Patch tonight - Place your bets

Wrexen · 01-09-2003, 01:46 AM

There's a 10 hour downtime patch going live tonight. Rumored to be in it includes the "bard box", some stuff you can look at on Lucy, and a character format change (?). Post here before servers come up on how many of which kind of bugs will be live (assuming they come back up at all). Winner gets a free thumbs up

Class 0 - Complete Game Breakage - Healing spells fail to land. Melee damage is applied to the wrong target. Characters are naked or have the wrong gear upon loading. Zoning from GFay to Crushbone takes you to Rallos Zek's chamber

Class 1 - Rampant Exploits - Virtue stacks with itself. Items are dupable through trivial combination of trading and zoning. Mark of Karn imposes a several-hundred point ds. Ornate BP molds are foraged in Plane of Knowledge

Class 2 - Minor Breakage - Spells don't stack when they should. Flowing Thought items apply double or half what they normally would. Bards unable to get past character select

Class 3 - Annoyances - All your item icons are wrong. You can't right-click an item from your corpse to your equipment. Clerics and Wizards unable to summon pets.

Class 4 - Postponed till next patch - Bards deleted entirely. Spelling errors in spell messages. Displayed AC and ATK values aren't correct.

trib · 01-09-2003, 01:53 AM

mguru · 01-09-2003, 02:00 AM

I'll see your game breaking patches, and raise you 2 emergency patches, and another patch on Friday!

Rimidal · 01-09-2003, 02:11 AM

those are some great ideas frnd

dont forget to add:
1) pacification spells being cast on an npc will cause zone wide agro one every player character in the zone

2) item stats reported incorrectly - with the new way character data is stored all stats on items with required/recommended levels will either show up as 1 or be in tripple digits

3) ornate/elemental armor effects been replaced with variations of summon: alcohol spells

4) bards deleted (oh wait you didn't miss this one)

5) all characters lose all flags and/or keys on their /keyring

Zorg · 01-09-2003, 02:30 AM

I think SoE has done fairly well in the last few patches by not screwing up anything particularly important.

So I'll go with some minor annoyances and bugs, bards deleted, and monitors exploding for those who play them.

Suineg · 01-09-2003, 02:44 AM

Quote:

On January 9th, technical phone support and Live Chat will be available from 12:00pm to 9:00pm PST in order to better support the extended patch time.

That is what really has me worried. Overtime is not cheap and this is a lot of overtime to they must be expecting some huge issues.

I am thinking they are going to release windowed mode tomorrow.

SalTheBard · 01-09-2003, 02:52 AM

I have a better idea

All Bards are going to become either SK's, Pallys or Warriors. The stealth of this patch is the fact that they are getting rid of Bards all together and don't want anyone to know.

A Lizard · 01-09-2003, 02:55 AM

CLASS 00

blue screen of death

or

1018 24/7

or

server/system crashes 24/7

Narben · 01-09-2003, 02:57 AM

I'll take Class 3 with a single specific Class 0

With what they're doing I think you'll find everything works fairly well except if you're unlucky enough to fall into some obscure category, eg. you died to a dot 6 hours before the patch in an arena in which case you'll be fucked.

That or there will be some other obscure bug that no one will trigger for a week and then they'll have to patch it

Furor Planedefiler · 01-09-2003, 02:57 AM

10 hour patch = automatic game break.

Just log on early and start foraging. Elemental planes loot will be brought up with fishing poles in Tranquility.

Cybsled · 01-09-2003, 03:14 AM

Those NPCs in POK know whats up. They exist for the sole purpose of dredging up elemental molds from that penny pond.

My favorite was still the dervishes dropping high end kunark loot and the lanys vs. firiona gm event loot like the petrified bark legs and writs of innoruk ;p

Itzena · 01-09-2003, 04:10 AM

New windowed mode + new character database + new buff window?

I'm guessing there's going to be at least one major bug, probably involving either random item loss, or random item dupes.
Plus bards will be broken, but it's patch day so that can be taken as read.

I think EQ is possibly beginning to reach the levels (or depths?) of UO patch days.

SalTheBard · 01-09-2003, 04:16 AM

Because I'm dumb and am currently at a place where I can't play EQ what is the "New Character Database"?

Rimidal · 01-09-2003, 04:40 AM

heres some infoz

http://pub140.ezboard.com/fgraffeswi...= 23798.topic

ps, the sky is falling!!

Pyat · 01-09-2003, 04:51 AM

For them to make EQ to windowed mode wont be hard for them, what they will probobly end up doing is this...

