Easy fix.
Since the 2 original continents were in the south here is a viable solution.
Add a zone entrance to steamfont. Maybe another one out the back side of
Ogook or something. Anyway in this new zone would be a boat dock to take
people to the new lands.
If you were in a mixed group, people using old and new versions, everyone
would hit the zone entrance and recieve the Loading Please Wait message.
Those with the New updated versions would successfully zone into the dock
and be able to cross to the new lands.
Those with the older versions would zone back to the main zone and recieve
a message saying. Sorry you must purchase the Everquest Upgrade pack to
gain entrance to this zone.
Now that the group is split it would show a dark red bar of health for all
those that were not in your zone. Communication should still be possible
since that dosen't require new monsters or zone graphics. See easy fix
Lomack
>Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:11:38 -0700
> From: Scott Pickle <scottp@...>
>Subject: Re: Expansion
>
>This is a good point - you can't really cross the expansion with the regular
>release. My _suspicion_ is that they'll either have new servers available
>(requiring a new character) or they'll have a port for your existing
>characters to the new game environment. It isn't reasonble to mix the two
>into one server.
>
>Anyone else have any ideas?
>
>Dendall, Ollave of the Aegis
>http://www.soerbaird.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Dickens [mailto:briandickens@...]
>Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 5:52 AM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: [eqbards] Expansion
>
>
>From: Brian Dickens <briandickens@...>
>
>I really only have one concern with the expansion, and that is that it
>is an optional expansion. This mean that there will be people I am
>playing with that don't have it, right? Now what does this mean? I am
>pretty certain that Verant spoke about adding new creatures, and
>possibly races, and who knows what else (spells, items). All of this on
>top of the more than likely two new continents. How is this going to
>affect the gameplay? What if I, playing with the expansion pack, and
>partied with someone without?
>
>I guess there really isn't an issue as long as the expansion doesn't
>add new races. All of the new zones, creatures, etc could be kept to
>the new continents. But what about the boat to get there? Would someone
>without the expansion not see it? Would they be magically barred from
>entering it? I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that it
>will all work great when it comes out, but these are questions that I
>will have nonetheless until then.
>
>Mandibal
>Travelling Trouvere
>Cazic-Thule