Postive things about patch!!!Follow

I would have thought that Rogues and Mages would be over the moon with the patches.

From my point of view it gave me a couple of nights early bed time. That can't be a bad thing?

It did interfere with our plans for the final mob in our PoS quest, but I guess he'll still be there tonight.

Had they locked the everquest graphics where they were when it first came out, No one would be playing now. 90 percent of the people whose cards will be affected by the patch will be able to find a minimal upgrade for $60ish new, less used. In the long run this patch will actually significantly decrease the RAM requirements for everquest. It will also be quite a bit more stable than the current client.

On the other hand, i can understand your frustration. i really wish they would set up a "legacy EQ" server. There are probably enough people that would use it. But I doubt it will ever come about due to the difficulty of keeping two seperate patch rulesets. Really though, computers are made to be upgraded. Think of it as your contrabuton to the IT sector job market.

All thought the sunrise can be a bit blinding. I love this patch the graffics are awsome I think. I can go sit in a safe zone pan my veiw up turn the sound up and crash on the couch lol so relaxing. Nice job SoE

The current everuest character models are very detailed, but they use an older style of rendering that is really inefficient by today's standards. THat is why you currently have to have 512MB system ram to load them all. When they finish converting them over, or rebuilding them, whichever they end up doing, they will end up with characters with the same level of detail or greater, but requiring only 1/3rd of the system ram. The tradeoff is that the new methods won't work with older graphics cards. I can live with that.

Oh and another great thing about the patch is that Celeni and I have had several nice opportunities to explore under the ground in PoK. Celeni also had a lovely time floating around in the heavens above PoS.

Adds another dimension to the recommendation that you always carry a gate potion around with you.

There is a huge positive for the patch, at least for me:

On my laptop the targetting circles never worked before and the find trader pathing in the bazaar was almost invisible. Both now work properly - apparently Sony figured out how to support laptop graphics cards.

It also looks very nice, but I can't report any major lag decreases in the bazaar, etc.

Aaneras

Druid of the 44th season, Fennin Ro