Gates of Time - New Server Currently in Luclin will go to Planes of Power and Beyond
 

The Gates of Time Server

What is the Vision of the Gates of Time server?

Our vision is to have a community focused server that will go from Classic content, through Planes of Power, and then beyond into custom content based on the wishes of our players. We will be getting YOUR feedback to shape the server and the story of Norrath after the Planes of Power expansion. This server truly belongs to the community; we are thankful that you allow us to run the server and help shape the world of Norrath for you. We believe that openness and fairness contribute to the growth of the community.

More importantly what is the Gates of Time Server?

The Gates of Time server is all about having fun, playing in fairness and enjoying the hunt for pixels with a fantastic group of players. We are currently in pushing through the Luclin Era, with all of the Luclin zones and raid encounters open for your enjoyment. This includes Acrylia Caverns as well as Vex Thal content. We are not another era-purist server, but have instead decided to take a quality of life approach to the game: we have Potion Belt, Bandolier, Autofire, Melody, Enhanced Trade skills, Buffs are not Level Restricted, and Advanced Research all available. We have community managers who will run GM events on a regularly scheduled basis, as well as community events planned for the enjoyment, and betterment, of our community. We will promote a healthy competitive raid environment so that all the community can enjoy the end-game content each expansion has to offer. We will be enforcing the EQLive’s “Play Nice Policy”, and we operate on the rule of “don’t be disruptive to other players”. We want you to have a positive experience on the server, and our Guides are available to help with any issues. Our vibrant community is also helpful to new players as they become acclimated to the server.

We operate under a three-box limit per player. If you have more than one player in a household you will have to ask for an IP Exemption. We have a 25% bonus to all experience on this server, and groups greater than 3 will see increases in experience as well as a significant boost for 6 people in a group.

We want this to be an equal opportunity server for all players, whether you are a single boxer or you like to run a group of 3 boxes we want it to be a good experience for the whole community. We encourage the use of Wineq2 for the improved ease of boxing your toons, and for quick window switching, but we do not allow any third party programs or mechanical devices that allow for non in game macros--we believe that one click should result in one action. We do not allow Macroquest or any other third party programs that alter the game experience in a way that automates any of the EQ functions.


What makes Gates of Time different and why should I play here?

First and foremost, we are a transparent server: we actively encourage your feedback and allow everyone to understand the mechanics of their favorite battles. We have a completely open AllaClone (http://allaclone.gatesoftime.com) that allows you to see every detail possible about the mobs your fight and your chances of getting the items that you have long hunted. Our players will always know where we are going and will have a voice in how this server and community is shaped.

Secondly, we have a fantastic community of players that is welcoming to both new players, and returning players as well. If you haven’t played EverQuest in years and have found your way to the EQEmulator site, you have found the right server: we were founded on the pillars of cooperation and inclusion of both the casual, and the more hardcore raiding characters. It will not take you long to catch up and experience the end-game content with the great people you have met along the way.

Finally, we have an amazing server staff. We have active and responsive Customer Service Staff (Guides and GMS), community managers, and developers that actively destroy bugs and enhance gameplay.

How do I get involved?

Please go to www.gatesoftime.com and sign up on our forums to get started. We have instructions on how to get started, and experienced players that can help you if you run into any issues. In addition to our forums, we have a Discord server where you can real-time interface and communicate with both staff and players. Please don’t be afraid to reach out if you need help, and we hope to welcome you to our community, and look forward to seeing you in game!

Now the real question on everyone's mind is it solo friendly lol.

I'll get that one out of the way.

@mjbcb0717

It is as solo friendly as you want it to be. We have a diverse population already and you can three box on the server. I would just suggest you try it and see if it is for you. If it is welcome to the community and if it is not then best of luck wherever you end up. It is a very social server so feel to reach out and make new friends.

Been playing on the server for a few weeks and the community and GMs have been amazing thus far. Looking forward to more AAs and raid encounters in the near future.

This server is definitely not just another private server for people that want to box by themselves. The community is thriving for being so new, and there are already multiple guilds for new comers to pair up with. This server has all of the quality of life features that make Everquest enjoyable to play, and is thrusted into the era that we all loved so much. Come give it a shot!

Been great so far with many nice features even for the luclin era. Any bugs from being a new server have been getting stomped on quick.

I'd like to welcome Anyone who would like to play or just stop in to chat. I am one of the Admin's Please seek me out if you have questions or any of the GM's. Hope to see you guys here.

