EQ2 - The patch message that never was

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This is the patch message that never happened - are you suprised they have
to back out of this ? What were they thinking trying a patch this involved
?? Servers down 11 hours plus at the moment.

Patch Message Follows = =

*** Headlines ***

- Tons of new quests, mostly for solo players!
- New Character Differentiation option: Training!
- Lots of artisan recipe and ability fixes!
- Eat healthy! New examine information to explain the benefits of food and
drink!
- Brawlers get built-in shields!
- Guild followers can spend the status they earn at city merchants!
- Now easier to equip rings, wrist items, and weapons!
- Slash that dot! Maps now show your current heading!
- Lots of UI tweaks and enhancements!
- More bug fixes than you can shake a moss snake at!

*** Training ***

- Characters now receive a new character differentiation option every ten
adventure levels: Training!
- Training allows you to choose one of four new abilities. Each of these
spells or arts builds off abilities you've been using but substantially
increases their effectiveness and benefit.
- The choice is yours whether you prefer a stronger attack, a more potent
buff, a heartier heal, or a handier utility function. Training allows you to
enhance specific aspects of your character and be a bit unique.
- These Training abilities have a longer span of effectiveness than most
common spells and arts, so they'll prove very useful to you.
- Note: Characters who reach levels 10 and 20 will not be prompted to make
their Training selections until they leave their current zone and enter
another. This is a known issue that will be corrected in a future update.

IMPORTANT!
- You will not be able to receive quest rewards until you make any pending
character differentiation choices available to you.


*** Gameplay ***

- Group members can now join other group members in a specific instance of a
zone even if that zone has reached its capacity.
- If a character dies and is given the option to be revived in a different
zone, the revive window will allow the player to choose from multiple
instances if they are available.
- Harvesting quests can no longer be completed by purchasing the items from
a broker.
- Spells that debuff the target's maximum health or power now work
appropriately.
- Fixed a bug that could cause you to fall under the world while swimming.
- Removed the restriction that only guild patrons can spend status points.
- You are no longer able to swap bags into your shared bank if one of the
bags contains a lore or no-trade item.
- You are no longer able to drag lore items from your overflow slot into the
shared bank.
- Fixed a bug that caused rare mastery quest items not to drop from solo
encounters.


*** Controls, Commands, and UI ***

- Character Select: If you choose to delete a character, you will now be
asked to type in the character name.
- Inventory: The overflow slot now features a context menu that allows you
to examine the item, move it to your inventory, or destroy it.
- Inventory: The default behavior when dragging a stack of items or coins
has changed to drag the entire stack. To choose a quantity, hold down the
Shift key while dragging. Holding down the Control key while dragging still
picks up a single item from the stack.
- Inventory: You can now drag bag windows if your mouse pointer is over an
empty slot.
- Inventory: If you attempt to equip a weapon that is not compatible with
what you're wielding, your current weapons will be unequipped for you. For
example, if you are currently holding a sword and shield and attempt to
equip a two-handed weapon, both the sword and shield will be unequipped.
- Inventory: Equipping items in the wrist and finger slots is much easier.
- Inventory: Double-clicking a second dual-wield weapon in your inventory
should now allow it to be equipped properly.
- Inventory: Added information on the value of various kinds of food and
drink in the examine window and tooltip.
- Guild UI: Class and Name columns are now sized according to their content.
- Guild UI: Guild UI now displays the guild status earned by each patron in
the "Standing" column.
- Guild UI: Fixed the confirmation screen for guild demotions.
- Main UI: The society window's members list will now sort correctly on
rank, level, current status, and total status when you click on the column
headers.
- Main UI: Fixed a bug causing only the first embedded item link to get the
link color.
- Main UI: Custom chat channels now use their assigned channel colors.
- Main UI: Maps now have a heading indicator instead of a dot.
- Main UI: Coins in your bank and in a trade window now have a tooltip.
- Main UI: Clicking on a map icon now creates a temporary waypoint and a
wisp to that location. For real this time.
- Main UI: Various points of interest have been added to the city maps.
- Main UI: UI window settings should now save more consistently.
- Main UI: You will receive notification when players on your friends list
log in and out.
- Main UI: The tooltip on the experience bar now reports experience debt
more accurately.
- Main UI: The con color of quests is now visible on the quest acceptance
window.
- Main UI: Hotkey macros can now have up to three command lines, which are
executed in order.
- Main UI: Hotkeys should no longer flash when a heroic opportunity starter
chain fails.
- Main UI: Only relevant hotkeys should flash during a heroic opportunity.
- Main UI: Items that cannot be equipped no longer show their condition in
the examine window.
- Main UI: Items can now be dropped anywhere in the trade window. If you
drop an item somewhere that doesn't make sense, it will be placed into the
leftmost available spot.
- Tradeskill UI: When repeating a recipe, the components window will now
remember which particular items you previously selected.

