ZAM's Fan Faire Community Address Recap

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ZAM's Fan Faire Community Address Recap

EverQuest

Executive Producer David Georgeson announced that the next EverQuest expansion will be called Veil of Alaris, and it's going to raise the level cap to 95. The expansion will feature a brand new continent and 12 new zones, as well as new content such as quests, loot, monsters and raids. It will also include completely new guild halls, and we'll find out who orchestrated the demise of Cazic-Thule and why. Veil of Alaris is scheduled to launch in late November.


11/12/2012 ??

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=26970


http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=177552
Watching Smed's address, about to start. This is info that he presented about the EQ Expansion (and some other info that you may be interested in.)

They are going to introduce a key fob (everyone at FF will get one). That's one of those code thingies that you have to type the randomly generated code in to access your account (WOW has one as well.) There will be an iPhone and Android version available for free.


Veil of Alaris is the name.

A brand new continent hidden behind the veil of mist.

12 new zones - Lots of quests, loot, raids etc.

Tells us why Cazic Thule died, who was behind it and what we can or cannot do about it.

Completely new guild halls. Guild halls will be put in the neighborhoods.

Level cap to 95

Hotbar revamp.

City of bronze, city of pilars were named as areas and/or zones.

Comes out November 2011.

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http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=27016

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•There will be 12 new zones (4 of them being end zones),

•A new rank-based guild permission system will add about four more guild ranks and give players a lot more control over who can do what in the guild. You can change the names of the ranks and assign different permissions to those ranks. There will be approximately 32 different permissions that can be individually assigned, such as bank access and guild tags.


•The hotbar system is getting a revamp. You will be able to resize the hotbars to any width and height, as well as resize individual buttons. The amount of buttons on each hotbar will be increased to 12, and you'll be able to place more hotbars on the screen.
•You will be able to click on items in your inventory that are linked to your hotbar. This means you'll be able to cast from your hotbar without opening up your inventory.
•Cooldown timers will be visible when you click something on your bar. The team said the visual cooldown timer will be difficult to implement for some AAs, but it can be done with macros.
•They're adding a new parcel delivery and money system. You'll be able to interact with a vendor to send your items to players on your server.




Other Future Plans

•Offline brokering is coming. You will be able to log out your character while you're selling, which means you don't need to leave your computer on overnight. You can set up shop in your home and guild halls, and they'll possibly allowing you to broker in places that aren't in your home. Players can buy directly from you and get the item immediately, but there will be an extra charge.
•They're going to allow you to have more than one mercenary, but you can only play one at any given time. There will be a delay in reuse and recast times, but this will give you more flexibility. You will have access to a high amount of mercenaries. This feature isn't tied to the expansion, but it should launch around that time.
•Bigger bags should be coming back to the marketplace in the next couple months. They will also be added as drops in the game, but not as tradeskill items.
•A simple item comparison tool will be added to the game.
•They're working on a feature that will easily allow you to upload EverQuest videos to YouTube. It might be available by the end of the year.