I was going to post an update earlier but then I remembered that perhaps putting some distance between myself and April Fools Day would be a good idea. Yes? Quite a few nice pranks were launched upon the world Tuesday. Wikipedia has a list going of everything of note that happened. Unfortunately they don't have Everquest's prank randomized-illusions.
What happened was that all servers and services went down for maintenance the morning of April 1st and in the meantime they snuck in a quick code change. This gave everyone random illusions that would change when you zoned. I logged in to find myself with the appearance of a Froglok and after zoning into PoK I was suddenly an enormous bald gnome! Using any form of illusion canceled this effect. Of course that didn't stop people from blowing a gasket and raising a big fuss on EQLive... It was awesome seeing berserkers turned into old-world Erollisi Marr models with huge flaming axes. I wish I'd taken some screenshots of the fun but I didn't think of it.
Also of note was![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
littlekuriboh's prank message that he was quitting the Abridged Series - complete with a finale episode. Of course way too many people didn't stop to think about the date or watch the video all the way to the end and thought the message was genuine. Come on people, you have brains so use them every one in a while!
Sheesh.
So, in other news, I spent yesterday in Sanctus Seru. I've been there before but only briefly. Being KoS to half the city means constantly fending off attacks but I had fun anyway and made a nice wad of plat by robbing corpses then running across the street to sell to merchants who were indifferent to the rampaging Iksar. I could even bank there ... after killing the guards outside.
My two major gripes with the zone are:
1.) THE FOG! OMG it is horrible there. Here's a screenshot with clip plane maxxed.
2.) Everything summons except the captured netherbians and the arena critters. Is it REALLY necessary that some dreg in a bar can summon me? Half the room aggros when I walk in and all the summoning ping-ponging is aggravating coming from mobs that give me zero experience and drop little if anything of value. I feel like I'm being punished for keeping my cloak buff up.
I also was surprised by a dwarf that rampages and hits very fast by dual-weilding. As a 74 shadowknight self-buffed to just shy of 10,000 hitpoints he tore my ass up pretty good for a grey-con. The first time I fought him I had to Harmtouch him before he could kill my pet with rampage.
Anyway, on with the screenshots! I wandered all over the zone (except for the central area) and made some friends.
and went on to play around in the arena
What happened was that all servers and services went down for maintenance the morning of April 1st and in the meantime they snuck in a quick code change. This gave everyone random illusions that would change when you zoned. I logged in to find myself with the appearance of a Froglok and after zoning into PoK I was suddenly an enormous bald gnome! Using any form of illusion canceled this effect. Of course that didn't stop people from blowing a gasket and raising a big fuss on EQLive... It was awesome seeing berserkers turned into old-world Erollisi Marr models with huge flaming axes. I wish I'd taken some screenshots of the fun but I didn't think of it.
Also of note was
littlekuriboh's prank message that he was quitting the Abridged Series - complete with a finale episode. Of course way too many people didn't stop to think about the date or watch the video all the way to the end and thought the message was genuine. Come on people, you have brains so use them every one in a while!Sheesh.
So, in other news, I spent yesterday in Sanctus Seru. I've been there before but only briefly. Being KoS to half the city means constantly fending off attacks but I had fun anyway and made a nice wad of plat by robbing corpses then running across the street to sell to merchants who were indifferent to the rampaging Iksar. I could even bank there ... after killing the guards outside.
My two major gripes with the zone are:
1.) THE FOG! OMG it is horrible there. Here's a screenshot with clip plane maxxed.
2.) Everything summons except the captured netherbians and the arena critters. Is it REALLY necessary that some dreg in a bar can summon me? Half the room aggros when I walk in and all the summoning ping-ponging is aggravating coming from mobs that give me zero experience and drop little if anything of value. I feel like I'm being punished for keeping my cloak buff up.
I also was surprised by a dwarf that rampages and hits very fast by dual-weilding. As a 74 shadowknight self-buffed to just shy of 10,000 hitpoints he tore my ass up pretty good for a grey-con. The first time I fought him I had to Harmtouch him before he could kill my pet with rampage.
Anyway, on with the screenshots! I wandered all over the zone (except for the central area) and made some friends.
and went on to play around in the arena
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