On Live EQ, people found a way to run around while under the effects of Minor Illusion. At the time, since Minor Illusion caused you to become indifferent to all mobs, this was a huge exploit that allowed enchanters to go anywhere in the world while perfectly visible and able to interact with NPC's without being attacked. Sony's solution to fixing this exploit was to make it so that Minor Illusion gives no faction modifier whatsoever, and instead mobs would view you thru your normal faction modifiers. What they should have done instead is simply fix the bug that makes it possible to travel while Minor Illusioned, but oh well.
I have scoured the internet for a day and a half to figure out when the changes to Minor Illusion's faction modifier were put in, and the earliest date I have been able to find is in early 2003, which would place it sometime soon after the release of Planes of Power.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2003-1.html
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Originally Posted by the Allakhazam Patch Archive
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April 8, 2003 3:00 am
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** Illusions/Shape Change **
We have changed the way that Illusions and Shape Changes work with
respect to faction. The new system is a lot easier to understand than
the old one, so we'll just explain the new one. When changed into the
form of a playable race, characters are treated as if they were a
member of that race. When changed into a non-playable race, characters
retain their own racial factions.
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This is corroborated by a post (posted May 01, 2003) on Alla regarding clicky-effect Minor Illusion on an item, the Coral Shard.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/i...05182877965005
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Originally Posted by hpyjack
With the recent nerfs to non-racial illusion factions, minor illusion is now the same as your base factions, which is essentially KOS everywhere you might have wanted to use this.
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In the spirit of becoming an unassuming, innocent inanimate object, I feel like a part of Minor Illusion's charm is to cause other beings to not think of you threateningly. If movement under Minor Illusion could be exploited on P99, I understand removing the faction modifier portion of the spell, but I have tested both methods I know of to engage the mobile Minor Illusion bug and neither allowed me to run around as an object because of the way P99 will not allow different illusions to stack.
TL;DR From what I can gather, Minor Illusion should still grant indifferent-to-all faction on P99 according to the EQ patch timeline. Also, it would not break the game since P99 will not allow you to bug Minor Illusion so you can move. Regardless, I look forward to seeing what change yall implement =)