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Ashlanne

05-22-2012, 06:56 PM

<img src="http://www.soe.com/images/community/webcast/EQIIWebcastBanner.jpg" width="500" height="281" /> The EverQuest II team is excited to share details about the future! Host Dave “Smoke Jumper” Georgeson (Director of Development) will sit down with Holly “Windstalker” Longdale (Producer) to talk about what’s coming for EverQuest II. If you are an EQII fan and you want to know what’s coming next, this is a must see Webcast! We'd love to answer your questions, we are gathering them in this thread! Join us on Thursday, May 24, 2012, at 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time* on <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/sonyonlinetv" target="_blank">Twitch TV! </a>The webcast is expected to last about 20 minutes. Be there to hear about EverQuest II’s exciting future! See you on <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/sonyonlinetv" target="_blank">Twitch TV!</a> *<a href="http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc">Convert to your local time</a> <img src="http://www.everquest2.com/images/en/footer/ESRB-EQ2.gif" />

Vinyard

05-22-2012, 08:05 PM

This should be an interesting one.I just hope they don't mention "Qeynos revamp this summer, more Velious content after that!" Because we've known that stuff for a long time now.I'm hoping to hear something about heroic scarecrows in Antonica returning. I'd buy a multi-month sub just for that.

Zominus

05-22-2012, 08:50 PM

*Cough* Eq2 Classic server...lol

Cloudrat

05-22-2012, 09:11 PM

Now that we have adventure potions on the market are we going to get crafting ones as well? I know quite a few crafters willing to part with a lot of SC for these <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/Aeryal/craftingpotion.jpg" width="607" height="332" />

Lempo

05-22-2012, 09:44 PM

There are items being used in game that came from POW that were reforged and after the changes were implemented on test and it was discovered what could be done a concious effort was made by some players to reforge gear giving them an unfair advantage over others. Whether or not some/any/all who did this knew or not is not up for debate.SOE why will you not remove the reforging on any POW gear, put the item into overflow and alert the player that due to a bug in the reforging mechanic the gear was manually restored and reforging costs were refunded?Information referenced from this thread: <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=518597">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=518597</a>

Vinyard

05-22-2012, 10:02 PM

I just get a bad feeling from this.

Leawyn

05-22-2012, 10:11 PM

Can someone please give us a summary of the relevant parts? Or a transcript, whatever. I don't have the time to listen to webcasts.

Vinyard

05-22-2012, 10:14 PM

I'm sure Feldon will have a write up.

Lempo

05-22-2012, 10:36 PM

<cite>Maewyn@Unrest_old wrote:</cite><blockquote>Can someone please give us a summary of the relevant parts? Or a transcript, whatever. I don't have the time to listen to webcasts.</blockquote>they actually have been pretty good doing this as of late

Stardrama

05-22-2012, 10:43 PM

This game is great!Adding solo adventure options really made a difference for me.Seemless Freeport was outstanding! I love that place now! But I'd like more control over customizing my character. The sliders don't go far enough. And maybe a blend of hairstyles so we all don't look so... "related"?? Maybe one style could overlay another style to get a whole new look? And how about eye shadow, lipcolor, more like the choices we had in Star Wars Galaxies? If I'm going down in battle, I want to go down lookin' good! And showing the rings (decorative) was fun, but how about letting us see all the jewelry we wear? Not just the decorative stuff, can't we wear the jeweller crafted stat-enhanced jewelry as viewable as well? I would like to choose a favorite color for my character at creation and have that color tint any armor I choose. So, if my favorite color is pink, my armor tints pink. Maybe I could go to the "barber" and reselect a favorite color if it turns out badly? At least my leather armor won't look so much like the leather armor you're wearing?Also, I'd like to have the decorator choices we had in the cheaper homes put into the premium housing. I'd like to choose the floor coloring, wall coloring etc. And can we get gardening ingame like EQ1 has? As a provisionor, I could grow my own stuff to prepare? Or maybe just decorative food items and flowers? We could harvest the seeds from around Norrath then plant them in our premium housing zones to grow over time? Make it a provisioner harvestable skill only if it's too much for the economy??And could we get a water tool added to the edit mode for premium housing? Something to create a pond over there, or a little stream right here, that kind of thing? Right now we use fountains, ponds, and mirrors to create water effects if our housing doesn't having anything.And can you reduce the pain a little on the Mercs? I pay 5pp for my merc up front & 25gp every 30 minutes. But I pay another 25gp to get him back if he dies. I may have just antied up the 25gp, 10 minutes later he's dead, ouch, another 25gp? Couldn't there be a death clause that allows the merc to revive without the fee?Just a few thoughts, I have a million of them <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />

Poldara

05-22-2012, 11:55 PM

double post

Firecracker

05-23-2012, 12:59 AM

Questions I would like answers too are.......not that you have to answer any or all them but if one could be I would be happy. Any plans to give our character more options in hair styles and hair color as well? Any plans to give players more building blocks such as triangles? Also along with these, walls with windows or window openings? Any plans to add more plants, Trees and other fill-ins for landscapes? Such a flowers, cornstalks, tomatoes stalks? Any plans in the near future to add more farm type animals in various colors such as lambs, sheep, bulls, chickens, rabbits, squirrels, fish swarms similar to the harvestable ones and birds? Would like to see the pigs and cows be more than one color too. Player house Doors... any plans to give them a rectangle type frame of sorts? Reason being it is kind of hard to fill the sides or corners on the Neriak and Kelethin doors as it is now. Any chance of getting player craftable doors? Any plans to maybe add another class? -a suggestion is I would love to see the bloodmage type class similar to the Vanguard class of it. Any plans to add another new race? I love wings, would like to see more options for the fae races like seeing male via female wings be usable for both sexes please. ...asking for my kid any plans to add a underwater city that we can actually interact with like npc's? (PS) Oh please can we get more (flying) mounts, house items and appearance items in pink tones pretty please?