-Anubis-

This server is great and is amazing to see what they have done in such a short time. I have a feeling this will end up being my home for a long time. The GMs are extremely helpfull and the focus is on the community as it should be.

I've been on this server for 3 weeks and it is a fantastic experience!

If we run into any single boxers while exp'ing we have no problem kicking one of our toons out to make room so come join up!

The QoL features make enjoying everquest fun without needing to dedicate hours and hours of time in one session to see progress. With that said, it is also not watered down to EZ mode at all!!

The challenge is there, the community is growing rapidly and the GM staff has been excellent!!

All right, I figured it's time I post in this thread.


Some things to know about me.
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- I loved EQ, especially the EQ in the early-to-mid 2000s.
- I love EQ because it is a game that promotes (and forces) social interaction.
- I love EQ because it is challenging, but rewarding.
- I love the challenge of EQ multiboxing, but dislike it when everyone runs their own group rather than interact with others.
- I have a job.
- I cannot play 40 hours a week. Maybe 10-15 at most.


For someone like me, this is the perfect server. The community is phenomenal. Helpful, knowledgeable, irreverent and lacking the tryhards who want to run over everyone else just to be #1.

Like I said above, I love to multibox. It's challenging to play multiple characters, each with a different role or responsibility, alongside other players in a group or a raid all trying to do the same thing.

What I hate about multiboxing is seeing people run around with 6-30 characters, MQ-assisted, never interacting with others and not contributing to the community. It's that social aspect that keeps me coming back to EQ. The 3-box limit is the perfect balance, allowing everyone to do things on their own but encouraging players to team up and collectively have a better experience.

It's not too easy and not too hard. It still takes me awhile to gain AA xp, but not an impossible amount of time. Quality of life features (guild lobby corpse summoning, tradeskill window, /melody) take care of the biggest issues and allow me to revel in the nostalgia.

If you can't tell, I'm stoked to be here.

This server isn't for everyone, but if you're anything like me and share a similar outlook on EQ and why it fucking rocks, you should give this server a try. It's the real deal. :)

I really like this server. The QoL is great with a nicer default UI (than the usual Titanium client) including the tradeskill window and that is just the start.

It's brand-stinkin'-new so there are some bugs and whatnot but I feel there are far fewer than some servers that have been out for over a year. I have only seen minor bugs and I think that is pretty impressive for such a new server. Some of the zone connections may put you in the wrong spot - that has happened to me twice and each time I ooc for GM assistance and seriously not 10 seconds later I get a GM teleport to where the zone was supposed to connect to. They actually have a specific thread for it on their forums so it's nice to know that this is something that is high priority to them and that they are working to fix them.

This server is not an EZ-mode server, but it is also not a nitpicky "omg this is out of era!!" server (not knocking P99 or others - they are great for what they are). In game maps were the LoY expansion but this server has them for all zones and I think that's just fine. There are other examples of out of era features (did I mention the tradeskill window? :-D) but none of them are going to trivialize content. I want the challenging content that we all think of when we think of EQ and this server delivers on that while not delivering on the soul-sucking, real-life-draining, neck-beard-growing experience that we know all too well.

The people are nice and helpful - I've seen randoms helping other randoms complete quests, exp, etc. so that they can have a positive gaming experience. I'll be sticking around here for sure.

This server is very much an alpha build, mounts everywhere, even indoor zones, Greengrocer npc to keep yourself fed as a cheap fix for a metabolism bug, one hit develing, you are asked not to start a dark elf for Neriak is bugged, and not to mention the lag and dcs.

The GMs say some of these things are intended features, but I wonder that.

Also questionable are manastones are allowed, allowed everywhere, I do believe that, pervasive mounts, and no-pet kill invis are ez mode.

They say allow server transfers and are an open-community server, but fail to mention what servers they're allowing transfers from. They refuse to have p99 expats just because of the rep of a few bads.

They use the excuse of 'screenshots' and other evidence the majority server transfers before outright denying a p99 xfer, from whereever they may be, are not asked for. Anyone can doctor up an inventory file. How is this a fair server?

Did not take long for a troll
 

Well the server is not for everyone and we have already had to ban some people trying to use hacks.

And if someone has non era specific things in their inventory such as Illusion Guktan - No we wont allow a transfer because it was not possible to get it in p1999.

We are in Alpha transitioning to Beta here after this weekend. But that is spelled out in our forums.

