PEQ is down again ??

[Mghargh]

I'm trying the EZ server & it lives up to its name, REAL easy. Sort of like having a GF with a twin sister who is eager to have everything her sis has without letting her know. Made from baby Rogue lvl 1 to lvl 36 in 6 hrs play with Real high combat & sneak/hide skills. Might be good to run around learning where most things are.

[Quellren]

Originally Posted by Mghargh

I'm trying the EZ server & it lives up to its name, REAL easy. ..... Might be good to run around learning where most things are.

This is what I do.
I rolled a mage and made it to 60 in one afternoon. 75 the next day. with the pet DW'ing the free-from-vendor Fiery Defender and Ragebringer, I can easily solo most of the PEQ content. With insta ports to any zone, and no death penalty (inc. no CR) I scout out the dungeons and mobs that I wanna killl on PEQ to get a feel for them.

[r8n8]

My biggest concern about PEQ is that since this is the second time the server has gone down in the last month there may be some code currently on the server that is giving it problems. Which is going to cause this up/down cycle of calling FNW and waiting days between playing... until the code is fixed.

Just thinking out loud here...

[Jaqua]

It seems to me that your answer lies in the front pages of this thread. However let me clarify.. First of PEQ is free to play.. secondly Cavedude is footin the bill.. if you are concerned with the players leaving and the sky falling down then by all means donate otherwise buck up lil camper..

[badplayer]

It's outta cavedude's hands anyway, our only hope is that this FNW guy isn't passed out in a ditch with a bottle of jack daniels.

[bademan1971]

For all the people who might be leaving, we are certainly picking up new people. I saw quite a few evenings recently where the population was stable at 300+ people and one day two weeks when Fandaane was leading an MGB-fest, there were 352 people on as I was loading an alt in.

[Fatboy5706]

Originally Posted by bademan1971

For all the people who might be leaving, we are certainly picking up new people. I saw quite a few evenings recently where the population was stable at 300+ people and one day two weeks when Fandaane was leading an MGB-fest, there were 352 people on as I was loading an alt in.

tbh, i dont think the server counts single IPs, i think that count to the right is active characters, which means, people who run 6, but are just 1 human being, still counts as 6 on the server, so, just because that number is big doesnt mean that there really are that many "people" on the server. Likewise, if you lose someone, you might be losing 6+.

[MNWatchdog]

Quick summary:
PEQ is Free.
PEQ is test bed for new Emu server code thus daily reboots and sometimes the server doesn't come up correctly.
PEQ is test bed for new quests/scripts thus daily reboots. All NPCs scripts get reloaded on reboots.
PEQ server is WAY beyond Cavedudes direct control by about 2000 miles. New Jersey to Colorado I believe.
PEQ is being hosted for free and sometimes you get what you pay for, but over all, it's been a sweet deal. If someone wants to cough up $100-$150/mo to pay for hosting, send me the money(1 year in advance please) I'll set up hosting here.
PEQs hardware is maintained by FNW who has a life and a real job which often means he has no way to get to the hardware immediately.
PEQ is FREE.

Did I leave anything out?

[Fatboy5706]

um i think you left out that the server is still down. Here it is so you can just edit your post and add it to your list.

PEQ is still down.

copy paste FTW!

[Ikeren]

@Crion: Also, you may be surprised, but PEQ has no incentive to keep you there. They're not making money of your, or anyone elses, presence. The server could have only 20 people playing 3-4 characters each, and it would plug on, developing content and testing it. So while you may be concerned about people leaving (why? Do you have trouble finding groups?), I'm not, and TGC isn't going to cease to be if for some reason the EZ server ends up with a higher population.

[r8n8]

1. If people don't like the downtime and want there to be less downtime and still want to play on the server, they should donate.

2. Coming here and complaining / making a big deal about the downtime isn't productive. Donating would be infinitely more productive.

3. Without downtime people wouldn't get to discover totally awesome stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCCkfjPm0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Nz8p3EP7A

And:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzKtPezPsqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

[DeathSymbolic]

Whether it is free or not it sort of defeats the purpose of even having a server in the first place if it is going to go down for 5 days at a time very often.

[DeathSymbolic]

And you can count me as a player that PEQ just lost to p1999

[Fatboy5706]

Originally Posted by DeathSymbolic

And you can count me as a player that PEQ just lost to p1999

lol its ok, have fun getting trained and being on a lame server.

Originally Posted by KLS

I'd say very often is a bit of an exaggeration.

Hopefully I can get in touch with fnw soon. Cavedude is out till tuesday and fnw still is out on a trip of some sort.

Also I think Rogean was interested in offering something temporary till we could get where we wanted to go but Cavedude has been too busy to really talk to him about it.

and i always wonder why someone like gaeorn or even you KLS cant send in for a manual reboot. If everyone is out playing in the world and cant fix the faucet, then its going to keep dripping. But if you designate a plumber, it might get fixed.

[KLS]

Please don't lower yourself to his level.

If someone else wants to go play on another server that's their choice, but with an attitude like that I can't say I'll really miss him. Also it's not like p1999 hasn't had week long down times in the past either =p