New Player Experience

[Bumamgar]

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

I remember back in 2000 when i first played EQ the boats were not working in live until a few weeks later.

Old-world boats were always problematic on live. They were working on-and-off throughout 1999 and 2000, but this was during the 'admit nothing' dark days of EQ when the devs refused to acknowledge bugs, so players were forced to simply deal with broken boats (ie: no translocaters... The boats were in game, even if they consistently dumped you into the ocean instead of zoning you, or got you killed by cyclops etc..) It wasn't till a full month after the DirectX9 client update that SOE finally admitted that old-world boats were broken and couldn't be fixed, and replaced them with translocators. (April 24, 2004)

[lumin]

Could someone explain how translocators work exactly? Are they just periodically spawning NPCs? How often do they show up? Do they just instantly teleport you to the other continent for free?

[Malrubius]

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

Could someone explain how translocators work exactly? Are they just periodically spawning NPCs? How often do they show up? Do they just instantly teleport you to the other continent for free?

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1002

[Yellow]

wow so is a blessing thta boats don't work huh hahahah

[Alifeyl]

It's just not quite as much fun to yell "TRANSLOCATOR" as it was to yell "BOAT!!!" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]