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This year, Brenlo won't be able to MC the Best of the Best due to his transfer to the EQ II team. So that leaves us with a void to fill.

We have someone internal to be an MC, however, I'm in search one or two people to help him out!  If you're going to be at Fan Faire, don't have plans to fight in the battle, and want to help work the crowd as a commentator, respond to this post to let me know!

The EQ Best of the Best will be occurring on Saturday, June 27tth, from about 9:30am to 3:30ish pm.

Goofed and responded to the wrong thread... fixed it.

Hey there,

I'm locking this thread.  Please see the new thread started on this subject.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/p...topic_id=151674

The rescue attempt worked.  The Wookies have brought on a new CRM so I'll be returning to EQ once I get the new guy up to speed!

I will be spending a couple of hours tomorrow (Friday, May 29, yes 2009) granting pending rewards. Any that I don't get done tomorrow, I'll address on Monday. 

I will be spending a couple of hours tomorrow (Friday, May 29, yes 2009) granting pending rewards. Any that I don't get done tomorrow, I'll address on Monday. 

Status Update: I haven't heard back from 4 of the potential winners.  If you submitted an entry to the contest, please be sure to check your email and respond quickly so that we can move forward with announcements and rewards.  I don't want anyone to get disqualified because they didn't respond.  Eek!

Thanks!

Status Update: Potential winners were sent e-mails this morning.

Status Update: Winners for this contest are expected to be announced on or around May 15th.  We will be contacting the individuals today or tomorrow via emails.  Sorry for the delay.

Traxan wrote:

I have failed on six names now. Now error message saying nope, it's on another server, it just does nothing. I'm only going to guess so many times.

SOE, what's up?

This issue is known and a fix is currently in the works for it. While I don't have a specific ETA, its possible that the fix may not go live until the next Game Update. Meaning, they may not be able to hotfix it.

Don't forget that five new items are available in the EverQuest Marketplace this week! For more information on these and other items available on the marketplace, log in to EverQuest and use the /marketplace command.

Highlight of New Marketplace Items

If you need a little convincing that Fan Faire is the place to be this June, or if you're already planning to go and you just want to add a little jolt to your excitement, then we've got some fuel to add to the fire! Here are our Top 10 Fun Things To Do at Fan Faire 2009!

Top 10 Fun Things To Do at Fan Faire

The EverQuest Blog has been updated with a status of the new server poll and news about a change on the EQ team.  View the Blog

Meet Time Lord Speedy Gonesolaz of Fennin Ro   Server: Cazic Thule Guild: Hellfire Club

Where in the real life world do you live?
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

How long have you played EQ?
Since I was in grade six; about nine years now.

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From 9:00 PM PDT until 11:00 PM PDT on Thursday, April 30, 2009, SOE Account and Commerce flow, Station Store and the Station Marketplace will be unavailable due to maintenance. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 2 hours.

This might also cause some forum accounts to temporarily lose permissions, due to the inability to verify account status while the maintenance is taking place. This is only temporary and normal permissions will return automatically once the maintenance is complete.

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

This chat is taking place right now!

The recent issues with redeeming Loot Cards for Legends of Norrath have been resolved.  If you continue to experience issues with the process, please let us know on the Legends of Norrath forums.

Thank you for your patience!

Free Realms Launches! 

We are pleased to announce that SOE's new fun and interactive online game where family and friends can play together in a safe and wholesome environment is now live! Free Realms is a whimsical virtual world, loaded with fun for gamers of all ages. Whether you want to race karts, raise a pet, explore mystical forests or chat with friends, in Free Realms, you can do it all.

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We are currently experiencing an issue redeeming loot cards for Star Wars Galaxies TCG and Legends of Norrath.  We hope to have a hotfix tomorrow, Wednesday April 29, 2009 to correct the issue. If the ETA changes, we will post an updated status message.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

We are aware of the issue that is preventing the purchasing or redeeming of the loot cards for the Legends of Norrath.  We are working on the issue but do not have an ETA on when we expect the problem to be resolved. We'll post another message when the status changes.

Andorra_Bell wrote:

Zatozia wrote:

We haven't announced it yet.  We hope to announce it as soon as possible though.

Zat is back! Welcome back!

Not back yet, but never really left.  Be just quiet here while I help over there .   I didn't want to leave Amnerys alone with you guys! *grin*

We haven't announced it yet.  We hope to announce it as soon as possible though.

Qulas_Druzzil wrote:

1. Cazic Thule

2. Caverns of Exile ( Sol C )

3. Sunderock Springs

4. Elddar Forrest

Ding ding ding... !

Gee I surprised nobody guessed the Cazic-Thule one first; especially all the old timers! 

Ooops I didn't realize I forgot to update this.  The image links have been updated to a large version. Should be easy to guess now *grin*

Kyraoshi wrote:

I'll answer that for you Yaddab.  By entering your station name and password it allows the application to pull information about which game you play, which server, it allows us to confirm if you've been a guide in the past or not, that type of thing.  There's an e-mail address you may e-mail though (it's located on the application page) and you can get a manual application that bypasses the station name and password if you feel uncomfortable putting that in.

Kyraoshi

As a follow up to this... When you enter the station name and password, it does not get submitted it just triggers a check that that the account is active.  Its similiar to logging into the forums. 

Morituus wrote:

That's not very nice.  A screenshot's a screenshot and the whole thing's just for fun.  There were hundreds of entries so no matter what was chosen, people are going to disagree on which were the 10 "best" (although I do think it's a darn shame my crotch didn't make the cut!).

Grats to all the finalists, although I can't bring myself to vote for a dude in a beauty contest.  I'm gonna go vote for the chick in the thong in the Miss Norrath poll...