As of right now Sow works everywhere. There is a community poll to see if that would like that to continue. Since it will be the community server we are letting the community decide.

But hey it is not for everyone. We strive to be an open and embracing community. But it is not for everyone. I hope you the best of luck in another server my friend.

Vack

How many of those people you banned where character transfers from p99?

Why is it ok to judge someone solely on their server past? That alienates a LOT of players.

When you mention open character transfers why don't you just post no p99 expats, and we get to decide what characters with what gear we allow in. This whole thing seems sort of sketch.

returning eqemu player here. Are there certain eqemu servers that this server is allowing character transfers from? Is P99 the only one excluded? What about like TAKP or PEQTGC?

It was Classic Content Servers we where allowing transfers from. And P1999 is not disallowed. TakP would be an allowed server as well.

We would like people with great attitudes from any server.

Again Eternal River - P1999 is allowed. Toxicity is something we do not want.

If you do not like our server that is ok. Not everyone will like it. I welcome you to try us, but your post is clearing trying to troll us. So I hope you personally have an awesome weekend man. And if you ever join our server send me a tell I would be happy to group with you.

Vack

is instancing already working there? if so, is all raid content going to have an instanced version?

So is there some sort of screening process where you determine who has a great attitude or not in order to transfer them?

And again, you should remain consistent in what you say, in discord you mentioned no p99 expats because we're too much trouble, but here you waiver in this statement.

I thought the xfer idea was super cool, but after digging into the idea and finding all the bugs and inconsistencies and favoritism in staff statements, I'm not so sure.

I will answer this one. Currently it is not, it is an option but We like to encourage fellow guilds to work together on taking turns on targets. But like all good staff members we like to keep options open. Hope to see you here

-Anubis-

This is the last time I will respond if you just want to troll

That is what I said. Have a great night :)

wow Eternaltroll
 

I dunno where you got some of the stuff you posted about EternalRiver(account made yesterday). We dont have lag on the server and you arent told not to make Dark elves. Nektulos is bugged atm is all and a gm will summon you out.
Probably shouldnt of fed this much in reply...let a lone the rest.

The entitlement in this thread is sickening.

While I agree with you that the server transfer idea is a bad one. It's his prerogative which servers he allows transfers from. Not sure if you knew this but he's not being paid to run this server and from what I can gather a decent amount of work has been put into it already. If you want to bitch and complain about it to yourself or your friends that's one thing but you're actively coming on here and trying to get other people not to play on this guys box. It's just a pretty shitty thing to do.

If you don't like the way he runs his server that's fine.. Go make your own. Its literally never been easier.

Picking and choosing who you allow to transfer to your server... terrible idea.

Its double xp weekend whoooo! Thanks guys for running the best EmuEq server.

Vack isn't who I thought he was seeing how he was destroying kids in /ooc when they were asking for buffs on 5/27/17... Needless to say my time on that server is done due to his actions and his nonsense!

I've already seen GMs censor threads that call out the broken state of this server. I recommend avoiding it.

I would say this is laughable but it's sad trolling.

I mean, it's true. There was a thread in the general discussion forums asking about all the bugs and it got deleted--

http://www.gatesoftime.com/forums/vi...f=2&p=725#p725

Hello from Gates of Time!
 

Hello all!

I'm TurmoilToad, long time lurker on the EQEmu forums. On the Gates of Time server I play the character Odin. I'm the one responsible for starting up this new project, Gates of Time, on EQEmu, and spooling up the server that's hosting the Gates of Time world. I've been busy working behind the scenes on a lot of the different moving parts and have a good group of GMs/staff that have been helping me work and develop this server. As you have noted, we are currently in our ALPHA stage, having made the decision to ask our closest friends to join us and put up with our bug fixing and content restructuring. We have been quite pleasantly surprised at the number of early adopters from the EQEmu community, and want to thank you for putting up with our efforts as well.

I would also like to thank members of the EQEmu development community for their advice and insights along the way--not only from the rich repository of information here in these forums and on the Wiki, but also for popping onto our server and helping us out and offering their expert advice one-on-one. I won't name any names, but thank you!

ON TRANSFERS:

During our ALPHA stage, we are accepting character inventory transfers from ALL servers. We will most likely begin to restrict this activity as we enter our BETA stage, but we're willing to discuss your specific needs (for a time) while we continue down the path of tweaking our world to suit us. One of our main focuses has been to restrict content to the Luclin era, with a handful of exceptions. Our intention is to progress into the Planes of Power expansion, and then let our unique storyline secrets begin to unfold.

