Patch Notes: Friday, May 7th, 2021

[Rogean]

The latest patch contains new required files. Download the new Patch Files from the top of the Home page, or the Getting Started Guide.

Changes
Nilbog: Bankers no longer give experience when killed.
Nilbog: Several npcs no longer spawn until their appropriate era.
Nilbog: Several items no longer drop until their appropriate era.
Nilbog: Talon Velic now enrages, rampages, and flurries.
Nilbog: Quadrix Velic now enrages.
Nilbog: Added some missing aggro messages in Qeynos Hills, Cazic Thule, and Overthere.
Nilbog: [Green] Ennixy Frennor now spawns properly.
Nilbog: [Green] Larik_Z`Vole now spawns properly.
Nilbog: Added missing faction reward for 'The Visiting Priestess' quest.
Nilbog: King Tormax's faction requirement for turn-ins lowered from amiable->indifferent.
Nilbog: Mug of Sea Foam no longer drops before September 2000. isle goblin chieftain can now drop Mug of Sea Foam.
Nilbog: Corrected an issue which would allow certain merchants to assist in combat.
Nilbog: MountainDeathClan faction is now GoblinsofMountainDeath.
Nilbog: Tyokan Mekase has returned to PriestsofLife faction. Although he discusses quests at indifferent, amiable is required for turn ins.
Nilbog: Changed death touch message 'shouts' to 'says'.
Nilbog: Linadian's 'Orc Vest' quest rewritten. Requires indifferent or better faction.
Nilbog: 'Greenblood Shadowknight Tunic' quest is now multiquestable. Amiable or better faction.
Nilbog: Karam Dragonforge's quests are now multiquestable. Indifferent or better faction.
Nilbog: Eve and Tralyn Marsinger are now bards.
Nilbog: Beno Targnarle's quests are now multiquestable. Amiable or better faction.
Nilbog: 'The Mudtoes' quest is now multiquestable. Corrected faction rewards.
Nilbog: Vacto Molunel's 'Scarab Armor' scripts rewritten for multiquest. Boots and Helm indifferent or better, Breastplate amiable.
Telin: Corrected the level requirements for the Vocarate pets and Clarity II spells.
Telin: Iksars can now wear the pre-upgraded Robe of the Lost Circle.
Telin: Low level NPC's should no longer be able to gate.
Telin: Potions that improperly received minimum level requirements from the last patch should be corrected.
Telin: Added additional loot to bouncers and bashers.
Telin: Increased duration of the Wake of Tranquility spell.
Telin: North Karana guards should no longer ignore griffons.
Telin: Adjusted factions, health, loot, and aggro messages of some Najena inhabitants.
Telin: Increased the level of several GM Trainers.
Telin: Guard Lumpin no longer runs in circles.
Telin: Adjusted pathing in areas of Paw, Blackburrow, and Sebilis.
Telin: Corrected under-conned bashers in Grobb.

[starkind]

*hugs*

[xmaerx]

Telin: Increased duration of the Wake of Tranquility spell.

Eyy.

[JDFriend99]

Pyzjn finally gets a damn engaged msg. Only took 2 yrs of arguments. Thanks be to Elfing for his patience. Your welcome

[Jimjam]

Fantastic work guys, thanks for pushing this out!

[Samven]

any idea how long the servers will be expected to be down?

[Grantybaby]

w00t

[Keggernuts]

thanks guys!

[Elyoc]

Are FTE messages on Golems etc in this?

[starkind]

any idea how long the servers will be expected to be down?

As long as it takes. :o :p ;) :cool:

[BlackBellamy]

Wow just eagerly waiting to log in and try my new fixed Druid tracking oh boy oh boy oh boy!

[Darkplague]

Wow just eagerly waiting to log in and try my new fixed Druid tracking oh boy oh boy oh boy!

Is it actually being fixed? Because it should be like 125 - not 20.... Worse than line of sight :D

Edit: And nope... Its not

[tulth]

I was able to log in

[frantz256255]

i have a problem to log in, i have the error message : the file spell got a problem...

help me :)

[tulth]

frantsz, make sure you download the patch zip file and apply it

[Fingurs]

Looks like new files dont let you log in. Seems to be an issue with spells file. Once you revert those files you can log in.

[Reacher]

I am getting the same thing, wrong spells_us.txt file, which is dated 5/7/2021 in the patch files.
Copied the one from before the patch and all is well now.

[Fingurs]

Looks like its fixed. 54 update now works properly.

Thank you guys :)

[Baler]

Thank You for everything P99 staff do to make this one of the best servers available!

[dragosanii]

Can't login now - says file spells_us.txt i not valid. Have replaced file from original titanium files but receiving same error message......anyone else?

[Gilbegger]

same error message...about spell file..

im not a programmer...so this crap is hard to some people.

[SharkStomper]

Is it actually being fixed? Because it should be like 125 - not 20.... Worse than line of sight :D

Edit: And nope... Its not

Amazingly it's still broken.

[NeenP99]

Wish they could fix dynamic lighting somehow..

also which items no longer drop? o_O

[Leotidus]

Same problem here. Tried replacing the file but still getting same error message. Can somebody link or post the needed file please?

[sinnycool]

why are the merchants in kelethin assisting now?

