2015: State of the Server

[Turp]

Heres the list of Velious quests that need completed before they even come close to releasing velious.
Had a nice idea to complete all quest in 1-2 weeks. Community players like Thulack ,Colgate , Swish , Fatboy ,Argh (even drew you a graph of how he will take care of it)
Nothing good came of this so heres the quest an good luck getting it done.
Instead of completing these in 1-2 weeks. It will take Swish years. GL

Cobalt Scar
Incomplete
Kelorek's Scales - Incomplete

Dragon Necropolis
Key to Jaled Dar's Lair (Neb) - Incomplete - Kegluas has items, need faction.
Key to Jaled Dar's Lair (Zlandicar) - Incomplete
Key to Sleeper's Tomb - Multiple Dragons
Yelinak - Incomplete (possibly added later?)


Kael Drakkal
Incomplete
Coldain Military Wristguard Quest - Incomplete
Custom Plate Helms - Kael - Incomplete
Mask of War - Incomplete
Strategies of the Ancient Dragons - Incomplete
Vkjor's Minor Task - Incomplete
Wenglawks The Traitor - Incomplete
Yelinak's Head - Incomplete

Kael Armor Quests

Druid
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Enchanter
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Magician
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Monk
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Paladin
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Ranger
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Rogue
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Shadowknight
Arms
Bracers
Chest - Complete - Nodnard
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Shaman
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Warrior
Arms
Bracers
Chest - Confirmed - Kegluas
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Wizard
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs

Plane of Growth
Incomplete
Scrolls of the Ancient Totem - Incomplete
The Four Idols - Incomplete
The Lost Tome - Incomplete
Broken/Unavailable
Natures Defender Quest - Unable to Complete - PoHate not available in beta

Plane of Mischief - This zone has lots of rewards for some quests. Please look here for information and quest lists.

Skyshrine
Incomplete
Custom Plate Helm: Skyshrine - Incomplete Later On
Friend of the Kin - Incomplete
Hsagra's Wrath Quest - Incomplete
Strike Home Toe the Giants - Incomplete
Tormax's Head - Dragons - Incomplete
Broken/Unavailable
Boysenberry Pie Quest - Incomplete - Broken?

Skyshrine Quest Armor
Bard
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Cleric
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Druid
Arms
Bracers - Confirmed - Kindadar
Chest - Confirmed - Notserp
Feet - Confirmed - Erati
Hands
Head
Legs - Confirmed - Kindadar
Enchanter
Arms - Confirmed - Noni
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs - Confirmed - Noni
Magician
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Monk
Arms - Confirmed - Hokushin
Bracers
Chest - Confirmed - Hokushin
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Paladin
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Ranger
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Rogue
Arms
Bracers
Chest - Confirmed - Feign
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Shadowknight
Arms
Bracers
Chest - Confirmed - Vidarr
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Shaman
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet - Confirmed Battletoad
Hands
Head
Legs
Warrior
Arms - Confirmed - Blakthorn
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Wizard
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs

Temple of Veeshan
Incomplete
Request of the Arcane - Incomplete
Test of Protection - Incomplete
Test of the Emerald Tear - Incomplete
Test of the Fire Storm - Incomplete
Test of the Living Flame - Incomplete
Test of the Platinum Tear - Incomplete
Test of the Ruby Tear - Incomplete
Test of the Tooth - Incomplete
The First Arcane Test - Incomplete
The Second Arcane Test - Incomplete
Wisdom: The Long Battle - Incomplete
Wisdom: The Short Battle - Incomplete

Thurgadin Armor Quests
Bard
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Enchanter
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Magician
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Monk
Arms
Bracers - Confirmed - Hokushin
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head - Confirmed - Hokushin
Legs - Confirmed - Hokushin
Paladin
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Ranger
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Rogue
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Shadowknight
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs
Shaman
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet -
Hands
Head
Legs
Wizard
Arms
Bracers
Chest
Feet
Hands
Head
Legs

Wakening Lands
Incomplete
Faerie Dragon Wings - Incomplete
Living Granite - Incomplete
Tunarean Tasks - Incomplete

Western Wastes
Incomplete
Essence Lens - Incomplete
Porlos' Fury - Incomplete

10 in Icewell Keep
Coldain Ring Quest 10 - Incomplete

Coldain Shawl Quests
Coldain Prayer Shawl Quest 5 - Cannot complete - Glowing Wurm Bile not dropping. Is this up-to-date?
Coldain Prayer Shawl Quest 6 - Incomplete
Coldain Prayer Shawl Quest 7 - Incomplete

[Calibretto]

There is so much misinformation and so many bad suggestions ITT I don't even know where to start.

I'll start with the entitled tone in which you've written this letter and :
They aren't allowed to make money on P99 or they will get shut down. (Im almost 100% certain your theory on crowd sourcing funds being exempt from the laws is way wrong)

I can tell you were never part of a major beta test, Certainly not on on Everquest but possibly ever.


:SPOILER- No one cares about red. And the 150 or so people who play there regularly can stay there as far as I (and most others) am/are concerned.

[Ravager]

Personally, I'm happy with what we have. If Velious never launched, I'd still play here.

[Calibretto]

I like your casino idea though...

[Swish]

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

-Kill red an make a teams pvp which would explode population pvp.
( could you ever get the crazys on red to agree.)
They think rallos was the preferred rule set... have fun dying slow.
TZ / VZ / SZ teams would explode your red server population. You are dumb to think otherwise.
Or make a new hardcoded teams PvP server an watch red die slowly.

