New EQ Server Based on TAKP/Quarm Released

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Welcome to EQ Archives https://eqarchives.com, a TAKP-based emulator server! We're a small EQ fan community looking to relive the Everquest experience through at least Planes of Power along with some improvements to server rule sets. Our goal is to have an enjoyable playing and raiding experience along with understanding that people may not have the same amount of free time available that we had in the early 2000s. Along those lines we also want loot to be more accessible. The server is managed by a group that has been playing EQ and EQ emulators since Everquest Beta thus we highly value the social aspects of grouping and raiding.

Our dev group of 7 people has been working on building this server over the last couple of years. We originally played on P99 and then supported dev efforts with the Firiona Vie Project before starting work on our own server. We were nearly complete with Kunark when TAKP/Quarm dbs were released which greatly sped up our timeline for public release. This server was re-created roughly in August with the TAKP database and then October 2023 using the Quarm database in an "alpha" and our dev team and chars moved from the previous server we were building to this server. While we were already online with our dev team a couple of months ago, we are now out of the testing phase and have reached the server's official "release". The EQA world server was joined to the TAKP loginserver (neighboring with TAKP and Project Quarm) on November 27, 2023 which coincided with our public release date. We are now here to stay and looking forward to building our community. Our team plays on the server and is looking forward to assisting new players on their leveling journey and eventually raiding!

Ruleset
-Progression server based on TAKP and Project Quarm source code
-New expansions released 6-12 months after all raid targets in the current expansion have been defeated
-World configuration (rules, quests, spawn rates, drop rates) follows closest to TAKP database
-Goal is era accuracy (with custom exceptions below)
-Firiona Vie-styple loot rules (implementation in process)
-3 box limit
-Player vs Environment (PVE)
-Exp at announced dates

Custom Changes
-Legacy items will remain in game permanently at adjusted rarity
-Stonebrunt Mountains and The Warrens are available
-/ooc and /auction are server-wide
-Class and Race-based exp penalties removed
-Miragul's Highway is implemented
-Keyrings are enabled

Join us at https://discord.gg/2PTW6ur8