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Mezrax
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 Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:18 am Post subject: Old retired and semi retired friends |
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If you are a hardcore guild member stop reading here:
Anyways I've started playing everquest again and so has blueclaw on the Shards of Dalaya server. It's a free server that is just different enough to make you feel like a newb again. Anyways look me up if any of you play there. Oh and the have a strict naming policy there so blueclaw had to change her name to zelpha.
Here is a link http://www.shardsofdalaya.com
I'll post more info if anyone is interested (unless you have good RA then you should not have been reading this far anyways).
By the way if you click the link i'm suppose to get some kinda in game bonus or something.
Thanks,
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IowaGnome
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Hahaha. I'm playing on free servers too now. I'm on a progression server, we are just now finishing up VT to open PoP. It's actually a ton of fun...EQ really turned into a raid grind after PoP, and I believe this server is slated to stop at PoP.
There are a ton of free servers that come in all shapes, sizes, and customizations. I'm having a blast on Gnomish Proving Grounds  .
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/
This link will guide you through the process if you are interested: http://www.raidaddicts.org/PlayGuide.html
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| im confused, is this EQ but run off of someone else's independent server? |
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| also, how do i get it going? |
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| also can i just install SoF, and will this work with that |
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Innania
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| CaNDeRouS wrote: |
| im confused, is this EQ but run off of someone else's independent server? |
Yes, although be aware that because it uses source code copywritten by SOE, it's highly illegal (kind of like ROMs of video games). |
illegal things are usually the most fun |
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Mezrax
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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SoD has been online for 4 years other free servers have been online for longer I don't really see any attempts by sony to go after these people. They don't even care about their own game that much when they let people duplicate plat and sell it and spam advertise in game.
Anyways yes they run it off of their own servers.
I'm not sure about other server but SoD requires you to have up through GoD installed on your computer so if you didn't already have that you would have to buy some cd set from sony to get started. Then you download the SoD Patcher and you are playing. They allow 2 boxing since the accounts are free but not 3 boxing or more because that gets rediculous (like Gameslah).
SoD is like an alternate universe for EQ because it has it's own lore (quite a bit of it) and all of the quests are new. The zones connect differently and are different levels (freeport is an undead city lvl 50ish and vex thall is the zone they use for transportation like PoK). Plus most of the usless spell and aas that you never used or memd have been replaced with new useful aas and spells. Rangers in this game are badass archers so for me it's quite cool. You also can worship any diety you want and that diety gives you certain bonuses and quests.
Tradeskills give you exp which is nice since I hate tradeskills it makes them less painful, also tradeskill skillups are based on number of combines so I know for certain that after 8 combines i'm getting that skillup I need rather than "hmm combine 230, nope still no skillup". They have new tradeskills too like mining for ore and alchemy for everyone.
Instead of a bazaar they have a bank list system, you tell any banker what you want to sell and for how much and then you can play elsewhere or log off and the bank sells it for you. When anyother player buys your stuff the bank sends you a message that your money is waiting for you in the bank. Selling offline is so handy I don't know why real EQ wouldn't do that, rather than wasting bandwidth on bunches of mules logged into the bazaar.
Anyways it feels familiar to play but then you realize you don't know everything about the game and it's pretty fun discovering everything all over again. |
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Mezrax wrote: |
SoD has been online for 4 years other free servers have been online for longer I don't really see any attempts by sony to go after these people. They don't even care about their own game that much when they let people duplicate plat and sell it and spam advertise in game.
Anyways yes they run it off of their own servers.
I'm not sure about other server but SoD requires you to have up through GoD installed on your computer so if you didn't already have that you would have to buy some cd set from sony to get started. Then you download the SoD Patcher and you are playing. They allow 2 boxing since the accounts are free but not 3 boxing or more because that gets rediculous (like Gameslah).
SoD is like an alternate universe for EQ because it has it's own lore (quite a bit of it) and all of the quests are new. The zones connect differently and are different levels (freeport is an undead city lvl 50ish and vex thall is the zone they use for transportation like PoK). Plus most of the usless spell and aas that you never used or memd have been replaced with new useful aas and spells. Rangers in this game are badass archers so for me it's quite cool. You also can worship any diety you want and that diety gives you certain bonuses and quests.
Tradeskills give you exp which is nice since I hate tradeskills it makes them less painful, also tradeskill skillups are based on number of combines so I know for certain that after 8 combines i'm getting that skillup I need rather than "hmm combine 230, nope still no skillup". They have new tradeskills too like mining for ore and alchemy for everyone.
Instead of a bazaar they have a bank list system, you tell any banker what you want to sell and for how much and then you can play elsewhere or log off and the bank sells it for you. When anyother player buys your stuff the bank sends you a message that your money is waiting for you in the bank. Selling offline is so handy I don't know why real EQ wouldn't do that, rather than wasting bandwidth on bunches of mules logged into the bazaar.
Anyways it feels familiar to play but then you realize you don't know everything about the game and it's pretty fun discovering everything all over again. |
i have been trying to get sod to work, but every time i run the sod patcher it gets to "downloading....blahblah sony/everquest/eqgame.exe" and it stays there and doesn't update, i have no idea what to do, their forums have not been very helpful |
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Mezrax
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Not sure, I have sod running on 3 computers and all of them just worked. All I did differently than the instructions was uncheck EQW because I don't use that. Maybe try moving eqgame.exe out of that folder? Maybe it can't overwrite your old one? |
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Farrens
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| This sounds fun, may have to check it out. Also I find it funny that it has a superior bazaar system than real EQ. Sounds alot like the Final Fantasy Online selling system |
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Mezrax
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Cool farrens let me know what your char name is (if it's not the same). |
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ok i finally got this to work, Mez my character's name is Solnir |
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merenta
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Mezrax wrote: |
| SoD has been online for 4 years other free servers have been online for longer I don't really see any attempts by sony to go after these people. |
They went after, and successfully closed down, Winter's Roar, a truly awesome game. In fact, what you're describing sounds a lot like that game.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/0511234
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CaNDeRouS
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| this server is tons of fun, if anyone if looking for time to kill i recommend this |
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