The shit Gnomes find... Project 1999 Red

[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]

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

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...s-kevin-burns/

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