August 27, 2024 Update: The default Chat window was revised to include a resizable text input line. The ProfitUI CE component was updated to match this behavior. You can change the text size at Options > User Interface > Chat Win...
2022-06-12 23:58:51 +0000 UTC View Post
New friends are like new adventures. You never know what lessons they will teach you.
-Unknown
Th...
2022-05-29 19:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: May 26 patch notes indicate yet another chapter in the ongoing Broker pricing adventure. Pricing still maxes out at 50 million plat per item, but you can spend up to 100 million plat per purchase. Note that the Large Plat Value...
2022-05-25 01:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a ton of optimism and excitement today as EverQuest II launches its newest TLE server, Varsoon. It looks like a l...
2022-05-24 12:43:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of the time you need the Onscreen Message to remain up and visible for a reasonable amount of time. Certain raid scripts, quest updates and NPCs display text in this area that doesn't also go into the Chat window. If your del...
2022-05-23 16:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 3
Just in time for the new Varsoon TLE server, Character Creation 2022-05-22 12:10:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: For now we're going to revert these two components back to their earlier versions. According to reports from players, this feature may be the source of game crashes. We'll investigate and see if it can be rolled out...
2022-05-19 12:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post
What's better than a giant green frog with a buff following you around? A giant green frog that's really a black panther! There are several hundred Familiars to...
2022-05-09 17:39:21 +0000 UTC View Post
There is magic in the old and magic in the new; the trick is to successfully combine the two.
― A.D. Posey&nbs...
2022-04-28 22:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Old Dog, New Tricks
Since the 64-bit rollout appears to be scheduled for mid-summer, v3.1.3.1 will probably be the last u...
2022-04-28 22:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post
More new developments in the ongoing browser situation, and the borderless fullscreen game feature.
Browser
In a recent update Daybreak replaced the aging Awesomium browser with a Google product called 2022-04-18 17:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 3
Here are three odds-and-ends components that I've been wanting to get done for a while: Connection Stats, Achievement Cast and Breath Meter. All three are in the Extras 2022-04-16 16:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Good grief, has there ever been a cheesier title for a post? As you know, we once again have an opportunity to log in to the Beta server, this time to try out the upcoming 64-bit game 2022-04-08 23:34:52 +0000 UTC View Post
For raiding, specifically raid leaders, EverQuest II offers some useful basic tools. About three years ago the Group/Raid Countdown window was introduced, providing raid leaders with a very visual way to marshal their forces on th...
2022-04-07 00:32:40 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've been watching the news you know that EverQuest II will soon follow in the footsteps of its predecessor by converting to a 64-bit platf...
2022-04-03 21:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The evolution of UX is not limited to digital applications. When I was a kid my grandparents had to reach across the seat of that mammoth Chrysler station w...
2022-03-31 13:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Every now and then we experience a "gotcha" when the game developers make an undocumented game change that affects the custom UI in unexpected ways. The most famous instance to date has been surprise changes to the way spell casts are reported, re...
2022-03-30 17:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post
April showers bring...
...more reasons to stay inside and explore Vetrovia!
As March comes to a close, all of the utility improvements proposed in last month's new...
2022-03-28 16:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 3
As promised, the Advanced LFG window is now available in L and XL sizes, and that will complete Group 19. Even though LFG doesn't seem to get much use, I did discover that players on the new Kael Drakkel server were g...
2022-03-18 21:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The new Camp Next feature has gotten some good reviews, but one requirement to make it work is not obvious. If you have wanted to try it out but it doe...
2022-03-11 23:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past year and a half we've encountered a surprising number of Darq Side members who game on Linux computers. Linux in all its different flavors is an operat...
2022-03-06 20:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
98% of Yugos are still on the road. The other 2% actually made it all the way home.
Just Browsing
The aging and not very useful in-game browser client 2022-02-27 21:33:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Open Tradeskills window
Start crafting
Realize that TS mount and gear set are not equipped
Panic
Interrupt crafting
Open Character window
Open Sidebar
Click Se...
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
― Rainer Maria Rilke&nb...
2022-01-29 00:14:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's some information that's been requested many times, most recently by Darq Side members Viktore and Lucutious. Take a few minutes and see if there's anything you didn't already know about the Maintained Spell...
2022-01-26 02:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently Darq Side member Levaquin mentioned in Discord that he was seeing a momentary framerate drop, or "hitch," when initiating combat. I immediately thought back to 2022-01-23 21:33:39 +0000 UTC View Post
We haven't had a 2K/4K poll since the summer, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy preserving eyesight and reducing squinting all across Norrath.
Group 18, which is available now on the premium server, includes the Enemy List 2022-01-23 20:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
A year or so ago, the DarqUI Unified Notifications app was fitted with two new features to overcome some limitations in EverQuest II, namely the absence of a fullscreen windowed client display and an increasingly terrible in-game browser experienc...
2022-01-20 15:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
First, thank you for the very nice feedback on recently published features. I'm always gratified by how engaged and thoughtful our members tend to be. A question was asked about the new PlayerMessage popup -- can the background be transpar...
2022-01-18 13:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Think of all the different reasons why we log in to each of our characters in sequence: daily quests, overseer missions, checking broker sales, updating character inventories, the list is long. You don't have to have dozens of characters to partic...
2022-01-17 17:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post