*** Quests ***

New Quests
- A Bitter Brew
- A Change in Plans
- A Message for Kitty
- Darig Giantbane
- Desperately Seeking Ants!
- Desperately Seeking Butterflies!
- Desperately Seeking Moths!
- Duranar the Swift
- Flight of the Sage
- Granville's Restaurant, D'Lere
- Granville's Restaurant, Antonica
- Karath the Forgotten
- Kleron's Earring
- Kleron's Helmet
- Kleron's Leggings
- Kleron's Ring
- Kleron's Shoes
- Kleron's Wrist-Guards
- Kuranam of the Seven Foals
- Like a Ring in a Haystack
- Never Judge a Book By Its Cover
- No More Witnesses
- Reliving the Past
- The Age of Rediscovery
- The Curious Augur's Three Meanings of Life
- The Farmer's Ring
- The One-Eyed Chief
- The Scholar's Search
- The Traveling Augur's Three Meanings of Life
- The Wanderer's Three Meanings of Life
- Trantieral Thunderhoof
- A Menace to Berrybrook
- Angry Augur's Three Meanings of Life
- Arboreal Survey
- Bootstrutter's Trail Guide to Old Grove
- Bootstrutter's Trail Guide to West Zek
- Bootstrutter's Trail Guide to the Badlands
- Case of the Missing Person
- Case of the Poisoned Wine
- Crab Exploratory
- Defending Harold Winemaster
- Disrupting the Mining Operation
- Far Seas Requisition ENC0457
- Far Seas Requisition ENC0679
- Far Seas Requisition ENC0699
- Far Seas Requisition ENC0745
- Far Seas Requisition ENC0825
- Far Seas Requisition Special Contract #TS023
- Fauna Fecundity
- Hail to the Derris Heroes
- Hail to the Sullon Heroes
- Hail to the Tallon Heroes
- Hail to the Vallon Heroes
- Keys for Hammer
- Magical Residue Recovery
- Marine Fecundity
- Meandering Augur's Three Meanings of Life
- Mettle Testing
- Miscellaneous Request
- Native Hostile Exploratory II
- Native Melee Efficacy IV
- Native Projective Efficacy IV
- Sea Life Farmability
- Short Range Patrol
- Special Acquisitor, I
- Special Acquisitor, II
- Special Acquisitor, III
- Special Acquisitor, IV
- The Curse of the Bloody Shank
- The Grain Grog Run
- The Mysterious Dagger
- The Tallon Plunder Chests
- Undead Survey
- Utilitarian Desires of the Miners
- Utilitarian Desires of the Protectors
- Utilitarian Desires of the Toiler

Modified Quests
- Avenge the Freeport Trooper
- Do or Die, Says Irizan
- Kill 'em All
- Lost Friend in Fallen Gate
- Narin Heirloom
- Saving the Sewage Pumps
- Slaying the Defiled Villagers
- Stopping the Grimmin Plan
- Ignatia Cellus' History of Antonica
- Iridescent Brooch

The progress text for the following quests should no longer report invalid
information when completing the second stage of the quest:
- Gildas' Requests - Part III
- Gildas' Requests - Part IV
- Gildas' Requests - Part V
- Gildas' Requests - Part VI
- Selwyn's Errands - Part I
- Selwyn's Errands - Part II
- Selwyn's Errands - Part III
- Selwyn's Errands - Part VI
- Selwyn's Errands - Part V
- Selwyn's Errands - Part VI

Heritage Quests
- Some modifications have been made to the Bag of Sewn Evil Eye, Polished
Granite Tomahawk, and Stein of Moggok quests.
- The tradeskill tutorial window should no longer show up during the Dwarven
Workboots quest.

