Dragons of Mist [HC]

[provocating]

Originally Posted by Duvinya

Hello Provocating,

I like the idea to play the original game the old school way very much.

Allowing dual boxing would be great, as in some postings before mentioned, without any additional programs just by running 2 accounts on 2 computers. It's not only because a low server population, there are also people not on US prime time playing.

Best regards,
Duvinya

Well I have thought about this for a couple of days. There are a few reasons I am going to allow two boxing. One is for people that would want to leave a player in the bazaar as a trader and still be able to play, or maybe even leave two people in the bazaar. The second is for storage mules, I used to do this on live, I am a packrat for tradeskill mats. It is nice being able to have two accounts logged on for trading materials. The last is for powerleveling, this is nice to have. If I see anyone abusing this privilege, well i have zero tolerance for it. You ruin the game for me and everyone else if you are boting your other account, in other words 'not at the helm'.

This feature is turned on now, so enjoy.

This is now turned on per i.p. address, meaning if you are at the same location you can have two different accounts logged in. So to play on Dragon's of Mist [HC] with multiple connections you will need two EqEmulator.org accounts or message me for access to our private login server. I prefer anyone staying on our server long term to have an account with our login server, that way if EqEmulator.org experiences an outage you can still play on the server.

[knowom]

Originally Posted by provocating

Well I have thought about this for a couple of days. There are a few reasons I am going to allow two boxing. One is for people that would want to leave a player in the bazaar as a trader and still be able to play, or maybe even leave two people in the bazaar. The second is for storage mules, I used to do this on live, I am a packrat for tradeskill mats. It is nice being able to have two accounts logged on for trading materials. The last is for powerleveling, this is nice to have. If I see anyone abusing this privilege, well i have zero tolerance for it. You ruin the game for me and everyone else if you are boting your other account, in other words 'not at the helm'.

This feature is turned on now, so enjoy.

This is now turned on per i.p. address, meaning if you are at the same location you can have two different accounts logged in. So to play on Dragon's of Mist [HC] with multiple connections you will need two EqEmulator.org accounts or message me for access to our private login server. I prefer anyone staying on our server long term to have an account with our login server, that way if EqEmulator.org experiences an outage you can still play on the server.

I really hope I'm not the only player that actually preferred the bartering aspect of the game prior to the introduction of Bazaar. I hate auction houses in games in general honestly they aren't designed in the same way a changing evolving world economy and ecosystem is and tend to cause a lot of devaluation and trivializing of games in my opinion. More often than not in a MMO supply far outstrips demand and never curtails itself.

Perhaps item drops had caps limiting the amount of times certain items drop and can stay in circulation within the world it would be different. That would probably be on the better fixes to the mudflation effect outside of items decaying entirely. I think bartering was a fun social experience though quite honestly myself you could chat with people and sell and buy goods.

A lot of times people were happy just to find the item to purchase they were seeking regardless of them getting the most optimal price to purchase it or not. Some items were fairly common naturally, but others were a lot more rare and you'd have to wait around longer to finally find so was pretty exciting to finally get them.

[provocating]

I loved the old bartering aspect of the old commons tunnel

[provocating]

Originally Posted by rhyotte

Btw, is that Relic from Shards of Dalaya?,

Actually no. When I played on live, I was in a guild called Relic at one time. So my guild in the game is Relic

[Khokon]

Hey All,

it is a very interesting server and setup. Population is low currently and thats a problem. But I'm sure this server can be very successful in the long run. And if not, shrug - personally I'm playing alone anyway.

At low to mid levels this plays like a classic server with travelling thorugh PoK and with veteran AAs for double exp, clarity etc once per day. Newbie quests do work so you can start a gear dependant class and get some decent equipment early on.
There is no trivialisation like defiant armor, so camping items in the old worlds does make sense. You get to see alot of the world.
Those expansions up to GoD contain alot of things to be discovered. The path to 65 is going to be interesting for sure.