[sinnycool]

if you are still having trouble make sure you are extracting and replacing same name files and then make sure you dont use your old shortcut

[knucklehairs]

I had trouble too i was selecting MOVE to you have to select COPY to dont know hopefully this helps someone if they are like me and don't download stuff very often

[Gustoo]

Great praises to the devs

[rathikus]

I've done every fix mentioned here and still have the spells error.

[sinnycool]

the merchants on the same platform as noonshadow are attacking me now. the one below oakwillow spawn point. they werent attacking me yesterday.. is this intended? if so im killing merchants just FYI NVM its ALL the merchants and at weird random times......bet everyone we have to do a fix unless this is intended

[Elyoc]

https://imgur.com/OWZZyOV

FTE messages are kinda goofy
we got yellow text from all of them as soon as draco and CT got engaged. it didnt put names

Wraith of Shissir did NOT have yellow text

[immortalis88]

What did you do to mage pet damage...

[loramin]

What did you do to mage pet damage...

[sinnycool]

who wants to bet they screwed it up?

[RHCstms01]

Not seeing additional loot on bouncers, only vast increase in difficulty, and previously non-aggressive names joining in by proximity.

[sinnycool]

same in Kelthin

[Bulzie]

What did you do to mage pet damage...

??

[Unkemup]

https://www.project1999.com/files/P99Files54.zip . Great. There's the link. right on top of the home page. Perfect. Nice and easy. Oh wait...what do you do after you download them? Every patch there are a lot of people wondering the same thing. Could you please simply put a link ''How to install a patch'' next to the patch link. A step by step guide on what to do. There is probably a guide somewhere....be great to be able to find it and read it.

[soldordragonslayer]

Wow just eagerly waiting to log in and try my new fixed Druid tracking oh boy oh boy oh boy!

I didn’t see Druid track as a fix in the notes or did I miss it?

[Thrombosis]

No idea what half these changes are on about, but thanks to those involved for keeping this project going :)

[Bulzie]

I'm casting the 58 Fire pet, cons blue but his ds is 2, wtf? and Fire pets supposed to have the highest self ds buff... Mage pets need work devs. And put back to way it was with being able to chain pets where aggro does not get transferred to from pet to mage.

[nyclin]

https://www.project1999.com/files/P99Files54.zip . Great. There's the link. right on top of the home page. Perfect. Nice and easy. Oh wait...what do you do after you download them? Every patch there are a lot of people wondering the same thing. Could you please simply put a link ''How to install a patch'' next to the patch link. A step by step guide on what to do. There is probably a guide somewhere....be great to be able to find it and read it.

extract the zip file over your p99 install and overwrite any files when prompted, same as you did when you first patched your Titanium install in order to play on p99.

[Sabin76]

I'm casting the 58 Fire pet, cons blue but his ds is 2, wtf? and Fire pets supposed to have the highest self ds buff... Mage pets need work devs. And put back to way it was with being able to chain pets where aggro does not get transferred to from pet to mage.

The Vocarate and Greater Vocarate Fire pets are wizards that cast a wizard DS, not the innate DS they had before level 50. That is working as intended. If you want a massive DS, you need to use DDD or Epic (lol).

The pet aggro, on the other hand...

Edit: Also, there was no change with regards to the DS anyway. Not sure why you are just noticing it now.

[echoshock]

what the hell is the point in changing the mage vocorate water spell to 55?

[MasterCS]

I'm getting the below errors when I try to extract the files using WinRar. I typically extrac them to a separate folder, then copy/paste them into my EQ directory. Anyone else getting this?

Cannot create C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\V54\SpellEffects\spelan.png

Edit: The above isn't the only error, it's just one of many with the same error format.


Update: After exhausting everything I know with WinRar, I extracted using 7-Zip and it worked. No errors.

[ferron123456789]

Hhk guards are no longer killable because merchants will come outa walls and instant kill lvl 30ish players. Theres no way this can be intended, has to be a glitch. Merchants in hhk have NEVER assisted guards. Fix please

[sajbert]

Hhk guards are no longer killable because merchants will come outa walls and instant kill lvl 30ish players. Theres no way this can be intended, has to be a glitch. Merchants in hhk have NEVER assisted guards. Fix please

Merchants in Kelethin will now assist as well. They did definitely NOT do this before.

[vualice]

i can't get on said i was missing spells_us.txt(2503364378)

[Gustoo]

If mage pets are supposed to be weak the way people are complaining, then switch it back so pets don't rob EXP which I'm pretty sure is non classic.

[Gustoo]

Merchants in Kelethin will now assist as well. They did definitely NOT do this before.


Do merchants assist guards when guards are killing NPC's like orcs and stuff too?

Killing guards is the devils work

[Sauryan]

damage of Earth pet ( level 57 one ) went from 62-70 to 52 to 58 (equal to the version level 51 and this is not classical :/)

[faded1]

Mage pets got the shaft and it wasn't even mentioned in the patch notes.
Necros have the best (non-epic) pets now I guess.

[negolin]

will it ever go above a skill of 10???

[dragosanii]

same error message...about spell file..

im not a programmer...so this crap is hard to some people.

It's cool. Re-downloaded the patch files again and extracted again to overwrite the files in my Project1999 folder. Working now.

[JDFriend99]

I didn’t see Druid track as a fix in the notes or did I miss it?

