Launch Time

Many of you are keen to know a date on when the server will launch. The good news is that as the server currently stands from a data standpoint in Classic I am happy for it to go live, there will of course be bugs and things to be tweaked along the way but I don't see anything completely game breaking for me to hold out much longer. I have a classic todo list that will probably take me a few days to go through.

However, the bad news is that there is a bug in the current EQEmu code base that is preventing me to go live - to sum it up briefly there is an intermittent issue with mob spawns where they will ignore the content flags or minimum expansion settings set to them, meaning they would sometimes spawn even if they are not supposed to.. being a progression server where I have hundreds of mobs set with these content flags and minimum expansion flags. I can't risk a Velious/Kunark mob spawning in Classic and having out of era loot by accident.

UPDATE We have a workaround now in place to do an integrity check upon spawn to now see if they should be spawned or not. It's not ideal as ideally it shouldn't need to be there at all... but it works well to catch this issue when it occurs.

With that being said though I am still using my time whilst waiting for that bug to be fixed to further fine tune Classic as well as work on future expansions. For example I already rebuilt the Kael Plate Cycle just a few days ago!

UI Updates

UI Interface updates - I have been working on a Velious/classic feeling UI to ship out at launch that will hopefully give you some extra nostalgia whilst playing. It is still a work in progress and something I'll hopefully continue to improve along the way. It won't be forced upon you if you prefer the more modern looking UIs but I am unsure if I will set it to default or not yet I will likely add it ot the patcher files under the UI name 'quillmane' and the modern one will be default.

Multiquesting!

A feature I loved in old EverQuest was multiquesting, especially if you are more of a casual player and your buddy has that Hand of the Maestro rotting in his bank and is willing to help you out. This gives another way into the high end quests that you may not have been able to obtain yourself, so in the last week I have gone through all the common Multiquest quest lines and enabled them to be able to be multiquestable. Here is the full list I have currently turned on:

• Hasten Bootstrutter - J Boots
• Velious Thurgadin Armor Quest Givers - All classes
• Velious Skyshrine Armor Quest Givers - All classes
• Velious Kael Quest Givers - All classes
• Foloal Stormforest in FV - Pulsing Green Stone DRU Epic
• Jzil G Six - Black Silk Cloak Necro Epic
• Kihun Solstin - Quillmane Cloak Mage Epic
• Vilnius the Small - Robes for Rogue Epic
• Stanos Herkanor - Rogue Epic MQ
• Jennus Lyklobar - Mage Epic (Torch of the Elements)
• Jinalis Andir - Mage Epic (Water Staff)
• Tiblner Milnik - Mage Epic (Earth Staff)
• Master of the Elements - Final Mage Epic Turn In
• Mairee Silentone - Ranger Epic Swirling Sphere of Colour
• Kelkim Menkia - Bard Epic (Guts)
• Forpa Fizfla - Bard Epic (Kedge Backbone, Trakanon Guts, Petrified Werewolf Skull, Amygdalan Tendril)
• Lord Rak`Ashiir - Childs Tear (SHM Epic)
• Brother Balatin - Robe of the Whistling Fist MQ (Pipes etc)
• Emkel Kabae - Manisi Herb (NEC Epic)
• Lheao - Immortals Book / Danl's Reference (Monk Epic)
• Jhassad Oceanson - Cleric Epic Orbs
• Omat Vastsea - Singed Scroll CLR Epic
• Arantir Karondor - Wiz Epic (Gnarled Staff, Blue Crystal Staff)
• Rysva To`Biath - Paladin Epic - Burnt/Frost Book
• Queen Velazul Di`Zok - Spirit Wracked Cord MQ
• Xanuusus - Shattered Emerald of Corruption
• Duriek Bloodpool - Corrupted Ghoulbane SK Epic
• Relinin Skyrunner - Dark Cloak of the Sky (RNG Air Quest)
• Ogog - Belt of the Four Winds (WAR Air Quest)
• Dirkog Steelhand - Girdle of Faith (PAL Air Quest)
• Lendiniara the Keeper - Dozekar Quests
• Gozzrem - Dozekar Quests
• Telkorenar - Dozekar Quests
• Ulan Meadowgreen - Crafted Armor Pieces
• Shakrn Meadowgreen - Crafted Armor Pieces
• Gandari - Ivy Etched Armor Pieces
• Leaf Falldim - Ivy Etched Armor Pieces
• Cryssia Stardreamer - Lambent Armor Pieces
• Walthin Fireweaver - Lambent Armor Pieces
• Gardern - Staff of Temperate Flux
• An Undead Knight - Darkforge Armor
• Vrynn - Totemic Armor Quests
• Kyralynn - Totemic Armor Quests
• Withered Treant - Druid Epic
• Pained Unicorn - Druid Epic
• Nekexin Virulence - Druid Epic
• Kargek Redblade - Spiroc Wingblade WAR Epic
• Wenden Blackhammer - Ball of Everliving Golem WAR Epic
• Tenal Redblade - Hand of the Maestro WAR Epic
• Professor Akabao - VP Key MQ
• Xiblin Fizzlebik - VP Key MQ
• Slixin Klex - VP Key MQ
• Emperor Ganak - VP Key Final Turn in
• Elnerick Augustleaf - Signet Earring Shard MQ (Seru)
• Lcea Katta - Head of the Inquisitor (Final Earring MQ)

There is likely to be a few missing from that missed I overlooked but I think that is 99% of the most common ones now turned on. When trying to multiquest be warned that you are at risk of losing items and GMs will not reimburse in the event of failure.