Max level is 65, you have access to AAs. It will be very interesting to see how far you can get in velious with your dual box and later on in groups & raids.
I dont know the GM Provocating other than from his posts. But I've been looking for a server with an admin who is reliable. He's the best out there. Great Server.

Come on over and give it a try,
Best regards,
Khokon

[provocating]

Originally Posted by Khokon

Hey All,

it is a very interesting server and setup. Population is low currently and thats a problem. But I'm sure this server can be very successful in the long run. And if not, shrug - personally I'm playing alone anyway.

At low to mid levels this plays like a classic server with travelling thorugh PoK and with veteran AAs for double exp, clarity etc once per day. Newbie quests do work so you can start a gear dependant class and get some decent equipment early on.
There is no trivialisation like defiant armor, so camping items in the old worlds does make sense. You get to see alot of the world.
Those expansions up to GoD contain alot of things to be discovered. The path to 65 is going to be interesting for sure.

Max level is 65, you have access to AAs. It will be very interesting to see how far you can get in velious with your dual box and later on in groups & raids.
I dont know the GM Provocating other than from his posts. But I've been looking for a server with an admin who is reliable. He's the best out there. Great Server.

Come on over and give it a try,
Best regards,
Khokon

I appreciate your comments Khokon, I saw you were on last night with Smyrna but I could not play. And you are right, we are reliable and I will do everything in my power to keep it that way. I intentionally do not mess with the content much, if at all. Things like the defiant I remove because as you said, it makes the old world armor trivial. Not messing with the content keeps things from getting out of balance. I do not want to change things mid-stream so this is it, I will not be changing xp rates, there will be no triple experience weekends or any non-sense like that. I will not be rewarding people because the server was down for two weeks, stuff like that. Since I have been on U-Verse the longest we have been down was maybe 2 hours, and that is because someone hit a telephone pole.

Yes, it will be challenging but that was draws me in as a player. There are only so many times I would want to send a set of bots in, it is just too clicky, I feel like I am playing WOW. So far my Druid Tenawulf is level 41 and the path has not really been that hard. I am getting to be a snare kiting expert again and that makes me happy. We are using the veteran AA's to help level a bit. It does encourage you to play daily to get that 30 minutes of double XP, it also makes you want to play multiple characters, I switch toons a lot. Honestly it is the most fun I have had in a long time and I think things are perfect. If we never get a high population, that is fine. I want dedicated players that are resourceful.

[Xarekis]

I like the concept of your server, Provocating. However, the prospect of dual-boxing without /stick & /stick hold is not so enticing.

I often have the problem of box-inflation on PEQ. I'd like to stick to dual or trio boxing, but I can't help myself and always revert to my 6-12 boxing ways

A server with a forced limit of two boxes sounds awesome! I'd love to see how it pans out. It will be difficult, of course, to get things done with a small economy in the state the server is in currently, but doable, provided the second box. Traveling is a pain without /stick, though. I understand that if you allow MQ2, you're going to have a difficult time policing just what functions players call- but /follow is dreadful!

Is there any chance you might consider the use of MQ2 strictly for the /stick functionality (not even to mobs, just for accurate following purposes)? It would be a huge improvement for play-ability and long-term enjoyment (less frustrating travel).

[provocating]

Originally Posted by Xarekis

I like the concept of your server, Provocating. However, the prospect of dual-boxing without /stick & /stick hold is not so enticing.

I often have the problem of box-inflation on PEQ. I'd like to stick to dual or trio boxing, but I can't help myself and always revert to my 6-12 boxing ways

A server with a forced limit of two boxes sounds awesome! I'd love to see how it pans out. It will be difficult, of course, to get things done with a small economy in the state the server is in currently, but doable, provided the second box. Traveling is a pain without /stick, though. I understand that if you allow MQ2, you're going to have a difficult time policing just what functions players call- but /follow is dreadful!

Is there any chance you might consider the use of MQ2 strictly for the /stick functionality (not even to mobs, just for accurate following purposes)? It would be a huge improvement for play-ability and long-term enjoyment (less frustrating travel).