JillianiahSunsorrow

05-23-2012, 01:28 AM

Feel free to ignore, but some of these have been on my mind for awhile and, since you've given us this chance, I thought, what the heck.I was a *huge* fan of EQ1. My (ex) husband said that I treated it like a huge, graphically enhanced chatroom, and I did /laugh. I would sit in PoK for hours giving buffs, going on rez runs and just talking with people.EQ2, while much better in some ways, is terrible with regards to socialization and, while there are definite advantages to soloing, it's hard to level certain characters without groups at higher levels.Is there a way that we can have quests that, if you are part of a group when you get them but you come back later and are solo, could be *tweaked* in such a way as to be completed solo? For example: in groups, you split the XP among the groupmates and the challenges are hard enough for the group to have fun. But if you don't complete it with a group, that the XP would go to regular soloing but so would the challenge.Another is, can we get class/role specific quest lines? For instance, if a shaman/mystic wants to roleplay as a true shaman, which means no killing of bears or wolves or killing in general, can we get quests that are focused on non-killing of 'regular' targets.... While EQ1 has gone to Free-to-Play as well, I have a very difficult time unlearning everything I've gotten used to in EQ2. Are we ever going to see a version that melds the two together? Taking the best of the best of both and merging them into an EQ3?I would also like to see more realistic recipes for tradeskills. I mean, yes, roots are a low level item, but roots should be used in higher level recipes as well, AND be able to be foraged/gathered in higher level zones so that higher level toons aren't over-running the newbie/lower level zones.Also, you are doing it with the mercenaries and such NPCs now so, is it possible to create NPCs that give quests to you that actually JOIN your group (and interact with?) to complete the quests? Like... a group of D&D people have to achieve an objective and some times are joined by characters played by the DM to complete that goal and then they leave - usually. I would love more interaction with NPCs, not only as someone you pay to act as a tank or healer for soloers, but for fun of quests as well.Items in houses can be moved back and forth and turned around horizontally and made smaller or bigger. Can we add the ability to turn them vertically as well, please.One thing I like to do, is to /bow, /salute, /flirt or whatever with NPCs, just to RP or to break up the routine of just talking to something that's not going to respond in any other way a bit. Could we add NPC responses to PCs for more 'realistic' interactions? Just for fun, possibly for 'unknown' quests or rewards or even storylines.Despite all of the above, I want you to know that I really enjoy playing. Thanks for a great game <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Jill

Zxendor

05-23-2012, 01:44 AM

Graphics. In the begining, EQ2 was touted to be a graphical revolution for multiplayer gaming having features so intense even the most current hardware at the time could not take advantage of every option. The makers talked about how in the future the technology would finally catch up allowing those with high end systems to experience EQ2 in all of its glory. Even now... this is still the case... players with even the best gaming systems still cannot take advantage of the full settings (primarily shadows) without rediculus frame rate drops. This is because the makers of the engine messed up big time not considering the future going towards multicore processing rather than one faster and faster core.Once and for all are you going to do anything about this so that people who are running SLI and core i7's can actually get 60 fps with max settings including all shadows on?Also: You disabled shader 3.0 even though it was partially implimented. Why not reimpliment the unfinished product so that players can decide wether or not they want it on even if it does look really bad in certain areas.Shadows can make even the most basic textures in games look like gold. It truly is an opportunity to modernize the engine so that EQ2 can finally do what the original designers intended: to scale up graphically for the future.

Leawyn

05-23-2012, 01:54 AM

Cinnimon your post is REALLY hard to read with the tiny writing and multiple colors. Might I suggest highlighting the whole thing, and click the little white eraser looking icon on the bottom row of your edit window.

Cloudrat

05-23-2012, 03:11 AM

<cite>Stardrama wrote:</cite><blockquote>This game is great!Adding solo adventure options really made a difference for me.Seemless Freeport was outstanding! I love that place now! But I'd like more control over customizing my character. The sliders don't go far enough. And maybe a blend of hairstyles so we all don't look so... "related"?? Maybe one style could overlay another style to get a whole new look? And how about eye shadow, lipcolor, more like the choices we had in Star Wars Galaxies? If I'm going down in battle, I want to go down lookin' good! And showing the rings (decorative) was fun, but how about letting us see all the jewelry we wear? Not just the decorative stuff, can't we wear the jeweller crafted stat-enhanced jewelry as viewable as well? I would like to choose a favorite color for my character at creation and have that color tint any armor I choose. So, if my favorite color is pink, my armor tints pink. Maybe I could go to the "barber" and reselect a favorite color if it turns out badly? At least my leather armor won't look so much like the leather armor you're wearing?Also, I'd like to have the decorator choices we had in the cheaper homes put into the premium housing. I'd like to choose the floor coloring, wall coloring etc. And can we get gardening ingame like EQ1 has? As a provisionor, I could grow my own stuff to prepare? Or maybe just decorative food items and flowers? We could harvest the seeds from around Norrath then plant them in our premium housing zones to grow over time? Make it a provisioner harvestable skill only if it's too much for the economy??And could we get a water tool added to the edit mode for premium housing? Something to create a pond over there, or a little stream right here, that kind of thing? Right now we use fountains, ponds, and mirrors to create water effects if our housing doesn't having anything.And can you reduce the pain a little on the Mercs? I pay 5pp for my merc up front & 25gp every 30 minutes. But I pay another 25gp to get him back if he dies. I may have just antied up the 25gp, 10 minutes later he's dead, ouch, another 25gp? Couldn't there be a death clause that allows the merc to revive without the fee?Just a few thoughts, I have a million of them <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Lots of good stuff here<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" /> One of the things that makes this a world to live in and not just another hack and slash is the housing and customization features of our avatars. I am still wondering if we will ever get the ability to tilt items with the editing tool in game?