You don't get your increase to 100 until velious release Aug 4

[JDFriend99]

Mage pets got the shaft and it wasn't even mentioned in the patch notes.
Necros have the best (non-epic) pets now I guess.
they sure did. this happened on blue too and we all hitched the wagon then.

probably same here, necros expect your 56 pet to do half flying kick in a few months time 69 max soon

[JDFriend99]

was that way for last 5 yrs on blue iirc. Used to kick for 115

[Bobety]

I'm not able to log in either, getting the error that spells_us.txt is invalid, but I've extracted/replaced new patch (54) files into my EQ directory correctly (have done this many times with many other patches and never had an issue). I also tried reverting to patch 53 spells_us.txt but that made no difference.. Has anyone else who had this problem got it to work yet? If so how?

[Vaarsuvius]

I just had to log on to check that for myself

Max level focused Greater Vocaration: Air pet hits for max 60 now

FFS, why don't you guys give us a break for a change ?
Do you feel the need to nerf us time & again because OP mages hog all the cash camps or our pet will tank/ dps better than any melee player ?

No way.



/rude <you know who you are>

[Bobety]

I'm not able to log in either, getting the error that spells_us.txt is invalid, but I've extracted/replaced new patch (54) files into my EQ directory correctly (have done this many times with many other patches and never had an issue). I also tried reverting to patch 53 spells_us.txt but that made no difference.. Has anyone else who had this problem got it to work yet? If so how?

In case anyone is having the same issue, I fixed this by not using the program "wineq2" to run p99 anymore (I used this for windowed mode), if I use the standard shortcut to eqgame.exe it works normally again. Not sure why it stopped working with this patch.

[Amyas]

The level of the 51 earth pet was changed to 52......?

[Amyas]

Oh my god aaaaannnndd pets got nerfed whhhhyyyyy?

[Amyas]

damage of Earth pet ( level 57 one ) went from 62-70 to 52 to 58 (equal to the version level 51 and this is not classical :/)

Well guess im no longer gonna level up my mage WTF was hoping to make it my new main =(

[derpcake2]

Pretty funny that a necro lobbying has so much influence that necros end up with pets that are superior to mage pets.

Very balanced, much classic.

[Amyas]

Just confirmed the old lv 51 pet is now lv 52 and max root remains 55 but max melee nerfed from 58 to 56. Huge blow to mages =( Not classic at all.

[Burmecia]

See you guys on Mischief TLP, since admins here just make whatever changes they feel like.

[remen]

"Nilbog: Corrected an issue which would allow certain merchants to assist in combat."

This seems to have created the opposite effect, so far wherever I have tested all the merchants are assisting in combat.

[Herodotus]

Hey guys, I am also having that spells error, anyone find a fix yet?

[Zippit]

please provide the reasons for the damage changes in mage pets (YOu mentioned nothing regarding this at all) i.e. a 60 mage water pet does a whopping 6 more backstab dmg now than a 54 (Or 55 now) water pet? w t f

[Darkwoo]

This patch broke more than it fixed.

[Jimjam]

This patch broke more than it fixed.

Finally, a classic comment!

[Jimjam]

Is the change to pet max damage to do with this (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3167966&postcount=79)?

Since I adjusted minimum hits to where they should be in another thread, I revisited these casting delays. With some tinkering I was able to get this much improved, pending update.

(other thread he references is this (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3164283&postcount=51))

[Amyas]

Can we atleast get a max pet every summon =(

[Amyas]

please provide the reasons for the damage changes in mage pets (YOu mentioned nothing regarding this at all) i.e. a 60 mage water pet does a whopping 6 more backstab dmg now than a 54 (Or 55 now) water pet? w t f

Makes are totally broken now =( the whole point is to have a monstrous pet.

[Wharfrat]

Well , nice to see the classic after patch whining...ahhh the memories

[rakam180]

please where is the link for download the patch because impossible of me connected to the serveur ?
HELP Please ?

one or more of your everquest files are not the correct titanium version for the project 1999. you will not be able to play until the files listed in red are replaced with correct version
spells_us.txt(2503364378)

[Jimjam]

Can we atleast get a max pet every summon =(

Why would you ask for that? Did pets summon at max every time in 1999-2001? You realise this project is electronic experimental archaeology, right?

[Jimjam]

please where is the link for download the patch because impossible of me connected to the serveur ?
HELP Please ?

one or more of your everquest files are not the correct titanium version for the project 1999. you will not be able to play until the files listed in red are replaced with correct version
spells_us.txt(2503364378)

click home on the top left, the link is under the 'welcome' section.

https://www.project1999.com/files/P99Files54.zip

[Albanwr]

Nice to see the too long OP Mage tears flowing.

[loramin]

Meanwhile Enchanters continue to be solo gods here ... as unclassicly as Bards AoE kiting 100 mobs .. but no "classic fix" for them (even though everyone who played in classic remembers Enchanters being a group class, like Warriors or Clerics).

