Welcome Everyone!Follow

Where's all the pages of helpful posts that were attached to each quest on OGaming?

Glad the redirect has finally happened! Good times.

Unfortunately it seems that the individual entry comments were not moved. I'm not sure if that is something that can be remedied going forward, but for now just look at it as an opportunity to contribute anew to the merged site. :) In the mean time, any specific questions you may have feel free to ask here on the boards.

I had gotten very used to the OGaming layout, as I used it constantly - things like the one-click to get to the HQ list, etc. So what happened? Did OGaming just run out of money and had to shut down?

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Ogaming, THOTT BOT and Allah's got scooped up by a gold selling firm over one year ago. The parent company is headquartered in the Empire State Building and Hong Kong. Someone pinged and tracked the /whois domain names and the story ended up getting boosted on Slashdot.

There used to be a thread over at the Allah/WoW side detailing the what, who and how of the whole mess. The thread might be found in the WoW general forum archive from around Feb/march 2006.

The plan was to merge all the sites under one mega site named zam.com (allakhazam.com was/is listed as one of the top 1000 viewed webpages ) but no provider wants to host that much traffic.




Edited, Dec 19th 2006 4:42pm by Trappin

Take a few minutes to review the stickied threads at the top of this web page.

Looks like they've now brought over the OGaming comments for the quests!
Thank you very much!

Mikkahl, Mikkent - AB

In the Everquest days, I was a premium Alla user and loved the site in those days.

But when I started playing EQ2 two years ago, I noticed - as did a lot of you -that Alla was focusing on WOW and not on EQ2. No problem, I found the great site of ogaming.com.

Now, I am supposed to use Alla again for my EQ2-information.

Well, I don't think that's gonna happen with the current lay-out.

Why is the default fontsize of Alla so big? To me, that's not easy to read. If Alla really don't want to copy the layout of Ogaming, why not give registered members (who did like the Ogaming layout) the option to set their prefered fontsize?

Right now, the only good thing about the Alla-layout is the left menubar, which is copied from Ogaming.

Currently I am getting my EQ2-info from eq2.mmodb.com and www.eq2i.com, but maybe when things improve, I might return to Allakhazam.

Greetz.

I can't find an overall alphabetic list of quests. On OGaming, you could select first letter of quest name and get alpha list. It was very helpful.

Right now I'm looking for a quest called Intereption. I forget where I got it. Current location is New Tunaria. Can't find it. The alpha search would help.

What happened to OGaming? It was a great place. I guess it is our fault, the faithful users, who didn't properly support them. If only I had known this was coming. Too bad. Thank you to all you OGaming people who might be reading this. You were the best.

Just a suggestion...

Is there anyway to make some subcategories within the EQ2 general forum like OGaming used to have? I.E Crafting, General news, Class Questions etc? I just see a mess of ramdom subjects all thrown in together and it frankly makes me not read any of them.

Great to see that you've already ported over not only tonnes of quests into the DB but the comments from OGaming as well.

Edited, Dec 29th 2006 7:58am by Athenyaa

I have a problem since merger this site does not have the database that it has for Everquest we would like to have an updated database that shows all the fableds like you have for everquest.I have been useing Allakhazam for years and it upsets me when I can't use it for all my MMOs.

i can agree that ogamming was a great site. but i also thought alla's was a great site for eq1. each site has their niche i guess. im hoping that enough of the quest database makes it over so we wont have to work as hard at building up alla's database, but i see a definite good start going.

one thought i had though, using the quest search seems to be a little rough. is there a way to make it a more broad spectrum? the one on ogamming i was able to find a quest pretty easy without knowing the exact name, as long as i was close i could track it down. this search runs in a way it seems that i have to know exactly what im looking for.

i like what you've done on a few of the quest lines for linking other involved quests so that a person can just hop from one to the next. makes it nice when you dont know all the quests in a line. i would like to see more of this on the other quest lines.

also is there a way to search by questline? for instance type in peacock line and get a full listing of peacock quests, or deception, and get a full line of the deception quests. i would have to say the peacock and claymore are two of the more difficult lines to track, and being able to bring them up by set i think would be a major help. :D also having a clearer quest type search or being able to search by subject or reward would make things much nicer for trying to find which quest gives a specific reward. maybe develop a diety section also?

Edited, Dec 31st 2006 12:47pm by SpiritOfAvalon

^^^

Not entirely sure where you got that idea. I've done searches of Allak's database and I certainly haven't paid.