Producer's Letter: Expansion 17, Beta and Preorders!

Apparently EQ2 is looking to hire a Temporary Associate Designer. Is this an indicator that they are (far) behind the schedule for the upcoming expansion?

EverQuest II is looking for a Temporary Associate Designer! | EverQuest 2 Forums

 

It's not a coding position. It looks like a cross between a data entry position, a black box QA position and a user experience consultant

 

Week 1 of Beta;
"Test this questline. Class Changes soon"

Week 2;
"Test these solo quests. Class Changes soon"

Week 3;
"Test Tradeskills. Class Changes soon"

Week 4;
"We'll open a couple of heroics. Class Changes soon"

Week 5;
"Class Changes soon"

Week 6;
"No time for changes now before live. Get ready for launch!"

 

^ This bit's wrong. Doesn't that happen on the live servers 3 months after launch when Kander finally gives in to the furore and realises he can't get away with dumping crafting after all - yet?

 

Overseer Tradeskillers

 

Now THAT I can believe!

 

Basically that's how it already is currently. It's by far the best way to get the TS books.

 

Not sure why they'd need that at this stage. Isn't that what players are for?

 

I like the cut of your jib!

 

Ooookay: Test Update Notes: Monday November 2, 2020 | EverQuest 2 Forums

I read that and 2 questions come to mind:
1. Does anyone really care about a slightly off blue stat and
2. Don't they have better things to do than break another 22k items?!

No wonder they need to advertise for a temp Designer - everybody else is way too busy breaking stuff!

Edit:
And in the meantime we seem to be getting more and more posts like this:
My heart is breaking | EverQuest 2 Forums

Priorities?

 

They also have open positions for a Tools Engineer and a temp Software Engineer. I fell like those have been on there forever though. But yeah, I can't see how they would be able to onboard someone so close to an expansion release, so one has to assume the "special" new project they are referring to is something post-expansion. Hey - maybe they're "designing" a new TLE experience! I mean, the amount they screw around with them time after time they may as well be designing the damn things from scratch.

LOL at them using a tiny font in their OP. Touché. But yeah, especially with 4K monitors gaining traction these days, it seems like they should do something about that. Is that something that can be controlled through UI addons?

 

Forget 4k, some of us geriatrics could use some help with normal resolutions! I keep meaning to dig into some of the files and look at the options in there for fonts. I had a dig at the book window a while back and the files seem to point at sections in font files that can be amended. copied and changed and then point to new ones. But I'm only a hobby programmer and digging through xml and the like is hard work these days so I never got very far. And of course you'd have to do every piece that contained essential text, which is a bunch of windows

 

Get off my lawn!

I went to the optometrist today.

 

Aaaaand people are defending the total lack of information about the pre-order, price points, perks, etc..

 

So, business as usual.

 

The expac data must be located in the same place as Trumps evidence of fraudulent voting!