ok so im not that bad of a hardcore eq player but this is my cp on the matter is eq2 was to come out and be a hole brand new game with new servers will you ditch your characters on eq and move to eq2? or will you pay 12.95 extra for anotehr account for eq2? or will you even pay lets say 40 bucks for the new game? just a couple of questions

personally i wont there is still more stuff out there that i need to see zones i never been to quest i want to complete classes that i want to play my opinion o a new eq would be that it would fail unless is just the same stuff eq is about or were it would be allowed to tranfer your current characters to the new eq2 another thing is with pop coming out will there would be more items and mobs to kill more quest i thinnk that with all the stuff verant is adding to eq as we speak very few littel people would be interested on a hole new eq2 unless like a siad above your items and characters would carry over to the new one or this eq2 would be just and add on to the current eq. just my 2cp and what i think would like to see some feedback on the questions i put on top guys thanks for you time


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also i know that when a game gets announced for the first time it actually take more than 8 or 9 month to be rdy shoot look a neocron and shadow bane. but still lets say 2 years down the road i still think eq would be going strong there is not much to the game quest raid attain items that are uber and some other stuff along the lines.


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I believe the riddle mentioned "lands thought explored, become anew", or something to that gist. The image of nektulos, also, seems to follow the general attributes we know nek to be--a dark, spooky forest. Therefore, we would be led to believe that this is a zone revamp of some kind--but how practicle would that be? For every character in the game to be forced to purchase some new thing to keep continuity up would be compleatly unfeasable, and downloading would certainly be out of the question, especially with the detail we're seeing here.
What, then, has our nektulos become? As i recall several months ago, Absor (i believe) answered a Q&A about the future of everquest, and also, its history. Someone said that they'd love to be able to see how the Eldaar Forest WAS, before good ole' solusek sent those elves running. Absor said he actually agreed, but said that such a thing, a sort of history of everquest, a livable one,t aking place in a time hundreds of years before the current, was indeed an idea they were tossing around. I believe there was also a mention that this might possibly be included in EQ2. To me, this would make the most logical sence--The screenshots do indeed point to EQ2's announcement, and it will be based in our own familiar land, but ones drastically changed by centuries undone--or past. I look forward to seeing what comes to light! Post any thoughts, as usual.

-Casanunda Stoutswigger
40th Cleric of Brell Serilis
Dragons of Nightshade, Fennin Ro, "The Forgotten Server"

OMG i hope its a one player eq cause im in a HELL WHOLE place were we cant connect to other servers... The ports are closed! So if its a non-online Eq I would Freaggin Cry thanking god... Sheessh the things i do for this game i rember the days before i played this game when i had a life

Although I would like to see EQ2 being produced I wounder if Verant would have the resources to make such a game at this time. Verant and Lucas have been creating Star Wars Galaxies, a MMORPOG which is promised to come out this year. SWG was demo'd behind closed doors at last years E3 convention and I expect it will be demo'd again this year, but to for all eyes to see this time. Is this their "Big News"? I don't pretend to know but i expect to see quite a bit of Hype on SWG this year. I'm disappointed to hear that SWG will be revealsed without the Space areas with a promise to release the space pack shortly after. I would expect SWG to keep verant developers very busy for atleast another year.
On the contrary, it would be possible to create EQ2 based off this new SWG engine, which would decease production time, though i would expect atleast a year just to develop the graphics for EQ2 alone. It is not unheard of to announce a game that far ahead of the projected release date so I'm not ruling out the possiblities of EQ2.

Information about SWG can be found at:
http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/

