Sol Ro and Plane of Hate Dates -- Real Dates?

[jejukin]

What's interesting here is that if you look at the patch notes for 1999 in Allakhazam, the reference to the opening of hate on 11/3 is omitted. There's no record of it there. The link in the wiki page for the history points to a wayback archive of eqic.net, which is a 3rd party site. The only other reference match to that sentence about the halloween event is a rando french website. It doesn't exist anywhere else.

I was tempted to say for credibility's sake I trust Alla more. However, some thorough searching revealed this conversational bit from dec 1999:

https://www.oocities.org/theroyalnor...uard/rok1.html

While wholly conversational, it corroborates the halloween launch of plane of Hate.

What's interesting to note here, is that whereas the wiki page for the timeline of patches indicates that Hate was released on November 3rd, that's incorrect - the November 3rd patch notes reference it in past tense, saying that Hate was available following the Halloween events on Sunday (Sunday was Halloween, the 31st).

The conversational bit which corroborates this fact above, also says it opened with the halloween event.

"[...] the holloween opening for plane of hate was happening.."

[Dolalin]

Alla and the Japanese site simply don't have all the patch notes from 1999, and even some from 2000 are missing. That's why I really had to dig for them on sites like eqic.

If Alla had all the patches I'd just link to Alla. They don't.

[Trexller]

So what happened to patches the first friday of every month? Its Friday May 1st!

[ravinz]

It still is May 1st. Patches don't all come at the stroke of midnight.

[zaneosak]

Some patches happen during day, some at night, some mid-day, Rogean usually puts out a server wide yellow msg that says "We are now in September 1999 Era"

I don't recall any patches needing servers to come down, not even fear.

[Meiva]

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

Some patches happen during day, some at night, some mid-day, Rogean usually puts out a server wide yellow msg that says "We are now in September 1999 Era"

I don't recall any patches needing servers to come down, not even fear.

They stopped doing the yellow text in 2020. Fear was opened at 9pm EST and devs jabbed at the community for not noticing it was opened until 12am. It was suggested we didn't want it as bad as we thought we did...

[zaneosak]

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

They stopped doing the yellow text in 2020. Fear was opened at 9pm EST and devs jabbed at the community for not noticing it was opened until 12am. It was suggested we didn't want it as bad as we thought we did...

That's good info to have.
I thought there was a message after fear for Aug 1999? Maybe I am mis-remembering to a previous time.

[Meiva]

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

I thought there was a message after fear for Aug 1999? Maybe I am mis-remembering to a previous time.

You have mis-remembered. I wish you hadn't.

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

It actually opened at 9 PM Eastern. If people weren't checking the portal until 12 AM then I guess you didn't want to go to Fear that badly.

As far as announcements, it was already stated that eras would unlock the first Friday of each month.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...93#post3082493

At least for anyone that doubts that the wiki dates are wrong. That quote is what the wiki Green patch dates is based from. It's just not made-up dates or "guesses" Rogean even referred players to the wiki timeline. The timeline is community built and maybe not 100%, but it is close enough a Dev will refer you to it... lol

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

Read the Wiki. It's all there.

http://wiki.project1999.com/EverQuest_Timeline

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...48#post3082748

[zaneosak]

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

You have mis-remembered. I wish you hadn't.



https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...93#post3082493

At least for anyone that doubts that the wiki dates are wrong. That quote is what the wiki Green patch dates is based from. It's just not made-up dates or "guesses" Rogean even referred players to the wiki timeline. The timeline is community built and maybe not 100%, but it is close enough a Dev will refer you to it... lol



https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...48#post3082748

I've personally added stuff to that timeline, I've always used that as my reference but never really 100% set in stone, but as far as 1999 patch notes go, it matches up. So we'll see today [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Cen]

They should just drop the load tomorrow with both hahaha that would be sexy