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Philosophy

The purpose of this wiki is house a central source of information related to Classic Everquest as it exists on Project 1999. The community will greatly benefit from a single, unified source of information which isn't contaminated by post-Velious changes (e.g. zone revamps, item upgrades, game mechanics changes) or the hassle of tracking things down through archived sources (e.g. internet time machine).

The wiki should be relevant, dynamic, and useful. Personally I would like to see it stay more organic and less database driven. For example, do we really need a scrape of the item database for every single item (water flask, bone chips, ...) and a corresponding wiki page for each? The wiki should evolve with the players and so its content should reflect that of the most interest to the community.

General FAQ

• What is Project 1999?
  • Project 1999 is the name of a EQEmulator Server Project.

• Why use and build this Wiki? There are several websites regarding EverQuest and its contents.
  • Because Project 1999 differs slightly from the live version of EverQuest.

Wiki FAQ

• Where can I get general help for the wiki software?
  • Consult the User's Guide for information on using Mediawiki.

• What is with the gear reference lists? How can I edit them?
  • In order to list them multiple places, they are templates. To edit, go edit the template, for instance Template:gear_reference_druid_pre_planar.

Formatting Guidelines

Things are currently undergoing a revamp in several areas. For examples of where we are headed, see below.

Zones

A revamped example is The Crushbone Zone. For Related Quests I've only been putting in those quests starting in that particular zone. The template for the zone header box for outdoor/dungeon zones is:

Level of Monsters:
Types of Monsters:
Notable NPC's:
Unique Items:
Related Quests:
Adjacent Zones:

For cities the template for the header is:

City Races:
Guilds:
Tradeskill Facilities:
Related Quests:
Adjacent Zones:

Class Pages (inc. Spells)

Good revamped examples to follow are: Necromancer, Druid, or Bard Class Pages.

Items

See the Template:Itempage. A prototypical example is Dragoon Dirk Item Page.

Note: Item categories are still up in the air. Right now items have to be crosslisted in tons of categories, which is lots of work, and prone to mistakes.

Once we have dynamic pages generated from the intersection of categories we can just label items by each slot (chest, arms, ...) and each class (wiz, dru, ...) and then intersect them (dru arms, ...) to make our item lists.

Do not add any items until this is locked down, as it will require retroactive changes to all items.

Class codes: BRD, CLR, DRU, ENC, MAG, MNK, NEC, PAL, RNG, ROG, SHM, SHD, WAR, WIZ

Named Mobs

See the Template:Namedmobpage. A prototypical example is Ambassador DVinn Named Mob Page.

Raid Encounters (Mobs)

A prototypical example is Cazic Thule Raid Encounter Mob Page. The Mob Data box is now:

Type:
Level:
Class:
HPs:
Max Melee Hit:
Summons:
Death Touches:
Slowable:
Resists:
Special Abilities:
Respawn Time:

Other categories to include are strategy, loot, and related quests.

Kunark and Velious Content

Things are getting ready for the release of Kunark, so links will start to appear to Kunark zones, class epic quests, etc. I wasn't planning on filling any of this in until the launch of Kunark but have no problems if other members of the community want to do so. The information is all out there, anyways.