Quest Updates
- The experience gained when completing catalog quests has been modified.
- Catalog quests should now reward players when completed.
- The zombie mastery trophy has a new appearance.
- The access quest to Fallen Gate should now be working properly.
- Players should now be able to finish the "Vale of the Shattering" quest.
- Some modifications have been made to Ian Cathlan's armor quests.
- The "Acidic Liquid" quest will now reward an item of a more appropriate
level.
- The level of the "Failed Assassin" quest has been increased to match the
difficulty of the targets of the quest.
- The quest level for "The Lost Religion of Fallen Gate" has been increased.
Skullsprainer weapons have been removed from the quest.
- Society tasks will now reward players with coin in the quest reward
window.
- The reward for "Green Hood Ration Recipe" has been changed to something
more appropriate.
- Lore and Legends quests are no longer flagged as Mastery. They'll now have
their own quest category type.
- The "History of the Feir'Dal" book has been added to sage merchants in
Qeynos.
- The rat collar quest in Edgewater Drains is no longer repeatable. The
reward has been set to be Lore and No Trade.
- The level and experience rewarded in the "Snake Slayings" quest has been
modified to better match the difficulty of the quest.
- The Leatherfoot Brigade quests can now be completed more easily.
- "Keep of the Ardent Needle" is no longer labeled as an Access quest. It is
now labeled as an Antonica quest.
- "Recovery of Bloodsaber Plans" and "Into the Crypt of Betrayal" are no
longer labeled as Access quests. They are now labeled as quests for Elddar
Grove.
- "Cleansing of the Firemyst Gully" should now be working correctly.
- Dialogues have been modified in the "Skullsprainer" quest.
- The Collection quests for moths and butterflies should now properly reward
players. Players will need to speak with the collector NPCs to have the
larger collections added.
- Kregnok's Axe is no longer obtainable as a quest reward.
- The amount of experience rewarded for completing "Tillin's Gnoll Woes" has
been lowered.
- "Shadow Axe" has had its reward changed.
- "Rings that Thirst" had its reward changed.
- Celeg Ixuri, Ikara V'Tahl, Obere Warrain, Narek Bonecarver, Shadowdash,
and Ott Stompgut should no longer appear if the armor quest they are part of
has been completed.
- Books found in adventure areas that provide quests had their respawn times
reduced from 5 minutes to 15 seconds.
- The Deathfist Access quest will now work properly if the character's
journal is full and has been changed to a Hallmark quest.
- The Polished Granite Tomahawk recipe and pristine piece of granite have
been marked as No Trade, No Value, and No Destroy.
- Language quest items have been changed to be Lore and had their drop rate
increased.
- The "Insulated Warmers" quest will now update correctly.
- All steps for the "Hundred Fold Blade" quest are no longer displayed
immediately on starting.
- The Orcish Wastes creature catalog quest has been updated.
- The Qeynos Catacombs creature catalog quest has been updated.
- The Elephant Hide Boots quest will now update correctly when defeating
Dervish Cutthroats.
- The Feerrott creature catalog quest has been updated.
- Mr. Burpbelly can once again be found within Fallen Gate.
- Betrayers should now be able to select their tradeskill class and subclass
correctly.
- Qeynos betrayers should no longer be able to accept and complete another
class quest within Freeport.
- The Bird Watching tome quest has had its reward modified.
- Several tome quests had their category changed from Miscellaneous to the
zone in which they are meant to be completed.
- The Fury subclass quest in Freeport has been adjusted.
- "Pretty Ponies, All in a Row" can now be completed.
- Dancer should now give you her second quest even if you end the dialogue
or happen to die in the middle of speaking with her.
- "The One Who Got Away" quest has been modified.
- "Rumble" should now update correctly.
- "Freedom" should now update correctly.
- "Virtue Belt" should now update correctly.
- "Blood Ore Basher" should now update correctly and had some typos fixed.
- Striped spiders should now update the Striped Spider collection quest.
- Vital portions of Rask Helstot's quests can no longer be deleted.
- Experience rewards have been removed from the following quests:
Report to Marauder Kindolus
Report to Disciple Telas'velle
Report to Aesthetic Winchester
Report to Missionary Jenson
Report to Sergeant Ironcast
Report to Guard Rellin'thir
Report to Baron Zafimus
Report to Shepherd Sell'ar
Report to Archivist Jindlefog
Report to Chronicler Steelwill
Report to Boatswain Fomas
Report to Liege Helvanica
Report to Naturalist Tummyfill

*** Zones ***

Commonlands
- The zombie maid should no longer be dropping inappropriate treasure.
- Ghostly orcs are no longer classified as living orcs.

