Rimzig's Journal
Sunday, January 26, 2002

EverQuest Fan Faire Dallas

Rimzig, Yenya and Barelan attended EverQuest Fan Faire in Dallas.  We also met up with Sephrin at the Hard Rock Cafe.

View of Dallas outside hotel window

Rimzig's name badge

Cover of program

Page 1 of Fan Faire program

Page 2 of Fan Faire program

Reception

Luclin server players including former Luclin GM Leycrow

Hard Rock Cafe

Sephrin's daughter, Yenya, Amyrlin, Barelan, Sephrin and Rimzig at the Hard Rock Cafe

Fan Faire Begins

Barelan and Firiona Vie

Rimzig and Firiona Vie

Mrlyn, Zeborah, Anso

Live Quest

Anso is the Group Leader of one of the Luclin server Live Quest teams of 14 players

Anso hailing an injured Barbarian Warrior

Rimzig, Zeborah, Barelan, Anso and Amyrlin participating in Live Quest
This picture is from the EverQuest Dallas Fan Faire Event Scrapbook Photo Gallery on page 4

Workshops

Norrathian Trade Skills
The first workshop I attended was Norrathian Trade Skills.  The one developer who works on trade skills as one of several tasks gave a one minute speech and opened the floor up for questions.  Some highlights are listed below:

• No new trade skills in the near future due to limited coders and higher priority issues
• Developers are evaluating the Norrath economy due the the rapid drop in prices making trade skills unprofitable and therefore undesirable since crafted items become obsolete and devalued so quickly
• Tailoring is considered the best well-rounded trade skill due to needing purchased items, mob dropped items and foraged items
• Fletching is considered the best implemented trade skill due to not having gaps between items crafted
• Baking was considered a good trade skill since crafted items are consumed and need to be replenished
• A trade skill improvement device will add that percentage to your skill points while holding the device.  For example, at trade skill 200 holding a +5% device would make your trade skill 210.

A transcript on the Norrathian Trade Skills Workshop is available as a Caster's Realm Article.

Producers and Developers: The Past, Present and Future of EverQuest
The second workshop I attended was Producers and Developers: The Past, Present and Future of EverQuest.  Some highlights are listed below:

• They are still working on Umbra issues
• The new interface will have 8 spells per spell book page
• The new interface will allow separate chat channel windows (for guild, auctions, raid, etc.)
• Besides adding a raid channel, they are looking into ways to add raid experience, as well as ways to increase exp for those who move around in a dungeon rather than sitting in a single spot camping
• The Bazaar works, but they have elected to create an interface for it rather than releasing it with cumbersome "/" commands
• Epic weapon upgrade quests are being considered to bring epics more in line with current high-end gear
• Bards are not broken purposely, but almost all code has exceptions for bards that gets overlooked
• Bard Singing Steel Breastplate is going to be changed because effect is useless
• The new Luclin character models will not be having their appearance or animations changed
• There is no plan to reduce downtime any further
• They are considering changing more epics to have some of the spawns be triggered
• Items that raise skills don't have any effect if the skill in question is at 252

A transcript on the Magic and Spell Casting Workshop is available as a Caster's Realm Article.

Fan Faire Ends

Yenya with Leycrow showing off his Firiona Vie autographed name badge

Rimzig and Leycrow

Additional Fan Faire photographs and a video are available at Solace de L'Esprit Guild web site.

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