Dungeon Crawl - Classic Hybrid

[Tabasco]

Originally Posted by c0ncrete

saw some of these dynamic bosses while poking around in ill omen, feerrott, and rathe mountains. i haven't been on a great deal, but i thoroughly enjoy what you've done.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. I tend to focus on global mechanics and only stop to do real content when I'm satisfied with the overall state of things. This doesn't happen very often or for long, but I'm not unhappy with the result.

We do have pockets of custom content but I can't bring myself to just grind something out unless it's inspiring or special in some way. I'm really fond of some of the 50+ quests for those reasons. I just need to spread that out across levels so people don't have to wait so long to find it.
Most critique I hear relates to the exp rate, but I think the journey is as important as the end-game, if not more so.

In other news, we have an automatic hotzone rotation going.
There are 28 hotzones at any given time and they cycle every 6 hours, so there is a complete weekly rotation. Elligible zones are loosely scored by level range and the script keeps 4 zones per level range at the moment. The server doesn't have to restart for it to take effect and neither does the zone.

[Tabasco]

We're making solid progress on some quest and tradeskill updates and I'm almost done with a new custom dungeon branch and associated quests.
You can find details about updated quests and tradeskills here:
http://dungeoncrawl.us.to/eq/forums/...php?f=10&t=161

Population is starting to pick up so we've had some good raids and AA groups recently.
In fact, the original host from Akkadius was set up as a testing environment so with the website and additional zone needs we started pushing our humble memory limits. (I forget how many cores we're using, but they are only in danger of getting bored.)

Akkadius doubled the ram and the machine was booted back up in less than 30 seconds. We're on great hosting so the more, the merrier!