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#27 Apr 08 2006 at 11:06 PM Rating: Good

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http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QLFCfZm5HVgJ:www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/everquesttheshadowsofluclin/review.html+shadows+of+luclin+launch+alternate+advancement&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

gamespots review of it a month or two after launch indicates fully functional aas.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sJZAdW2BrYEJ:www.pcgamereview.com/PCGames/PRD_154782_3764crx.aspx+shadows+of+luclin+launch+alternate+advancement&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

looks to support it too.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WJBmzggR6YcJ:everquest.allakhazam.com/history/patches-2001-2.html+shadows+of+luclin+launch+alternate+advancement&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

is a list of patches. a week after the release of SoL - it has it listed as fixing a bug causing some classes to gain aas way too fast.

so, yeah. aas were in luclin at launch.

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as for the AA i could be off a bit, but i do remember them not working correctly for the first year or so after the expansion and SoE reset them serveral times for differnt classes.

i was thinking they were not LIVE with the e

there have always been a ton of AA bugs. but the system was in place immediately, and with the basic aas at least (run3 etc) functioning at launch. some stuff like wizzy familiars were bugged, and there was of course class aa tunings... but it was there, functional, and not even the most bugged pos ever at launch.

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#28 Apr 09 2006 at 1:00 AM Rating: Decent

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ok thanks. been way to long. like i stated i left EQ 1 week after gOd expansion and have not been back until tonight, well attempting too.

game is more buggy then before and runs like hell. WoW runs great on my system, but EQ is running slower then if i had an 8086 with 16K of ram.

not happy with the performance of EQ, but then was EQ ever really coded well in its graphic engine since sol?

nope.

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#29 Apr 09 2006 at 1:01 AM Rating: Good

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You should be able to run EQ pretty decently. I mean, I occasionally load a character on a p3 800.

Unless you have an insane computer, you'll lag a lot of places if you put all luclin models on... so it's probably better to just have one or two.

There are an awful lot of driver/card specific issues, though. Might want to check the EQlive tech boards to see if you fall in to that category.

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#30 Apr 09 2006 at 5:40 AM Rating: Decent

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Jeez, Luclin sucked. I started playing 2 weeks before SoL was released and was hooked in a bad way, then the expansion went live and I couldn't play for 3 days. What a cluster&#@! that was. Whenever people complaing about patches after the patches and the downtime, I just think back to SoL's release and count myself lucky.

And Actually, I think there are 3 different game engines playing in EQ right now. Luclin was the second game engine, and I think GoD was the 3rd. Tunare 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Originally The GoD expansion was suppose to be just one big expansion with Tunare 3.0 released for free, but they broke it into 3 parts and charged us for the engine upgrade. That's part of the reason why the GoD raid zones were so difficult. They were originally designed for level 70 players which didn't happen until OOW was released.

oh, and POP was when cap was raised to 65

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Originally The GoD expansion was suppose to be just one big expansion with Tunare 3.0 released for free, but they broke it into 3 parts and charged us for the engine upgrade. That's part of the reason why the GoD raid zones were so difficult. They were originally designed for level 70 players which didn't happen until OOW was released.

GoD was supposed to be just as big as GoD was. It was originally intended to have a level cap raise to 67, which wasn't implemented... but OoW wasn't supposed to be part of GoD.

Also, most GoD zones weren't actually all too hard. Ikkinz raids were pretty fun. Uqua was impossible - the main reason behind that was the dev in charge of it quit partway through the expansion, and no one picked up his slack.

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#32 Apr 10 2006 at 5:13 PM Rating: Decent

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I read a message from one of the devs while they were talking about tunare 3.0 that they broke up the original idea for the GoD expansion into smaller pieces, i.e more expansions. The original scope was just too large to get all the ideas they had into one expansion and make it cost effective. The game engine upgrade was originally suppose to be free...

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#33 Apr 10 2006 at 7:35 PM Rating: Good

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I read a message from one of the devs while they were talking about tunare 3.0 that they broke up the original idea for the GoD expansion into smaller pieces, i.e more expansions. The original scope was just too large to get all the ideas they had into one expansion and make it cost effective. The game engine upgrade was originally suppose to be free..

the game engine upgrade was free.

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#34 Apr 11 2006 at 8:08 AM Rating: Decent

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The first real looking water came with GoD. I had one account with it, and one without and the one without had the flat, ugly water and there was no way to change it. That effect was from the game engine upgrade that came with GoD.

It may have been free in the later expansions, like the 70 limit upgrade that purchasers of DoN enjoyed without purchasing OOW.

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#35 Apr 11 2006 at 9:38 AM Rating: Good

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hm, you sure?

thought all that stuff was free, but then again, I don't have an account that doesn't have god or a further expansion

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#36 Apr 11 2006 at 11:24 AM Rating: Decent

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Sir Groogle wrote:

You should be able to run EQ pretty decently. I mean, I occasionally load a character on a p3 800.

Unless you have an insane computer, you'll lag a lot of places if you put all luclin models on... so it's probably better to just have one or two.

There are an awful lot of driver/card specific issues, though. Might want to check the EQlive tech boards to see if you fall in to that category.

turned out to be some currupt files. removed and reinstalled EQ, seems to be running better. still not as good as i would like, but we are talking EQ here and SoE/Sony code so what can i expect.

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#37 Apr 11 2006 at 1:58 PM Rating: Good

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Remember, EQ does not need to be installed. You can make a backup copy, and if you lose hard drive, just copy it back. Doing it frequently prevents long patching.

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#38 Apr 11 2006 at 2:12 PM Rating: Decent

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yes true, but something went wrong with that first install.. oh well.

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#39 Apr 11 2006 at 2:51 PM Rating: Decent

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Wiestrum wrote:

The first real looking water came with GoD. I had one account with it, and one without and the one without had the flat, ugly water and there was no way to change it. That effect was from the game engine upgrade that came with GoD.

It may have been free in the later expansions, like the 70 limit upgrade that purchasers of DoN enjoyed without purchasing OOW.

It must have been, since I don't even have GoD but I do have "nice" water (in newer zones, at least).

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