Talk:Nax Ghruna

The notice at the top of the main page has a good point. Many of the pages I have been reviewing have stat numbers listed.

I haven't remove any of the stat numbers, but I'm not sure where those numbers came from. Information listed on the P99 wiki should take into consideration the time period in which this is set. P99 has the original Everquest plus the first two expansions.

Live EQ has added many more expansions. Live EQ has evolved with each expansion. In the process the game system has changed. Many NPCs, and mobs in the old zones were altered in the process. NPCs and Monsteres in the old zones have had their statistics changed. NPCs, quests, and Monsters were added to the old zones and the rate and availability of the old monsters and the like were changed as well.

Those changes are now what we see when we view the latest version of Zam.

I have been reviewing the lists and making some changes in stats based on Allakhazam using the Wayback machine, like this page [1] I look for old Alla sites that existed through the Velious expansion and maybe six months or so beyond.

I have added some NPC and mob pages to P99 wiki that were missing. Alot of the old Alla info is bare bones, but at least we know that what we have is correct for our era. I add an external link tio the pages that I added or changed so you can see were I got the info.

--Davidj3416 (talk) 21:30, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

"but at least we know that what we have is correct for our era."

Unfortunately that's not true. Especially in the early classic period the vast majority of EQ's players misunderstood basic facts of how the game worked, and as a result entered a lot of information that was simply not true. Because of this Allakhazam, from any era, cannot just be blindly trusted.

Project 1999 would be a completely different server if it just blindly trusted whatever the old Allakhazam said. Instead, it has been built out of information from a wealth of sources, including other Allakhazam-like sites (eg. Caster's Realm,) all of the various class forums, other related sites like EQAtlas and EQTraders, and most importantly tons of information captured by researchers in classic EverQuest itself and on the old EQ Mac server (which, before it went down, was the longest-running server to still hold parts of the classic code).

You can see all of this by simply reading the bugs forum (or, for the history of Velious's development, the Velious bug forums). You will see that many different sources of information are used to contribute to Project 1999, and the developers (almost always) make changes only when they are supported by multiple quality sources.

Since the wiki is a reflection of all of Project 1999, blindly copying from old Allakhazam is just as likely to create problems as it is to make things better.

--Loramin (talk) 15:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)