Scheduled Downtime: Tuesday, August 14th, 4:00 AM PDT

Denuve · 08-13-2007, 05:46 PM

Quoted from Everquest 2:
Update: Scheduled Downtime: Tuesday, August 14th, 4:00 AM PDT
The scheduled maintenance for Tuesday, August 14th, has been expanded to include all international servers and will include an update to the SOE sessions servers. As such, the maintenance period will last for approximately eight hours, beginning at approximately 4:00 AM PDT and ending at approximately 12:00 PM PDT.

With the maintenance now involving the session servers, all services requiring a login will be unavailable during the maintenance period. This includes (but is not limited to) the game servers, all forums, Station Exchange, Character Transfers, Customer Service, the SOE Store, and the subscription tools. This maintenance period will also include the EQII international servers in the same period of time.

Thank you for your understanding and patience during this extended maintenance period. EQ2Players.com will be updated with any additional updates should new information become available.

Quoted from Everquest:
All EQ servers, forums and services will be brought down on Tuesday, August 14th around 4:00 AM to approximately 12:00 Noon PDT. In addition, all SOE services including subscription services, character transfer service, customer service tools and other billing services, will not be available during this period. This downtime will help enable the Legends of Norrath beta. Thank you for your patience during this downtime, and enjoy Legends of Norrath!

Manyak · 08-13-2007, 05:50 PM

anyone else thinkin...thank god the servers are being reset?

razieh · 08-13-2007, 05:54 PM

RiTuL · 08-13-2007, 09:42 PM

Kisy · 08-14-2007, 01:53 PM

Ladred · 08-14-2007, 02:05 PM

Legends of Norrath Beta Test Begins

Fan Faire attendees can access Legends of Norrath by clicking on the icon in the EQ2 menu, or via the /tcg command.
If you are not in the Beta Test you will still be able to see and use these menu items; however you won't be able to connect to the Legends of Norrath game itself.

Gameplay

The ‘Return of the Light’ Heritage Quest is no longer gated for Exiles.
Rare harvests are now a bit rarer than they have been since GU37 launched, although not as rare as before GU37.

Looting Changes:

Attempting to loot a chest/corpse that gives you the ‘There are no items that you can loot’ message will now destroy the chest/corpse as long as no one in your group can loot the item.
When access restrictions wear off of a chest/corpse, all items that are picky about who can loot them will be removed. If this would leave the chest/corpse empty, it will be removed.

Achievements

Conjurors may now properly use the Subclass Achievement Respec Card.

Tradeskills

Recipes that involve crafting a LORE item will now work.

Burno · 08-14-2007, 02:16 PM

http://legendsofnorrath.station.sony.com/

That is the website, and yay for adding fucked up features such as:

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Earn EQ and EQII In-Game Special Rewards: Earn special loot cards from Legends of Norrath including mounts, potions, baubles, cloaks and more! Redeem these cards for your in-game loot items and deck out your EQ and EQII character.

So instead of giving people more content, they add a fucking card-game? Which is also a copy from an already existing LoTR card game by the look of the files. This is a part from one of the main files which was added in today's update.

Quote:

ourouk-haï uruk-hai _ orco orque ork ` hombre uomo homme mensch man & gollum ¢ dunlendino pays de dun dunland ~ asaltadore predoni pillard dunkelmensche raider } sauron | la moria moria { l'isengard isengart isengard ^ espectros del anillo spettri dell'anello spectre de l'anneau ringgeister ringwraith ] rohan [ enanos nani naine zwerge dwarven @ elfos elfi elfique elben elven * le gondor gondor % gandalf $

(open one of the main DLL files, can't remember which one, with a normal text editor)

Azigon · 08-14-2007, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Burno

Legends of Norrath

That is the website, and yay for adding fucked up features such as:

So instead of giving people more content, they add a fucking card-game? Which is also a copy from an already existing LoTR card game by the look of the files. This is a part from one of the main files which was added in today's update.

(open one of the main DLL files, can't remember which one, with a normal text editor)

Wouldn't surprise me; I'll use IDA Pro on it today and see if it is just a copy.

Azigon · 08-14-2007, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Azigon

Wouldn't surprise me; I'll use IDA Pro on it today and see if it is just a copy.

Ok, yes, the strings are there.

Why are they in there SOE? I've yet to check functions, but...

Why? I'd like an answer from a dev who worked on it :/

Ladred · 08-14-2007, 02:50 PM

The card game is a slightly modified version of Auto Assault TCG. Worlds Apart was aquired by SOE, and the Auto Assault MMO put out by NCSoft died a horrible death. The entire game is identical save a few modifications that people complained about.

http://www.autoassaulttcg.com/

And a person named "Scott" posting there saying

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Hey all, we'll have some news here soon for conversion of your accounts to a new game. Thanks for your patience.

http://www.autoassaulttcg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=508

The game mechanics are solid, and there are several posts on the LoN forums that describe the card types. Great read, and I'm looking forward to a really fun card game to play once again.

The LoN forums are lagging or down at the moment, but I posted the whole weeks articles on the druids grove...

http://thedruidsgrove.org/eq2/forums...ead.php?t=9052