The second Auditor Test is still ongoing, since the initial start the playable testing area has been continuously increased. Initially, only areas around Qeynos and Halas were available. As of today, it is possible to travel from Odus through Antonica to Faydwer by boat and foot. Three dungeon type zones can be visited and characters in most "good" cities can be created. The increase of the land mass is not something that is really a focus of the continued testing but gives Testers the ability to have more things to do and see some kind of progress outside of bug fixing.

Speaking about that, the Revision Ticker hasn't been updated in a while but that did not mean no updates happened. Test Server update notes are only available to testers because it also includes things that are not related to the server code itself but also about our own Launcher and it's improvements and specific content that makes testing easier and NPC pathing nodes for dungeons and cities.

What is the current state, you are asking. On the surface, the server is in a playable state - there has been, not a single crash in the last 2 years. However, there are important things that still do not work as perfect as they should, like some side issues with the pathing code in dungeons or connectivity issues during zoning. These things are very hard to track down and take a long time to fix. Apart from real bugs, there are still greater areas like reviewing and balancing of melee combat and spell aggro which is generally a part of a beta test with more players.

Does EQC need more testers? The answer is a clear NO because there are still enough open issues that can be worked on before more issues are found/reported.

Do EQC Testers want more testers? The answer is a clear YES, because getting a group with people from different time zones is not easy with the current active tester base. I will consider adding more Testers which are long time forum members in the intermediate future. However, 99% of the time people that ask me are nowhere to be seen a few days after getting access. The Auditor Tests single focus is on improving the server core and not to enable people to re-experience old memories, there are plenty of alternative servers available for that with more players! We do have some very loyal testers, including one who isn't far from reaching level 50 through legitimate (no bonus experience, buffs etc) means.

If you want to be more in the loop about things that are happening that are not officially posted or like to communicate with testers, feel free to join our official IRC Server (http://eqclassic.de/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi) or the unofficial discord server moderated by a forum member (viewtopic.php?f=47&t=4185).

I love hearing news about this project. No crashes in 2 years is awesome!

Horry sheet Lyra. Grats.

Thanks for the update, as well as the time and effort that you and everyone has dedicated to the project. It's very exciting to hear how far development has come, and I hope for the best as time goes on. Keep up the fantastic work!

Gained a couple levels recently.. (from my linux PC using wine)
Thanks HARA

Well done, tramtrist!

I'm really happy to see more active testers ingame!

Awesome! Very cool to read this update. Amazing!!!
Also grats to Lyrina to level 50! Well done mate! Your in-game name though, roflol!

Good to see this project is still moving forward. Wish i could help somehow but since i'm not a coder or a computer geek i don't think i can do much other than wait and cheer.

Thanks Harakiri for all your hard work. Greatly appreciated and it means so much to me, so very cool of you! And of course thanks to all the other testers. You guys rock!

Stay frosty all,
Vril the Troll Shaman

With the lack of visible updates I had about written this project off as dead. I only check the site once a month or so anymore. Obviously forum traffic is reduced to a crawl. I'm glad to see there's still progress, even if slow. Slow is alright. There's been a lot of good forum threads over the past decade.

Danth

Most of the activity seems to be over in the Discord these days - yeah, the forum's pretty quiet. I think most of us have generally run out of EQ-related things to say . But there's been a load of updates recently (over the past few months), so things are certainly still moving .

I love the passion that is going into this project.

Great job, Hara!

Congrats! Motivation for me to keep going..! I hit 30 a few weeks ago, then died a serious ton trying to find a better place to exp.. I think I re-hit 30 six times, I should be like 35 by now ...

I'm happy to see that things are still moving forward. I stop by and check things every 6 months or so, just to see how things are going.

Same. I hit 30 on my druid but dear gods those hell levels, lmao. I occasionally run around trying to find stuff to report but I dunno if I can bring myself to invest the time needed to actually level. xD

Wow, I'm super excited that this is still a thing.

Wow, I'm super excited that this is still a thing.

Thanks for all the work that keeps on going on. I hope that someday I will get to walk these lands again and enjoy aiming for some of that classic loot!

Hearing Brad McQuaid passed away made me have to come back and check again. I was thinking it would have been nice to see the old game as I thought about how much he brought to the game in the classic era.