The Divine Reapers (custom/LEGIT) 99% uptime / 5 server network

[Breea]

From the admin:

Hello all, we are happy to announce the public launch of the Divine Reapers Emulated EverQuest server. Our primary focus is meticulous attention to detail to all Mobs, Spawns, and Quests to make them as live like as possible, including the environment and dynamic quests. We intend to keep the server open to the public on EQEMU's login server (look for DIVINE REAPERS). We hope to be a benefit to the EQEMU community and eventually become a perfered server down the road. Our community is at your service =).

Right now we are maintaining a 99% network uptime (world server, and zone servers) with a maximum of 20 users ever online so far. Our database is custom but credit is given to PEQ for their starter .sql, everything from Luclin and later is custom and meticulously copied from Live and Allakhazam by myself and my wife.

Right now we are finishing up on LoY with near perfect LoY spell quests. We will be offering open house on these zones spuraticaly to allow players to come in (zones being non-combat atm) and allow them to pick out any errors we may have over-looked.

Also as we are kicking off our server we have a TON of GM events lined up. YOU ARE NOT TOO LATE! We have only completed 3 of 20 GM events so far to introduce our server and allow player/GM interactions.

So far we have had:
1. Overking's Return to Power in Tutoriab
2. The Test of Might in arena
3. Open house and Dev intros in Gunthak

The rest will be announced as it progresses!

Our server is VERY community oriented and you can read more, and get involved at http://emu.norrath.info

The Game Master System
Currently we have a staff of 8 GM's; 5 of which are very close friends of each other, and have played together for years on Live some even family members of each other. As our server population grows, so will our need for service type and developer type GM's however we promote from the inside of our server, meaning we will promote a level 40 before a brand new level 10.

GM Requirements
You must have completed our GM training (2 week course).
You must have been a guide for at least 60 days.
You must have gained the 30th level before applying for Guide.
You must have TeamSpeak and a Microphone (its free www.goteamspeak.com) our server teamspeak.divinereapers.org

The Network (each server)
100 Mbit dedicated connections (each server).
Intel Quad Core CPUs
3 GB Ram
350 GB SCUSII Raid Mirror
LINUX OS
(Custom EQEMU compiles)

So far and via estimations we are able to handle most likely more than the community can throw at us but it is there if ever needed.

[Breea]

Just an update the 4th Event has just been completed. There are now 16 more =).

[Vastlee]

This sounds great, but I can't seem to find you in the server list. Maybe that 99% is dropping?

[Breea]

Its there been there, look for DIVINE REAPERS with some junk before and after it. (I think it says !!![LEGIT]!!! DIVINE REAPERS yada yada yada.

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by Breea

Its there been there, look for DIVINE REAPERS with some junk before and after it. (I think it says !!![LEGIT]!!! DIVINE REAPERS yada yada yada.

I wouldn't play just for this reason alone. No need to be at the top of the list of you are a good server.

But I sincerely wish you the best. Sounds like a real professional operation otherwise.

[Elysius]

Yeah the obnoxious server name turned me off too.

[boogerific]

Originally Posted by Breea

Its there been there, look for DIVINE REAPERS with some junk before and after it. (I think it says !!![LEGIT]!!! DIVINE REAPERS yada yada yada.

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23517

All server ops should read that ^^^

[Breea]

I asked for the name to be changed, he did, but also said if we notice a drop in players or a lack of new players he would change it back. =S

[soulshot]

Hey don't listen to that garbage =) Build it and they will come! GL to you and I'll be keeping my eyes out for updates.

-Mard

[joedan]

Server looks nice and all but the amount of players kind of lacks...


I miss being able to do the big raids I guess:(

[Lalolyen]

There is not much we can do about that. Right now there are just GM events to encourage participation on the server, but not great enough for those few playing to severely off-set the server for when we do get population on the server.

The only thing we can do is encourage people to play and have fun, the more they do, the more people that will participate and the more fun you will have in return.

[Lalolyen]

As this is being severely overlooked I would like to announce this here as well as our own forums so it doesn't get too out of hand.

Our server forces the start zone of tutoriala (yes its working) and you quest in that zone to go to tutorialb.

However, there are a lot of people with the basic Titanium config, in which being we are leaping foward into the DoN zones, you'll need to change your eqclient.ini file slightly so you aren't seeing shadow figures and "grey-screens".

This is because when Titanium was released, it was released a little too early and they hadn't anticipated some of these shaders modern day video cards are able to process. So the problem is a cross between your install of the client, and your video card.

The simple fix is on our website but I'll post it here.

Under [DEFAULTS]

add the following line:
HardwareTNL=FALSE

if you have a pure hardware based video card that does all of the shaders, you should not have a problem (I didn't), but some people with intergrated, new pci-express, and other either extremely high-end or extremely low-end video cards will see this problem.

[Vastlee]

What happened to this server? I don't see it in the list and the last post on their forums was like 2 months ago. Is it gone?

[Vastlee]

Hrmm... I just noticed the 2 contributers Lalolyen & Breea both had Banned under their name? Is that why the server doesn't show up anymore?

[miotch]

wasn't that good anyways.