As a result, we are not allowing all items to be transferred over without restriction. We will continue to reserve the right to interrogate your transfer requests with this tenet in mind. As an example, certain cosmetic items won't be allowed (some illusion items, petamorph wands, etc). The reason for this is that we want to be able to reserve some of these items for our world, and its progression--such as rewarding players for participation in special events on our server. Hopefully this makes sense to you, and if you managed to collect a rare artifact on your older Emu server, you will understand why we will scrutinize the item while we're performing your import.

Additionally, some regular gear items that are part of a later era, or overpowered for our current content, won't be imported due to balancing issues. Again, it is not my intention to produce an all-encompassing list of these items, but we will communicate with you when we're evaluating your requested import.

REGARDING 'BUGS':

As I'm sure you're aware, the EQEmu Development team works very hard to provide a playable and stable environment that will allow just about anyone with a little bit of knowledge to embark on the journey of setting up their own server. Out of the box, they provide a FREE, workable code base that does what is says it will do, and a database that represents an extraordinarily accurate depiction of the EQ world that we know and loved.

It is our vision to exclude portions of their work as enumerated in my post and other posts in this thread--and that takes time and effort. It is also not always without inherit danger, but we feel that it will pay off for us as we toil to achieve our vision. Again, our thanks goes out to an understanding player base and we look forward to building a world that you will enjoy for many years to come.

REGARDING 'GM CENSORING':

This simply does not happen. The post mentioned above was made by one of our friends and he later regretted having posted it in haste. He asked for the thread to be removed, and we did so. Personally I would have liked to have kept the post intact, but I wanted to give him the chance to consider the points he raised and to give him time to write another post without things devolving--his intent was to be constructive, and we appreciate that. For those of you that didn't catch it, his post focused on some of the issues that we're working on, and some of the issues that he asked us to focus on--we are certainly doing so as rapidly as possible, but we are all busy, and certain issues have to be given a lower priority.

For anyone that has run a server before, I'm sure you're familiar with the feeling of having to get these issues resolved while maintaining a playable environment, and helping out your incoming users as quickly as possible. It's not always easy, and it won't always be without missteps.

AN APOLOGY:

As a server policy, we do not discriminate or favor any characters, guilds, or server transplants, despite what you may have read on this thread. This has been reiterated with all of the staff, and I would like to apologize if any comments have been made that would indicate otherwise. Small course-corrections are a necessary part of any organization, and we welcome you to give Gates of Time a try to evaluate our commitment to the ideal of inclusion and mutual respect.

REGARDING THE COMMUNITY:

We are trying to foster a helpful, positive community, and in order to do so, we cannot tolerate any troublemakers or trolls--we are seeking players that are accountable for their own actions, who wish to have an enjoyable in-game experience and ensure that other players have the same. For the Gates of Time server, the community is the priority, and the game is just a helpful and fun UI that helps to grow and entertain the player base.

I encourage anyone interested to check out our forums at http://forums.gatesoftime.com and come chat in our Discord channel at https://discord.gg/2WnFZHv.

I hope this post has made it more than clear that everyone will be welcomed to join our server--come slay some dragons with us, and be a part of our rapidly expanding community!

I have been playing on Gates of Time for the past week or so and have had a great experience so far. I transferred from another server and the transition was as smooth as it could be. I have not experienced the issues others are complaining about in this thread. The staff has been more than helpful with any requests I have made. Honestly, considering that the server itself is only about 2 months old, it is extremely well put together. I transferred from a server that was 2 years old and I didn't realize how many things they had wrong until now. Now, is it 100% perfect and with out bugs? Of course it isn't! Which server is completely without bugs? Yet, the staff is attending to bugs as fast as they are able to. Bug reporting also comes down to the community itself getting reports in and helping by doing what they can do. Which is also happening here.

If you like old content with some QoL improvements from later expansions, then this is would be a good server for you. The QoL features really help for those of us that can only get a few hours in to play here and there. Everyone has things going on in their RL and this server is out to help in any way they can. They also are asking for input from the server population itself rather than just doing what they want (still, it is their server and they would have the right to do that if they wanted).

Give it a try!

Just don't expect to be able to say you have 10 fungi tunics and the staff will just give them to you... (and don't get all pissed off and make fake posts when you get denied)

I'm cornfused on how the whole transfer works so you can transfer from any server? Or just legit/live like one?

