Beta2..

will start in about 3 weeks.

This beta will focus on stability and balancing. We got enough content for players up to level 50 at least.. (mayber we even get enough up to level 65) We did a lot of world changes since Beta1, so if you got a character back from beta 1 days and want it moved to a town because you aren't sure if he is still save at the place you logged him send us a message or post it. I would love to write down the features but we got too many already and i don't feel like either writing a few hours or spamming the forum ;)

For more information take a look at http://www.eqemu-paradigma.de the wiki is a good place to get some more information

Just thought I would give an update on some of the new features added since beta 1. There has literally been a ton of work done since beta 1. Beta 2 according to the other devs is right around the corner now. ( Within a couple of weeks hopefully but may be more or less depending on real life time and other factors the devs run into...you know how it goes. ) You can read about a lot of the new features in our wiki, but I will post some here to give you a sneak peek.

Most of this is copy and pasted from our site. Not going into too much detail to save the surprise of some things. Most of it is self explanatory anyway.

YellForHelp
Yelling for Help at this server will call nearby friendly guild NPC guards to help you. Target your opponent move close to the guards and yell. If the NPC is close enough, the guards can see the opponent and your faction to the guards is higher than the faction of your opponent than they will assist you in your fight.

ParadigmaTaunt
The ParadigmaTaunt is working on Players and NPCs. At a successful taunt
- NPCs will get the hate increased
- Players will get stunned for 0 seconds and switch the target to the Taunting person

HarvestingSystem
Harvesting is quite easy a lot of zones provide ressources that can be harvested if the character has the right tools equiped. Move close to the ressource you want to harvest (eg. a stone) click it and wait while your character is harvesting. It is important not to move or the try will fail. If your skill is high enough you will be able to extract something of the node. Maybe you are even able to find a diamond ;) Enjoy the hunt for ressources.

Just a few of the new features added since Beta 1. There are a lot more I wont mention and spoil, but be assured this will probably be one of the most unique servers you ill ever play on if you give it a try.

When beta 2 starts be ready for a LOT of new quests, all custom built by the dev team. Unique monster encounters. And a ton of things you wont find on any other server. Hope to see you all there. To read more about the server or give suggestions check out www.eqemu-paradigma.de

Lots of info in the parawiki.

good to see you're still developing paaco!

I wouldn't exactly call it developing. At the moment I am still tagged as a developer but I haven't contributed at all. Last few months I have been working 60-70 hours pretty much every week. Leaves me with time to come home, shower,and catch a nap, no time to develop. Although that it starting to ease up so I am hoping to slip back into it. I was in charge of world balance which is a pretty big undertaking for one man, and although they have stripped that title from me, I am going to do the best I can when Beta 2 starts. Balancing pets, classes, skills, and abilities.

Nice to see you are still around though Jim, it's been a while. And I still appreciate the help you gave me when I was an eqemu noob. You and a few others are the main reason I am still into this project :)

yeah, i've been coming and going now for 5 years or so, lol. Gonna try another server here pretty soon, even if I have to pay for hosting. One of the main reasons I spent so much time helping you was my inability to host a server myself. I am out of school now and have a job so I can actually afford such things.

Did you give up on your other project? I know paradigma has been around for quite a while now. When did you start working with them?

Started working with Paradigma 6 or 7 months ago. I do still have the server that I was working on saved, so If I ever needed something to keep me busy I could fire that back up. Would have replied sooner but forums here kept giving me evil database errors.

Bah
PS... Warklan = Paaco =/

Didn't know my brother had logged on hehe thats his account.

We are going to start beta2 next week friday.

Please keep in mind that it is a beta. There will be bugs, and we still miss a lot of content, features that we wanted to add. For those who played at beta1, your chars are still there at the same old spot you left them. But as we mentioned earlier send us a message if you want them moved to a close town, since we changed almost every zone and it might not be a safe spot now. Atm we don't plan to lock the server again, since we got enough content up to level 60 at least to keep peoples busy.
And for those of you who think about skipping beta2 and joining us at beta3 a short feature preview what you can expect in about half a year... player housing, guildhalls, wars, merchants and even more content.. ;)

With beta 2 less than a week away now, i thought I would post even a few more unique server things for people to try out. The more people try, the better. Hopefully we will have a good sized crowd for the beta which starts Friday, June 1st.

Camp Locations
Camps are Merchant crafted locations which can be placed everywhere in the world and add HP Mana regen as long as you stay close to them. Some Camps are only placeable by certain classes and their effect is limited to the raid, group, guild, allied guild of the camp owner.

