Project M
 

Was talking with a friend, and had a cool idea that we came up with, which was randomly spawning as another player's character every time you log in.

One thing led to another and I completely forgot about Project M, the EQ1 experiment where you could play as a monster.

I started work on a server where you play as a random NPC. In a little under 3 hours, I now have this to show:

http://puu.sh/a8CBo/16da5704f3.jpg
http://puu.sh/a8IoY/e3f875fbaf.jpg

It's an EQEmu server that functions similar to EQLive Project M's MPC system. I have no idea what I broke when creating this, but I'll be putting it up as an experiment for shoots and giggles.

Currently the ruleset is set up to inherit NPC procs (think snakes, sonic bats), NPC class, NPC appearance, and attempts to hand out loot table items. Min/max hit is set to the NPC's hit range, and items equipped by the MPC affect its stats like a pet. A few other tweaks are in, but yeah...


Not sure how long i'll keep it up but it's on the list now and I will have the code on my github later if anyone is interested in making their own version of this.

It's a bit crash happy atm, so don't be surprised if you bite the koolaid on zone or die.

So what happened to that Eqmac server?

lol u *****z need to stick to one project and do it

It's still going.... I just think this would be cool to actually make so people have the idea for future reference.

For the weekend this was active on Tallon Zek, it was insanely fun. Orc pawn jousting = win.

Ya would he awesome if they did this on p99

my fire beetle in tox forest was so alone on live. level 4 and not a player in sight to attack

Should make it so it saves the npc you were, so you can play it again. Even level up/gear.

Would play asap!

It was quite the lottery when you clicked that button on character select.
One time I got to be a wisp in EC (death to all non-twink newbs with their rusty weapons), the other time I was a kobold in the warrens..forever alone

if this "announcement" has anything to do with project m, i may cry

na, custom server announced. will follow classic to velious then custom content.