Status update & some EQ2 ranting
17 years ago
Okay, so currently I have following projects underway.
-Armor set for rat & lizard (will be rather interesting to see if I can get them rigged)
-New Rat abusing animation (being planned, feel free to send ideas :) )
-Gnoll model, going to zbrush after I get it uv unwrapped
-Female iksar model (probably continuing this after gnoll model is finished)
Latios & Flygon part 2 ~78% done. Dunno when it will be ready. I've lost my motivation to work with anything pokemon related.
+ some other projects.
As you can see I have plenty of stuff to do. It will take a while before I get anything big finished, but I'll keep posting wips and stuff as usual. Currently I'm concentrating on rat's armor, gnoll model and planning of rat abusing animation.
**Now some ranting about EQ2. - non - eq2 players probably want to stop reading here. :) **
I canceled my account some time ago because of SOE's new Station cash :X thing. I thought to come back to the game eventually (unless they go over with their shop thing) but now I found out that my character class (paladin) will be ruined (in my opinion) in the next update.
As if making the lay on hands (my last life saver) cost power wasn't enough, they are going to remove amends spell too and make some other rather major changes to the class too, making it basically useless. whee.
in addition to that I've been annoyed by SOE's € = $ policy. and many other small things.
Hell, if they want me to quit so much they could just ban me or something. >_<
Dunno if anyone here is still playing the game but I just have to let off some steam before my head explodes. O_o Posting on the official forums won't help any more than my rant here. *sigh*
Since I canceled my account it's has become (not so surprisingly) harder to get any good reference material for my new characters (based on eq2) so I may need to resubscribe for a while at least to get some more screenshots of it.
Ah well, Sorry about ranting about totally irrelevant stuff. :/
-Armor set for rat & lizard (will be rather interesting to see if I can get them rigged)
-New Rat abusing animation (being planned, feel free to send ideas :) )
-Gnoll model, going to zbrush after I get it uv unwrapped
-Female iksar model (probably continuing this after gnoll model is finished)
Latios & Flygon part 2 ~78% done. Dunno when it will be ready. I've lost my motivation to work with anything pokemon related.
+ some other projects.
As you can see I have plenty of stuff to do. It will take a while before I get anything big finished, but I'll keep posting wips and stuff as usual. Currently I'm concentrating on rat's armor, gnoll model and planning of rat abusing animation.
**Now some ranting about EQ2. - non - eq2 players probably want to stop reading here. :) **
I canceled my account some time ago because of SOE's new Station cash :X thing. I thought to come back to the game eventually (unless they go over with their shop thing) but now I found out that my character class (paladin) will be ruined (in my opinion) in the next update.
As if making the lay on hands (my last life saver) cost power wasn't enough, they are going to remove amends spell too and make some other rather major changes to the class too, making it basically useless. whee.
in addition to that I've been annoyed by SOE's € = $ policy. and many other small things.
Hell, if they want me to quit so much they could just ban me or something. >_<
Dunno if anyone here is still playing the game but I just have to let off some steam before my head explodes. O_o Posting on the official forums won't help any more than my rant here. *sigh*
Since I canceled my account it's has become (not so surprisingly) harder to get any good reference material for my new characters (based on eq2) so I may need to resubscribe for a while at least to get some more screenshots of it.
Ah well, Sorry about ranting about totally irrelevant stuff. :/
FA+

(I'm not playing them 24/7 ;) )
And yeah Antonia Bayle is the most populater server.
As for the station cash, many have complained about what they might do to the game in the future, but so far all they do is sell potions and house items. Some fluff armor. Nothing that really effects the game. Potions might, but you already get those from /claim and LoN so big deal. :) As long as they don't change and put things like "Featherfall Cloak" or "Ring of 100% run speed". or worse. :P
Actually even the changes to LoH pretty much ruined the game for me. When soloing it saved me numerous times when I was out of power. And with pally's "great" dps that happened more than enough. All that combined is enough to piss of even me. :o
I'm afraid that station cash will eventually have better stuff available. It's just matter of time. I hope I'm wrong though. But to think about it. why would they put any new free armor models etc to the game when they can sell them for $ and save all time and trouble that would be needed to make a quest with that armor as reward. :/ And even though that the stuff is "just fluff" it sucks big time when it only available for real money. :x They have lied before, like promising that RMT is not going to happen, then it just suddenly is in game without any notification before it was live. Perfectly timed just after releasing new expansion pack. = maximum expansion sales before pissing off a lot of people with station cash. ("Don't worry, we will never sell super armors in the store." (but we'll make a quest that you can buy to get a super armor, see? how easy is that? :o ))
Well, at least you can eventually tell which players have too much money in RL by visiting their house or just looking at them. And feel happy that your wallet is only useful as flyswatter(?) Whee.
*sigh*
EQ/EQ2 may be the only paid subscription games that implemented a real money shop like that. Except AO, but who plays that anymore? I see it all the time in FREE games, but thats because the devs of free games would make no money if they didn't have one lol.
AO (anarchy online) has a free sub plan but only if you don't buy the expansions. If you can tolerate textured on faces and mesh hair thats actually part of the head. XD
It does suck, i agree. Especially with the way they are implementing it. My shadowknight is awesome right now, but they are separating some of our key abilites into these 2 stances. It's a poor implementation, that will hopefully be tested more, but if they do pull it off, then it should actually buff the tank classes quite a bit in damage and tanking ability.
Also awesome cynder. Can't wait to see more! Are you planning on converting her model to the source engine or anything? Garys mod cynder would rock!
Or EQ2 model edit cynder would rock even more :3
Hmmh most likely I won't be converting her to source engine (or any other) since I don't know how to do it. I doubt it's possible to edit EQ2 models. :O