The Down Below
- Several items that drop in the zone had a stat increase.
- Fallen Nobles should no longer spawn inside walls.

Fallen Gate
- Some areas within the zone have been re-leveled.
- Players should now be able to retrieve their corpses from the Fallen Gate
doors if they do not have a key to the zone.

Nektulos Forest
- A dragoon guard near Theeral the Nomad has been removed.

The Sprawl
- Giantslayers are now more plentiful.

Thundering Steppes
- The class type of a Varsoon apprentice has been modified.
- Doomsquall and Grimfeather will no longer camp players at the zone line.
- The drop rates for items obtained from Doomsquall and Grimfeather have
been modified.
- An additional respawn camp has been added into the zone.

Vermin's Snye
- Triggers for the level 20 priest hallmark quest should now only appear
when the player is on the proper stage.
- Infected burrowers and infected tomb vermin should no longer have pets.

Antonica
- The Bandits involved in the Flowing Black Silk Sash quest will now despawn
after a set amount of time if they are left untouched.
- Additional marine life has been added to water areas.
- Scarecrows should now show their names.

North Qeynos
- Executor Adept Sal`ynelle has been moved to the Ironforge Estate.

Runnyeye Citadel
- A Runnyeye armorer will no longer drop treasure associated with another
NPC.

The Ruins of Varsoon
- The Creator should no longer break encounters when attacked.

Stormhold
- The secret entrance door linking Antonica and Stormhold must now be
unlocked from inside Stormhold before it can be used.

Miscellaneous Updates
- Several spells have been added to the treasure tables in Stormhold,
Thundering Steppes, Nektulos Forest, the Crypt of Betrayal, and Edgewater
Drains.
- The re-use timers for epic and instanced zones have been changed based on
the level of the zone.
- Changes were made to instanced zone junctions to only allow up to the
maximum number of people intended to enter the zone.


*** NPCs ***

- Kizdean Gix will no longer disguise himself as a female. He has also
decided to carry a certain key.
- Lady Faideth will no longer attempt to appear to be male.
- Icsillinatis the Marrow Fiend and Captain Surestout should now drop items
appropriate to the difficulty of their encounters.
- Bosses in Permafrost, Runnyeye Citadel, and Feerrott should now behave
appropriately.
- Scribe Zizwold will no longer drop an owlbear feather.
- Players who end their conversation with Investigator Targok can now
continue to receive their quests.
- The spawn time on Tinmizer's astounding frostdisruptors in Orcish Wastes
and Enchanted Lands has been reduced.
- Tangle Weed's minions should now follow properly and not wander off on
their own.
- Mender Manus will wait until you are closer to him before calling out.
- Chaplin Graveguzzle can now be found by looking in the proper location.


*** Mechanics ***

- Dual Wield is now listed in the skill window for all professions who can
use dual wield weapons.
- Slightly increased the block rate of round shields.
- Adjusted shields to provide a more noticable benefit at higher levels of
quality.
- The Safe Fall skill will now increase through use.
- The cost of light and higher armor types on vendors has been reduced.
- Scouts can attempt to disarm traps beyond their current skill level. Even
if unsuccessful they have the chance to gain skill through use.
- Removed the ability for bralwers, monks, and bruisers to equip shields.
- Increased brawler Deflection to provide the equivalent of always having a
buckler equipped.
- Increased monk and bruiser Deflection to provide the equivalent of always
having a round shield equipped.


*** Items ***

- The price of the Market Bulletin Board has been reduced.
- The colors of certain ranger and monk armor quest rewards have been
modified.
- The appearance of the level 20 bruiser quest armor has been changed.
- Band of the Soulstripper no longer looks like a chain chestpiece.
- The names of some Heritage Paintings have been corrected.
- The Ghoulbane will now do bane damage to the undead.
- The Fishbone Earring has been modified slightly.
- The Greater Lightstone will now shed a yellow light.
- The Charred Bone has been changed to No Trade, No Value, Lore.
- The stats of Cap of the Ethernere have been increased.
- A Glowing Black Stone has been changed to No Trade.
- The following items have been set to No Trade, Lore, and No Value: Crude
Blueprint, Tattered Diary, Acidic Gland, Rat Collar, and a Trooper Signet.
- All Legend and Lore quest items should now be using the correct icon.
- Assault Axes have been changed to be one-handed instead of two-handed.
- The Shiny Brass Halberd has been made No Trade and Lore.
- Starfall no longer appears as a scourge and is more like the description
given in the quest.
- Many new quest rewards and loot drops have been added to the game.