An overall sneak peek of EQ II was included in the current issue of PC Gamer which arrived in the mail today. The following are tidbits gleaned from the article. Please excuse any possible errors or mis-info.
Required: PIII 733 or athlon XP, 512 MB RAM, GeForce3 or better video card.
Back to original 3 continents. Velious, Kunark and Luclin are explained away.
Freeport has fallen to evil and the Pallys have retreated to a Fortress of Marr. Likewise, Qeynos has ousted the Rougues and they have a new city.
Iksar still walk Norrath though their Homeland gone. No Moon, no Vah Shir. Kerrans replace them.
50% of zones new, the other half re-imagined.
Zoning will be faster, but MOBS can chase across zones. Some will cease to pursue after a while.
You start picking a race, appearance and sex. No stat points or classes.
Newbie quests provide good rewards like a compass to end sense heading tedium.
Takes 30 minutes to attain level 6. Then you decide to be fighter, priest, mage, rogue or tradesman. At 15 you start to specialize. Fighter for instance can choose among warrior, Crusader or Brawler. at 30 you finally specialize. Crusader can become Paladin, ShadowKnight or Ranger.
Leveling will be faster and top out at 100 with support for future expansions to attain 200.
Skills will include Knowledge, Technique and Arts. These will determine your ability to use items, weapons and armor which will be "transient" and breakable.
This will put an emphasis on player made high end items that break and need to be replaced providing for a better economy.
A 50th level weapon will also require the 50th level of Knowledge to equip it properly. Giving said item to a 10th level player will greatly reduce its effectiveness and increase the chance of breaking it. Goodbye to twinking.
Dying becomes less onerous. Your corpse will remain for a time to provide for a rez, but you will spawn at your bind point with your equipment, minus an item or 2 depending on the circumstances. You will not, however lose experience. You will incur an experience "debt". You will continue to gain experience from the point you died, but a portion of what you gain will go into paying off the "debt".
Bind points will be liberally scattered throughout and you will never be more than 5 minutes from one. No bind points in dungeons however.
Banks will be localized and you will have to carry stuff from one bank to deposit into another. Players will need to buy horses, carts and boats for this purpose. There will be need to hire mecenary PC's to protect caravans with PC's good from NPC attacks on long journeys.
PC's will be able to buy plots of land and build a simple, upgradeable structure on it. Invite friends to locate nearby and reach a minimum level to become a community with a guard tower and NPC guards patrolling your community which now can support community stuctures eventually resulting in playhouses providing entertainment as in weddings, plays, tournaments and so forth.
Fighting will include picking a specific hit location for attacking MOBS and creature animation is said to be stunning. Griffons will be specks in the sky before they come rocketing down on you.
Spirit of the Bear will show the PC slowly morphing into bear shape. A Bonewall damage shield will actually appear as a cage of bones topped with skulls all around the PC.
Lastly a much higher level of polygons will allow for incredibly detailed landscapes and structures.

Well there's a taste of the October of 2003 release.

Wolfie

If I had to guess, I'd vote EQ2. They've stated on the Safehouse boards that this will be something "new" that they'll be announcing, so that rules out the PS2 version, Planes of Power, and the d20 RPG. It's too soon to announce an expansion after PoP, and I don't know where you'd go after that anyway (killing the gods' gods?).

Plus, setting up two separate new domain names seems a bit extravagant to announce a new zone or anything equivalent to that. I'd guess something big.

The other option could be another entirely new MMORPG. We know they've been working behind the scenes for some time on SWG, but also on some other projects which go unnamed. However, the use of a EQ-specific name in the promotion of it seems to make that unlikely.

At any rate, SOE has to show something good at E3. We're expecting to see NWN near finished, and AC2 and World of Warcraft (I hope) there, and all Sony has lined up so far is yet another expansion. I'm betting it will be big.

Muse...

Well...this is typical. Heck, they can't even patch the existing game without ******** something else up and there are *still* bugs in EQ that havent been fixed since the beta (yep, played that long, sad, huh?)

Whether or not Sony is planning a new EQ or not is irrelevant. I probably wont be there as I refuse to buy a new machine just to play a game.

Just my 2 plat worth

Wouldn't make a lot of since to announce EQ2 when PoP is being developed.. It would bring down there sales of PoP because EQ would be better and everyone would flock to it /shrug my thoughts.. Might be a single player game though

in no particular order
1 - Everquest The animated Movie like final fantasy animation whatnot.
2 - a new everquest type of game genre like adventure or puzzle
3 - everquest 2... see there is this game mmorpg in the makings called boundless adventures and it wont be done for about 2 years or so but if you read what this game is going to have to offer on their website then you can tell that it would blow old school everquest out of the water and see everquest dont want to go bankrupt so they are going to make their own DINAMIC type mmorpg game with super crazy AI and graphics and stuff like that and yes it is sad but old school everquest will die out eventually atleast this is my prediction (this is my choice of what will happen)

PS im a D- average in english class!~ so no punctuation for u... ... ... !~


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