Mages were HORRIBLE at launch

[Jadian]

Yeah, changing sound tracks in the planes definitely sounds like a priority for one of the first game patches

[DMN]

i'm pretty leary of taking morons as gospel 20 years after the fact.

How is it the same guy who says "This is an enchanters take on the changes." can jive with "I don't play an enchanter but I am sure that they will like this."

[Jimjam]

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

i'm pretty leary of taking morons as gospel 20 years after the fact.

How is it the same guy who says "This is an enchanters take on the changes." can jive with "I don't play an enchanter but I am sure that they will like this."

Pretty sure he meant to say he doesn't play magician. Given thr context of the rest of the post.

So magician pets don't kick?

[DMN]

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

Pretty sure he meant to say he doesn't play magician. Given thr context of the rest of the post.

So magician pets don't kick?

Pretty sure he's an idiot.

[Hagglebaron]

So what was the verdict on the mage issue? Was OP right or wrong?

[kylok]

Looks pretty correct to me. Shit sounds extremely classic

[Quinas]

What's amazing is how unfinished this game was in March 1999, and yet how much it was loved despite that. Goes to show how a lack of competition can really have an effect. And how something truly novel and revolutionary can be forgiven for its faults!

Nowadays.. unfinished + rehash of 10 other games = Twitter hate.

[Dolalin]

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

Pretty sure he's an idiot.

At least he could copy-paste, that's all I care about.

I'm reminded of that manuscript of boring old Bible writing where they put it under the X-ray and found the monk had written over a copy of a mathematical treatise by Archimedes.

Nobody cares what the monk wrote over top, it's what he accidentally preserved underneath that had value. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Quinas]

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

At least he could copy-paste, that's all I care about.

I'm reminded of that manuscript of boring old Bible writing where they put it under the X-ray and found the monk had written over a copy of a mathematical treatise by Archimedes.

Nobody cares what the monk wrote over top, it's what he accidentally preserved underneath that had value. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well-played.

[Dolalin]

I found another lost patch message. This www.notcrazy.com site seems to have a lot of them.

http://web.archive.org/web/199904290.../notcrazy.com/

Server Update 4/27/99 7:30 pm
Citizens of Norrath,
We are pleased to announce that the hardware upgrade that was performed on our router this morning has appeared to resolve the severe packet loss problems that many players were encountering over the past week. We have been, and will continue to monitor the load on the new hardware to assure that the packet-loss problems will no longer occur on our end. During the router upgrade we transported the Karana server farm to the AT&T; CerfNet facility to further reduce the load on our router. Also, the new "Rodcet Nife" server was just brought up to accommodate the additional users that have joined over the past few weeks. After thoroughly testing changes made only for Rallos Zek (PK server), we have activated the new code for the PK server ONLY.

The changes include the following;
1) Pets will no longer kill themselves if their master has invisibility cast on them.
2) Pets will no longer attack other players while they are in guard mode if their master goes link-dead.
3) Pets will now attack opposing combatants while their master is dueling.
4) NPCs will no longer respond to invisible PCs.

Other fixes and changes include:

1) The corpse class tag will not be listed as "Unknown".
2) Players will be given text messages for items that they cannot obtain while looting a corpse, instead of the item disappearing.
3) A number of quests and combat related exploits were fixed.
4) Characters are no longer able to use the disarm command while using feign death.

At Midnight, on Wednesday the 28th, the servers will be brought down for an update.

- The EverQuest Team

Edit: actually I spoke too soon, it only has this one, the news archive links don't work. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]