>I think that fireworks were mentioned only as a marketing ploy, and not
>actually put into the game. I hope someone dispels this thought, because
>it
>would make my year to please others with free fireworks shows. Of course,
>I
>doubt the are implemented because the game engine wouldn't be able to
>handle
>that kind of complex graphics, without seriously taxing the client
>computer.
> My 128meg RAM, 32meg video RAM computer still bogs down with lots of
>entities in view (players, mobs, corpses, etc), and fireworks would be an
>enormous amount of entities to deal with.

Next time you load the game up to play.. and the splash screen comes up with
the EQ chick on it... Notice all those pics are probably from some early
beta or even alpha... Sky in Everfrost and Greater fay? The gnoll with the
bow? Anyway... Look at the pic in the top middle.. I have a feeling this is
what the gnomish fireworks were and what they look like. The fireworks
probably got taken out of the game just like the sky in Everfrost and
Greater Fay did (go figure). So.. they would be just as CPU crunching as any
spell that someone casts.
Just some more silly meaningless info...

-Catbik Tinkerton