermind whatever things my 10 year old self marked with a pen, what is that other nonsense? WHO ARE THEY?! clearly there's an area of ec that I havn't seen yet

There must be some hidden, underground cavernous area in EC that no one has discovered yet! Or, maybe some secret portal that takes you atop the EC zone amidst the clouds? I don't know...

***The pen markings distracted me for a second, I thought that there was some code written amongst the names you had marked that I was supposed to decipher/find. :p

[skarlorn]

There is actually a hidden section of EC that you can only get to with GM intervention.

[Lhancelot]

There is actually a hidden section of EC that you can only get to with GM intervention.

Is this what you make Llandris do now that you beat him? Escort you around Norrath, sharing all the hidden secrets?

[skarlorn]

Naw, Greengrocer did that for me

:)

[aaezil]

eqzoneviewer, you can see the hidden parts of every zone

[Canelek]

Well it wouldn't be the first time that documentation was plated and printed before the actual product.

[Jimjam]

Perhaps these nameds were taken during the time directly preceding the battle for bloody Kithicor era?

[khanable]

In true Verant fashion, the likely scenario was they had all these NPCs with great lore and quests and mistakenly deleted it right before launch and just filled it with what you see today.

[Jimjam]

In true Verant fashion, the likely scenario was they had all these NPCs with great lore and quests and mistakenly deleted it right before launch and just filled it with what you see today.

Brad snorted those lines of code?

[maskedmelon]

i might imagine much of that was carved out and reworked into the temple of sol ro ^^

[Canelek]

Brad snorted those lines of code?


Haha! Likely.

[Telin]

My guess is that some of those names represented the player personalities. All of those names are alternative combinations of classes, guilds, and dieties. Players sometimes even referred to themselves by some of those names. But as for those specific names, maybe they were NPC's that never made it into game.

[utenan]

My guess is that some of those names represented the player personalities. All of those names are alternative combinations of classes, guilds, and dieties. Players sometimes even referred to themselves by some of those names. But as for those specific names, maybe they were NPC's that never made it into game.

as good an explanation as I can hope to find : ) Although, it bugged me that all the other starting zones "personalities" just had regular ol' npc's / named mobs like you'd expect - and EC's list is a circus!

but yeah there's enough made up nonsense in these guides to fill a book! It is quite entertaining. I refer to an older post of mine - https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212796

[Dolalin]

The thing with the RoK strategy guide is that it's notoriously full of shit. I have no idea what their source material was, design docs maybe? But they're so often wrong it's hilarious.

[Swish]

The thing with the RoK strategy guide is that it's notoriously full of shit. I have no idea what their source material was, design docs maybe? But they're so often wrong it's hilarious.

I remember reading my copy when the servers were down (which seemed to be a lot) and thinking "that's not right, that can't be right" on a bunch of stuff.

I guess accuracy wasn't a thing back then so much :o

[Axlrose]

In hindsight, perhaps all this extra fluff was to fill the mind's eye of the player with images that at the time current technology could not produce. Like many here, I found EverQuest after playing MUDs for years. So reading text line after text line, I created an image of what my character was hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching in a gaming world. Here comes this game with its graphics and while you actually see, parts still seem to be missing. Perhaps all the additional stuff in these guides (that apparently everyone bought) were to help fill in the gaps. That your character was a small part of a much larger gaming world and there are all these "others" out there that you never will interact with, but are molding the world too. You might be the current hero of your class trainer, but there are those more powerful and stronger ahead of you.

Just a wild thought.