Res timer = 3 hours... classic?

[oldhead]

A normal player corpse can be resurrected only within the first 3 hours after death. This timer only ticks if the player (or any player on account?) is online.

I do not remember it being like this in classic.

I can recall letting my corpse sit at zone lines (as long as it had an item left on it) and going about my business grouping or whatever while I waited for a cleric to show up sometimes hours or even a day later.

I do not recall any urgency regarding res timers. People would leave low value items on the corpse just in case they never got a res and it did rot.

[Grimjaw]

at what point in the timeline do you recall this? Because I recall in classic corpses only lasting 24 hours before they completely rotted. (Yes, in classic everquest your corpse was gone after 24 hours)

[myriverse]

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

at what point in the timeline do you recall this? Because I recall in classic corpses only lasting 24 hours before they completely rotted. (Yes, in classic everquest your corpse was gone after 24 hours)

It was 24 hours of online time or 7 days offline, whichever came first. My first several days playing EQ, I remember passing this one girl's 6-7 corpses strewn throughout WK for like a week. I think she must have rage quit or something. But I used her corpses as landmarks for almost a week.

[SamwiseRed]

"CORPSE RECOVERY. This is from a post on EQ Vault by John Smedley: "In a nutshell, the Corpse Recovery rules are as follows: Characters All Levels: If you have no items on your corpse, it will dissapear within 3 minutes. Characters Level 1-5: Corpse will dissapear within 30 minutes (real time) whether you are online or offline. Those of you wondering why this rule is in place? - There would be WAY to many bodies if we didn't do it this way. Characters Level 6 and above - Corpse will dissapear within 24 hours if the player is online (being at the character select screen STILL counts as online). Corpses will dissapear within 1 week if the player is offline." An additional note to this that you should be aware of is that being online means being logged into your account, no matter what character you are playing. Thus, if you have a character die and switch to another character for 24 hours without looting that first corpse, the corpse will disappear and you will lose all of your stuff."

[Mahande]

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

"CORPSE RECOVERY. This is from a post on EQ Vault by John Smedley: "In a nutshell, the Corpse Recovery rules are as follows: Characters All Levels: If you have no items on your corpse, it will dissapear within 3 minutes. Characters Level 1-5: Corpse will dissapear within 30 minutes (real time) whether you are online or offline. Those of you wondering why this rule is in place? - There would be WAY to many bodies if we didn't do it this way. Characters Level 6 and above - Corpse will dissapear within 24 hours if the player is online (being at the character select screen STILL counts as online). Corpses will dissapear within 1 week if the player is offline." An additional note to this that you should be aware of is that being online means being logged into your account, no matter what character you are playing. Thus, if you have a character die and switch to another character for 24 hours without looting that first corpse, the corpse will disappear and you will lose all of your stuff."

Can we get a date confirmation of this? Because during the 10 years that I played the game on live this was never the case.

[Haynar]

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

Can we get a date confirmation of this? Because during the 10 years that I played the game on live this was never the case.

I don't know whether it was true or not. But it deserves investigating.

H

[Bardalicious]

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

Can we get a date confirmation of this? Because during the 10 years that I played the game on live this was never the case.

It was very much the case. For example I was playing on rallos zek during classic, I had saved up enough plat to buy travelers boots off the merchant for my twink wizard. I ended up dying en route to Sol A and recall getting back to my corpse with mere seconds left before it rotted with all that platinum on it.

I'll never forget that moment for the rest of my life.

[maahes]

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

"CORPSE RECOVERY. This is from a post on EQ Vault by John Smedley: "In a nutshell, the Corpse Recovery rules are as follows: Characters All Levels: If you have no items on your corpse, it will dissapear within 3 minutes. Characters Level 1-5: Corpse will dissapear within 30 minutes (real time) whether you are online or offline. Those of you wondering why this rule is in place? - There would be WAY to many bodies if we didn't do it this way. Characters Level 6 and above - Corpse will dissapear within 24 hours if the player is online (being at the character select screen STILL counts as online). Corpses will dissapear within 1 week if the player is offline." An additional note to this that you should be aware of is that being online means being logged into your account, no matter what character you are playing. Thus, if you have a character die and switch to another character for 24 hours without looting that first corpse, the corpse will disappear and you will lose all of your stuff."

Link your source nerd.

[Technique]

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

Can we get a date confirmation of this? Because during the 10 years that I played the game on live this was never the case.

FEBRUARY 21, 2001

Naked PC corpses that have experience and are above level 30 will now last 3 hours instead of 3 minutes.

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010221a.html

Abashi's clarification to a question regarding this (emphasis mine):

There is, indeed, only one timer on a corpse. If you have a 6th level or higher, experience giving, non-naked corpse in game and you spend 12 hours playing and then 3.5 days not playing, your corpse will indeed be gone.
I'll rewrite that bit and try to make it less confusing.
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Player Corpse Decay Times
p.20: The bottom half of this page outlines corpse decay times based upon level and login status. The times provided are incorrect. The player-corpse decay times are as follows. Please note that all times are in real time, not Norrathian time:
Level 1 – 5: 30 minutes
Level 6+: 24 hours of online time, or 1 week of offline time (or some combination of both).

Empty corpses (with no items) have a different timer than those with items:
Level 1 – 29: 3 minutes
Level 30+ : 3 hours (total, online or offline).
*Note: It is best advised to get your corpse right away. Also note that when considering corpses that are not empty one-hour in game is the same as seven hours out of game, and that the timer on a corpse ticks down whether you are in game or not. If you have a level 12 corpse with items on it in the game and spend 12 hours playing and 3.5 days out of game, that corpse will be gone. Also, be advised that leaving your computer at the character select screen or play on another character on that same account counts as time in game as it relates to the corpse decay timer.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20030...ML/000305.html

[oldhead]

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

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010221a.html

Abashi's clarification to a question regarding this (emphasis mine):
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20030...ML/000305.html

All of this only addresses decay of corpses and EMPTY corpses.

If you leave a junk item on a corpse it holds the corpse for res for later. I mean this was common practice in classic EQ. Empty corpses used to poof fast then they changed it so empty corpses will last 3 hours... EMPTY. I do not remember the res timer on a corpses with items on it. I do not see that info posted.