Steven, Greg, and Wulfric (/wave my old
friend)
AS long as I have played EQ (Starting with my
original main Cynfyn back in August of 2k1) I have seen a lot of things change
and a lot of things stay the same. EQ1 in its current state with the
latest expansion has a lot to offer for everyone who can get it but like
Greg said there is still stuff in the old world expansions that have yet to be
seen by myself and even my guild. And i am still learning new things
within the game whether it be from a veteran player and sometimes even a genuine
newbie has some useful input that I had not known previously. I have
roughly 5 or 6 accounts that i rotate out on a case by case basis with
EQ when i want to play something different with My Shaman's
account being the center of them all since he is my main now.
Currently my line up is Haly (70 Barb shaman) yzural (65 Iksar
monk) Tennyson (62 High Elf Chanter) and Daygone (55 cleric) and learning
seriously how to hydra 4 chars (Thank the Powers that be for
WinEQ 2.0 Pro) but with each char I learn stuff that I can use for when i
am ready to get all 4 chars in a raid and still be able to keep up and not fall
behind. I may once I get the hang of running all 4 together pull out
Cynfyn (52 DE SK) and use him as another melee hydra then maybe get
my Druid (Ridejta currently lvl 36) out of moth balls as well and get him
leveled up to where I can hydra all my chars as my own personal little
army =)
But the point is EQ1 as long as it is still there
is gonna the only one that i will mainly play. I recently signed
up for the trial version of EQ2 and created a Barb Priest named after
my Barb Shammy (Halyburton) and I've already reached the level cap of 6 in
that game with Haly jr since i only have the trial. I may or may not
subscribe to EQ2 but i have a char there in case i ever decide I want a break
form EQ1
Yes EQ1 has some issues that SOE will eventually
get to resolving that just makes peeps so frustrated that they hoot and
holler in the chat areas at the GM's that are there. . They complain
about it in all the various message boards dedicated to EQ heck the recent
uproar that SoE was nerfing the Panther line of Spells on we Shaman is
still yet IMHO and some other shammy's, but eventually stuff like that will one
day be resolved.
back in the days when Verant was in charge of EQ1
production we had ggogles of GM's running rampant around Norrath where
cheaters and such managed to get caught. I should Know cause Cynfyn was
put on a forced hiatus cause someone hacked into my account and Blatantly used
some kind of Cheat program right in front of a GM. I would love to see
Special Holiday events like the Halloween event that got cynfyn killed so many
times in Rathe Mountains it wasn't funny at the time cause everytime
he got rezzed it happened to be a spot where Halloween event mobs either spawned
or were trained too (lol its funny now but wasn't then) but its stuff like
that that makes EQ1 such a great memory creator. Friends who have long
since left EQ cause of RL stuff Returning friends who came back
because of the new stuff , New friend you make with the server merges and
totally brand new people to EQ1 who come up to you cause they see a higher level
char of thier class who practically hang on every word you speak that will help
them make the game more enjoyable.. It's Stuff like this that I am sure
will keep the Flagship of SoE's gaming genre around for however many years it
will remain. Will it remain for only a couple of years? 25? 100? Who
knows? If I live that long and EQ1 is still around and I'm still able to
keep up with it in whatever format it goes into whether it be still for PC or
upgraded to some kind of VR type system I'll play it and help where i can
to keep Norrath alive and make more memories and friends as i go
along
Halyburton
70 Barb Fateseer
Legion of
Vengeance
Saryrn
(aka Kwasi)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] EQ math &
Some thoughts....
You're right Wulfric, I did slightly misunderstand your
post. I was looking at it from the point of the majority of other posts were
negative and slamming EQ1 and you were defending it (Being the "naysayer" so
to speak). Sorry, didn't mean it in that way. Like you and Greg, I will be
there when they pull the plug.
Yes, EQ does have it's problems. Think
about it. It was the first massive effort by a game manufacturer to create a
world as large as EQ is. Heck even CNN did a story about the game and I think
it was either UCLA or Stanford that did a study on the economy of EQ. If a
computer game can make that kind of impact and still keep running, that really
says a lot. Now don't get me wrong in the next few sentences, I'm not really
supporting SOE or Verant but you do have to give them some credit, for all
that "COULD" have gone wrong they have done a really good job at preventing
that. Granted we still have server crashes, updates don't go as well as
planned, there will be bugs. (Oh wait, I mean "Program Features") /wink
Recently we had the server merges. This seemed to shake up a lot of
players but also seemed like a needed thing. I was originally on Sol Ro and it
was like no one was there half the time. Granted I loved the decrease in the
lag in PoK and the Bazaar. It was actually nice to be able to chat with higher
levels that were still in the game. Just on an everyday "How ya doin?" way and
not a "Can ya buff or PL me?" way. I'm not a "power player" who's interested
in achieving greatness within a week so I enjoy chatting with higher, they
have a lot of good wisdom to share. But getting back to my original point, I
was glad to see the servers merge because there were more people I could group
with that were around my level. Although I'm starting to get sick of the whole
Bristlebane vs. Sol Ro hatred. But thats another thread.
I better wrap
this up, I'm getting long winded here. I still feel that SOE won't shut EQ1
down anytime soon. Heck they just had the city of FV get taken over by evil
forces. I'm sure there will be another huge battle for it and I hope I can be
there! Anyway, enough of my ranting.
Be excellent to each
other!
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Message:
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Date: Sun,
1 May 2005 07:00:58 -0400
From: "Wulfric Rennison"
<wulftech@...>
Subject: Re: EQ math
Steven,
I
think you misunderstood. I am NOT the naysayer. I was saying that
in response to Matt's email which was largely filled with negativism that the
game would end in a couple years. The point of my post is that I will be
playing EQ for as long as EQ is around to be played. Be that 2 years, 5
years, or 25 years. The original purpose of my EQ math post was to show
that IF EQ is around in 25 years then the in-game date will have caught up
with where EQ2 supposedly begins. That's all. The
speculation on what would happen to the game within that time frame is what
brought about the topic of whether or not the game would survive that
long. Personally, I hope it
does.
Wulfric
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