Naramsin

05-23-2012, 06:19 AM

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1" width="256"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td width="100%"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" width="100%"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1" width="256"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td width="100%"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="100%"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1" width="256"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top">"Do you want to play everquest 2, or the Sims? Seriously, bad ideas are bad."@Poldara There's no need to belittle other peoples' ideas like that. Seems to me like such comments are characteristic of what a Troll would do. You're not a troll, so there's no need to stoop to that level.@Stardrama I think you have some good ideas. My Main is a carpenter, and as a carpenter, you get to thinking about how things would look in your house and guild hall. I too have been thinking that with every house from the Newbie housing in Qeynos and Freeport, to the richest prestige housing offered, one should have the option to switch out patterns for the floor, walls, and cielings. With Qeynos and Freeport housing, the tool to switch out the textures tends to double gouge you though: First you have to pay for the pattern, whether you use it or not, then you have to pay a price to apply the pattern, these I can do without. With this tool, I think a good idea would be to have the option to load tiles into it to be applied to floors, cielings, or walls. So if you want a red marble floor for your Sathirian throne room, now you can click on the floor, load the tile you want, and hit apply, and watch it lay the texture out and not have to worry about placing each tile exactly edge-to-edge, and without that flicker affect when you accidentally overlap tiles.Speaking of tiles, what really sucks about tiles and other building block type objects are that each one placed takes up another slot space in your house. Books are not counted as taking up slot space, so why should building materials be counted as used slot spaces. If you want to make a new floor like I did, you should be able to without fear of consuming slot spaces. In fact, when you make a new floor, you should gain more slot spaces.As far as moving objects around, yes one should be able to rotate the object on any angle of any plain of any axis. There should be a built-in layout editor that allows one to see a map of the house and place objects as if you are placing 2d objects on a 2d map. The map should allow one to see the furniture layouts from a top view, front view, back view, and side views. You should be able to do smart tiling from this map, Highlight individual tiles for moving elsewhere or to send it to the moving crate. Also, you should have the option to resize any object to your specifications without size limits. Objects should be groupable for easier moving and resizing. Object groups should be nameable for ease of identification. This built in layout editor would be a great way to replace the current layout editor, as it'd have the same great features, plus more, all built into the game, without the need to switch between the game and the .net interface offered.Stardrama wrote:<blockquote>This game is great!</blockquote><blockquote>Adding solo adventure options really made a difference for me.</blockquote><blockquote>Seemless Freeport was outstanding! I love that place now!</blockquote><blockquote>But I'd like more control over customizing my character. The sliders don't go far enough. And maybe a blend of hairstyles so we all don't look so... "related"?? Maybe one style could overlay another style to get a whole new look? And how about eye shadow, lipcolor, more like the choices we had in Star Wars Galaxies? If I'm going down in battle, I want to go down lookin' good!</blockquote><blockquote>And showing the rings (decorative) was fun, but how about letting us see all the jewelry we wear? Not just the decorative stuff, can't we wear the jeweller crafted stat-enhanced jewelry as viewable as well?</blockquote><blockquote>I would like to choose a favorite color for my character at creation and have that color tint any armor I choose. So, if my favorite color is pink, my armor tints pink. Maybe I could go to the "barber" and reselect a favorite color if it turns out badly? At least my leather armor won't look so much like the leather armor you're wearing?</blockquote><blockquote>Also, I'd like to have the decorator choices we had in the cheaper homes put into the premium housing. I'd like to choose the floor coloring, wall coloring etc.</blockquote><blockquote>And can we get gardening ingame like EQ1 has? As a provisionor, I could grow my own stuff to prepare? Or maybe just decorative food items and flowers? We could harvest the seeds from around Norrath then plant them in our premium housing zones to grow over time? Make it a provisioner harvestable skill only if it's too much for the economy??</blockquote><blockquote>And could we get a water tool added to the edit mode for premium housing? Something to create a pond over there, or a little stream right here, that kind of thing? Right now we use fountains, ponds, and mirrors to create water effects if our housing doesn't having anything.</blockquote><blockquote>And can you reduce the pain a little on the Mercs? I pay 5pp for my merc up front & 25gp every 30 minutes. But I pay another 25gp to get him back if he dies. I may have just antied up the 25gp, 10 minutes later he's dead, ouch, another 25gp? Couldn't there be a death clause that allows the merc to revive without the fee?</blockquote><blockquote>Just a few thoughts, I have a million of them <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" width="15" height="15" align="bottom" /></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

Onslaughtt

05-23-2012, 06:26 AM

Progression server I hope..

