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EverQuest 2 Things You Wish You Knew
IRex writes "EverQuest 2 is a great game with less than great documentation. There are literally dozens of commands hidden where nobody but the most persistent sleuth will find them. With that in mind TenTonHammer has posted a list of Things you wish you knew earlier in EverQuest 2 compiled and edited with permission from a list originally created by Sere of the Blackburrow server." From the list: " If you see a "lair" object in the world such as a rats nest, snakes nest, sabertooth tent, etc... with the appropriate type of mob around it, this is probably a dynamic adventure camp. If you kill everything in the camp, the next time it spawns it may spawn harder creatures, named monsters, etc..." Editor's Note: Story opinions do not necessarily represent those of Slashdot editors.
Now if they'd just do this for World of Warcraft, my life will be complete.
Going through town is like a a slide show. Less than 1 frame per second on a buddy's machine. It was so painful that he canceled the game after a week. This was after playing old EQ since pre Kunark.
Find it completely funny that the editors decided to make sure they notified us that the opinions in the story are not their own?
...or does it mean the story uses a lot of 4-letter words and 'leet speak?
I mean... we all know the editors opinions are pretty shoddy, so does this mean the story is spot on?
Man... DAMN YOU EDITORS!!
Now I am going to have to read the article... it was all a ploy, I'm sure.
What does that mean? When did the story ever implicitly represent the editors' opinions? Why the need for a disclaimer on this one?
Well, he must have a machine that isn't up to the game's specs. I have a box equivalent to the recommended specs and it runs just fine, at average to high settings.
This has been on the Launchpad for weeks. If you haven't checked it out, just like the Basic Crafting, and Advanced crafting guides...well, you should be! Lots of good info here, like a, How to get EQ2 to run and what options you should turn off to get a better framerate.
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so you wish you had known your friends computer was a piece of junk or he had the settings too high? EQ2 is just as smooth as WoW on my system.
You can have up to 3 hotkey bars active.
that's odd, I have 5, two are for tradeskill skills, i have them square rather than 1 key wide/high
when you close them, new hotkey bar will open them the same shape and place as last time but with a different (0-9) set of hotkeys
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And why does this warrant space on Slashdot?
before I got billed for my first month...
Since release, people have been asking for more than 4 character slots per account (that's right, not 4 per server, which is still a little low, 4 per ACCOUNT). SoE didn't comment for a month.
A couple days before the new billing cycle, someone discovered that when he switched to the $22/month "Station Pass" (which gives access to all SoE games a person might own, except for SWG) he got an additional 4 slots. After about a day of debating on the boards, one of the Mods formally announced that yes, they would be adding 4 character slots, but only for the people who paid an additional $7/month.
I'm what's known as an alt-o-holic, I like to experiment with the diffent classes. I'm not going to validate SoE's decision to gaff people who want more than 4 characters. Hell, when I switch to WoW next week, I can get something like 8 characters per SERVER if I really wanted to. For the same price as the BASE EQ2 subscription.
I'm guessing that SoE really didn't want to announce this "special option" (which isn't so special for those like me who had no interest in any of their other games) until after the billing cycle, so they could get another $15 from the people they knew would quit. Yea I"m out the $50 for the game, but I'm not throwing new money after bad, I cancelled my account.
I'm certain that Sony will try to get at least $30/player by mid year next year for a "reasonable" level of features.
Same old Sony. I should have known better. Never again.
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Why does every story about EQ2 turn into a flamefest between it and WoW? This was intended to help out, eventhough a lot of what this guide tells us is pointless, simple, or wrong.
Newsflash: EQ2 requires better hardware than EQ1.
Update. The machine the guy plays on is a little more than a year old. It plays City of Heroes and Swar Wars Galaxies just fine. I'd imagine that it would play WoW too.
I've seen the graphics in EQ2, They are nothing to write home about. I don't know why they push his machine as hard as they do.
Maybe his machine is setup terribly? My machine is more than 2 years old in pretty much all of its components, and it can run on high performance settings with high framerates all through the city (both of them).
Perhaps, if he can't figure out what specifically is causing the problem, he should use the Extreme Performance settings?
I bet the dumbass was playing EQ not only since Kunark ... but on the same computer!
... on a computer no longer suitable to be used as a door stop today.
I played before Kunark too
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
/quit
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C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe