Double Time Rare Weekend

From the log in patch notes:

10/30/2009

The haunting air has caused a strange phenomenon to occur. From 2pm PDT on Friday, October 30th until 10am PST until Tuesday, November 2nd, several rare encounters will double the rate of their appearance.

- The EverQuest Team

Which "rare encounters" are included are not known at this time.

UPDATE:

"It means that the chance for any rare NPC from the last four or five expansions to spawn in their associated encounter will be doubled. The rate at which their associated encounters spawn is unaffected."

"It includes anything flagged as rare in its encounter from recent expansions. I other words, anything that has a chance of spawning a placeholder instead of a named."

"Also, this only affects rare mob spawn rate. Not rare drop rates (global or not)."

- Steven S. Klug, EverQuest Lead Programmer

Read the thread here.

UPDATE:

"From 2pm PDT on Friday, October 30th until 10am PST until Tuesday, November 2nd"

Since today is Monday, November 2nd, either the "strange phenomenon" has caused a rift in the space-time continuum, or they need a calendar. So, I'm taking up collecting a fund to buy them a calendar.

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Oh, besides a calendar, they need someone who can actually post corrections to errors, so once they get a calendar, they can post the corrections, since they can't seem to handle that at the moment.

The in-game Welcome to EverQuest window still says "Tuesday, November 2nd" so it is unknown if this has ended on Monday, November 2nd or will end on Tuesday, November 3rd.

SOE Network Downtime Tuesday, October 27th

From the Welcome to EverQuest in-game window:

SOE Network Downtime - All SOE games will be brought down for switch maintenance at 3:00 AM PDT on Tuesday, October 27th. Expected downtime is four hours.

EQ Halloween Starts October 24, 2009

It turns on October 24th (not sure of the exact time)

Most of the older things will return and a new event will be in as well. News article will be up tomorrow.

- Zatozia, EQ Community Relations Manager

The thread is here.

Halloween ends November 7th. SOE Official page is here.

The "West" Bug is Back

The infamous "West" bug, where you see a white or blue screen when you face west, is back.

A year or more ago, many players reported this bug. After a long, long time of trying to track this down, it appeared that SOE had fixed it for almost everyone. Now, it seems to be back.

This bug has been reported in the Field of Scale and the Hatchery Wing off the Field of Scale.

Reports of the "West" bug began to increase several weeks ago, but the last few days have caused many more reports.

Emergency Patch October 14, 2009

From the Official EverQuest forums:

All EverQuest Live Servers (except Al'Kabor) will be coming down around 5:00am PDT (PDT is -7 GMT: 6:00am MDT, 7:00am CDT, 8:00am EDT, 12:00pm GMT) on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 for an Emergency Game Update. The servers are estimated to be down for about 3 hours.

SOE posted the following about the patch:

"The patch is to fix an issue with the Road to Underfoot events, not Dragoncrypt. The Dragoncrypt issue will hopefully be hot-fixed tonight before the patch." - Steven S. Klug, EverQuest Lead Programmer

Underfoot Beta Sign Ups Now

Sign Up for the EQ Expansion Beta

We are now accepting sign-ups for the EverQuest® Underfoot™ expansion beta. The beta period is expected to begin on October 20, 2009 and end on December 1, 2009.

As with last year's beta, the sign-up process has been made easier for you… and for us! Once you sign up, the system places you in a pool of potential beta testers. When the invite stages occur, beta testers will automatically be selected from that pool. We will, however, still be limiting the number of participants during different beta stages—the difference is that now you don't have to wait for a window of opportunity to sign up. The beta sign-up page will remain open until the beta ends. Once you sign up, you do not need to sign up again.

Read the full details and/or sign up here.

Patch Scheduled October 8, 2009

From the Welcome to EverQuest in-game window:

Next Update Postponed - EverQuest's scheduled update for October 7th, 2009 has been postponed. We expect to be able to update on the morning of October 8th, 2009. This will be updated when final details are known.

UPDATE from the EverQuest LaunchPad:

Game Update News: New Schedule for the Update: All EverQuest Live Servers (except Al'Kabor) will be coming down around 12:00 mid PDT (PDT is -7 GMT: 1:00am MDT, 2:00am CDT, 3:00am EDT, 7:00am GMT) on Thursday, October 8, 2009 for a Game Update. The servers are estimated to be down for about 8 hours.

Patch Scheduled October 7, 2009 - CANCELED

Rumor has it that a patch is scheduled for October 7th. No official announcement has been made by SOE, however, the in-game Welcome to EverQuest window has the following:

Hot Zones! With the update on 10/07/09 we will be changing the hot zones. Look for Franklin Teek outside the guild lobby in the Plane of Knowledge after the update. The new hot zones include the exceptionally creepy Grieg's End and the Plane of Nightmares!

UPDATE:

Game Update News: All EverQuest Live Servers (except Al'Kabor) will be coming down around 12:00 mid PDT (PDT is -7 GMT: 1:00am MDT, 2:00am CDT, 3:00am EDT, 7:00am GMT) on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 for a Game Update. The servers are estimated to be down for about 9 hours. We will also be doing maintenance during this downtime so please keep an eye on the EQ forums for status updates.

From: EverQuest Players - Game Updates.

UPDATE:

The Game Update and Server downtime has been postponed and will not be taking place on October 7th. We will post a new date when it become available.

From: EverQuest - Discussion Boards.