[sinnycool]

do they even look here after a patch or do they just "fix" (break) stuff and then close their eyes? Merchants are still assisting HELLO are you going to fix this or not? def not intended. You screwed up fix it SIMPLE. We already have a bunch of 50 somethings all trying to camp the same things and now a lot of it isnt viable. WAY TO GO you made it even worse

[Jimjam]

do they even look here after a patch or do they just "fix" (break) stuff and then close their eyes? Merchants are still assisting HELLO are you going to fix this or not? def not intended. You screwed up fix it SIMPLE. We already have a bunch of 50 somethings all trying to camp the same things and now a lot of it isnt viable. WAY TO GO you made it even worse

Check the bug forums, before you complain about people not reading. This has been asked and answered.

Remember this is a hobby for all involved, you can't expect hotfixes, but I will grant you a full and immediate refund to this months subscription fees as a gesture of good will.

[loramin]

Remember this is a hobby for all involved, you can't expect hotfixes, but I will grant you a full and immediate refund to this months subscription fees as a gesture of good will.

https://i.imgur.com/RNQMx81.gif

[Albanwr]

do they even look here after a patch or do they just "fix" (break) stuff and then close their eyes? Merchants are still assisting HELLO are you going to fix this or not? def not intended. You screwed up fix it SIMPLE. We already have a bunch of 50 somethings all trying to camp the same things and now a lot of it isnt viable. WAY TO GO you made it even worse

ask for a refund.

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/RNQMx81.gif
You can't justify Breaking things that were working as being acceptable just because it's volunteer work.

sorry not sorry.
They should be doing everything to resolve it, Every private server owner I know would get something fixed ASAP. P99 is no exception even considering the agreement with daybreak.

Source of my info: I've been in the private uo scene since 1999 and an avid reader of the eqemu scene since 2007.

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Where the hell is nilbog and rogean?
Example: We have been waiting for the druid tracking fix for months now. Not just a couple days.

[Tewaz]

I can smell Baler through this post.

[Shawk]

Every Patch comes with its ups and downs, fixes have to happen.. mistakes happen, development is hard, you wouldn't understand, you are just a angst consumer.

And lets keep it real here kids, its just a matter of time before the things are fixed if they weren't just balanced (calm down), a Free Service made by amazing individuals who sacrificed their time to bring you it. But these devs do listen it seems, eventhough this is a god damn Asylum basically.. so just be patient.

Unlike a Payed Service where you just get butt fucked. I mean, imagine it was Blizzard and they were making you pay $35 to Clone your Character to a new Server and Charge you $75 for something you already bought 15 years ago while you pay $20 a month like a complete moronic dooper head.

[rakam180]

click home on the top left, the link is under the 'welcome' section.

https://www.project1999.com/files/P99Files54.zip
it's good I found!
sorry for the post, i don't need to make such a sudden request, actually.
I found the solution right after my post here!
thanks a lot for your help

[JDFriend99]

I can't believe there this many folks with this issue. I'd recommend the good old clean install. Most likely there's one file not liking the characters to log in. at first I had blank characters then logged out and never had issue again. I'd honestly say copy your UI files for character then whipe and clean install. it fixes everything, then add version 54 files on clean. Sad everyone is having issues and not one post from devs yet

[Videri]

i can't get on said i was missing spells_us.txt(2503364378)

Hey guys, I am also having that spells error, anyone find a fix yet?

Anyone still having this issue because you haven't patched yet, download the patch files and put them in your EverQuest folder. The files are right at the top of the home page. https://www.project1999.com

All you gotta do is:

extract the zip file over your p99 install and overwrite any files when prompted, same as you did when you first patched your Titanium install in order to play on p99.

[Senn]

Remember this is a hobby for all involved, you can't expect hotfixes, but I will grant you a full and immediate refund to this months subscription fees as a gesture of good will.

A hobby or not, taking 6+ months to fix gating mobs is too long. Right now, merchants assisting guards is a big problem. Identify the Telin DB fix for this and roll it back. It shouldn't take another 6 months.

[Senn]

Every Patch comes with its ups and downs, fixes have to happen.. mistakes happen, development is hard, you wouldn't understand, you are just a angst consumer.

Source code control is easy. DB rollbacks are easy.

Dev / Staging / UAT is easy.

[rjw513]

Idc how long it should or shouldn’t take or how easy or hard it is to do, but if I was the one doing it and reading what some of you are whining about, I would be taking my good ol’ time...

[Shawk]

Source code control is easy. DB rollbacks are easy.

Dev / Staging / UAT is easy.

Nice Bro, here's an idea: Make your own Server and support it for years, then you might have enough credibility for someone to give a shit about your opinion.

And if you did do it you wouldn't be dumb enough to sell yourself that short would you?

It was obviously a Balancing thing, sorry you people got shafted.

Merchants use to assist too! :) *TILTING*

[Shawk]

Idc how long it should or shouldn’t take or how easy or hard it is to do, but if I was the one doing it and reading what some of you are whining about, I would be taking my good ol’ time...

x2

[Baler]

Idc how long it should or shouldn’t take or how easy or hard it is to do, but if I was the one doing it and reading what some of you are whining about, I would be taking my good ol’ time...

So the problem with this logic is that's not how it works.

When a private server owner is running a production server. They get fixes out asap. They may have to ban some people who are spamming but otherwise when the community cries out the staff listen and get it done.

I don't know why project 1999 Green has slipped away from the expected standards of a production private server. I have my theories.

