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Originally Posted by trevius
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740 puts an exclamation point in front of the name of the NPC.
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Oh my god, I think you found Doug! I remember from years and years ago after a patch, people were finding unresponsive naked human male models in random places in the game with only an exclamation point as their name. The EQ team responded to the community's questions with the response that these were test characters that aren't normally visible, and they'd figure out what broke in the patch that allowed people to see them. The team revealed the little tidbit that they had taken to calling these default human models "Doug", so whenever someone in the game found an unresponsive naked human male NPC that probably shouldn't be there (or should look different), they reported a "Doug".
I wonder if offset 740 marks the character as an EQ dev test character, and the original Doug didn't actually have "!" as its name, but had a blank name with the equivalent of Flag 740 set. That just blows my mind, and totally brings back some old EQ nostalgia. LOL.
- Shendare