How's the water?

[s***@gmail.com]

Hey all,

I've been OOC for a bit over a year now but have recently been
thinking i might get back into eq. I was barely playing before
cancelling my account, so most of dod/don run together for me and the
expansion that came out right after those (serpent's spine?) was the
last content i saw (there are 2 more since TSS?). None of it seemed
too thrilling, but then again, the populations had just shrunk to less
than half (wow, eq2, and then vanguard) so there was a sour, empty
ambience. So i'm curious how things are now, if they've only gotten
worse (i heard all pvp servers were condensed into one), as in ...
more servers closed, less and less people playing, etc. I know sony's
throwing out content but that's honestly the last thing i care about
presently - i'd be thrilled to re-explore the old stuff and gradually
go through (w/o spoilers) the stuff that's already in the game,
provided people are still playing. And of those playing, is it mostly
people who *like* to play? Maybe even RP a bit? If eq isn't "cool"
anymore, then maybe us true nerds can have some fun - again, provided
there are enough of us.

And for the technical stuff, i imagine the FAQ that's been so
devoutedly maintained for the last few years should be my first stop -
but that's only if i decide to try out norrath again and that's only
if you all can give me some good news about the state of the game.

Last thing - if anyone here can tell me a bit about Fennin or Firiona,
i'd love it.

Faza, Enc of FR ( / Goom, Bst of FV)

[the wharf rat]

Post by s***@gmail.com
if you all can give me some good news about the state of the game.

Well, I still play at least an hour a day. I've never been
much into raiding and mostly just see how far I can solo my main (75
necro). So the current dearth of pickup groups doesn't bother me much.
Although I've given some thought to moving a few alts to a second
account so I can rez them.

What can I say? It's still fun for me, and I get to complain
about Sony's customer service on Usenet. Can't beat that with a copper
hammer of striking.

[Larry Laffer]

There so far has been one expansion since TSS (TBS) with a second one
scheduled for release in November.

I usually raid (Five Rings on Luclin) as opposed to solo/group, so I
can't tell you about how the grouping situation is, but if you like
raiding, we're lookng for new people :) (shameless plug) if you want
to server transfer :)

Post by s***@gmail.com
Hey all,
I've been OOC for a bit over a year now but have recently been
thinking i might get back into eq. I was barely playing before
cancelling my account, so most of dod/don run together for me and the
expansion that came out right after those (serpent's spine?) was the
last content i saw (there are 2 more since TSS?). None of it seemed
too thrilling, but then again, the populations had just shrunk to less
than half (wow, eq2, and then vanguard) so there was a sour, empty
ambience. So i'm curious how things are now, if they've only gotten
worse (i heard all pvp servers were condensed into one), as in ...
more servers closed, less and less people playing, etc. I know sony's
throwing out content but that's honestly the last thing i care about
presently - i'd be thrilled to re-explore the old stuff and gradually
go through (w/o spoilers) the stuff that's already in the game,
provided people are still playing. And of those playing, is it mostly
people who *like* to play? Maybe even RP a bit? If eq isn't "cool"
anymore, then maybe us true nerds can have some fun - again, provided
there are enough of us.
And for the technical stuff, i imagine the FAQ that's been so
devoutedly maintained for the last few years should be my first stop -
but that's only if i decide to try out norrath again and that's only
if you all can give me some good news about the state of the game.
Last thing - if anyone here can tell me a bit about Fennin or Firiona,
i'd love it.
Faza, Enc of FR ( / Goom, Bst of FV)

[Faeandar]

Post by s***@gmail.com
Hey all,
I've been OOC for a bit over a year now but have recently been
thinking i might get back into eq. I was barely playing before
cancelling my account, so most of dod/don run together for me and the
expansion that came out right after those (serpent's spine?) was the
last content i saw (there are 2 more since TSS?). None of it seemed
too thrilling, but then again, the populations had just shrunk to less
than half (wow, eq2, and then vanguard) so there was a sour, empty
ambience. So i'm curious how things are now, if they've only gotten
worse (i heard all pvp servers were condensed into one), as in ...
more servers closed, less and less people playing, etc. I know sony's
throwing out content but that's honestly the last thing i care about
presently - i'd be thrilled to re-explore the old stuff and gradually
go through (w/o spoilers) the stuff that's already in the game,
provided people are still playing. And of those playing, is it mostly
people who *like* to play? Maybe even RP a bit? If eq isn't "cool"
anymore, then maybe us true nerds can have some fun - again, provided
there are enough of us.
And for the technical stuff, i imagine the FAQ that's been so
devoutedly maintained for the last few years should be my first stop -
but that's only if i decide to try out norrath again and that's only
if you all can give me some good news about the state of the game.
Last thing - if anyone here can tell me a bit about Fennin or Firiona,
i'd love it.
Faza, Enc of FR ( / Goom, Bst of FV)

EQ is still my favorite but I'm playing Vanguard primarily lately
because the rest of my guild likes it better. They're a bunch of
crafting shmo's so I can understand it.