*** Spells ***

- The damage on Lanet's Excruciating Scream has been increased.
- All spell scrolls should now list the tier after the name instead of
before it.
- Apprentice IV ward spells can now absorb an increased amount of damage.
- Class and Subclass "Vitae" lines of spells should now stack correctly.
- Odyssey has been changed to only be used on group/raid members.
- Protection of the Seasons now adds heat and cold resistances correctly.
- Ensnaring Roots, Grasping Roots, and Seizing Vines affect movement speed
correctly.
- Decree of Decay has been fixed to allow the lifetap effect to work
correctly.
- Wisdom of Zephyl increases skill with updgrades correctly.
- Frozen Manacle's root duration has been increased.
- The description for Venomous Runes was changed to be more reflective of
the actual spell effect.
- Runic Shield had its description changed to be more clear.
- Spirit of the Rhino was fixed to allow application to the group. Note that
this ward only protects against elemental and noxious damage.
- Umbral Fortitude should now increase divine resistance as intended.
- Sibyllant should now have its damage effect working properly.
- Noxious Bolt had its description clarified.
- Boon of the Lifeless had its description clarified.
- Flaming Agony now includes a DoT effect and had its spell icon changed.
- Quicksand had its movement decrease effect increased.
- Mend Bones should now cost the caster health as was intended.
- Spiritual Seal had its description clarified.
- Favor of the Phoenix should now only allow revival of the correct classes.
- There were many additional updates and fixes to address spell bugs and
balance issues.


*** Combat Arts ***

- Escape has been changed to a 5-second cast time with a 30-minute recast.
- Power Cleave should now be available on the appropriate merchants.
- Stealth abilities no longer stack.
- Focused Rage had its description clarified.
- Unfriendly Reminder should now lower the target's agility as intended.
- Ignore Pain should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
- Intimidating Orders should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
- Watery Shot should now reduce the target's power correctly.
- Break Through now has the correct skill requirement.
- Bob and Weave should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
- Kidney Blow had its description clarified.
- Haymaker should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
- Bouncer had its description clarified.
- Fury should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
- Grapple now includes a stun effect.
- Bloodlust should now increase in effectiveness with upgrades.
- There were many additional updates and fixes to address combat art bugs
and balance issues.


*** Tradeskills & Societies ***

- Artisans level 15-19 and 25-29 should now receive tasks of a level near or
slightly below their own.
- Several alchemy potions/poison recipes have been fixed.
- Society task rewards have been reduced.
- The Manastone Heritage quest recipe should now be working correctly.
- New raids are now available for guilds level 20 and 25.
- Alchemy Potions and Poisons have been changed to Baubles. They are no
longer stackable and will use their charges properly.
- Multiple city writ quests can no longer be obtained from the same NPC.
- Fixed a bug that allowed city task NPCs to issue quests to players whose
citizenship did not match that of their guild leader at the time of the
guild's formation.
- The kill quotas have been reduced for the level 15+ Social Structure
quests.
- New tradeskill quests have been created that reward players with guild
experience and status points.
- Power Cleave can now be created using a tradeskill recipe.
- New tradeskill tasks are now available for players between level 30 and
50.
- Spell and combat art creation has been changed to allow for different
qualities of scrolls to be created. Apprentice IV spells and arts will now
result when a pristine spell or art is successfully made.
- Multiple fixes were made to advanced craftsman recipes.
- Reactive arts now share reuse timers across the same crafting lines.
- Stacking rules for the benefits received from reactive arts have been
revised.
- Some special events have been changed in frequency and severity.
- Refine basil has been added to the Tradeskill Essentials 3 book. Players
who have scribed this book automatically gain the ability to refine basil.
- Tin Plate now uses the correct tradeskill techniques to counter negative
events.
- Player-crafted food and drink durations have been adjusted.
- Cream cheese has been added to tradeskill wholesalers.
- Edible refined components were removed from tradeskill vendors.
- Advanced Crafting Volumes should now work properly.
- Missing Adept III spell and art scrolls have been added to recipe books.
- The Outfitter Essential recipe for the Iron Crescent Axe has been fixed.
- Essence of Bully: Adept III has been added to Advanced Alchemist Vol. 45.
- Liquefied Sycamore has been added to scholar recipes.
- The iron bar recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types
and techniques.
- Pristine versions of Carbonite Vanguard armor can now be created.
- Loss of harvesting skills should no longer occur when a character's
tradeskill level is higher than the adventuring level.
- The burlap thread recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge
types and techniques.
- The iron plate recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types
and techniques.
- The burlap yarn recipe has been changed to use the correct knowledge types
and techniques.


