Expeditions

[Hazardousdrunk]

Is there a plan with these expeditions or is it just frostcrpyt? and if there is a plan is it always going to be limited to 6 man??

The server allows for 24 clients to be ran from a single person, so raid zones would be appreciated in the future.

[peterigz]

I certainly have plans for expeditions, and yes they'll be raid.

A bit of background on Miraguls Nightmare (the halloween event), Valdeholm and Frostcrypt: I developed some new server code that enables us to scale NPCs in a zone dynamically to a THF tier, so that different loot drops and even NPC special abilities trigger differently depending on the tier. This also scales according to solo/group and raid - so the halloween event was the first test where you could choose between all tiers, and whether you wanted to play solo/group or raid difficulty.

Valdeholm and Frostcrypt was the second test where the focus was tying that in with quests and tasks, with extra script commands we can use to trigger things based on the current criteria of the instance (what tier and solo/group/raid type). So because I spent more time there I just aimed frostcrypt towards the middle ground of a group zone and designing content for groups is a little more managable with time constraints. So in Frostcrypt you have items that only work depending on the scaling, items that only drop in one tier and tasks that are tied into the tier as well.

Now I merged in the latest eqemu code so we can now do expeditions which I had to make compatible with the scaling code, so Frostcrypt was a nice candidate to give that a quick test to make sure all is good.

[Megalomaniac]

I am really excited to see how this factors into future zones/projects! (Elemental Planes please! )

[Hazardousdrunk]

I had no idea you even replied.. I missed it.

That is great to hear, I am glad things are going smoothly, I cannot wait to see what the future holds!