Things are going smoothly and with the advent of GU#47 EQ2 will be getting a major upgrade. With the introduction of voice chat within EQ2 a new age maybe dawning. Grouping with people and having to type super fast to coordinate efforts will be a thing of the past. Here's hoping the voice chat system introduced to EQ2 will be an innovation and the dawn of a new age for Online Gaming.

Also I want to comment about the upcomming changes to the item database. Right now the change is 40% complete with each section having it's own search engine. When you click the search page you will be taken to a page where you can select the category you want to search in. For those that dislike search engines i'm still thinking about the best way to give you fast data access.

On a final note it took some time, but the guildhall questions have been revamped and re-submitted. These are some tough questions that took quite a while to revamp so that core questions, ideas and issues could be addressed. Guildhalls will be one of the biggest things introduce to EQ2 from all of the secrecy that is going around them.

With the rumors going around about guild halls and the notes from the livinglegacy site MMODomination.com will hopefully be getting some new questions submitted to the development team. Right now these questions are being pared down because the dev team will be working their tails off to get them done. They may not have alot of time to answer all the questions that need to be answered, but we'll see about getting the necessary questions answered.

On another note the Item Database decision is finally done and hopefully it will be implemented soon. For the Search Engine function visitors will click on the search function page and then click on the designated area they would like to search. A serch prompt will be brought up like normal, but will be contained within the designated area. Doing this allows greater control over different area and allows for me to seperate the areas with minimum clutter. It also allows for items to have their own individual pages with necessary information such as zone it drops in, monster it drops off of, links to information about that creature/place, etc... .

Hopefully the new Item Database and the new Lore section of the site will be added in by Late August or Mid September.

I want to thank Domino Grimwell for helping to get mmodomination.com its first interview. My thanks also goes out to the target of my interview Domino Dev and the EQ2 team for taking the time to answer the questions. For those that have a curiosity about what goes on behind the scenes of crafting and all you can take a look here.

Added in some more items to the Item Database section including a piece of avatar loot the Breastplate of Solid Malice. At the moment I am researching various pieces of code to help aid with the Item Database Section. What maybe done is a simple framework added in with a search function to each frame work. You click on the search function for that particular area (Head, shoulders, Chest, etc...) and proceed from there. Once the appropriate coding is located i'll put that into the site so a master search program can be used.

Nothing added in this week, but some developer questions should be arriving shortly.  With Guildhalls on the Horizon I will be whittling down the existing questions to just 12.  This will keep it short and to the point for the developers who are being bombarded at the moment. 

The plan for the Item Database has hit a snag and is still in the idea stage of development.  Right now to do what needs to be done would require alot of fine tuning to the code which is more trouble than it is worth.  For now the Item Database will remain as is until the appropriate coding can be located. 

For lore enthusiasts a lore section will soon be added to the Game Information page.  Here you can find information on various aspects of EverQuest 2 and possibly EverQuest Online Adventures related to EQ2.

Added a new desktop art piece for the worshipers of Cazic-Thule. Right now the item database section is being tinkered with to see if it can be upgraded to accomidate the flood of new items comming in. Once a decision has been made the item database will be revamped into a new format. The item database will pretty much stay the same, but items will be moved to individual pages instead of one master page. The individual pages will contain the item name, item link, creature it drops off of, what zone it drops in, and a thumbnail link to an image of the item.

Also here's wishing the US folks a safe and happy 4th of July celebration.