*** Player Housing ***

- A one-room apartment in Qeynos now allows a hundred furnishings to be
placed inside it, and two vendors can now operate from a single merchant
board.


*** Status ***

- Status gain messages have been add to Social Structure tasks.
- Status defrayment values have been added to in-game furniture items that
did not previously have them.
- Guild followers can now use their status points to purchase items from
City Merchants.

*** Art ***

Creatures
- Fixed shaders on fire beetle and gnoll LODs.
- Fixed combat states for gnolls and giants.
- Fixed skin weights on orc skeleton LODs and adjusted shaders, improved LOD
tolerances.
- Fixed Venekor's breath attack.
- Made flies on diseased skeletons visible from further away.

Characters
- Whips can now be holstered when wielded in the secondary slot.
- Fixed orbs to show up when wielded in the secondary slot.
- Added eight new one-handed spears.
- Added eight new fighting sticks.
- Fixed some robe issues to allow helmets, hair, and bracers to display
properly.

Zones
- Fixed bugs that caused players to fall below the world in Stonestair
Byway, Starcrest Commune, and Freeport five-room apartments.
- Fixed some disappearing NPC issues in Graystone Yard and the Orcish
Wastes.
- Made some minor cosmetic fixes to Qeynos Harbor and South Qeynos.
- Opened access to the bear caves in Nektulos Forest.
- Fixed some rock placements in Antonica.
- Improved the environment settings for the boats leading to Everfrost and
Lavastorm.
- Improved door functionality in Solusek's Eye.

FX
- Removed erroneous sound triggers from all harvesting visuals: fishing,
gathering, mining, forestry, and trapping.
- Fixed these persist effects so they display on the creature and follow it
better: stun, stone, poison, mesmerize, mental, energy, ice, divine, debuff,
and fire.
- Shortened the initial result visual used on these spells: Eidolic Ward,
Spectral Ward, Wards of Spirit, Oberon, Wakinya's Skin of Spirits,
Everling's Cadaverous Ward, Cursed Affliction, Curse of Shielding, and
Eidolic Savior.
- Fixed the dust fall effect used on many combat arts.
- The skull effect is now more visible in lifetap spells.
- Lightning bolt effect now displays properly on non-humanoid creatures and
objects.
- Optimized the lightning bolt effect.
- Missing glows fixed in spell crystal pieces.
- Fixed all "animal" spell visuals so the initial conjuring effect is
displayed.


*** Audio ***

- Horses used as mounts now have footstep sounds.


*** The Following UI Files Have Been Modified ***

UI\Default\eq2ui_community.xml
UI\default\eq2ui_journals_quest.xml
UI\default\eq2ui_mainhud_editmacro.xml
UI\default\eq2ui_mainhud_guild.xml
UI\default\eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml
UI\default\eq2ui_mainhud_socials.xml

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
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>This is the patch message that never happened - are you suprised they have
>to back out of this ? What were they thinking trying a patch this involved
>?? Servers down 11 hours plus at the moment.

My understanding is that this wasn't the patch that killed the
servers...the devs said this one wasn't going up until Monday, after
it had been on the test servers for a weekend, and they said this
today, after the whatever-it-was that went on this morning had already
happened.

I could be wrong.
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
wrote:

>This is the patch message that never happened - are you suprised they have
>to back out of this ? What were they thinking trying a patch this involved
>?? Servers down 11 hours plus at the moment.

