So... How classic do you want it?

[Wurl]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mad about actually playing classic EverQuest, with all its associated dangers and difficulties, and not just sitting on a mindless XP treadmill that culminates in a loot piñata?

Cuz it sounds like you're mad.

I'm agreeing with you mate! You bought your CRT yet?

[Danth]

Jibartik: An interesting tidbit, it was found elsewhere--surprisingly--that the genuine Velious UI (the one "green" is apparently striving to simulate) as found on the Trilogy discs does in fact work on modern monitors, even at widescreen resolutions that did not exist in 2001. It only required a bit of .ini editing IIRC.

I thought I'd loathe single chat window but more recently I gave it a chance in-game and found that once I got used to it, I don't mind overmuch. If that's enforced on "green" I could live with it.

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Spell casters sitting, faces buried in their spellbooks in blissful ignorance, until they hear the ominous "boom boom boom" sound of a Hill Giant that's about to beat 'em to a pulp is about as classic as it gets.

Danth

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Wurl [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol if you think you'll see other people in solA if this is in.

sit sound
stand sound
sit sound
stand sitsoundstan
standsounsitsound
sitsound
standistittand sit standsound
sitsound
sitstand sit standand
footstepps coming sound
footsteps leaving sound
MANYFOOTSTEPS SOUND COMING

[Vexenu]

NOT CLASSIC: soloing in a high ZEM dungeon on your twinked out Enchanter alt, easily managing a charmed pet with a pet window, tab-targeting, third-person scroll wheel view and non-spellbook medding.

CLASSIC: wearing full cloth armor and a couple of Derv rings, grouping with a tank in raw hide armor wielding a store-bought Axe, happy to be able to kill anything that moves the XP bar, being awakened from your meditative tranquility by the bone crunching combat noise.

[Shrubwise]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

NOT CLASSIC: soloing in a high ZEM dungeon on your twinked out Enchanter alt, easily managing a charmed pet with a pet window, tab-targeting, third-person scroll wheel view and non-spellbook medding.

CLASSIC: wearing full cloth armor and a couple of Derv rings, grouping with a tank in raw hide armor wielding a store-bought Axe, happy to be able to kill anything that moves the XP bar, being awakened from your meditative tranquility by the bone crunching combat noise.

[Jibartik]

FWIW rogean, I think you're missing 10 inventory buttons:

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What I am noticing is when you are in inventory mode, the 10 inventory buttons appear, when you are in meditate mode the 10 inventory buttons appear, but when you are in open world mode, you have access to only 6 buttons:

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So how do we handle inventory with this version of the UI?

If I open my inventory window, will taht pop up my 10 slot inventory as well? and perhaps when you open your spell book, it shows that inventory window + bags if it was otherwise not shown, and darkens the screen behind you, giving you your inventory to dig around in while you med.

which I am starting to remember was like how I spent my time as a level 34 mage on live.

[Jibartik]

Does anyone know the story with these UI shots:

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they have more buttons, was this something that was added at the end of Velious or something?

November 16th 2001 is just week's before December 4, 2001 so I guess it was a patch gearing up for Luclin? (does this mean blue gets 10 buttons and green gets 6?)

That same dude has many other screen shots from same era, with only 6 buttons though:

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So I dont know anything about that. Im really just curious how they handled when you opened your inventory screen in velious. Anyone remember?

[Nilstoniakrath]

100% in favor of the staring at the spell book to med, despite how highly annoying it will be to do this on my casters

this isn't a QoL thing, this is a game mechanic/class balancing thing, if you want the enhanced mana regen you have to sacrafice your in-game awareness, it is a choice casters will have to make

[Danth]

Jibatrik: The reason you see the different number of hotkeys and slightly different windows is because the 6-button screenshots are from the original UI, which had the fullscreen mode with 6 buttons. The 10-button screenshot is the Velious interface.

Danth

[Zeboim]

Originally Posted by Wurl [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol if you think you'll see other people in solA if this is in.

Wtf i love spellbook med now