What makes you think a teams server won't end up with 80% of people on one (successful) team?

Something to consider.

[Calibretto]

I wouldn't worry too much about people going to another server. These same threads happened with every single game that has come out after EQ did. "IS THIS THE EQ KILLER?" Yet, the game remains.

If/when velious drops here I'm betting the population will increase significantly.

[Vandy]

The perfect server is in the eye of the beholder.

[fastboy21]

so many ideas. you should make your own server. if your ideas are good folks will play on your server for all the more fun you offer.

[Ziggy]

what makes pvp teams so much fun is that it is not balanced, and the most successful guild would almost certainly be cross-team.

[paulgiamatti]

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

DISCLAIMER : This is not a bash. This is constructive criticism.

Well, there you have it folks. Condescension and arrogance wrapped up nicely into two succinct sentences. Clearly we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between beratement and critique all by ourselves. We needed it pointed out for us. This is constructive. Trust me. You wouldn't be able to tell if it wasn't.

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

-Kill red an make a teams pvp which would explode population pvp.
( could you ever get the crazys on red to agree.)
They think rallos was the preferred rule set... have fun dying slow.
TZ / VZ / SZ teams would explode your red server. You are dumb to think otherwise.
Or make a new hardcoded teams PvP server an watch red die slowly.

I don't quite follow this logic. Where are all these new red players going to come from? From blue? I mean look, I've already said my piece on PvP elsewhere, and while teams on PvP would be an interesting change it's not going to explode the server population. It might generate a small amount of new interest, if any at all, but it's hardly a silver-bullet solution to the drastically marginalized red population. GMs probably understand the sociology behind this better than most of us do. It's practically the same exact thing as it was on live, just scaled down. A small portion of players want the EQ PvP experience, and the vast majority don't. Teams PvP isn't going to change this.

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

-End Class R so they don't have the comfort of free mobs + FFA mobs + C mobs. Or push Class R into C if you get 3 FFA mobs in one month (or something similiar). The raid rules are shit. Example this week. Class C got 1 mob (that class R could of went for) yet Class R get 11 mobs (that class C cant even touch) . It is dumb.

There are some real problems with the raid scene at the moment, but this is definitely not an apt summary of any of them. The real issue has more to do with mobility between class R and class C than it does with the class system itself. The class system is great in theory, but less great - probably not even good - in practice. Currently we have at least three huge class R guilds that could easily hold their own against the lesser VP dragons, but class C has had such a stranglehold on the one bottleneck for VP keys that we probably won't see anyone else in there until sometime after Velious. And to be frankly honest, if I was in class C I would probably be trying to maintain that stranglehold just as fervently as anyone else. They don't want competition in VP until Velious is out. Neither would I.

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

Server is going to fail if we sit an do nothing.
Sirken was saying on stream " If Rogean ever quits this server will die slowly" well he has pretty much quit. You never see lord Rogean ever make in game appearances anymore. No repop since new year 2014. No hands on project management that the community can see or notice.

No it isn't. The server is still in good hands, even if GM involvement in the foreshadow of Velious has dwindled slightly. To say Rogean not being in game is nothing new would be a huge understatement, and this provides exactly zero problems since there is already a perfectly capable staff taking care of the necessary stuff.

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

-The Staff use to log in an care (Have GM events , Have Illusion Bombs, Chat/Answer Petitions , GM pvp Events , GM EXP Bonus). If they have moved on IRL i hope they at least pass the project onto Nilbog an find new people that will help like..
-If Rogean cares enough maybe he could set up a donation number goal, that we could reach. so that he could hire some Devs to help speed up the process. Or hire a GM. This community is full of great people an we would crowd fund a full time GM or full time Coding Dev. Maybe even hire a GM that we could pay to do classic events. This is very possible an you know we would fund it.

Agreed, but if I'm not mistaken new guide and GM applications have always been welcomed. I get the feeling no one is fit to fill the shiny new GM shoes at the moment. That Daldaen guy makes a huge amount of significant contributions in the testing department - "hire" him. Hell, put him on as a beta testing dev. Unless of course, you know, he doesn't want to.

The rest of your post just kind of blurred together around a few central points, which mostly struck me as non-issues and caricatured versions of how the GMs and development staff are probably approaching Velious beta testing. It kinda just sounds like you think the whole Velious content thing magically appeared out of nowhere, and now they're bestowing it upon the hapless denizens of the Project 1999 server to fix it until it works. Well, my good sir, that is not how it works. The people making this stuff possible have put in an incomprehensible amount of time and effort into getting things to where they are today, and your entire post smacks of underappreciation and a general misunderstanding of what they've done, how they've done it, and the quality of uncompensated work being put into it.

The Project 1999 developers know that game mechanics are more important than having 100% of all quest content verified. I can assure you that they don't need this pointed out to them. There is no expectation of us to test the content for them - this is a false contingency. No one forced you to test on the beta server when they took blue and red down for a brief amount of time. They thanked those who did, but they didn't reprimand anyone who didn't. I can guarantee you that the verification of easily testable quest content is not the biggest contributor to the delay of Velious' release. It helps if we test it, but I'm sure there are bigger issues that need to be worked out and that those are the real detractors to a timely Velious date.

And on that point, yes, by all means give some people GM abilities on the beta server to test this stuff.