Raknid

05-23-2012, 09:03 AM

More than likley it is simply an announcement about the rollout plans for EQ2 in regards to PSS1 and the servicing changes for those based in Europe. They simply don't have the resources to do much in this game anymore.That being said, my one questions would be at what level they see the game topping out? Is it 92? 94? 100? etc... Rumor is that they are constrained regarding the ability to make mobs above level 100, which means that if we advance much more then the mobs are going to have to challenging in ways other than level.

havlar-eq2

05-23-2012, 10:12 AM

Hello and thankyou for doing this. I played eqoa when it first came out and on and off EQ2 over the years. I just had a few questions for the future of EQ2.1. Is there ever going to be an EQ or EQOA Next for ps3 or computer, or should I be investing the next few years of my time and money into EQ2?2. When I returned to EQ2 these last two months I got the feeling that you guys are investing heavily into EQ2 at SOE is this a sign that the population is strong and its gonna be that way for long time to come?3. In regaurds to Dungeon Finder, is there any plans to perfect this system and have it work flawlessly anytime in the near future? It was one of my favorite features to find when I returned, but I would sometimes find myself wasting over an hour trying to que up and get sent to a proper dungeon, I'm hoping to hear your words on the future of Dungeon Finder.These were my top three questions, the third one is probably my most important short term question, other two are my long term ones. Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions.P.S. I see Dungeon maker is getting an upgrade for lower levels too, are we able to level with higher lvl players now? Is that what the talk was on that and are people going to be able to run regular dungeons now with higher level players like 90s and 80s together while being just as effective together as if it was a 90 party?

Firecracker

05-23-2012, 12:12 PM

<cite>JillianiahSunsorrow wrote:</cite><blockquote>Also, you are doing it with the mercenaries and such NPCs now so, is it possible to create NPCs that give quests to you that actually JOIN your group (and interact with?) to complete the quests? Like... a group of D&D people have to achieve an objective and some times are joined by characters played by the DM to complete that goal and then they leave - usually. I would love more interaction with NPCs, not only as someone you pay to act as a tank or healer for soloers, but for fun of quests as well.I did find a quest in maybe what you mean in Weathered Lands, where you have to take 3 different NPC's around the zone killing with them or you don't get update if they don't hit it.Items in houses can be moved back and forth and turned around horizontally and made smaller or bigger. Can we add the ability to turn them vertically as well, please.I was hoping when Dungeon Maker came out that player housing would also have tool in which we could turn items with but...got nothing.</blockquote>

Yimway

05-23-2012, 12:14 PM

What are the plans to have enough content that is useable and relevant to keep players busy until December?We have lots of raid content in DoV, however due to itemization only a tiny subset of that content is relevant to players. What are the plans to make Drunder HM (currently harder than Skyshrine raids) relevant going forward? Will it be itemized so that we have a reason to try to progress this content? Skyshrine only provides us with 3 hours of content that can be run twice a week, what are the plans to provide sufficient content, challenge, and rewards to keep your raiding comunity busy for the next 7 months?

Shanak85

05-23-2012, 12:17 PM

So with the latest GU, I have seen nothing but flying mounts being offered from the new content. What ever happened to variety? What happened to "No one type of mount is to be considered 'better' than any other type, they're just a different style"? Seems to me that when you ONLY give out one type of mount with the best stats possible, they become "better" mounts than any other type. At least in the first half of velious you gave us a couple ground mounts as well as flying mounts. I absolutely hate using flying mounts and will only use ground mounts unless I NEED to fly. I hope this doesn't continue in the future.

inspire1444568

05-23-2012, 02:06 PM

Look at the class sections ! Many of them are dead = This is not result of good work on classes !!! This is the indifference of developers and... mistrust. players <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Start doing! something... something else. more personalized to subclasses !Explore this game with all its aspects - solo (and solo-pvp), group (and group pvp/Bg), raidIn a raid need all (or almost all) classes, but they are necessary in groups?

Cyliena

05-23-2012, 03:53 PM

When is the next level cap increase? When is the next AA cap increase? Will guilds see a level cap increase beyond 90?What will be done to make tradeskillers Mastercrafted recipes relevant again, now that Legendary armor is the new Treasured armor?Will we be able to fly/leap/glide in Qeynos? What is happening to the Qeynos villages and their associated quests?Are the older issues from the original itemization update (GU61 - August 2011) being addressed? There are several threads in the Items & Equipment forums detailing these issues, with item links. Will the reitemized Kunark mage armor (not accessories--primary armor pieces) ever be changed to be All Mages instead of Warlock/Wizard only?Are the tradeskill apprentice quest rewards for level 90-92 crafters being looked into? Currently these quests are still granting Tier 9 common/rare harvest rewards instead of Tier 10, despite the fact that T10 harvests now exist.That's all for now....Here's some more:Will the next expansion be "features" based or content based? Will the next expansion be this year or will there only be another 1-2 Game Updates instead?Whenever DoV is officially played out, can we PLEASE get an original expansion *not* based on EverQuest lands? I have played EQ (and still do) since 1998 but I'm tired of seeing EQ in my EQ2 now and want to see something purely original to EQ2 (like Mara was).

Mystfit

05-23-2012, 05:22 PM

Will Meatbeast ever return to BL's. I miss him desperately!**O Bovoch, cow of strange designYour supple leather hide remains divineWith spots of black in the tens or moreLifted high on legs, larger rear than foreBluish eyes full of watery truthSharp of mind, but soft of toothWhich lay in herbivorous rows, alasSuitable only for eating grassYour towering height, the warmth of your heart Are missed each day we're kept apart The others cannot understand the joy I feel When a bovoch scratches after a full-bellied mealCan you attend me? Protect me? Ward me? Please?Fight off my enemies with bovine ease?How can you call me the lord of each beast If I am never allowed to tame the Meatbeast?

brokenshieldd

05-23-2012, 06:19 PM

Ok folks I hope this game last another 5 years or more. Best MMO ever except EQ what is still around.What I would like to see in game. Is to finally tell us to where the dwarfs of kaladim went? Or the retaking of kaladim. You have to love those smelly Dwarfs I dont care what smokejumper thinks about they are better than the trolls lol.I would love to see more work done with the In game house editor. you guys said that might happen sometime in the future?What about house painting that look like the art from the retail box versions of pass expansions?What about bigger house expanders or make it where more house expanders can stack?Thank you

Morgania434

05-23-2012, 06:31 PM

I would like to know about the itemization for the messed up GU61 items? Smokejumper promised us in writing that these would be done with gu63. ( on the now defunct eq2x forums).