Conquest System
Fight for Cities, Towns, Towers/Bridges and Camps, spawn NPCs there and control them. Owning locations adds a bonus and even makes zone control possible.

Location NPC's
There are different kind of NPCs that can be placed at locations for support.

New Bandage System
The Hitpoints gained per bandage process are depending on the skill and the used bandage. Only the lower ones are buyable, all higher ones need to be crafted.

Just a few more unique things you can expect to see on Paradigma, try them all out, attempt to abuse and exploit the system, and report your findings so they can be fixed. What other servers invite you to exploit while playing? :)
( Please be aware that you should report all found exploits immediately, not doing so will bring a swift ban, Aza has an ungodly amount of custom logs and cheat scripts running )

Remember Beta 2 starts June 1st which is Friday. Looking forward to seeing you all.

We will open the server one day earlier. (that's tomorrow)

Please make sure that you take a look at our webiste before logging in. Otherwise you won't see any harvest nodes, mailboxes and you might encounter a lot of humans of all sizes during your travels ;)

This is a balancing beta test, that means if you notice anything that is too hard or too easy please report it so we can adjust everything.

I might give this a shot, sounds interesting. I messed around with Guildwars and Lucid and had a lot of fun.


EDIT: I tried to create an account on your site and I never received an email. Are you not accepting new registrations, or did I do something wrong?

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I also wanted to mention that we are in a beta mode.
We still dont have much content so dont expect for much to do =P
There are around 8 zones that are ready and we are working on it.
The beta is mostly to help the staff find bugs by the players. So dont get the work impression =P

Looking forward to see you guys inside!

Swish.

Is this server up or is this a old bumped thread? I would love to test to play on this one :)

It's up currently. Log in, look around, have some fun!

EQGame.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.

no further info given about the crash in the box..

not running vista.

Hope you guys can work around this, I'd love to join you. everquest pvp is all I ever will play (and I miss it so dearly) props to you guys for setting up a pvp server. Hopefully I can get in there......later.

-Patrick

Eqgame.exe problem would be something on your end most likely. Have you tried any of the other servers to see if you can recreate it. There is pretty much no way for us to troubleshoot an eqgame error though, way too many things could cause it.

An eqgame error on the loginscreen is nothing we can fix. That's up to the eqemulator dev team, and that could be today or never. It happens when it happens.

An eqgame error inside the game is related to us and is fixable. If that's the case post it in the bugs section on our forums.

I have put up a Teamspeak 2 server for the time being for the paradigma server. if anyone wants to play around on it. Ask each other about quests or whatever, I will leave it up as long as it is being used. Runs off of my home connection on a Linux box, I have been working at Time Warner Cable and they have given me a business class connection at home. So should do fine. Anywho, have fun and help us beta test!

Host for Teamspeak = paradigma.redirectme.net
( You need the newest client version to use it )

Also I don't care what is said on there as far as language as long as there is no flaming and it isn't abused. IE...I don't want to hear the F word 8 times in every sentence. I also don't want to hear anything about drugs.

Well, ****. I'm Italian, so that leave me out. ;)

Fixthembugz!
 

Yea, I dont see any active GM's on the beta..

And there's HUMANGUS bugs... Talk about dieing to your own city guards, and loseing EVERY spell in your spellbook...

Yea, wtb active GM's and maybe people will play the Beta

For a beta you really have very minimal content, and very non-active GM's...

Your Patcher for your server, does it mess up all other Emu servers? I know you have custom zones with needed files, does this affect other servers that I wish to play on?

[ ] Yes [ ] No

Seems like a great idea and a pretty fun server if things in the Beta made it worth Beta testing. Get an active Dev and everything should roll smoothly..If you dont have any active people why even have it in Beta? Lock the server, I read it had content up to level 50... If you fix the problem with loseing EVERY spell in your spell book it might be possible ~

Also, there's another problem, your factions are completely askew... Neriak Foreign Quarter has random guards attacking me.

One guard is Kindly...The other is Threateningly..

