1999 04 28

April 28th, 1999

Citizens of Norrath,

We are pleased to announce that the hardware upgrade that was performed on our router this morning has appeared to resolve the severe packet loss problems that many players were encountering over the past week. We have been, and will continue to monitor the load on the new hardware to assure that the packet-loss problems will no longer occur on our end. During the router upgrade we transported the Karana server farm to the AT&T CerfNet facility to further reduce the load on our router. Also, the new "Rodcet Nife" server was just brought up to accommodate the additional users that have joined over the past few weeks.

After thoroughly testing changes made only for Rallos Zek (PK server), we have activated the new code for the PK server ONLY. The changes include the following;

  1. Pets will no longer kill themselves if their master has invisibility cast on them.
  2. Pets will no longer attack other players while they are in guard mode if their master goes link-dead.
  3. Pets will now attack opposing combatants while their master is dueling.
  4. NPCs will no longer respond to invisible PCs.

Other fixes and changes include:

  1. The corpse class tag will not be listed as "Unknown".
  2. Players will be given text messages for items that they cannot obtain while looting a corpse, instead of the item disappearing.
  3. A number of quests and combat related exploits were fixed.
  4. Characters are no longer able to use the disarm command while using feign death.

At Midnight, on Wednesday the 28th, the servers will be brought down for an update.

- The EverQuest Team
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April 28th, 1999
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Citizens of Norrath,



We are pleased to announce that the hardware upgrade that was performed on our router this morning has appeared to resolve the severe packet loss problems that many players were encountering over the past week. We have been, and will continue to monitor the load on the new hardware to assure that the packet-loss problems will no longer occur on our end. During the router upgrade we transported the Karana server farm to the AT&T CerfNet facility to further reduce the load on our router. Also, the new "Rodcet Nife" server was just brought up to accommodate the additional users that have joined over the past few weeks.



After thoroughly testing changes made only for Rallos Zek (PK server), we have activated the new code for the PK server ONLY. The changes include the following;



1) Pets will no longer kill themselves if their master has invisibility cast on them.
2) Pets will no longer attack other players while they are in guard mode if their master goes link-dead.
3) Pets will now attack opposing combatants while their master is dueling.
4) NPCs will no longer respond to invisible PCs.



Other fixes and changes include:



1) The corpse class tag will not be listed as "Unknown".
2) Players will be given text messages for items that they cannot obtain while looting a corpse, instead of the item disappearing.
3) A number of quests and combat related exploits were fixed.
4) Characters are no longer able to use the disarm command while using feign death.



At Midnight, on Wednesday the 28th, the servers will be brought down for an update.



- The EverQuest Team
Patches in 1999