Err....that was the test server patch. Which would be why the folder
in it is titled "In Testing" and the post is titled "Test Update
Notes: 12/16/04"

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
wrote:

>This is the patch message that never happened - are you suprised they have
>to back out of this ? What were they thinking trying a patch this involved
>?? Servers down 11 hours plus at the moment.

Oh, and, by the way, here's where those notes were copied from:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L28862E0A

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
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>
>Patch Message Follows = =

Lots and lots of good stuff - increased items in single rooms, more
solo quests, deletable overflow, new abilities...

Sooner this is up, the better.

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"tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> This is the patch message that never happened - are you suprised they have
> to back out of this ? What were they thinking trying a patch this involved
> ?? Servers down 11 hours plus at the moment.

<patch notes snipped>

Wrong patch. That patch went out on the Test server on Thursday and they
stated previously it would not go to live servers until sometime next week.


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"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Patch Message Follows = =
>
> Lots and lots of good stuff - increased items in single rooms, more
> solo quests, deletable overflow, new abilities...
>
> Sooner this is up, the better.
>
They certainly do look great, I like the ability to delete from overflow
especially!

I also have an admission to make - I made a character on the test server to
have a peep.
Being able to just move your coin across in the bank is a treat =)

Pity there is some %&$^ who keeps doing a HO crashing the environment very
10 mins or so.....
 
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:02:13 +1100, "Pamela Carlton"
<lambchop@whocareswhere.com> wrote:

>
>"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:mbu7s0dgb2b8qd0011rgb3desk8t9p5sj7@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Patch Message Follows = =
>>
>> Lots and lots of good stuff - increased items in single rooms, more
>> solo quests, deletable overflow, new abilities...
>>
>> Sooner this is up, the better.
>>
>They certainly do look great, I like the ability to delete from overflow
>especially!
>
>I also have an admission to make - I made a character on the test server to
>have a peep.
>Being able to just move your coin across in the bank is a treat =)
>
You mean you can move cash between chars, using the bank, like you can
with items ?

If so, then I might be getting a new 2 room apartment soon, as I just
about have enough cash. Spread over 3 characters. :(

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"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:02:13 +1100, "Pamela Carlton"
> <lambchop@whocareswhere.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk@aol.com> wrote in message
> >news:mbu7s0dgb2b8qd0011rgb3desk8t9p5sj7@4ax.com...
> >> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >I also have an admission to make - I made a character on the test server
to
> >have a peep.
> >Being able to just move your coin across in the bank is a treat =)
> >
> You mean you can move cash between chars, using the bank, like you can
> with items ?
>
> If so, then I might be getting a new 2 room apartment soon, as I just
> about have enough cash. Spread over 3 characters. :(

Not that advanced - it did have it in EQ1 so it sounds like it was left out
on purpose.
Not sure what purpose it would serve as you can still transfer items and
sell them on the other characters anyway.
If you went to move a stack of coin from your person to the bank via
dragging it, it would make you enter an amount and press accept.
Now it just picks the whole lot up and you can use a control key to bring up
the option to reduce the amount of transfer.


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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:49:38 +1100, "Pamela Carlton"
<lambchop@whocareswhere.com> wrote:

>
>"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:4cf8s0phfvu2f01a24mb79dnh03gsk13sr@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:02:13 +1100, "Pamela Carlton"
>> <lambchop@whocareswhere.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Mark Morrison" <drdpikeuk@aol.com> wrote in message
>> >news:mbu7s0dgb2b8qd0011rgb3desk8t9p5sj7@4ax.com...
>> >> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:17:13 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >I also have an admission to make - I made a character on the test server
>to
>> >have a peep.
>> >Being able to just move your coin across in the bank is a treat =)
>> >
>> You mean you can move cash between chars, using the bank, like you can
>> with items ?
>>
>> If so, then I might be getting a new 2 room apartment soon, as I just
>> about have enough cash. Spread over 3 characters. :(
>
>Not that advanced - it did have it in EQ1 so it sounds like it was left out
>on purpose.
> Not sure what purpose it would serve as you can still transfer items and
>sell them on the other characters anyway.
>If you went to move a stack of coin from your person to the bank via
>dragging it, it would make you enter an amount and press accept.
>Now it just picks the whole lot up and you can use a control key to bring up
>the option to reduce the amount of transfer.

Oh well, never mind - I just spent most of cash on Adept 1s and tier 3
temper anyway. :)

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