It's important for people to cry out when something is wrong. It let's the staff know something is wrong. How the staff respond is what matters. Of course they could just keep us in the dark not giving us updates. It can go either way, they're the ones in control. We are the consumers. That however does not excuse the fact that Project 1999 is a private server with production server level of standards.

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Edit: If p99 didn't have an expected level of excellence, you'd be playing one of the other lesser private servers or live everquest TLP
P99 is the largest everquest private server.

[Shawk]

So the problem with this logic is that's not how it works.

When a private server owner is running a production server. They get fixes out asap. They may have to ban some people who are spamming but otherwise when the community cries out the staff listen and get it done.

I don't know why project 1999 Green has slipped away from the expected standards of a production private server. I have my theories.

It's important for people to cry out when something is wrong. It let's the staff know something is wrong. How the staff respond is what matters. Of course they could just keep us in the dark not giving us updates. It can go either way, they're the ones in control. We are the consumers. That however does not excuse the fact that Project 1999 is a private server with production server level of standards.

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Edit: If p99 didn't have an expected level of excellence, you'd be playing one of the other lesser private servers or live everquest TLP
P99 is the largest everquest private server.

You aren't even Consumers if you want to be all technical about it.

The Ultimate "Respect" a Developer can have for their "Consumer" is to just ignore the "Consumer" entirely and to keep a tight Development group of testers/devs creating what they created to begin with.. Not you. Consumers always try to take credibility where they have none.

Long term development is the only credibility you can have here. And they have it.

You have nothing to do with Development of this. They are not held to any Standard, they are just the best server, so people play on the best server, the Emulation of Classic/Velious/Kunark..

You're full of shit with these "Standards of Production" on a Private Emulated Server..

P99 is held to no "Standards" from you that ALL EQEMU servers aren't also held to. They have no expectations, and none of you are "helping.." you aren't doing anything but "consuming.." something 100% for free. Get real.

[Baler]

You aren't even Consumers if you want to be all technical about it.

The Ultimate "Respect" a Developer can have for their "Consumer" is to just ignore the "Consumer" entirely and to keep a tight Development group of testers/devs creating what they created to begin with.. Not you. Consumers always try to take credibility where they have none.

Long term development is the only credibility you can have here. And they have it.

You have nothing to do with Development of this. They are not held to any Standard, they are just the best server, so people play on the best server, the Emulation of Classic/Velious/Kunark..

You're full of shit with these "Standards of Production" on a Private Emulated Server..

P99 is held to no "Standards" from you that ALL EQEMU servers are also held to. They have no expectations, and none of you are "helping.." you aren't doing anything but "consuming.." something 100% for free. Get real.

You are wrong for several reasons.
I never claimed I or consumers had anything to do with development. You are creating a fictional narrative from my post.

In the private server industry, a production server is one that is held to higher standards. These are generally the most popular and well staffed. You would not be here on P99 if it did not have a production level of standards.

All EQEMU servers are NOT held to the same standards. They ran by different people. Some who are very corrupt and some who are very good and honest. If you don't understand private servers you shouldn't even be approaching my post.

[Shawk]

You are wrong for several reasons.
I never claimed I or consumers had anything to do with development. You are creating a fictional narrative from my post.

In the private server industry, a production server is one that is held to higher standards. These are generally the most popular and well staffed. You would not be here on P99 if it did not have a production level of standards.

All EQEMU servers are NOT held to the same standards. They ran by different people. Some who are very corrupt and some who are very good and honest. If you don't understand private servers you shouldn't even be approaching my post.

"The Private Server Industry"
"Production Server"
"Level of Standards"

Speaking of a "Fictional Narrative.."

[Baler]

"The Private Server Industry"
"Production Server"
"Level of Standards"

Speaking of a "Fictional Narrative.."

So how long have you been in the private server scene, Not as a player?
Across all mmorpgs. Please enlighten us. how many years.

[Jimjam]

A hobby or not, taking 6+ months to fix gating mobs is too long. Right now, merchants assisting guards is a big problem. Identify the Telin DB fix for this and roll it back. It shouldn't take another 6 months.

You could have volunteered to do it. I blame you.

[Shawk]

So how long have you been in the private server scene, Not as a player?
Across all mmorpgs. Please enlighten us. how many years.

I mean that is going to take time and commitment man.. Am I held to some form of standards here? Do you have any paperwork I need to sign first there?

[Snaggles]

Run of the mill mage pets certainly seem to have taken a hit. In rudimentary testing mine seem to all hit mid/high 50’s. Logically this doesn’t make much sense if EoT is still hitting for low 60’s with the intrinsic benefits (of the pet and the class). One would think an earth pet of the same level would hit at least for the same.

As for elf lawyering this is all I can find. It’s from 05 though.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=1675

I’ll dig though patch history but like these days back then they were quite vague as to the changes. Likewise the player’s didn’t offer tangible feedback. I hope this will get tweaked a bit if not fixed. At least if the GM’s didn’t foresee this type of drop in performance.

The bump from a focused 49 to a 57+ per really doesn’t seem like it matters anymore. I guess If unchanged I’ll use DDD again at least. So long as the DS isn’t removed in future patches...

[pivo]

We have been waiting for the druid tracking fix for months now. Not just a couple days.

[Rader]

I didn’t see Druid track as a fix in the notes or did I miss it?

LOL

[Rader]

will it ever go above a skill of 10???

