Letter From the Producer
"Erollisi Day" events, the upcoming Improved Looting System, and EverQuest's 16th anniversary are among the topics touched upon in this latest letter from the producer:
Greetings Norrathians!
We hope that 2015 finds you well and that your New Years resolutions are still intact. This year, we resolve to post to Sense Heading once a month and we're going to start by barely squeaking in our January post before the buzzer.
The team is hard at work on various projects that will land later this year. It's good to get back into the swing of things after a relaxing winter holiday break. But it's not fair to keep the fun all to ourselves, so allow us to tantalize you with a glimpse into the future. Here's what to look forward to in EverQuest in 2015!
(More after the jump...)
Erollisi Day
Love is in the air! This year's Erollisi Day celebration is nearly upon us. Erollisi-themed items will begin dropping in the world and the quests given by the Emissary of Erollisi and Grimble Grumblemaker in the Plane of Knowledge will become available. The festivities will begin on Wednesday, February 4th and run for two weeks. In addition, keep an eye out for new Player Studio offerings in the Marketplace, created and submitted by creative artists from our community.
Improved Looting System
We've had the chance to test the improved looting system internally on our Beta server and we have been blown away with how convenient it makes collecting items, and how easy it is to use. It's a snap to get the drops you want while declining the drops you don't need, without having to search through piles of overlapping corpses, or corpses hidden inside a wall. (Hey, it happens sometimes!) The system also elegantly handles group and raid situations with automated rolling or master looter. This is a revolutionary way to manage your item drops and we can't wait to share the system with you. In the near future, this will go out to the Test server. When the time comes, we hope that you pop over to Test to try it out and give us your feedback.
16th Anniversary
EverQuest's 16th anniversary celebration will be here before you know it. In addition to the events that were available in each previous anniversary celebration, we're happy to announce that we'll be introducing several new Player-Designed Missions that were planned out by attendees at SOE Live 2013 and 2014. It's a real treat for the team to get to implement new missions that the community has come up with. We feel comfortable at this point committing to at least as many, if not more, than last year. We don't want to spoil too much right away, but two of the missions we'll be unveiling are named "Pub Crawl" and "Liquid Courage." (What can we say? Adult beverages were a popular theme that year in Vegas.) So do you remember working on these, or know who did?
Regular Content Updates
The team will continue to offer up new content and event content periodically over the course of the year, but we will be doing so on an average of every two weeks instead of every week. The once-a-week schedule was doable, but it required us to make some odd choices in splitting content in half or 60/40 when we could have just offered related things in one update. We feel this change makes it easier for players to know what’s coming up and when, while making this content no less compelling.
Thanks for reading! We’re excited for 2015 and we hope you are too!
-The EverQuest team
