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Norrath Chronicle 1998-07-07 — 2026-06-24

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Live

October 13, 1999

Optional Patch - A new zone, The Temple of Solusek Ro, is now available via the optional patch. General Enhancements - Experience and looting rights are now awarded for group aggregate damage. This is now true for ALL servers. We still consider this change in 'TEST' and will conduct a poll as to whether it positivel…

325 words 14 changes 3 sources
Live

July 27, 1999

The EverQuest servers will be coming down at 7:00 AM Pacific, tomorrow morning for an update. The estimated downtime is approximately 2 hours. This update will require a minor client-side download. The following enhancements and new features will be activated once the update is complete. *General Announcements* We a…

1,017 words 39 changes 1 source
Live

June 8th, 1999

The EverQuest servers will be coming down tonight at Midnight PDT for a client and server-side update. Listed below are the newly implemented features and bug fixes which will be updated. General Changes - Scrolls are no longer lore items - this means that you can have more than one. - Research components were made …

904 words 36 changes 1 source
Live

May 25th, 1999

The servers will be coming down as scheduled tonight at Midnight PDT. The following changes/bug fixes have been made. - Players will no longer crash when an extremely long group message is received. - Added the ability to pull one item "charge" from a stack by holding down the "Control" key when left-clicking on the…

388 words 28 changes 1 source
Live

May 19th, 1999

We will be updating the servers tonight at Midnight PDT, which will require a minor client side update. A few of the notable changes are listed below. 2) While taking part in a guild war, if killed, members of the opposing guild may only loot one item off the corpse. 3) A crash bug related to removing guild members …

188 words 4 changes 1 source
Live Inferred year

April 29th, 4:00pm

As posted yesterday, we will be bringing down all of the servers at midnight tonight PDT, for a server-side update. Our estimated downtime is should be less than two hours. The fixes/changes are listed below. 1) Traveling by boat should be much more stable. 2) A few various zone crashes. 3) The corpse class tag will…

141 words 7 changes 1 source
Live

April 28th, 1999

Citizens of Norrath, We are pleased to announce that the hardware upgrade that was performed on our router this morning has appeared to resolve the severe packet loss problems that many players were encountering over the past week. We have been, and will continue to monitor the load on the new hardware to assure tha…

276 words 9 changes 1 source
Live

April 6, 1999

We will be opening up a new section on the EverQuest website solely dedicated to the Test Server. Once the Test Server section is available, changes and bug fixes made to the Test Server will be documented, so that you may help us test the changes. As for server updates, from this day forward, we will be updating th…

351 words 21 changes 1 source
Beta

Thursday, March 11 1999

Fixed some major bugs related to sound and crashes. In addition, changes have been made to the decay system of corpses, which are described below; The next patch will be introduced immediately. It includes changes to the decay of corpses, and all corpses on the Test server are erased. This makes it much longer for c…

310 words 7 changes 1 source

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