Shanak85

05-23-2012, 06:50 PM

Will all of the broken achievements in velious ever be fixed?

Kenpachii

05-23-2012, 08:45 PM

Alot of the questions here, especially to do with content, itemization are the questions id like answered too.But i would like to see more than 3 questions answered, as you can see there is ALOT of questions, so could you please answer as many questions as you can, i know you would only have a certain amount of time but the more answers the community gets the happier they will be.Please dont answer all the tradeskill/housing questions and leave out questions regarding content/itemization fixes as seems to be the case on the forums.I guess my only other question would be is Where have you been windstalker? You made a thread stating you would be coming on the forums, posting and keeping in touch with the community but there has been no sign of you coming up to 3 months now.

Poldara

05-24-2012, 05:35 AM

Most of the people here are asking for candy, when other people are starving for meat and potatoes. Housing, character customization, etc are extra's to add a little flavor to the game. The core of the game, is... *gasp* adventuring.Everyone wants more actual content. Raid, group, quest content. People that don't want to play this game like it's the sims online want that. While playing this game simply to socialize and to decorate a house all day is fine, it should be secondary to everything else.My questions to the devs would be this.1. Why are items that affect game play being added to the station store when it was promised to us time and time again that nothing would be added that would impact game play. Examples, rez/heal potions, potions to speed up spell mastery time, etc. Is the need for the dollar going to drive sony to start releasing gear for players who have more money than time to buy? That's the way im seeing it going so far.2. Why spend time developing places that within a week or two nobody cares about anymore, for example, freeport. People ran aroudn there a bit, and nobody cares now. It's a lot of wasted manpower imo, and from a lot of people i've talked with.3. Raid guilds are dying left and right. Old raid guilds that have been around since the start. Raiders are quiting in droves. What is SOE going to do to keep raiders from fleeing this game in droves?

feldon30

05-24-2012, 05:50 AM

Question #1: Have the in-game polls changed the EQ2 team's focus on developing different parts of the game?Question #2: Is there any chance we can get more of a dialogue or communication about Itemization? What about bringing back Developer Chats and monthly Q&A's?Question #3: Whatever happened to the EQ2 Influencers/Summit program? Other SOE games have a group of players who provide feedback on the whole spectrum of gameplay from solo to group to raid to crafting. Could we see something like this come back for EQ2?Question #4: With the exception of Data Feeds and a podcast or two, most EQ2 Fan Sites have had little communication with SOE and the EQ2 team over the past 2 years. 9 months ago at Fan Faire, we heard that Fan Sites would get some love. We're here, and we'd like to be involved!Question #5: Withered Lands and Skyshrine content has some of the best art design and content we've seen yet. However most of it is much much easier than Drunder. Was this a reaction to player feedback? What content do you see players doing from July until the expansion?Question #6: Is it a new long-term strategy that Mythical weapons are available from group and solo content?Question #7: EQ2U and other data feeds-powered websites would love to be able to show Quests and Recipes! Soon? Soonish?

Aiirbornne

05-24-2012, 12:02 PM

All this new quests and gear from Withered lands is awesome. Skyshrine is great fun for a quick solo mission or even with a buddy. Where is the new PQ going to be.. can we get get something like a Combine assault on that Storm Dragon to defend the camp. or maybe a mini PQ raid on Kerafym in the near future. plop it right there in the middle of the swamp.. have Kerafym prismatic dragony burn the mobs there so we can fight without adds for a few minutes.dont make him scale down if there isnt enough people.. make him a pure X2 so the raid guilds can have the X4 to themselves ( just a thought ). but give him actual RAID GEAR if he is a solid raid mob with RAID tactics and only accessible twice a day or something.. not every 2 hours.. even 5 times a day would cover most time zones.If letting him drop raid gear would be a bad idea.. then how about 1 white, 1 yellow and 1 blue scales for a fighting him off that can be exchanged for shards from the appropriate merchants. That makes him wanted for shards and no gear gets into the game without raid access to him.Trying to get more of the PQ fun from Great Divide, i even like the PQ in commonlands.. just dont get must time to do it at the moment.