It actually will go down to 0 with Velious

[Rader]

You don't get your increase to 100 until velious release Aug 4

NOT Classic

[jolanar]

I'll believe the "it's just a hobby bro" crowd after they post how much money they've made in donations over the years.

[vegam]

I just want to thank the people behind P99 who work hard to give us all FREE as close to classic as possible EVERQUEST experience. The vast majority of players are grateful and understand patches don't always go to plan.

[Zippit]

Nice Bro, here's an idea: Make your own Server and support it for years, then you might have enough credibility for someone to give a shit about your opinion.

And if you did do it you wouldn't be dumb enough to sell yourself that short would you?

It was obviously a Balancing thing, sorry you people got shafted.

Merchants use to assist too! :) *TILTING*

No Offense to anyone but, if Fixing Mage Pets (If you call it a fix) 11 years after P99's induction to Emulated play, we may be in for a long wait for it to be (Unfixed) among the many other *Fixes* ...lol

Catchyall in 2032!

[Darkwoo]

These are the shittiest patch notes that I've seen in the history of gaming.

[Ennewi]

These are the shittiest patch notes that I've seen in the history of gaming.

The server admins are burned out... I've seen Minecraft worlds managed by high school students with more enthusiasm and competence.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3142899#post3142899

Hi all,

I recently read the comment of a scrawny gnoll named "Darkwoo" on P99. I have never been so turned off by a player's behavior. Darkwoo was extremely argumentative and immature with the most petty comments.

Darkwoo - we are all here to have fun. Relax and enjoy the game! Not everything is an argument. Anxiety is often the culprit of having to take deep breaths.

[Darkwoo]

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3142899#post3142899

Hi all,

I recently read the comment of a scrawny gnoll named "Darkwoo" on P99. I have never been so turned off by a player's behavior. Darkwoo was extremely argumentative and immature with the most petty comments.

Darkwoo - we are all here to have fun. Relax and enjoy the game! Not everything is an argument. Anxiety is often the culprit of having to take deep breaths.

8 years of your life, 1000+ posts, and many, many hours researching random P99 forum profiles.. you are still here.. Could you imagine if that amount of energy was applied to something useful (e.g. writing patch notes for p99)?

[knucklehead]

Caveat: A decade+ of hard work is appreciated.

Concern: You'll never find the historical patch note for "sitting no longer makes you approximately level 1 for purposes of aggro" because it was never like that.

Please fix stupid "even decaying skeletons aggro a level 60 from 50 yards away if they're sitting" aggro calc, it's way not at all how it ever was.

[BlackBellamy]

You aren't even Consumers if you want to be all technical about it.

The Ultimate "Respect" a Developer can have for their "Consumer" is to just ignore the "Consumer" entirely and to keep a tight Development group of testers/devs creating what they created to begin with.. Not you. Consumers always try to take credibility where they have none.


Wow that's a lot of caps there. I don't go to a Mechanic when my car breaks down, I go to a mechanic. A developer is just another type of worker.

Are you a dev? You work in a professional shop? I do, and if some dev said what you said everyone would be like this guy is retarded. That's because consumers drive development. We don't build software so we can appreciate it, we build it so people can use it. And we're super responsive to our customers because without them we are mere hobbyists. If consumers say they don't like a button placement we hop right on it. If the consumers tell us it loads too slow, we speed it up. And if we can't do it, we patiently explain why and offer alternatives.

I'm just providing a professional viewpoint here. Like if you have a going concern that is interested in profits, then that's how you act. I understand p99 is a private effort staffed by volunteers and is operated on a hobby-level of support, maintenance and communication. I'm perfectly fine with that and have no higher expectations and I'm grateful for it's very existence.

I'm just taking a strong position over the generalization presented above.

[loramin]

Wow that's a lot of caps there. I don't go to a Mechanic when my car breaks down, I go to a mechanic. A developer is just another type of worker.

Are you a dev? You work in a professional shop? I do, and if some dev said what you said everyone would be like this guy is retarded. That's because consumers drive development. We don't build software so we can appreciate it, we build it so people can use it. And we're super responsive to our customers because without them we are mere hobbyists. If consumers say they don't like a button placement we hop right on it. If the consumers tell us it loads too slow, we speed it up. And if we can't do it, we patiently explain why and offer alternatives.

I'm just providing a professional viewpoint here. Like if you have a going concern that is interested in profits, then that's how you act. I understand p99 is a private effort staffed by volunteers and is operated on a hobby-level of support, maintenance and communication. I'm perfectly fine with that and have no higher expectations and I'm grateful for it's very existence.

I'm just taking a strong position over the generalization presented above.

As another professional dev I just want to second this. Now to be fair, I've absolutely worked at companies that didn't listen to their users ... but I left them after a year, and none of them lasted more than a couple years after (if that).

At any good software company, listening to your customer isn't just "one important thing you should do" ... it underpins your entire development process! Literally everything you work on, except paying off technical debt, should be because your "customer interfacers" (account managers, product managers, etc.) have told your dev team "the customer(s) need this."

... but none of that changes the fact that P99 is not a company with customers: it's a bunch of volunteers giving up their free time to let the rest of us play a game.

