Blood of the Akkadian (BETA)
 

BACKGROUND

Once you have proved yourself through the tests that Sylvan provide, you are sent back to the medium where Guildmaster Jayden will delegate you your necessary tasks to accomplish.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...uildmaster.jpg



BETA TERMS:
-BETA YET TO BE ANNOUNCED
-BETA TESTING CHARACTERS ARE PRONE TO WIPE DUE TO TESTING REASONS
-34 People are currently registered for BETA

FUTURE PLANS:
-Continual development
-New detailed website with Allakhazam
-Wiki
-Dual Login set-up
-Magelo

geeze akkadius, some impressive stuff here. I cant wait for it to go live to try it out.

-Alastor-
-StormHaven-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...imetouched.jpg

^ the fact that you took the time and effort for detail in the city zones, and the fact that it requires no files (i've checked this out myself) is really, really, impressive.

I took a look at this server when it was in development and the little things that you take for granted are what makes it stand out. It really brings me back to the origins of what made EQ great. Noteable characters, a storyline, amongst other things. Everything that was lacking from most EQEmu servers seems to be here.

Looking forward to this.

Very Impressive....wish you the best on this incredible project you have presented.Looking forward to its public release......

Wow
 

I gotta say out of all the server's I have seen, really excited for this one, good luck!

Lookin really good, if it is better the the last server, then it is bound to be great, even equal to the last server it should rock pretty hard. Really looking forward to it.

As fun as the last server was, from what I recall, that was more of a proof of concept than an actual server meant for playing. This server actually has story and direction, and should be a wonderful addition, proving what can be d one with the Emulator in the hands of talented coders and world builders. Keep up the good work Akkadius.

Awesome stuff Akka! You must share this WoW UI with me! :)

Here's a little idea of what the Hub Zone (Hall of Heroes) looks like currently.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...4/EQ000028.jpg

WOw
 

Wow, The graphis are amazing, I might die of anticipation lmao

You see that little dark elf standing there in the distance? Yeah, that's me. The server seems to be coming along quite nicely. Granted, there are some minor issues and bugs, but what server is without those, but for being BETA, this server is very well polished at this point. The quests from first logging in your character to where I am now, are well done, they lead you without making you feel completely railroaded.

We've got tons of themes with progress instilled upon them (Mostly done), but the chronological order in which your events take place need their transitioning phases completed. We have about 3-4 other themes that need to be put together with what is currently in there.

So basically we need to put them in place in order (Scaling most importantly) and then we'll talk official BETA which will still be closed ~ Meaning you need to PM me at the ghetto website below with your account name and LS number.

Here's a picture of the Velious theme area I just knocked out last night in like 30 minutes... 8 D (Yes this is in Guild Lobby) Hall of Heroes

*Update - Making very good headway, standby for further announcement.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...4/EQ000031.jpg

I've been involved in some pre-Beta, and I gotta say it's been a lot of fun so far! A few wrinkles still, but Akka is ironing those out as they're found. Great work by the dev team so far, and I'm looking forward to the opening of the server! I love having a story to follow, and I've had fun working through a few quests. I've played on numerous servers over the years, and this one really has a chance to be one of the special ones - definitely one to keep your eye on!

I am curious to learn about:

-Completely different mechanics of traveling the world that we have structured.
-UNIQUE Spell systems for characters
-Unique world/zone structure system.

could you give detail what is it about?

I am currently playing in the "alpha" stage.. So far I am REALLY enjoying Blood! For us old EQ players, theming the thing in the original old world zones is simply perfect. The story so far is very captivating! This is not just a server of hack and slash, grab loot and be "uber". Without revealing too much, I'll just say that there is a timeline and my toon has a "purpose". Hats off to Akk and the team for a masterfull server!

Hitex

This looks awesome! I've been looking for something like this, can't wait until its open ! =)

its pretty sick, im doing alpha testing right now and it is a very interesting twist on everquest. Heavily lore based which is excellent.

As far as adding the particles to guildlobby, you had to edit the client files to do that, to add environment emitters, correct?

If not, how did you do it?

He did it with this new command:
http://code.google.com/p/projecteqem.../detail?r=1261

where can i find list of these effects and what they do?