Rijacki

05-24-2012, 12:31 PM

When are we going to see anything to encourage grouping at all levels?<ul><li>Currently grouping except at cap is discouraged by the XP penalty for groups both mentored and un-mentored: the XP for a kill is divided between the group members making kills for XP that can be done solo better without a group.</li></ul>Was it intentional to have the current overland content to be for 'fluff and flavour' and not to be beneficial to leveling towards cap?<ul><li>Currently, if you want to get enough XP to get to the new cap, you need to go do conent 2 - 3 years old. </li><li>Example: On Rijacki, I went through the full Waking Lands questline + the tradeskill quest line from level 90/290AA with the slider at 50% and have only gained 7AA and about 75% toward 91. That's not an uncommon experience from all other reports.</li></ul>When are the remaining itemisation issues from the last year going to be addressed?<ul><li>A lot of gear in the lower levels is still a mess after the automated script. </li><li>A lot of crafted gear has the wrong stats and/or wrong classes.</li><li>Several threads specifying items and displaying examples haven't gotten any responses or fixes.</li></ul>Is it intentional, going forward, that the new EM raid content be easier than the HM content added within the last year and with better gear drops?<ul><li>HM Drunder should have gear better than the EM Skyshrine drops. </li></ul>Is it intentional that none of the EM Skyshrine raid armor drops are for mages?<ul><li>or is it just that our guild has been unlucky by only getting some jewelry mage usable and no armor pieces?</li><li>or is that the way HM Drunder is being kept 'relevant' by not having armor drop in Skyshrine for certain classes?</li></ul>When can we expect to see some of the 'tons of tradeskilling content' that keeps being announced?<ul><li>6 very very easy short quests that can be done in 30 mins or less (even if you trek across the zone as a lower adventure level character) + standard recipes isn't really "tons of content"</li><li>adding to that, 2 'apprentices' with 18 day/per recipe trickles based on archetype and not class doesn't even equal "tons of content"</li></ul>When can we get some improvements/adjustments to the itemisation of the recipes for all other levels especially for those classes which haven't yet gotten any adjustments to their products since pre-EoF?<ul><li>The newly added standard poisons for Alchemy only underscore how incredibly bad the itemisation is for poisons for all other levels. Handcrafted level 91/92 poisons are up to 4x better than the Mastercrafted level 86+ (usable at 82) poisons.</li></ul>

Baanthos

05-24-2012, 01:47 PM

Just a couple of things I wouldn't mind seeing in the near future:1) More solo content in Skyshrine. I rarely group, but love doing the Skyshrine missions. Problem is after I've completed it for the day I have to wait until the following day to go back.2) Where are the PQs that were mentioned when GU#63 first went live?3) With all the decorators adding floors to prestige housing, how about adding different styles of staircases? I've seen the stair tiles, but I think an actual staircase with railings/bannister would be nice to have. The can be carpenter made, or SC purchased. And have a variety of different kinds: marble, wood, stone, mixture or these.Thanks

OberonThunderfire

05-24-2012, 02:42 PM

Any possibility of faction tokens of loyality being made available for all factions in the game that have a merchant, including tradeskill factions?Any plans for improvements to the recipe panel in the UI to have more filter/sort options?Are there plans beyond Qeynos to revamp the other city zones or overlands?There was mention some time back of a deity revamp. Is that still on the table or has that been scrapped?

japanfour

05-24-2012, 03:08 PM

do you guys remember the nagafen server? people can fight eachother on there. What's up with that place?

Wirewhisker

05-24-2012, 03:29 PM

<cite>Atan@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote>What are the plans to have enough content that is useable and relevant to keep players busy until December?We have lots of raid content in DoV, however due to itemization only a tiny subset of that content is relevant to players. What are the plans to make Drunder HM (currently harder than Skyshrine raids) relevant going forward? Will it be itemized so that we have a reason to try to progress this content? Skyshrine only provides us with 3 hours of content that can be run twice a week, what are the plans to provide sufficient content, challenge, and rewards to keep your raiding comunity busy for the next 7 months?</blockquote>You speak for me also.What's going to be done to keep guilds from folding as their players get interminably bored of solo quest, faction grind, contested, UD -- lather, rinse, repeat, for day after day?

SignaLFLag

05-24-2012, 04:55 PM

Thanks for the great UI, could the EQ2 team help update the DCUO UI?Keep up the good work.

Kenpachii

05-24-2012, 09:05 PM

Still nothing on raids or itemization

Leko

05-24-2012, 09:06 PM

No talk about PvP. Disappointed.

Hordolin Awanagin

05-24-2012, 10:28 PM

<cite>Purr wrote:</cite><blockquote>*Please do not quote forum violations*</blockquote>Hey now don't be picking on my server <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />Seriously though... Are transcripts of these things generally available?

Purr

05-24-2012, 10:30 PM

<cite>Hordolin Awanagin wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Purr wrote:</cite><blockquote>*Please do not quote forum violations*</blockquote>Hey now don't be picking on my server <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />Seriously though... Are transcripts of these things generally available?</blockquote>Hey, it's my server, too, or I wouldn't be picking. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />Hoping for Feldon to put us something together.

Onslaughtt

05-25-2012, 02:54 AM

I cant beleive you guys have no immediate plans to make a progression server, how many years do we have to wait?

feldon30

05-25-2012, 03:50 AM

<cite>Goaraxe@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>I cant beleive you guys have no immediate plans to make a progression server, how many years do we have to wait?</blockquote>It's been discussed on the forums and at Fan Faire.The problem is, what happens once everything is unlocked? Population crashes. It's a ton of work to set up a Progression server for something that might be over and done with in < 1 year.