What can anyone tell me about trade skills on this server?

It's not like I want to be a trader mogul or something, but I like to do quests.

And a surprising number of quests, and some very good ones, require trade skills.

Now most people are familiar with EQ trade skills, in particular the "classic era" versions. So everyone knows what it is like to level these up, with the dependencies on other trade skills, no bazaar with a lot of other crafters, and people putting up materials for sale.

Plus I plain just don't want to spend 800 hours or whatever getting carpal tunnel, and leveling up enchanters and whatnot, so I can make Earrings of the Solstice.

So what can you tell me about this?

Well the mass Trade skill combine works 20 stacks of silk make 10 silk swatches with 1 click! Currently we are on Luclin. and as you know there are a bunch of quest, Coldain Shawl Coldain Ring, Earing of Ver. We even have a player base averaging of about 85 people during prime time. So our community is there. I hope you give us a shot.

Anubis

FYI the server is ending its alpha stage and therefore character transfers will end June 14th.

I wasn't real sure on the rules for that reading your site.

For example I have a 65 mage with essentially maxxed AA, and gear we wouldn't want to talk about, including having done the epic quest.

I also have other chars on servers like Stormhaven, where they have a totally different approach to things like gear than other servers.

Also thought of something else I'd like to know the answer too, since I mentioned mages.

Cazic's Deathtouch is something that can be dealt with. Same with Golems in that zone.

When you start trying to do PoSky, which is absolutely needed for some classes' epics, that is a whole other kettle of fish.

So do you nerf those deathtouches? The Avatar of War was soloed a long time before anyone started puttering around PoSky doing things alone or boxed on live.

No one really wants total EZ mode. But a raid force of 40 or 50 people just isn't in the cards on most servers. And I think that's what you would need for PoSky. And while an SK or even necro could make a decision that the epic isn't worth it for them, a mage just doesn't feel right without the epic pet.

Actually depending on where and what you fought, the epic pet was arguably better than the 61 pets in a lot of zones and situations. Wasn't until the 65 pet that they were surpassed for sure.

Hey Sunbeam, I may be able to help answer a couple questions for you. Please note that I am not a GM or involved with the server beyond being a regular member of it. So please, Vack or Odin or anyone more versed than me, step in and correct me if I am wrong.

As far as I know, we have not gone to level 65 yet so you would be set to level 60 if you transfer. As long as your gear was era appropriate then you should receive everything. If it is something custom that was made by another server, it would most likely not transfer. My personal example is I had a pet clicky on my characters that was made by the server I transferred from. This was not transferred with my toons. It's not a big deal, so I am not worried about it. However, I had a gnome illusion clicky that was custom that did transfer.

PoSky - I do not think they are nerfing any content like that. There is a guild on the server that can field a 40-50 man raid force at this time and has been to PoSky in the past. I am not sure if they have done it lately. Other guilds are already starting to form on the server as well. I am sure as the population grows, there will be more and more people wanting/needing to go to PoSky and beyond to get epics done.

I guess the main thing is the server wants to keep raid content and the like as normal as possible. The main QoL things really focus on things like tradeskills and things that would otherwise give you arthritis rather than making the actual content easy.

Once again, anyone please correct me if I am wrong. Just trying to help.

I've been on the server for a few weeks now and it's great!

Not sure where the p99 thought came from. I know our guild recently picked up a warrior that xfer'ed from p99 and he's been great. There was a guy who was assumed from p99, because he was making comparisons, that was trolling and acting like an ass in ooc - I haven't seen him sense so assume he was banned. But that had nothing to do with what server he was from, just that he was an ass in general.

QoL is great and generally people will go out of their way to help one another.

Raids are not tweaked to be solo'able. If you wanna kill AoW etc, you're gonna have to field the appropriate raid.

@Bugs, the GM staff has been clearing those up quickly. Obviously with a new server they are found, reported, and cleaned up quick as they can - they are after all human, with lives/jobs outside of helping to run the server. But, the GM's have made themselves very available to the server community.

I'd like to see many more people head on over - I always need people to blow things up for :)

-Driz

This server is great & ran by some really good peeps. With all new servers their are some issues but GM's are working hard as well as a great community so far helping with any bug reports. Sure some class in-balance & qol mechanics make it abit easier then other servers but POP release should fix most of that as well as some 'polls' being taken for 'players' point of view. I have not seen any lag thus far which is sweet. ( those haters posting here smell like trolls from another server with their feelings hurt btw)