[Snaggles]

8 years of your life, 1000+ posts, and many, many hours researching random P99 forum profiles.. you are still here.. Could you imagine if that amount of energy was applied to something useful (e.g. writing patch notes for p99)?

Yea yea, we get it. Thanks Mom.

[Tunabros]

if you guys hate it here so much then play on TAKP or live

these guys are doing this shit for free

[Jimjam]

8 years of your life, 1000+ posts, and many, many hours researching random P99 forum profiles.. you are still here.. Could you imagine if that amount of energy was applied to something useful (e.g. writing patch notes for p99)?

Lul please post ‘curious. Yet you choose to participate’ response meme.

[Shawk]

I understand p99 is a private effort staffed by volunteers and is operated on a hobby-level of support, maintenance and communication. I'm perfectly fine with that and have no higher expectations and I'm grateful for it's very existence.

Only real point I was making.

I was using caps to exaggerate the terminology he was using, sorry if that triggered your "professional developer".

"Development" is a pretty broad term, "not listening to customers" was meant to be more about the development phase of a video game being developed, the original creation.

[Shawk]

At any good software company, listening to your customer isn't just "one important thing you should do" ... it underpins your entire development process! Literally everything you work on, except paying off technical debt, should be because your "customer interfacers" (account managers, product managers, etc.) have told your dev team "the customer(s) need this."
.

I'm talking about video game development, not software development.. sure they are the same thing technically, but they aren't the same at all in reality.

..and there are tons of dev teams that apparently do this all perfect or good and they cancel half way through development because no one wanted to play the game they thought the customers wanted.. EQNext being one where they listened too much, catered everything to helping players help them or some weird shit, just a failure really..

And tons of games stall like Camelot Unchained because they worry too much it seems about customers, I have seen it more times than I can remember so I dunno, maybe that way of doing things is good to keep a paychecks coming, but it isn't good in reality of what makes an actual good MMORPGs.. Seems there is no one developing that next MMORPG game other than New World but Smedley is on that team and id bet he is part of why that game might actually have a chance to be the success that something like EQ was because he knows what actually made that game good, and it wasn't the players opinions.

[Ennewi]

8 years of your life, 1000+ posts, and many, many hours researching random P99 forum profiles.. you are still here.. Could you imagine if that amount of energy was applied to something useful (e.g. writing patch notes for p99)?

...

Ignorance is bliss

But if we're going to min/max our usefulness in life, perhaps complaining about the work of volunteers on their forums (and offering no solutions) should be at the very bottom of that to-do list, if on it at all.

Those eight years were already being wasted by the hurry up and wait of civilian life, so the in-person time was salvaged online. But even so, any time/energy put towards fostering or being involved with a community (even one as deviant and argumentative as this) is hardly a waste. Also, the thousand some odd posts span over those eight years; each one didn't take three days to type out. If you want to do the math and estimate how much time was spent typing all of them, by all means.

[loramin]

EQNext being one where they listened too much, catered everything to helping players help them or some weird shit, just a failure really.

I'd argue the exact opposite happened: SOE didn't listen to what their customers wanted (a better WoW/EverQuest), and instead they gave them what the SOE devs wanted to build ... a MMOG-item-builder :(

[Shawk]

I'd argue the exact opposite happened: SOE didn't listen to what their customers wanted (a better WoW/EverQuest), and instead they gave them what the SOE devs wanted to build ... a MMOG-item-builder :(

..they created a sandbox because they wanted to give the players what they wanted by giving them the ability to create it themselves.. It was literally their whole narrative just creative creative after a while hence Landmark.. I built qeynos for fun and one of the devs came into my stream back then and said it was nice, like wtf sure they weren't listening to the majority of people yelling about combat and things like that, but ultimately they were listening and from what I saw that was part of why it stalled so heavily and went towards this Landmark idea because a lot of opinions were hard on about the creative side of things (including myself) and devs gravitate to creating a eco system for all kinds of creative people. They are very inclusive, very kinda, and ultimately just want you to have what you want.. While the reality is you need to create something they don't know they want..

that said I 100% agree they didn't listen to ME yelling JUST MAKE EQ1 IN A NEW ENGINE!!!!!!!!! but they were listening to who they wanted to listen to. Which is why I find its an easy way out kind of thing, like the echo chamber bubble situation people are in right now and also why it shouldn't be done in context of video game development. They had an elitist kind of mindset from a perspective of someone who was just looking in at it, Only listening to a certain creative people.. But that is my point, it caters to this selective process of development that goes too far from the core first principles of the product that was sold to begin with. But also why Fuck Blizzard.

[loramin]

..they created a sandbox because they wanted to give the players what they wanted by giving them the ability to create it themselves.. It was literally their whole narrative just creative creative after a while hence Landmark.. I built qeynos for fun and one of the devs came into my stream back then and said it was nice, like wtf sure they weren't listening to the majority of people yelling about combat and things like that, but ultimately they were listening and from what I saw that was part of why it stalled so heavily and went towards this Landmark idea because a lot of opinions were hard on about the creative side of things (including myself) and devs gravitate to creating a eco system for all kinds of creative people. They are very inclusive, very kinda, and ultimately just want you to have what you want.. While the reality is you need to create something they don't know they want..

I think you're conflating "listening to customers" with "doing exactly what a customer says" ... but the two can be very different things.

