May 12th, 2004
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Headlines!
Gates of Discord content retuned!


Gates of Discord
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- Zone experience modifiers were increased in all zones from Tipt/Vxed and beyond.
- Natimbi, Qinimi, Barindu, Riwwi, and Ferubi should be tuned more appropriately for their intended level ranges.
- NPCs will no longer hit for max damage as often. Knights in particular should find it easier to tank the NPCs they previously had difficulty with.
- Ikkinz -- Guilds no longer have to flag every member in order to complete the Ikkinz trials. Only one person needs to complete all events/raids to start the seventh Ikkinz trial. At that point, all players who complete the seventh trial will get full credit for the zone.
- NPC innates have been adjusted to behave a little more reasonably.
- Zone travel has been made easier. Animal aggression was lowered by changing their faction and See Invis percentages were reduced on several NPCs.
- Spell drops have been increased.
- Increased the rate of cash drops.
- The mini bosses in Qvic now have a more appropriate respawn rate. Their item drop rate has been increased to compensate for this.
- Breakdown in Communication quest now has improved rewards!

Collision
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More improvements to the collision system should make it a lot more difficult to get stuck.

Misc.
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The Eye of Zomm will once again open closed doors.



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What's an NPC Innate? Is that the annoying Chaos Claws proc and such that they do?

Me and my dyslexic eyes still see "returned"

Yeah, Chaos claws. aka pure suck.

Woo Hoo.. Eye of Zoom will open doors again..

Are you SURE it doesn't say returned?

Rumor has it that spells drop alot off named in Koda'taz now. I MIGHT actually see Sylvan Infusion someday OMG.

Have you tried the workaround posted on the SoE tech forums, Autumn?
(Here is the discussion thread.) (http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=tech&message.id=33073&view=by_date_ascending&page=1&no_redir=true)
After logging in, type /font arial. Unfortunately, I have to do this every time I log in but at least it works until they get this figured out. It seems to affect some Windows ME machines but not others.

If it's only on ME, there's an easy fix. Use an OS that doesn't suck. :p

If it's only on ME, there's an easy fix. Use an OS that doesn't suck. :p

True, that's one possible solution. But of course, you should not have to switch OS's because of a patch. :banghead_
Also, I forgot to add to try loading the default skin. That is actually what has been working for me.

I've continued using 98 on my alternate computer because it's not as bloated or complex as more recent versions.

On a side note, everquest finally froze on me a few times one night. However, this only occurred while running two copies of everquest on the same computer (with eqwindows, without eqplaynice, if it makes a difference). I increased the cpu fan speed and haven't had a problem since. This may or may not be related to the problems other people have been having.

98, 2000 and XP are both ok. ME is poo.