Patch message Thursday 22 January

[eqNichola]

January 22nd, 2004
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We have made a few changes to remove some exploits in our continuing effort to remove any loopholes in EverQuest. In this update we have removed the charm exploit in Plane of Tactics by changing the way that charm works. This change should not affect those who use charm in the manner for which it was intended. We have also changed the profit margin of many tradeskill items when sold to NPC vendors. It is our hope that these changes and your continued community efforts will help to put a stop to those who do not wish to play fairly.

- Changed Charm spells so that NPCs spell use will now be interrupted once the charm has expired.

- We have modified the sell back value on many tradeskill items to prevent excessive profit.

- Please note that many items will now show as being usable by berserkers. This does not necessarily mean the items will be equippable by berserkers when Gates of Discord launches.

[Nolrog]

We have modified the sell back value on many tradeskill items to prevent excessive profit.

I thought you weren't supposed to make any profit at all on tradeskill items.

[Tinile]

Originally posted by Nolrog
I thought you weren't supposed to make any profit at all on tradeskill items.

You aren't.

[Balkin]

You aren't, but a few receipe's slip through once in a while. They're closing down those plat farming loopholes.

Which sucks for legitimate tradeskillers, but I'm not going to go there this morning.

[Pootle]

Please note that many items will now show as being usable by berserkers. This does not necessarily mean the items will be equippable by berserkers when Gates of Discord launches.

Anyone else find this amusing?
I am quietly chuckling to myself.

[eniamn]

i misread it first time and thought maybe the solstice robe woud sell back to vendors for the price of the chain at least.

[Draggar]

Originally posted by Pootle
Anyone else find this amusing?
I am quietly chuckling to myself.

Yep.

[Rewde]

Patch message??? Hmmm... No wonder I woke up to find myself booted from the game.

I thought the next patch was not going to be until Feb 10th.

[tsbaity]

It was, but they got the fix for the PoTactics exploit working early so went ahead and implemented it would be my guess.

[Nolrog]

Patch message??? Hmmm... No wonder I woke up to find myself booted from the game.

I thought the next patch was not going to be until Feb 10th.

Exact same thing happened to me. LOL. I tried to log back in, but saw all servers were locked, so I went to the tech support board, and saw that there was a patch. Now, I gotta wait til I get home to find out if I sold anything. Grrrr.

[Faelorn]

Exact same thing happened to me. LOL. I tried to log back in, but saw all servers were locked, so I went to the tech support board, and saw that there was a patch. Now, I gotta wait til I get home to find out if I sold anything. Grrrr.

Or you could check your bazaar log.

[Rewde]

Originally posted by Faelorn
Or you could check your bazaar log.

Kinda hard to do at work

[Faelorn]

Kinda hard to do at work

Could have done it before you left for work. Don't need to log in to EQ to see the logs.

[Rewde]

No time, really. Get up at 6. Shut down computer. Shower. Get 2 year old daughter up and dressed. Get breakfast and lunch ready. Out the door heading to daycare by 6:45 - 7:00. Oh well. Can wait till tonight. No big deal.

[oerin trubble]

We have modified the sell back value on many tradeskill items to prevent excessive profit

Excessive?? that is soooo funny! They had already fixed the ore conversion and the coldain temper glitch. I still can't fathom why they couldn't just fix the temper price rather than removing it. Making it is a royal pain.

How about preventing excessive loss??? Hard working tradeskillers should be able to make a bit of profit off combines. At the very least the NPC should give you a price equal to the cost. Then you're out only the cost of failures.