Halo of G4

05-25-2012, 04:07 AM

<cite>Goaraxe@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>I cant beleive you guys have no immediate plans to make a progression server, how many years do we have to wait?</blockquote>A progression server would be impossible to implement in EQ2. Unlike EQ1's progression servers in 06/11, EQ2 has had such a dramatic amount of revamps of gameplay/stat/item/tradeskill mechanices since the launch of the original content that it would make it all completely trivial. You'll have a better time killing the original raid content with level 20 gear today then you would with level 42-50 gear during the days of 04-05.

feldon30

05-25-2012, 06:30 AM

So, out of all the fantastic questions that people posed in this thread, only 5 softball questions got asked. Armor dyes? really?<a href="http://eq2wire.com/2012/05/25/the-future-of-everquest-ii-webcast-eq2wire-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eq2wire.com/2012/05/25/the-f...ire-transcript/</a>

Celline-Layonaire

05-25-2012, 08:38 AM

<cite>feldon30 wrote:</cite><blockquote>So, out of all the fantastic questions that people posed in this thread, only 5 softball questions got asked. Armor dyes? really?<a rel="nofollow" href="http://eq2wire.com/2012/05/25/the-future-of-everquest-ii-webcast-eq2wire-transcript/" target="_blank">http://eq2wire.com/2012/05/25/the-f...ire-transcript/</a></blockquote>Well, that's typical for SOE so not that surprising, but the one thing I'm really afraid about that webcast is the Qeynos revamp. Awwww...

Rijacki

05-25-2012, 11:37 AM

The only really really good thing in the webcast was about the Marketplace vs obtaining items in-game. If it really does change to more 'cool-looking' items obtainable in game, then that one tidbit is a success and I'll be happy about it. It will be interesting, though, to see how they monetise it. It's likely we'll see required components being sold exclusively through the Marketplace for certain craftable items which would probably also be from recipes bought on the Marketplace (or maybe single use recipes bought on the Marketplace instead of component + Marketplace) and would likely be artisan and not class based.I'm rather a pessimist when it comes to the Marketplace.Thank you Feldon for the transcript. (Unless I'm home sick, I'm at work when they do the podcasts.)

Yimway

05-25-2012, 12:01 PM

<cite>feldon30 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Goaraxe@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>I cant beleive you guys have no immediate plans to make a progression server, how many years do we have to wait?</blockquote>It's been discussed on the forums and at Fan Faire.The problem is, what happens once everything is unlocked? Population crashes. It's a ton of work to set up a Progression server for something that might be over and done with in < 1 year.</blockquote>< 1 year is an extremely optomistic view of how long it would take to completely unlock a progression based server. And that is honestly the biggest reason why its not worth the time.

Onslaughtt

05-25-2012, 05:09 PM

Make it TIME LOCKED, 4 - 6 months per expansion, problem solved.

Onslaughtt

05-25-2012, 05:14 PM

<cite>Halo of G4 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Goaraxe@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>I cant beleive you guys have no immediate plans to make a progression server, how many years do we have to wait?</blockquote>A progression server would be impossible to implement in EQ2. Unlike EQ1's progression servers in 06/11, EQ2 has had such a dramatic amount of revamps of gameplay/stat/item/tradeskill mechanices since the launch of the original content that it would make it all completely trivial. You'll have a better time killing the original raid content with level 20 gear today then you would with level 42-50 gear during the days of 04-05.</blockquote>Keep all the mechanics the same, just roll back all the gear to what it was.

Halo of G4

05-26-2012, 03:10 AM

<cite>Goaraxe@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Halo of G4 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Goaraxe@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>I cant beleive you guys have no immediate plans to make a progression server, how many years do we have to wait?</blockquote>A progression server would be impossible to implement in EQ2. Unlike EQ1's progression servers in 06/11, EQ2 has had such a dramatic amount of revamps of gameplay/stat/item/tradeskill mechanices since the launch of the original content that it would make it all completely trivial. You'll have a better time killing the original raid content with level 20 gear today then you would with level 42-50 gear during the days of 04-05.</blockquote>Keep all the mechanics the same, just roll back all the gear to what it was.</blockquote>You make it sound like its a simple task. First off, how do you know they kept the cache of data for all the revamps of item stats over the past 8 years? And what about the roll back for when they completely revamped combat with Desert Of Flames? Like the revamp that literally changed the gameplay mechanics including getting rid of mitigation on non-armor and the level 5 radius of items.

Celline-Layonaire

05-26-2012, 03:52 AM

<cite>Rijacki wrote:</cite><blockquote>The only really really good thing in the webcast was about the Marketplace vs obtaining items in-game. If it really does change to more 'cool-looking' items obtainable in game, then that one tidbit is a success and I'll be happy about it. It will be interesting, though, to see how they monetise it. It's likely we'll see required components being sold exclusively through the Marketplace for certain craftable items which would probably also be from recipes bought on the Marketplace (or maybe single use recipes bought on the Marketplace instead of component + Marketplace) and would likely be artisan and not class based.I'm rather a pessimist when it comes to the Marketplace.Thank you Feldon for the transcript. (Unless I'm home sick, I'm at work when they do the podcasts.)</blockquote>The only really good thing? Come on, regardless of what do you think they'll end up to be, this webcast actually contained few good bits of informaton. Like 'Content expansion rather than feature pack' or possibly 2~3 more. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

foodcity

05-26-2012, 12:17 PM

will we eventually be able to go and start in qeynos and freeport again? i REALLY miss queens colony and the outpost of the overlord <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> they were great places to start new characters!