Absolutely no client files are required, besides a spell file.

im alpha testing as well, and all i can say is so far so amazing. focused on content very strongly and lore, everything is fitting perfectly together so far :). Akkadius has recreated everquest in a whole new and wonderful perspective, that I can now see it through his eyes. Its great, can't wait till everyone can start together =].

Here i am, trying to go through Blackburrow, and take care of gnolls for a main world quest task, befriended an assassin along the way.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ianko/eezs.png

A few more screenies:


http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/EQ000003.jpg

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/EQ000004.jpg


http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/EQ000007.jpg

And:

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/EQ000008.jpg

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/EQ000005.jpg

Nice
 

Wow, I can't wait until this server comes out, looks unique and fresh

Ok, my PM box is way too full to enter that many LS accounts and numbers. So what I'm going to do when BETA comes in is that I am going to open the server up for 1-2 days and cutting off. Whoever comes in knows that their character is there for the purpose of testing and is prone to deletion as it is for testing purposes and there will be a menu that will display that as you enter.

As for right now, I am trucking through all kinds of scripts and different things right now that give it a day or two we'll see where I am at. I also have Secrets popping in to truck along on different things as well.

For those of you wanting to check in, I have not forgot about you and I appreciate your want to help test the server out.

This is Akkadius updating, I'm out.

Another update: Depending on how things go, I may be opening it up for BETA here today or tomorrow. So if you want to get in to test, you are coming into test and provide constructive criticism and judging the content as a whole.

If questions, ask here, otherwise stay tuned.

If you want in, you better log in soon, otherwise I am closing it when I'm done working for the night.

Server up and rebooted for those who want to log in for BETA testing, and only for the purpose of testing.

Also sorry for the multi-post, but there's been a EQemu-wide related crash regarding factions that I killed the faction ID's on the Undead Norrath zone that you first zone into that was causing constant crashes. That should be gone, sorry for the inconvenience.

Also the status check is being buggy between locked and unlocked so if your character is not getting in, PM me here or on my site or post here.

Trying to get to the bottom of the odd error locking out people who are logging out, please standby.

Hey, thank you for opening up your server to us. Really look forward to playing. However, when I get hit by the main NPC at the starter zone and then it loads to go into Befallen. I get a visual c++ runtime error. Do you have any idea what this could be caused by?

All other servers work fine. I tried updating my drivers, reinstalling visual c++ library, reinstalling everquest titanium and still get this error.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Yep, I just got done taking a breather from it all because it's been causing me issues all day, going to be re consolidating my database and then opening it back up and probably going to have people skip the Befallen stage because Befallen on my server has pretty much been a huge PITA the whole time. I honestly haven't liked Befallen, so I'm probably going to change the starter zone to Unrest (Undead Reasons).

Also, Befallen is probably the ugliest part of the whole server so I will be forwarding testers to Hall of Heroes until I create Unrest. Until then, I will be taking those accounts that have been trying to log in, and wipe characters, while in turn you can all start in.

Sorry for the unfortunate and small error that shot down all the anticipation, will be back up shortly. But keep in mind this is still testing period.

Thanks for the response. I wasn't sure if it was just my client. Nice to know more information. No hurry, I look forward to it when the changes have been made.

Thank you for putting your time and effort into making a great server.

Yeah, I'm leaving it open to BETA for tonight, I just sliced Befallen, so you go straight to level 15 and to HoH. For whatever reason Befallen crashes EverQuest Titanium clients, so you have two themes to play in for now and that's Blackburrow/Qeynos and Cazicthule.

Here are some upcoming theme previews that are mostly done we just need to do touch ups because there is a ton of detail to add in via mobs, items, scripts, interactions, objects etc.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...de654/hhk3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...de654/hhk2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...de654/hhk1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...e654/Reign.jpg

Also have Age of the Snake here but there's an image cap and I'm not going to flood the boards with images...

This server is going to be fucking amazingly epic! cant wait!!

So far, this server is looking great. Akkadius has a busy schedule, but still manages to address issues as needed, and the idea that an emu server actually has a decent custom plotline brewing is pretty cool in my opinion