I'm arguing that successful companies (gaming or otherwise) do the former; I am not arguing they do the latter.

[Shawk]

I think you're conflating "listening to customers" with "doing exactly what a customer says" ... but the two can be very different things.

I'm arguing that successful companies (gaming or otherwise) do the former; I am not arguing they do the latter.

And I think you are over simplifying it and in reality I am not arguing anything, just stating opinions on what I have seen and what I think actually exists. Don't care either way weather you agree or I agree with each other. I know you think you are Right.

[immortalis88]

So yeah, cool story bro's - anyway... about those mage pets...

[Angerclaw]

I didn't see plane of sky mq's addressed in the patch notes. Back in August 2020 there was a post by Telin referencing that this change was made pending update. Was it included in this 5/7/21 patch?

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3169360#post3169360

[Sabin76]

I didn't see plane of sky mq's addressed in the patch notes. Back in August 2020 there was a post by Telin referencing that this change was made pending update. Was it included in this 5/7/21 patch?

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3169360#post3169360

I'm pretty sure all of the Sky quests have been MQ-able for some time now.

[Jimjam]

I'm pretty sure all of the Sky quests have been MQ-able for some time now.

Really saddens me seeing these pixels being farmed to sell for mqed to people that won’t do their time having fun in sky. That’s classic i guess.

[Pope Hat]

if you guys hate it here so much then play on TAKP or live

these guys are doing this shit for free

Don't direct these monsters to TAKP.

[project99toons]

Any update to mage pets? When will they be fixed?

[Amyas]

Any update to mage pets? When will they be fixed?

Apparently they have been placed at pre 2002 numbers and non epic mage pets now suck.

[Vaarsuvius]

I am really surprised (disappointed?) no dev or p99 admin or whatever you call them cared enough to speak on that matter and explain why the nerf bat hit magicians again and that nothing in the patch notes mentioned it

[loramin]

I am really surprised (disappointed?) no dev or p99 admin or whatever you call them cared enough to speak on that matter and explain why the nerf bat hit magicians again and that nothing in the patch notes mentioned it

The staff here are allergic to communicating with the playerbase. (In their defense, some members of that player base have done a lot to cause said "allergy").

It hasn't always been this way: Rogean and Nilbog used to be (semi-)active forum participants. But these days we're lucky if we even get a partially complete patch notes, once every six months.

(But hey, I'll take a free EQ server from a silent staff, over a communicative staff that can't build/run a server, any day of the week :))

[Bigcountry23]

Not listed:
nilbog; Since the last patch, the berserker cycle should now be working as intended. The impaler cycle still needs more work.

[Kief]

The staff here are allergic to communicating with the playerbase. (In their defense, some members of that player base have done a lot to cause said "allergy").

It hasn't always been this way: Rogean and Nilbog used to be (semi-)active forum participants. But these days we're lucky if we even get a partially complete patch notes, once every six months.

(But hey, I'll take a free EQ server from a silent staff, over a communicative staff that can't build/run a server, any day of the week :))

Are you aware of how many guides and full GM's there are on this Project? To say there is no interaction between staff and players is a selfish statement.

A lot of you need to grow up. We aren't teenagers anymore and this is an adult player base with an adult Project manager that has a life.

Yer pal,
Kief

[loramin]

First off, when I said that, I meant it in the context of "communicating about patch notes and why changes in them were made" (ie. what we're talking about); I'm not talking about the staff responding to lost item petitions or whatever.

Second, if I'm wrong about that, then surely you can point me to not just one, but a bunch of posts from Rogean and Nilbog, where they take some time to communicate with the player base and explain recent changes ... right? Or maybe of other staff members here, similarly explaining the patches?

But I don't think you can, because:

The staff here are allergic to communicating with the playerbase

(... about patch changes ... or really anything else, outside the bug/petition forums.)

[loramin]

P.S. To be clear I'm not saying "Rogean and Nilbog are terrible people for not communicating with us"! In fact, I even wrote:

(In their defense, some members of that player base have done a lot to cause said "allergy").

If not communicating with the player base keeps our benevolent overlords happy, sane, and continuing to volunteer their time to give us a free server to play on ... I'm 100% in favor of it! :D

But nevertheless, it remains a historical fact that they aren't as communicative as they once were. Just compare Rogean's posting history this year (https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?searchid=19079385) (the only post he's made this entire year was "Patch Notes: Friday, May 7th, 2021") vs. Rogean's history at the start of the project (https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?searchid=19079449).

[this user was banned]

I am really surprised (disappointed?) no dev or p99 admin or whatever you call them cared enough to speak on that matter and explain why the nerf bat hit magicians again and that nothing in the patch notes mentioned it

It was an accident
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=384333

[rakam180]

""I just want to thank the people behind P99 who work hard to give us all FREE as close to classic as possible EVERQUEST experience. The vast majority of players are grateful and understand patches don't always go to plan.""

yes !
I agree, thank you all crew of Project 99 really big big dedicated really ! for the big work accomplished

[Darkdeps]

When are the surefall glade port spells going to be in game? They are from the veilous era

[Baler]

When are the surefall glade port spells going to be in game? They are from the veilous era

nearly the last of the velious patches if not the last.

[hamirez]

Can we please have DOT damage back on Chat window, even if not displayed right if target is moving or rooted?

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