Finora

05-28-2012, 10:15 PM

Meatbeast warder, just put a meatbeast petamorph wand on the market & be done with it.Qeynos Revamp, I'm so sad to hear the burbs are going to get the Freeport treatment. While I actually liked the revamp to the city's look, I despise the fact that you only get to go into the burbs for adventuring purposes. I know I'm not alone in wishing there was a non-combat instance available for the various burbs. The cities really lose some of their feel without the burbs being there. I think it will be even worse in Qeynos than it was for Freeport.

thepriz

05-29-2012, 08:25 PM

<cite>Finora@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>Meatbeast warder, just put a meatbeast petamorph wand on the market & be done with it.Qeynos Revamp, I'm so sad to hear the burbs are going to get the Freeport treatment. While I actually liked the revamp to the city's look, I despise the fact that you only get to go into the burbs for adventuring purposes. I know I'm not alone in wishing there was a non-combat instance available for the various burbs. The cities really lose some of their feel without the burbs being there. I think it will be even worse in Qeynos than it was for Freeport.</blockquote>I agree, but don't think there is anything I could say or do to fix this. It is sad that the only halfling like community is being made into a instance zone....This goes along with when only Qeynos and Freeport existed as starting cities we wanted more and were so happy when it happened. Then they pulled the rug out from underneath Qeynos and Freeport and removed them as starting cities.It would have been better if they revamped the city and made them viable starting places again.I wonder if they are removing the Forest Ruins, Caves, Oakmyst Forest, and the Peat Bog from the game.They should stop removing content and add more content and not just SC content....

thepriz

05-29-2012, 08:28 PM

<cite>foodcity wrote:</cite><blockquote>will we eventually be able to go and start in qeynos and freeport again? i REALLY miss queens colony and the outpost of the overlord <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /> they were great places to start new characters!</blockquote>I agree, luckally I have a character camped on Queens Colony and can log in and visit anytime I want. Tried to use COV to pull someone over but was unable to do so (I think I remember a patch notes that removed that functionality).

thepriz

05-30-2012, 03:41 PM

Just wondering when the Press Leak will be leaked today or was that the new Marketplace items?I wish I could speak/write French as well as you write English.<cite>le gitan rouge wrote:</cite><blockquote>excuse me for my bad english but i am french</blockquote>

Marnus

05-30-2012, 05:08 PM

<cite>Deran@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just wondering when the Press Leak will be leaked today or was that the new Marketplace items?I wish I could speak/write French as well as you write English.<cite>le gitan rouge wrote:</cite><blockquote>excuse me for my bad english but i am french</blockquote></blockquote>I was just thinking that lol-English isn't his native language, and yet i could still "get" what he was trying to say-which is more than i can say for some of the people who post here lol. Anyway, ditto on the tradeskill quest criticism.

Whilhelmina

05-30-2012, 05:36 PM

<cite>Absyntheea@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm.. so they're doing Qeynos like they did Freeport, shutting off the suburbs. Exactly what people have been asking for them NOT to do since the Freeport revamp. *sigh* they just don't listen, do they.Guess I had better get all of the newbie racial flowers I want before they do that.. and say goodbye to Baubleshire and Willow wood. :-/.</blockquote>On the second part, Kaitheel promised us that the items would be moved to housing merchant when it was first announced. I brought up the subject in beta but the Freeport racial items had the same graphic as existing items so it wasn't needed but it's definatedly planned and I'll be sure to push for it when it's on Test.In 2 sentances, they managed to crush every hope those that loathed the Freeport revamp had, aka:<cite></cite><blockquote>“The neighborhoods will be used much as they were used in Freeport as adventure zones (...) Flying is not possible, and it’s not a starting city.”</blockquote>I'll say once more what I said in the Freeport beta boards: could we at least get a tourable version of the suburbs. A bit like the "flying tour" was added to KoS when the portals were made, removing the flying clouds. It gave us the possibility to enjoy once more the flying around. It would be nice to get a "tour operator" somewhere that would ask you if you want to tour the old suburbs and you could choose a suburb and cross a magical portal to the place. In the best option, this portal would allow group/raids to zone in, so we may experience the area as a group.For example, my guild on live was for several years restricted to Females Teir'Dal. We had a lot of meetings in Longshadow alley and it was always a pleasure to go there and meet. The tour operator may allow us to reenter Longshadow Alley as it was, without those filthy Cristanos worshipers and use the place to hold ceremonies for new members and paryers to Our Father Innoruuk.On the "it's not a starting city" part... The outroar when Freeport and Qeynos were removed as starting cities was massive. It was one of longest thread on this forum ever made at that time. Tons of players hated the change. Tons of suggestions were made for allowing them to remain in game, like needing to have played for quite some time (vet reward unlocking it) or having to have reach max level on a char with a note that the starting area is out of date. Using one of this solution would make your veteran players happy.If it's not possible, we could imagine them being added to the tour operator I was speaking of, eventually using a chronomentor system like in the live event that would bring you to level 5 and allow you to play the zone (only the first quests are grey at level 5 but you can still do them).

Citadelli

05-30-2012, 07:38 PM

At the end of the webcast SJ sayed they had "a big press leak" they were going to release on May 30th about EQ2...Any one found anything on this?

Moldylocks

05-30-2012, 10:45 PM

<cite>Citadelli wrote:</cite><blockquote>At the end of the webcast SJ sayed they had "a big press leak" they were going to release on May 30th about EQ2...Any one found anything on this?</blockquote>"Reporting in here to say that Cyliena is right, we have the PR managing the elite infoz. =)I did look into it for you though. PR says that due to unforseen circumstances, the infoz in question will be delayed by a day or two. You guys are also correct that it involves our presence at E3. Can't sneak anything past you! Unfortunately, I cannot offer any further information, other than I think that you may enjoy what's coming.I can positively, absolutely rule out any major announcements about EQ Next. That game is behind heavily locked, lead-lined, barbed-wire fenced security. Even folks here at the studio can't get a look in (including Dwarven veterans!). Sorry!<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />#"<a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=518824&post_id=5760536#5760536" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...5760536#5760536</a><div><a class="gensmall" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/report.m?post_id=5760536">Report this post to a moderator</a></div> <hr />