Wtfmate?

you only loose the spells during the character generation and that is no bug. but you might be right that you also loose them if you change from wizard to wizard .. going to check it and fix it. so once you left the tutorial there shouldn't be any lost spells at all.
going to check the guards today, looks like we missed one or 2 last time we changed the faction. (no clue how it happened) but that's easy to fix. we also use 3 different faction systems . the normal npc to player one and a guild to player and guild to guild one. so if you get attacked by an npc inside a town it might also be the guard of a guild for example.
the patch might only cause problems like human models instead of the real ones at other servers. if you don't install the patch you won't be able to see the harvesting nodes, mailboxes, some item graphics, some spells + discs won't work. you could just copy all .txt files out of the dir before you use our patcher. and copy them back if you play somewhere else.
about the lack of content atm we only support the neriak <-> freeport area (inlcuding lavastorm area <-> west commonlands area <-> oasis area + soon rivervale area)

I didn't realize you guys were in Beta testing mode (haven't really looked into other servers much) or I'd have let ya know about the spell bug. I started as a wizard on your server and changed class to wizard, which erased all of my spells and reset all of my skills to 0. Also, it might have already been said, but there is a problem with the Neriak zone in point from the Home City chooser in Tutorial zone. I got stuck under the world and quit. =P Also, from the Home City chooser, I told the NPC "Felwithe" (as I was a High Elf Wizzy) and it ported me to Neriak anyway (again, I didn't know there were special limitations or I'd have chosen an available option)

Your server looks great though. Good luck getting everything implemented. I am personally not a fan of PvP, so I won't be playing, but the entire system blows my mind when I think about all the code behind it.

thx for the info .. the first bug is already fixed. going to take a look at the zoneline but i think that one is also fixed

Aza, somethings wrong with Neriak Commons.. / Oasis of Marr <--- Those 2 zones lagout hardcore. Its not just me and or my net connection.. Somthing is crashing them, only in those zones do I LD or crash randomly... And yes I have the patcher.


Everytime me or my bro zones in there its LAG CRAZY and you cant do anything, only in that zone does the ms run from like 254... to like 4,000.

Cant buy any spells like that, and or do any quests..

Secondly, Neriak has very minimal amount of quests that are to be done... Freeport has like a billion..

And are the loot tables implemented? Killed mobs from every accessable zone and the named of every zone and still no loot...Though I did get a bracer from Hewthrout... Wondering if the loot tables are not in yet or what. Cloth sucks!

going to check those 2 zones today... freeport was the beta1 town that's why it still has more quests. i'm going to check the loottables today .. i'm pretty sure we got a lot quite a few armor sets already

i tried doing the staff quest with the twothumbs(?) dwarf guy and he kept asking me the trigger question over and over, but i could not ever get the reply correct. Even tho i was saying exactly what he wanted me to.
That was a couple of weeks ago, Has that bug been fixxed yet?

that one should be fixed

Server
 

Hey, is this server still up and running? It sounds very fun and exciting, I like the strategic aspect of it (controlling cities, guards, etc.) since I am an RTS player.

sure we are still working on it

Recieve a "Name has been rejected" after I make a character.

If I use enter tutorial I crash.

[Fixed problem]

This server has a lot of potential. Was wondering why Faydwer is not a part of the world (I didn't see it in the zone list). Will you possibly be adding it later?

Aww damnit, the one server I was monitoring with feverish interest seems to have vanished? The web links are all dead. :(

Please tell me this server isn't dead. Or, can I have your stuff? ;)

There can only be one.

;)

<3,
Dax

This is true. However, I still require source code that I can steal and integrate into my world so I can knock you off your cloud. ;)

~runs~

Yes, it's dead.

Aza has the source code, I don't know if he wanted to release it so i'm leaving it to his best interests. (I don't have it anyway, I could have 'took' it but that'd be morally wrong and completely unprofessional.)

So... that's a wrap. nothing to see here.

Aza, oh Aza! Wherefor art thee! Thy community wisheth to gank your code!

;)

That's too bad, Secrets. This is a server I was really looking forward to.

I left PMs too, but haven't gotten a response. 8(

I'd like to see what they were doing over there.

Dax

Well... it's basically placeable objects in-world (NPCs, teleporters, soulbinders, etc.) my horrible DBA skills back then (was still learning) as well as a custom starting zone, where you have to earn your class, race, etc. (Honestly I think this is what drove people away) and a custom class named the merchant.

Another thing he did is timeouts for world <-> login, meaning, the server would show as unavailable till 2 minutes after you /q'd out.

Some MQ2 fixes were in there as well, namely the 'zone to anywhere from anywhere' one was fixed...

Oh how i'd kill to have the source... but sadly I haven't seen aza in ages, it's a shame, since my DB skills have gotten so much better since then.. I just hope he's ok.

I'd like to have it back for learning, anyhow. Oh, and seeing how horrible my DB normalization skills were compared to now ;p

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what ever happened to this server? sooo much time and work went into this and now has it all been forgotte? or am i missing something