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Yeah.. still playing 'Mesmur' my now 13th level Erudite Enchanter on the 'Sleepless' server. There must be something wrong with me. I know it's a leveling treadmill. I know that as soon as I get my 'Crookstinger' piercing weapon, I'll start to covet the 'Dragoon Dirk' or somesuch. I know this keening will not end with the next level...
yet.. I still play.
BUT, I did get a little sidetracked on recovering my long lost EQ love... a certain tool that makes the game much more fun. If you have not heard, this is a linux program that passively listens to the data stream coming from the EQ1 server, and just displays them in a pleasant way.
I had an old Pentium-2 400Mhz collecting dust in my garage, so I fired it up and set upon my quest to turn it into my tool box. I'm a real n00b at Linux, and I just had to rely on my old hacking & coding skills to get me going.
It took a few weeks of tinkering, but I was able to finally resurrect my PC and get 'theTool' running.... and only spending $6 on a new cpu fan, and $44 on a network hub to properly spam the packets to both machines. (yeah, wish I still had my cheapie hub from the late 90's.. but that hit the trashbin years ago..)
Downloaded Debian Linux for FREE (found the DVD iso images online). Download all the GPL libraries. Compiled them. Configured them. Spent a lot of time piecing together how this bloody system 'wants' to work, and finally got in running in 800x600 mode on Wed night. Last night, I finally found the source of my poor screen resolution, and have 1024x768 (good for my old Geforce card) running fine.
Now I can see every spawn by name, location on map, and hunt down those XP yeilding blues!! Weeeeee.....
But, I still have the fear. The fear of being banned if I utter 'theTools' name into cyberspace and the EQ1 spiders find me. That would be bad..
Anyways, hanging out in Lesser Faydark for the moment... May head to Lake of Ill Omen soon...
..will probably kill Mesmur in the morning...
Statistics: Posted by Urgon — Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:17 pm
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JORM AND FARF 1
WARSILISK WOODS 0
Im not even going to tell you about the Mistmoore group
Statistics: Posted by WUNBadassTHANE — Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:45 pm
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Statistics: Posted by farf — Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:54 am
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I lost many levels of x.p. there my 1st time around... will be avoiding that zone this time...
but.. I'll most likely kill Mesmur in the morning...
Statistics: Posted by Urgon — Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:16 pm
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It dawns on us about halfway into NK that we're dark elves, and the guards are at least dubious (we spent a lot of time in blackburrow farming faction). So we can cross the bridge into SK...wrong.
We forget the part about anything having to do with Tunare or Rodcet Nife HATES all things dark elf or necromancer/shadowknight. As we step onto the bridge, we hear "Rodcet Nife give me the power to smite your enemies!"
We start running, not even caring about the 12 people with torches and pitchforks behind us. We make it safely in and get our bodies at the other side of SK at the bird camp.
The second worst place has to go to castle mistmoore.
Statistics: Posted by farf — Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:09 am
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And I have been reintroduced into the joy that is corpse retrievals. <sigh>
Death penalties aside, I starting reflecting on what the original game was like in terms of item acquisition. I was in my late teens before I got my first magic weapon (which you need to hit magic beasts), and that was a hand me down. You really can't start earning much good beginner gear until the twenties. And that is whey you simply covet AC4 neck gear, or something to replace you cracked staff.
I've been combing the EQ sites looking for good gear to go after at my young 9th level, and it looks like home-made silk for the time being.
Anyways, I'm still playing .. must likely kill Mesmur inthe morning...
Statistics: Posted by Urgon — Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:30 pm
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addiction hurts everyone involved. play the warhammer, it may be a good game.
Statistics: Posted by farf — Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:23 pm
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I used to play EQ, but she had an ABSOLUTELY terrible experience with one of her former boyfriends being an EQ addict - and sitting at the PC playing it for 18+ hours a day, and not moving to help or do anything else, that she absolutely hates that game, and that's the only image she can see of EQ.
So, there will be no EQ at my house again or me dual-boxing on my 65 Shaman/65 Shadowknight, both decked out in full Vex-Thal and elemental planes armor ... as a courtesy to her.
Statistics: Posted by Blodsteinn — Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:53 am
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Well, as I looked more into your post on the 'progressive servers', I decided to take a closer peek. I have a premium EQ2 acct, which besides an extra 4 EQ2 char slots, gets me access to all the Sony games..including EQ1.
So, I created a Erudite Magician ... and while it was nostolgic for a bit, there is nothing attractive about the early levels of EQ1. Especially, without the map, without the newere journal system, ... it is EXACTLY like the game at launch. With all its rough edges.
But, I did give up on the Magician, and started an Erudite Enchanter. That was slightly more fun... but still, it sucks to be killed by a freek'n kobold runt, just because it has a rusty weapon. (but OHHHH do you desire to kill them, as those weapons actually go for a gold or so! No more slimey snake skins for pittance of 2 silvers!)
I'm not sure if I'll spend any long term time on it.. but we'll see. I'm going to hop on right now and see if I can get a level or 2. It will get much more unforgiving when I hit level 6, and start having to recover my items off my corpse when I die. That bites.
He he... anyways, I'm on the 'The Sleeper' progressive server. if anyone wants to start a newbie Erudite and clobber snakes, beetles & skeletons...
~Mesmur, 2nd level Erudite Enchanter
Statistics: Posted by Urgon — Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:22 pm
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