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What happens if people don't kill The Sleeper? Does it go back to sleep? Is the server thus ruined to play on?

ctvo 4y ago
It can only be awaken once and triggers an event where it rampages through different zones killing everything. After that the wardens no longer spawn if I recall correctly (there's nothing to guard!) and it's no longer visible in-game in the zone. masklinn has a much better memory than I do of events that happened 20 years ago and can correct me :) The server isn't necessarily ruined, but if you're a min/max type of player you'd certainly be upset at not having the chance at some of the drops. On actual EverQuest servers this wasn't that big of a deal as the next expansion with better items came shortly after, on Project 1999 this is a much bigger problem.
masklinn 4y ago
> What happens if people don't kill The Sleeper? Does it go back to sleep? Is the server thus ruined to play on? You can't normally kill the sleeper, that was never the intent. The "normal" event is that it kills everyone in the zone, goes from the Sleeper's Tomb to Skyshrine killing everyone, kills Yelinak (the boss of Skyshrine), then it disappears forever (until a much later extension brought it back). I think the only zone that's permanently changed is the Sleeper's Tomb: the warders don't spawn anymore, meaning their loot (which is the end-game loot of Velious) becomes unavailable. This is what makes waking the sleeper a dick move on Project 1999 servers: progression stops at Velious, so it locks all other players out of that gear (on "official" servers waking the sleeper after having farmed the warders might frustrate the second and third guilds for some time as they'd miss out on getting that gear while #1 would be working and farming Luclin).
- omega3 4y ago
  If you do kill him I'm guessing he gets reset after a while?
  - prettyWise 4y ago
    It isn't about killing him, it's about waking him up. Killing him doesn't matter. If you wake him, he never gets reset, he never goes back to sleep, the warders you have to kill to wake him never spawn again, and they drop the best loot in the game, so by killing them and waking him up, you remove everyone's ability to grind for that loot, forever. Killing him is a thing that you can only do by using a specific strategy, and doing so has no real effect on anything, he still is awake and you still lose the warders, and therefore the good loot. Since this server is pegged to this specific moment in time when the first two expansions were released, the subsequent content with the better loot will never happen, so now people on this server have lost the ability to get that loot, and they're salty about it.

ctvo 4y ago

It can only be awaken once and triggers an event where it rampages through different zones killing everything. After that the wardens no longer spawn if I recall correctly (there's nothing to guard!) and it's no longer visible in-game in the zone. masklinn has a much better memory than I do of events that happened 20 years ago and can correct me :) The server isn't necessarily ruined, but if you're a min/max type of player you'd certainly be upset at not having the chance at some of the drops. On actual EverQuest servers this wasn't that big of a deal as the next expansion with better items came shortly after, on Project 1999 this is a much bigger problem.

masklinn 4y ago

> What happens if people don't kill The Sleeper? Does it go back to sleep? Is the server thus ruined to play on? You can't normally kill the sleeper, that was never the intent. The "normal" event is that it kills everyone in the zone, goes from the Sleeper's Tomb to Skyshrine killing everyone, kills Yelinak (the boss of Skyshrine), then it disappears forever (until a much later extension brought it back). I think the only zone that's permanently changed is the Sleeper's Tomb: the warders don't spawn anymore, meaning their loot (which is the end-game loot of Velious) becomes unavailable. This is what makes waking the sleeper a dick move on Project 1999 servers: progression stops at Velious, so it locks all other players out of that gear (on "official" servers waking the sleeper after having farmed the warders might frustrate the second and third guilds for some time as they'd miss out on getting that gear while #1 would be working and farming Luclin).

omega3 4y ago
If you do kill him I'm guessing he gets reset after a while?
- prettyWise 4y ago
  It isn't about killing him, it's about waking him up. Killing him doesn't matter. If you wake him, he never gets reset, he never goes back to sleep, the warders you have to kill to wake him never spawn again, and they drop the best loot in the game, so by killing them and waking him up, you remove everyone's ability to grind for that loot, forever. Killing him is a thing that you can only do by using a specific strategy, and doing so has no real effect on anything, he still is awake and you still lose the warders, and therefore the good loot. Since this server is pegged to this specific moment in time when the first two expansions were released, the subsequent content with the better loot will never happen, so now people on this server have lost the ability to get that loot, and they're salty about it.