Verant Dev goes to eqw dot com, downloads eqw
Renames it to Everquest_Window.exe
Windowed EQ done

01-09-2003, 01:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
Wrexen Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 5 +0 Internets	Patch tonight - Place your bets There's a 10 hour downtime patch going live tonight. Rumored to be in it includes the "bard box", some stuff you can look at on Lucy, and a character format change (?). Post here before servers come up on how many of which kind of bugs will be live (assuming they come back up at all). Winner gets a free thumbs up Class 0 - Complete Game Breakage - Healing spells fail to land. Melee damage is applied to the wrong target. Characters are naked or have the wrong gear upon loading. Zoning from GFay to Crushbone takes you to Rallos Zek's chamber Class 1 - Rampant Exploits - Virtue stacks with itself. Items are dupable through trivial combination of trading and zoning. Mark of Karn imposes a several-hundred point ds. Ornate BP molds are foraged in Plane of Knowledge Class 2 - Minor Breakage - Spells don't stack when they should. Flowing Thought items apply double or half what they normally would. Bards unable to get past character select Class 3 - Annoyances - All your item icons are wrong. You can't right-click an item from your corpse to your equipment. Clerics and Wizards unable to summon pets. Class 4 - Postponed till next patch - Bards deleted entirely. Spelling errors in spell messages. Displayed AC and ATK values aren't correct.

01-09-2003, 01:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
trib Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 77 -1 Internets	rofl

01-09-2003, 02:52 AM	#7 (permalink)
SalTheBard Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Olathe, KS Posts: 174 -1 Internets	I have a better idea All Bards are going to become either SK's, Pallys or Warriors. The stealth of this patch is the fact that they are getting rid of Bards all together and don't want anyone to know. __________________ Saladas "Ranch" Dressing Just Some Bard

01-09-2003, 02:57 AM	#10 (permalink)
Furor Planedefiler A Relic Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,227 +15 Internets	Please fool 10 hour patch = automatic game break. Just log on early and start foraging. Elemental planes loot will be brought up with fishing poles in Tranquility.

01-09-2003, 03:14 AM	#11 (permalink)
Cybsled Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 9,438 +16 Internets	Those NPCs in POK know whats up. They exist for the sole purpose of dredging up elemental molds from that penny pond. My favorite was still the dervishes dropping high end kunark loot and the lanys vs. firiona gm event loot like the petrified bark legs and writs of innoruk ;p __________________ Training the citizens of Norrath from 1999-2003!

01-09-2003, 02:00 AM	#3 (permalink)
mguru Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 30 -1 Internets	I'll see your game breaking patches, and raise you 2 emergency patches, and another patch on Friday!

01-09-2003, 02:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
Rimidal Herr East Side Rocker Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 41 -1 Internets	those are some great ideas frnd dont forget to add: 1) pacification spells being cast on an npc will cause zone wide agro one every player character in the zone 2) item stats reported incorrectly - with the new way character data is stored all stats on items with required/recommended levels will either show up as 1 or be in tripple digits 3) ornate/elemental armor effects been replaced with variations of summon: alcohol spells 4) bards deleted (oh wait you didn't miss this one) 5) all characters lose all flags and/or keys on their /keyring

01-09-2003, 02:30 AM	#5 (permalink)
Zorg Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 37 -1 Internets	I think SoE has done fairly well in the last few patches by not screwing up anything particularly important. So I'll go with some minor annoyances and bugs, bards deleted, and monitors exploding for those who play them.

01-09-2003, 02:55 AM	#8 (permalink)
A Lizard ache Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 375 -1 Internets	CLASS 00 blue screen of death or 1018 24/7 or server/system crashes 24/7

01-09-2003, 02:57 AM	#9 (permalink)
Narben Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 4 -1 Internets	I'll take Class 3 with a single specific Class 0 With what they're doing I think you'll find everything works fairly well except if you're unlucky enough to fall into some obscure category, eg. you died to a dot 6 hours before the patch in an arena in which case you'll be fucked. That or there will be some other obscure bug that no one will trigger for a week and then they'll have to patch it

01-09-2003, 04:10 AM	#12 (permalink)
Itzena SOS-dan #76564674 Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Near a big fucking castle, the UK Posts: 6,129 -32 Internets	New windowed mode + new character database + new buff window? I'm guessing there's going to be at least one major bug, probably involving either random item loss, or random item dupes. Plus bards will be broken, but it's patch day so that can be taken as read. I think EQ is possibly beginning to reach the levels (or depths?) of UO patch days.

01-09-2003, 04:16 AM	#13 (permalink)
SalTheBard Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Olathe, KS Posts: 174 -1 Internets	Because I'm dumb and am currently at a place where I can't play EQ what is the "New Character Database"? __________________ Saladas "Ranch" Dressing Just Some Bard

01-09-2003, 04:40 AM	#14 (permalink)
Rimidal Herr East Side Rocker Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 41 -1 Internets	heres some infoz http://pub140.ezboard.com/fgraffeswi...= 23798.topic ps, the sky is falling!!

01-09-2003, 04:51 AM	#15 (permalink)
Pyat Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 8 -1 Internets	For them to make EQ to windowed mode wont be hard for them, what they will probobly end up doing is this... Verant Dev goes to eqw dot com, downloads eqw Renames it to Everquest_Window.exe Windowed EQ done __________________ Pyat of the Blood of Ro

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