The last content I saw was TSS and only minimal in that. Lot's of OOW
with some DoN thrown in. :)

~F

[c]

I figured i'd just log in for myself and get a few hours of exploring
done, but i ran into a snag i can't lick (do you lick snags? do you
untangle them?): i can't log my FV character - i tried and keep
getting a client crash error, something i never saw before. I go to
character select, see my lil beastie there (he's 71! that's cool!),
press "enter world" and see the screen pause; the little load-screen
bar pops up, loads the zone file(s) - which happens to be MPG, not
sure if that's relevant) - and the bar gets all the way across and the
gamma changes, right as it does when it's about to load up the
game ... but it gives me the client crash message and asks me if i'd
like to send my data in.

What gives?

I can log in all other characters just fine (my pvp toon, my toons on
FR, progression...).


Anyway, since the traffic here is so low, i'm going to go all "lance"
on you's and leave little progress updates =)

(Hopefully they'll be in-game stories...)

[Don Woods]

Post by c
I figured i'd just log in for myself and get a few hours of exploring
done, but i ran into a snag i can't lick (do you lick snags? do you
untangle them?): i can't log my FV character - i tried and keep
getting a client crash error, something i never saw before. I go to
character select, see my lil beastie there (he's 71! that's cool!),
press "enter world" and see the screen pause; the little load-screen
bar pops up, loads the zone file(s) - which happens to be MPG, not
sure if that's relevant) - and the bar gets all the way across and the
gamma changes, right as it does when it's about to load up the
game ... but it gives me the client crash message and asks me if i'd
like to send my data in.
What gives?
I can log in all other characters just fine (my pvp toon, my toons on
FR, progression...).

Maybe this should go into the FAQ; we've seen a lot of this sort
of question recently.

If you have a single toon that crashes your client whenever you try
to log in, then chances are you've got some corrupted files. It
might be the files for that character (charname_servername.ini and
UI_charname_servername.ini), or it could be the files for the zone
that character is in (usually the 3 map files, but I suppose it could
even be the audio track).

Rename the two character files (or just drag them out of the EverQuest
folder to your desktop) and see if that lets you log in on that toon.
If so, try to narrow down which part of which file causes the crash.
(Usually once you find the broken part of the file it's obvious, at
least if you're used to looking inside those files.) If it still
crashes, try moving the three map files for that zone, do a full file
check to get fresh maps created, and try again.

One or the other of those has just about always fixed this sort of
problem for me.

-- Don.

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[Schadenfreude]

Post by c
I figured i'd just log in for myself and get a few hours of exploring
done, but i ran into a snag i can't lick (do you lick snags? do you
untangle them?): i can't log my FV character - i tried and keep
getting a client crash error, something i never saw before. I go to
character select, see my lil beastie there (he's 71! that's cool!),
press "enter world" and see the screen pause; the little load-screen
bar pops up, loads the zone file(s) - which happens to be MPG, not
sure if that's relevant) - and the bar gets all the way across and the
gamma changes, right as it does when it's about to load up the
game ... but it gives me the client crash message and asks me if i'd
like to send my data in.
What gives?
I can log in all other characters just fine (my pvp toon, my toons on
FR, progression...).

Find the UI.ini file in your Everquest folder that relates to that
character on that server and either rename or delete it. It should
look something like.

D:\Sony Online Entertainment\EverQuest
UI_YourBeastlord_firiona.ini

If that doesn't fix it try the other .ini files relating to that
character.

[c]

Thanks guys - that was it ... i thought maybe i logged off in a corner
of the zone that became extinct after some zone revamp, though really
that would have just plopped me in a safe spot or something. So i
removed some zonefiles and repatched, but it was those custom UI files
that did it. Logged in no problem, thanks!

And i have a new problem - my animations are all bugged like crazy.
Figured it was drivers, updated my drivers, but it wasn't that. It
reminds me of a d3d issue i had with another game, but i'm not sure
how to fix it (updating the drivers is all that i thought of doing).
What gives? I had it on a few characters, then it went away, and now i
have it again. If i sit, i seem to remain standing (though i'm
sitting, can open spellbook/camp, etc...), if i run my legs don't
move, if i spin i spin slowly slooooowly FAST FAST fast slooooooow
(etc etc). Just buggy motions all around, can't even float evenly.

Thanks much.

P.S. I'm getting the feeling there is very little room for pickup
groups, it's all raids or small niches of people. Is that right?
Should i try to revive some RL friends to have them rejoin the game,
or should i just start up a new character on a newbie-friendly server?
I'd really love to have like 3 or 4 people to play with regularly
(EST). And i might love starting an alt ^_^

-Faza