EverQuest Next: Landmark - Catch All

garion333 wrote:
Farscry wrote:

What is this "inverse Y-axis" business?

Inverted controls. Pushing your mouse forward moves it down on screen.

Well that's just madness.

ruhk wrote:
garion333 wrote:
Farscry wrote:

What is this "inverse Y-axis" business?

Inverted controls. Pushing your mouse forward moves it down on screen.

Well that's just madness.

I'm glad they provide the option, but I really can't grok to using inverse Y-axis for anything but a flight sim!

NathanialG wrote:

What is the pricing structure for this game? Is it $20 to get in and then no fees?

Free, eventually. Right now you're looking at $60 and $100 for the alpha and beta. The $20 is for the beta. After that the game itself will be free.

Got a plot today. It's terrible, but I have one.

I just got a really good spot on top of a tall, thin mountain just wide enough for a claim, but the lag and rubberbanding was so bad I couldn't do anything productive.

Im stuck at a conference. I'm sure i'll still be stuck in no mans land when I get back.

I can't imagine how they're going to handle claims at launch, it's going to be absolute madness.

I have a great plot...but because there is an exploit that if you mine trees that are half on and half off of someone's claim, they immediately reappear, I have four macro'ing squatters that are constantly blowing up the giant trees half on and half off my land.

I can't delete the trees either, because they are not fully on my property. I can't ban them, because they are technically standing off of my claim. Oh well, guess I just have to endure the chopping and tree exploding sounds while I build.

I will say, I am rather addicted to it so far.

that's pretty sad that less than a week into a paid alpha test there are already people botting. for some reason I expected better from hardcore EQ fans.

You mean the same hardcore EQ players who were constantly looking for anything and everything to get an edge back in the day? I can't say I'm surprised at all.

I guess I figured the mentality that tries to cut corners wouldn't be one that would shell out $100. But I guess you're right.

Spending $100 for lots of goodies and early access is already cutting a corner.

You mean the same hardcore EQ players who were constantly looking for anything and everything to get an edge back in the day? I can't say I'm surprised at all.

Camping named spawns for days at a time and ShowEQ come to mind...

When I said autohotkey would becomes everyone's friend again I wasn't joking.

Heh, or instead of auto attack, we will get auto chop and auto mine.

I dug out under him and put him underground. Rude?

I've been watching Twitch streams for a couple of days now and I can't imagine shelling out $100 or even $60 to play the alpha.

I can't shake the "what's the point" feeling. Admittedly, I'm disappointed that this will have little to do with EQN and I'm just not into building stuff for the sake of building stuff.

Maybe that's why I never played minecraft!

I never played Minecraft

ranalin wrote:

I never played Minecraft

Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight?

Bear wrote:
ranalin wrote:

I never played Minecraft

Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight?

You said you'd never tell!

My claim is gone. Again. The server says I have one but it's nowhere to be seen.

I have three of everything except for another claim flag.

I'm not so sure I'm going to bother with the alpha anymore as I have YET to build anything.

So...why are the Servers down? (2/6/14)
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqn....

Lost or Missing Claims
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqnl...

Server Downtime Notice February 7th...
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqn....
+ Note there was 10am for EU servers and another general update still panned for today...

(Possible install issue) XINPUT1_3.dll is missing
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqn....

(Incredible what people are building) How can I take screenshots of the game?!?!
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqn....

(Cool Factor 9) Share your Screenshots
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqnl...

(Cool Factor 10) Show us your builds!
https://forums.station.sony.com/eqnl...

Seems elemental gold is just as elusive as burled wood. While you can get plenty of gold under tungsten you seem to be very unlikely to get elemental gold unless you find a straight strain on the surface.

Really enjoying this. Kinda silly to pay $60 for an Alpha, but I knew I'd be buying this eventually, so don't mind paying for it earlier. On Serenity. Because, ya know, Firefly.

I'm mostly interested in Landmark as a personal Minecraft sequel. It works pretty well if you liked MC Survival mode 0.5. Will be fun to see how it breaks in time

ranalin wrote:

I never played Minecraft

It's worth it, even just the freebie web one, if for no other reason than to find out if you like virtual Legos in that form.

Khoram wrote:

that's pretty sad that less than a week into a paid alpha test there are already people botting. for some reason I expected better from hardcore EQ fans.

I think it's great! Let them exploit it now in Alpha so they can plug the holes for Beta.

So it seems that Sapphires are even worse. You find them under cobalt veins but about 90% of them have nothing or rubicite. Then if they do have sapphires it's easy to leave it behind because it's just a dark grey color and not easy to tell it's a gem. While looking I came across this guy's way of letting the devs know he's not happy.

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Delmarqo wrote:
ranalin wrote:

I never played Minecraft

It's worth it, even just the freebie web one, if for no other reason than to find out if you like virtual Legos in that form.

Naw not a fan of the graphics, and seen enough of it played by my nephews and nieces to do me. EQNL scratches that itch I had when developing our player city in SWG.

I like that that they are tricky and hard to see. Made me have to work for it.

I don't mind working for it, but spending the day doing loops on the edge of 3 different zones is frustrating.

Here's the top levels of what i'm building at the moment. Experimenting with arches and columns at the moment but most of the claim will be under ground.

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and a cool view...

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The day/night cycle is one of the things that adds immersion to the game but puts unnecessary hardship on builders. And it is not only the darkness of night that is the problem. Depending on where you plot is located, a good portion of the day will be in shadow or what you are building casts long shadows.

I really think they should either make flight available immediately, make it unlock early or make it so that you can fly on your claim from the start.

I know the first two will ruin what they have planned for the grappling hook. (which sounds pretty awesome but may not work out well with the falling death implemented and that it would add to an already difficult ability to find an open claim) So perhaps the third option is the best for now.

Regarding claims, I am bummed that they make you choose above or below ground claims. It would be nice if they just gave you the same distance above and below. It is not like someone will be able to make a claim below you if you choose above and vice versa, so why not allow both?

Ran or anyone, have you unlocked the line tool yet? Is it available or even necessary if you already have the selection tool?

It's awfully difficult to select the right cube-space at times when trying to build. I've been gathering prior to yesterday, but yesterday finally tried building something and it's quite difficulty to wrangle with the controls. Definitely a lot of potential, but a huge learning curve. I was frustrated that the limitations on some of the shapes; for example, the simple angle shape can't be done as the smallest voxel size.

I have the line tool but not bothered to use it yet so not sure.

As for claims you control how high or how low you go relative to the ground. You could if ya wanted drop it so it's all under ground. You cant really tell from my screen shots, but when I finish the roof on that top part i'll be at the highest level of my claim the rest is below ground.

One problem doing that is that when you start working near the top you keep getting the claim banner popping up on your screen when you're trying to design/place things and it can throw stuff off.

Oh I disagree about flight. That's a bit of a prestige item/ability and shouldn't be up front. There's options to light up your area to craft if lighting is an issue.