Do you have any screenshots that aren't like that? *grin* I seem to remember you having a video displaying just the same for the Fabled Adventurer contest *grin*

We had a few folks looking over them and we narrowed it down based on our opinions. When looking at the pictures, we considered several things:  Some pictures had brighter colors, some had beautiful backgrounds settings, some had great poses, some had great dramatic effect, and some made us say "awwww."

We enjoyed viewing all fhe entries and thank everyone for participating.  Regardless how we judge these things, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like our choices.  However, keep in mind that it is our contest so its all about what we like!

*** Highlights ***

- Pet hold can now be used with charmed pets again (as long as the owner has the AA).
- Put separators back into raid window. Separators will now appear between sorting groups for all sorting criteria except for "by name."

*** Quests & Events ***

- Added a check to make sure there are miscreants in Shadow Haven when they are supposed to be there.
- Bristlebane's party will now show up in, er, minitab as expected.
- Added a default "Hail" dialog to each kill target in the Justice of the Tribunal 10th Anniversary task that will let you re-engage if you already hailed that NPC but failed to kill him.

*** NPC ***

- Modified the spawn rates of several NPCs in Fabled PoP that drop the "Swarm Pet" Weapons to normalize the rate that they appear. Most spawn rates were increased but some were reduced that were appearing too frequently.

*** Tradeskills ***

- Fixed the broken coffin poison bottle.  Now it can make any NORMAL poison combine as well as the original coffin bottle combines.
- The following spell research recipes now create a duplicate (tradable) scroll instead of the original (no-drop) scroll.  For real this time!  Skill: Champion's Aura, Skill: Poison Spikes Trap, Skill: Master's Aura, Skill: Bloodlust Aura, Spell: Blessed Aura, Spell: Decrepit Skin, Spell: Aura of the Muse, Spell: Elddar's Grasp, Spell: Puratus, Spell: Moonshadow, Spell: Ghost of Renewal, Spell: Mind Shatter, Spell: Chaos Flame, Spell: Iceflame Guard, Spell: Mind Flay, and Spell: Spirit of Oroshar.

*** Pets ***

- Pet hold can now be used with charmed pets again (as long as the owner has the AA).
- Now only PC pets will display their owner's name under them.
- Telling your pet to attack another target when focus is turned on will now cause it to switch targets and focus exclusively on the new target.
- Fixed a bug where telling your pet to attack a new target when focus is turned on would fail if the pet hated the new target the most already (even if the new target was not already its target).
- Casting swarm pets or familiars should no longer disrupt the state of the buttons on your pet window when you already have a normal pet up.
- Pet target hit points are now updated even if you are not targeting the pet's target.
- Fixed several other bugs that were causing the buttons in the pet window to become out of sync with the server or to reset upon zoning.
- Qattack will now only change the pet's target if the pet did not already have a target.  This is contrasted with the regular attack command which will force the pet to change targets (if focused or not).  Qattack now simply adds the target NPC to the pet's hate list, so that it will attack that target at a later time when its other targets are dead.

*** UI ***

- Put separators back into raid window. Separators will now appear between sorting groups for all sorting criteria except for "by name."
- When sorting by group, empty slots should always be shown after filled slots for each group. Also group leaders should always be at the top of each group.

- When sorting by anything but group, all the empty slots are removed and not displayed.

- Changed -

SIDL.xml

*** Previously Updated ***

- Fixed a problem with Atler Flamejabber.  He should now reappear in his correct location after someone has completed his quest.
- Nettle Higglesbury should now correctly gather some rabble rousers around him once he's finished his pie.
- Fixed an issue with Bristlebane's parties not showing up as expected after 20 hours.

- The EverQuest Team

Masterfu wrote:

Did winners get announced for this or did the time get pushed back due to the 10th anniversary?

Hey there. Sorry I have been extremely busy lately and haven't had time to read them all yet.  We'll get winners for this challenges announced by end of day on Friday.

Please note that the Guild Application tool on the EQPlayers website is no longer used for guild creations.

Players can now get their guilds created in-game by using the Guild Management window. When opening the Guild Management Window (Alt + G) when you are not in a guild, you will be asked if you would like to create one. All existing guild naming rules still apply. Only one guild is permitted per server per account. Guilds cannot be created while in a shroud.

We'll be removing the link from the page as soon as possible.

In case you didn't see the news, we're having a party on the Test Server at 5:00pm Pacific Time!

 Join us for an Anniversary Celebration

Sorry about that everyone.  There was an error with the poll in the other thread.  You should be able to vote in the poll now!

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of EverQuest, the Community Team hosted the First Annual Mr. and Miss Norrath Forum Challenge. EverQuest community members submitted their best character screenshot to get a chance at becoming Mr. or Miss Norrath 2009. Now it's your turn to participate by voting for the winners on the EQ Official Forums.

View the Miss Norrath Finalists

This poll ends on March 25th

Sorry about that everyone.  There was an error with the poll in the other thread.  You should be able to vote in the poll now!

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of EverQuest, the Community Team hosted the First Annual Mr. and Miss Norrath Forum Challenge. EverQuest community members submitted their best character screenshot to get a chance at becoming Mr. or Miss Norrath 2009. Now it's your turn to participate by voting for the winners on the EQ Official Forums.

View the Mr Norrath Finalists

This poll ends on March 25th

Status Update: Since nobody has guessed them yet, the image links have been updated to a medium version.

The finalists will be announced early tomorrow.  There were so many submissions it took us a while to go through them all.  It was really difficult selecting 10 for each. We'll be publishing the the finalist up on the website tomorrow with their character profile information. And putting up 2 polls for you to vote on your favorite.

Whoot!