Difference between revisions of "Classic Research"

Revision as of 20:41, 25 October 2022

The founders of Project 1999 have built it on the premise that it should be as "classic" (ie. as true to how the game was in 1999-2001) as possible. They've done a tremendous job, and the project is incredibly close to the classic game.

However, there are still a small number of issues (many of which are noted on the Non-Classic Compendium) which remain unclassic. In order to correct these issues, Nilbog and the other developers require evidence of how things used to work during the classic time period.

How to do (Good) Classic Research

TO DO: Perhaps a classic researcher could put some basic suggestions here?

Classic Research Sources

• Allakhazam - great data on zones/items/npcs/etc. but generally a poor source for classic research because most of their data was updated after the classic period. However, sometimes classic-era comments can be found on it, and also sometimes knowledge of how an NPC worked after the classic period can be useful

• Lucy - Allakhazam's separate spell and item effect database; another poor site for classic research, but a very good one for modern EQ data; this makes it perfect for data which hasn't changed much since classic (eg. the Buff Lines page was compiled largely from Lucy data_

• Magelo another very good site for modern EQ, but has limited classic data

• alt.games.everquest an archive of a (Usenet?) message group for EverQuest, which includes messages from the classic era (and can be searched)

• More sites needed

Caster's Realm

Caster's Realm was an extremely popular classic EQ site, and it had both a main site:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20010515212352/http://eq.castersrealm.com:80/

and a separate forum site:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183944/http://forums.castersrealm.com/cgi-bin/eq/ultimatebb.cgi

Unfortunately on both sites the earliest (ie. in-classic-era) archives are incomplete, and often only have links without the content of those links. Thus, it may be necessary to look at slightly later (Luclin-era) archives of them also.

Caiu's Links

Dumping some stuff I've come across over the years

Decompiles of classic clients: https://github.com/mackal/EQMechanics/wiki

Spell Research: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EeluzL5gFvIhj2OJIhmK_zSjuudRnrOB http://www.oocities.org/xymarra/Spells/SpellLists.html Duration formula Looking for a pre or Luclin release spdat!

Better patch history: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9w2lZ-BZM3lUWJUZGVZVXFzT1E
Torven's archives: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9w2lZ-BZM3ld0lTNnZXTDlQcFk

ShowEQ scrape circa 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20021129210131/http://www.geocities.com/ficticiousname9/

p1999 server changelog: soon!
Old mana calculator https://web.archive.org/web/20011120045312if_/http://www.everquest.com.tw:80/download/utility/MCalc12a.exe

Missing links to EQ developer corner forum:

EQClassic source code: I've been asked not to distribute this by an EQClassic dev so nvm! Still getting this together there is the actual old source and then the EQMac implementation. When this is done should have all the files/links to setup the old source. The old source is able to be booted and you can login and admire the old UI, not painlessly however getting everything to work is gonna be an exercise in persistence. Link to NAS' repository for all this https://newagesoldier.com/EQClassic/