I found all my old EQ passwords today.....

[jeepdriver]

And thought of taking a break from WoW for a bit and going back for a month or two for old times sake, see if the game has changed any since I last played. Figure with ISboxer boxing will definitely be easier than how I had to do it in the old days. Is the game still laggy as hell? I remember something about a bad memory leak for years, and how if you had all your toons on autofollow, for some reason theyd just go off and run big circles around you on their own LOL.

[moosejaw]

The toons will still do the "auto circle" till they find you again LoL. I played some months ago and the game has changed for the easy, imo.

There is attunable gear for each level range that drops in the level appropriate zones. You can find the gear for sale in the bazaar for reasonable prices. My characters had a lot of raid gear(<L65) on them and I found lots of upgrades for L70 toons.

[jeepdriver]

Awww that sucks, but oh well. I used to get around that with CoTH, and the summoning fires...they still have that?

[Lax]

The EQ1 auto-follow circling thing is 100% related to the FPS of the follower (both for the auto-follow turn radius and follow speed). If they are getting 20-25 or better FPS, this issue should not happen.

As an ISBoxer user, if you are experiencing this problem you can use EQPlayNice's Rendering Limiting feature - see http://isboxer.com/wiki/EverQuest#EQPlayNice - to mitigate it. Because this feature does in fact limit the 3d rendering per cycle, it will allow the game to operate much faster with less CPU/GPU usage -- at the cost of *looking* choppy in those background windows. For example, the background windows can operate at 60 fps (faster follow and tighter turn radius) and only render 1 of those frames, and still use a lot less CPU/GPU than operating normally at 20 fps.

It'll work with any other software, but I specified ISBoxer because this feature of EQPN requires the same subscription as ISBoxer anyway...

[jeepdriver]

Ah cool thx for the info lax, I remember using your wineq and eqplaynice back years ago :) Im thinking of taking a poke at it, but gonna check and see if I can use some sort of returning free time or so to try it out before I put any money down. Also found out my bards account was hacked, thanks to an old guildy on Facebook. Nice to see your bard is 90! My bard is 90? oh wtf...... So gotta decide if its really worth the effort Im gonna have to expend tryin to get that back lol.

[moosejaw]

Oh, that sucks about the hack. If you get the account back with the expansions and a leveled bard then its a win win. :)

[jstanthr]

The EQ1 auto-follow circling thing is 100% related to the FPS of the follower (both for the auto-follow turn radius and follow speed). If they are getting 20-25 or better FPS, this issue should not happen.

As an ISBoxer user, if you are experiencing this problem you can use EQPlayNice's Rendering Limiting feature - see http://isboxer.com/wiki/EverQuest#EQPlayNice - to mitigate it. Because this feature does in fact limit the 3d rendering per cycle, it will allow the game to operate much faster with less CPU/GPU usage -- at the cost of *looking* choppy in those background windows. For example, the background windows can operate at 60 fps (faster follow and tighter turn radius) and only render 1 of those frames, and still use a lot less CPU/GPU than operating normally at 20 fps.

It'll work with any other software, but I specified ISBoxer because this feature of EQPN requires the same subscription as ISBoxer anyway...

OT i know, but is there somehting similar to this for WoW?

[Velassra]

The EQ1 auto-follow circling thing is 100% related to the FPS of the follower (both for the auto-follow turn radius and follow speed). If they are getting 20-25 or better FPS, this issue should not happen.

As an ISBoxer user, if you are experiencing this problem you can use EQPlayNice's Rendering Limiting feature - see http://isboxer.com/wiki/EverQuest#EQPlayNice - to mitigate it. Because this feature does in fact limit the 3d rendering per cycle, it will allow the game to operate much faster with less CPU/GPU usage -- at the cost of *looking* choppy in those background windows. For example, the background windows can operate at 60 fps (faster follow and tighter turn radius) and only render 1 of those frames, and still use a lot less CPU/GPU than operating normally at 20 fps.

It'll work with any other software, but I specified ISBoxer because this feature of EQPN requires the same subscription as ISBoxer anyway...

The big circle was a huge pain, didn't know about this above. Never got IS working right anyway:(

[Malgor]

I, like you just got three of my accounts back after a 5-6 year hiatus. 70 cleric with 500 AA, 70 druid with 300 AA and 70 enchanter with 800 AA. Am three boxing them now and a friend is reviving his 70 warrior and 70 necromancer - with the dps, tank or healing mercenary you can get it will make a well rounded group.

Day two and I'm already to 71.

[Multibocks]

Ah EQ, memories... I'll never forget my first MMO, but I know its just rose colored glasses and if I went back I would be bored in one day. I still like to reminisce like an old man every time someone brings it up. :)

[Lyonheart]

I have been playing EQ1 for about 3 months.. i have leveled most my old toons. I have a 95 ranger that i use to PL my alts. I use a team of druid+enchanter+noob alt to lvl to 65 then my ranger headshots mobs from 65+. I started an Sk two days ago and hes 68 now. It has been a fun return while I wait for MoP.

I'm on tunre/7th hammer btw..main is Swyftt ( 95 ranger )

[heffner]

I went back to EQ a couple of years ago and played for a year. I hadn't played in ages and my mages gear was Velious raid gear....pretty out dated. I leveled up a new bard to dual box with my old school mage and another friends necro. With the help of the mercenaries we were able to do a ton of the group content. I had a lot of fun going through all the "new to me" expansions.

[Malgor]

We're enjoying it so far. We're waiting for new games. I've recently put all my WoW and SWTOR accounts on hold and kinda stepped away from Diablo III for the most part.

What amazed me most was the emotions that ran through me when I played my druid (first toon I ever made in an MMO) and all the memories came flooding back.

Another thing that gave me a laugh is how bad the graphics are compared to todays games. They seemed awesome when I started playing when EQ first came out.

[Lyonheart]

what server Mal?

[Malgor]

Rathe-Prexus.

Prexus was our original server back when it first started.

[Lyonheart]

Im at a point where i could quit, i have only 1 95, my ranger, and me and my nephew share my other toons..93 rog, 92 bard and 92 Shaman. and TONS of alts. PLing is so easy now. SO i have lots of things to do, but its starting to feel less fun than it did first few months! Ill be back in WoW a few weeks before moP ( to experience the pre-launch patch events ) Am also going to try GW2 solo ( grrr..hate soloing in MMOs hehe )

But for now, EQ is keeping me busy and i enjoy PLing my lvl65+ alts with my Ranger.