The shit Gnomes find... Project 1999 Red

[PopoTheGreat]

http://i.imgur.com/7ojlo.jpg

Was just finishing up my howling stones key, and we were on our way to Kaessora's library... I stuck my face in the wall, and there it was.

[Urbanzkopf]

Wowww... I'm shocked someone else found this :p, i'll post the screenie I found of it on Vaux a few months back, gnome powah!

[Bamzal Sherbet]

lol damn is this from the original developers i wonder

[ForeverLost]

Didn't anyone else see this on live? A GM summoned me there once to help with corpse recovery.

[SwordNboard]

The cat room I was summoned to once, was in Erudin somewhere.

[Kevynne]

i lost my screenies of it;
but me and a group of maelstrom-ers when i was still leader were in droga and we found the kitties there too.

[PopoTheGreat]

So, from what I can deduce, the cat room existed on live, was in fact known about by people who've been around longer than I have. My stoner brain theorized originally that it was a 'time out' room. The kitties calm you down, before the GM lets your angry subscription-paying self back into the game.

Still, interesting find.

[Bamzal Sherbet]

ya so is it just kunark dungeons then? - edit wait sum1 said they saw it in erudin...

[Sirken]

Qcat, Guk, solb,

possibly more, but those are prekunark, and i have seen

[Lostprophets]

there's one in befallen too.

[Rogean]

These rooms exist because they are the coordinates of 0,0,0. It is the developer box.

[Boilon]

Also in Droga, so not just pre-Kunark

[Nastinate]

Called the cat box, if you were being bad on live you could be sent there for a time out.

[Somekid123]

There all over the place, I heard years ago that one of the developers cats passed away while he was helping create EQ and that was his way of immortalizing him.

*shrug*

[Resheph]

Places like this are not uncommon in MMOs at all. WoW has a 'GM Island'. I think they all have one place or another. A lot of times they're areas GMs can test stuff on live and use for storage. I heard about the Cat Box years and years ago, a few people hit one in the Plane of Disease I think it was.

[rsloans84]

EQ has gm island .. my rl friend got banned on live for badmouthing arabs in /shout because terrorist acts etc.. and he got banned... before he got banned he was summoned there

[Rhambuk]

These rooms exist because they are the coordinates of 0,0,0. It is the developer box.

This. Sometimes, on live anyway, if you fell through a zone it would port you into the cat room as it was a safespot, youd have to gate or petition to get out. sometimes it was used as a timeout box as well...

On live when we did vp, after pop era we just did it for laughs, xygoz would banish people there and it sucked...

[Muleworth]

that's pretty interesting, never seen the cat version.

on live, I was in sol B once and fell through the floor and ended up in a similar room, except the walls were covered with /locs.

[Auvdar]

When I first started playing EQ back when first came out, exploring Qcats I would fall through the world a lot.

Almost each time I would get teleported to the cat room. Happened in SolB a few times, but usually with SolB I would just get stuck free falling until I died under the world.

[lawll]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/03/04/a-decade-of-norrath-qanda-with-everquests-kevin-burns/

Check out the end of the interview, seems like it was this devs cat.

[Langrisser]

"Some of the more well known zones I've created in EQ are the original Freeport, Erudin, Befallen, and Highpass Hold"



Freeport --- confusing and brown, the only thing worse than... ta da.. erudin.... which is another confusing place like highpass.... befallen? just annoying!

its all this guys fault

[Hailto]

Freeport is easily the best city in classic EQ.

[Clark]

Freeport is easily the best city in classic EQ.

gotta agree

[Nune]

Freeport is easily the best city in classic EQ.

Kelethin is by far imo. It's annoying and confusing, but my friends from middle/high school occasionally ask me if I play "EQ.. the game with the tree city" still

[this user was banned]

watching you masturbate...

[r00t]

me getting banned in 2005 http://i.imgur.com/H5aPFRz.jpg for saying I -could- kill u irl

sirken use to summon me to the qcat catbox when tink would /ooc gm assistance plz

[fullmetalcoxman]

droga....iirc that is right behind the entrance.

[Tasslehofp99]

Qcat, Guk, solb,

possibly more, but those are prekunark, and i have seen

Befallen as well, right at entrance.

[funhorroryes]

so the legendary cat room does exist

[mtb tripper]

there it is

[Handull]

i like the room in tower of frozen shadow that lists locations for each floor