Well since I am not versed in /stick maybe you can give me a link or someone could elaborate. In general I am not against anything that does not give a player an unfair advantage over other players, or require code or database changes. Also when you start allowing one thing, it opens up avenues for other things in the future. Sometimes it is better to just have a blanket policy. I will be making it to 65 on all of my characters without even dual boxing, given time. No one should be in a rush to level, stop and smell the flowers, take in the EQ lore and nostalgia.

[Xarekis]

/stick

It can be used to unfair advantage, imo, in combat, in that it has the capability of automatically placing your rogue, for instance behind the mob. The character would move with the mob, as well. But no combat functions are built into /stick. It's basically a powerful, more accurate /follow. It would prevent many a falling death, or run-past-through-a-mob situations that /follow creates due to latency.

edit: and yes, I understand how one things can potentially lead to another. It's your server, your rules, I was merely inquiring.

[Xarekis]

I'll likely start my duo up tomorrow. I'm thinking either Druid + Beastlord, or the more "safe" option of Monk + Shaman. That FD would come in handy!

The vendors don't reset? Very nice! That will definitely help out a lot. See you around, hopefully I can contribute a little to the economy.

[provocating]

As you see toward the bottom of this page, the leaderboard for [HC] has a lot of blanks

I want to enhance it during the holidays to show leaders in trade skills.

http://www.dragonsofmist.com/Joomla/...=m2c&Itemid=87

[Xarekis]

Created my Monk and Shaman duo before work today because I couldn't wait, but I soon found out that my monk had all skills trained, and could deliver Flying kicks of 50+ dmg. Iksar mnk and shm, is this intended?

[provocating]

Originally Posted by Xarekis

Created my Monk and Shaman duo before work today because I couldn't wait, but I soon found out that my monk had all skills trained, and could deliver Flying kicks of 50+ dmg. Iksar mnk and shm, is this intended?

I am looking into it right now. Everything is completely vanilla, but yes there does appear to be a problem with new monks. I am looking into it now, thank you so much for finding this so I can get it fixed now.

I found it in several threads, seems like something fairly new.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37570

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...ht=flying+kick

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...ht=monk+skills

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...monk+abilities

I am starting a test server today that I will update to the current source, just to see if the problem is there on a vanilla new install.

[Xarekis]

Oh, no problem at all! Thank you for being so quick to look into it! I guess I'll just stick to using the normal Kick and ignore the other skills. Or would it be best to wait- will characters be able to successfully revert to normal skill sets later on?

[FindingKarma]

I've recently been playing live the past few months. Four boxed to level 76 in about a month. Started a new Shadow Knight and Shaman and attempted to eschew defiant gear and hotzones. Unfortunately I still got them great weapons and even while attempting to quest (still no hotzones) and not focused on leveling hit 40 in about a week.

About a week ago I decided I was tired of blowing past the majority of the game. I knew of Eqemu but otherwise this has been a slightly confusing learning experience. As of a couple days ago I'd tried 5 servers here. I can see benefit of choosing any server but I'm making my home on Dragons of Mist (HC). It's the closest to class(p99) that I've found while allowing dual boxing and no corpse runs. I enjoyed P99 and was hoping to stay there but unfortunately after dieing and realizing I had to track down my bags/pp and weapons. I realized I didn't want to spend that much time chasing down my gear after every death.

I certainly don't plan on dieing a lot but with low level (proper) gear and a low exp rate I've died more times on one character than the sum of my 12 in live. At the same time I'm having a blast. It feels like I'm actually playing my character. I've hit level 10 on a gnome paladin and barbarian shaman. The gnome is working on tinkering only around 30 and the shaman is up to 40 smithing. Every new spell is a treat. On live I was leveling so fast I'd buy at least 6 levels worth of spells at a time. I probably never cast 75% of the spells I'd bought.

It's like old eq without the hassle. Or at least as I see it. Others will no doubt have differing views and that's great. We play what we enjoy.

If anyone is interested in grouping I"ll be very happy to log my box out and focus on one character.