Getting Started

This guide is for playing on the official TAKP server.

Creating Your Account

• NOTE: You must only create 1 forum account. You can create up to 10 game accounts under your forum account, but you must not create more than 1 forum account. If this is detected, the extra forum accounts will be deleted and access to any game accounts associated with them will be lost. Also, please name your forum and game accounts carefully as these cannot be changed or deleted after creation. Read the forum FAQ and Rules for more information here.

1. Create a forum account at The Al'Kabor Project Forums. Game accounts are linked to forum accounts, so a forum account is required. If you have issues logging in, please mention in the TAKP server's Discord staff_help channel.
2. Create your game accounts by clicking Game Accounts at the top of the page.
3. Click "Create Login Server Account" and create a game account. Your forum account may have up to 10 game accounts, but you are limited to having three game accounts +1 trader account simultaneously logged in. Also note, your forum and game accounts are not linked to your wiki login in any way. You don't need a wiki account to read or edit wiki pages, although it is preferred if you choose to edit pages.

• NOTE: Some GMAIL users have reported not receiving the email verification or password reset verification emails from the TAKP website. Please follow these steps as this might fix the issue.

1. Go to the Gmail client via browser
2. Go to SETTINGS on the upper right (small cogwheel)
3. Select CONFIGURE INBOX
4. Place a check beside all the tabs (Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums )
5. SAVE
6. Reload/Refresh the page and search for any variation of TAKP

• Read the Rules

Please read the rules outlined in this forum before creating characters: https://www.takproject.net/forums/index.php?forums/server-info.90/
Don't cry if you eat a ban for doing something not acceptable on the server. Of note is automation is not allowed except to raise casting skills, foraging (skillups only), and archery (and do so in unpopulated areas such as starting cities, not PoK, try not to annoy others).

• Consider your Trio's character names!

Please realize that if you want to name your trio something like MrBig, Mrbigger, Mrbiggest, it will be an absolute pain in the keister for targeting reasons. You would have to pretty much type out their full names to use the /target <character_name> command. This really comes into play later if and when you decide to raid etc... Just don't do it, make some unique names for each of your toons.

Obtaining and Running the Client

TAKP's client is from the December 2002 era. This is the actual client used in the era TAKP is emulating, and the oldest client in use for any emulated server. Please familiarize yourself with the differences (as there may be some deal breakers for you) on this page http://wiki.takp.info/index.php?title=Server_Comparison

This server has both a Windows and Macintosh client available. This is broken out onto different pages listed below for simplicity. Setup and a lot of troubleshooting would obviously be different on a PC than a Mac. The Linux setup is essentially just running the PC client on Wine, so most of the PC section would apply there.

Getting Started on Windows

Getting Started on Mac (Intel based)

Getting Started on Mac (PPC based) - Use at your own risk, has issues

Getting Started all Linux Versions

Getting Started on Linux

Getting Started on Linux (v2)

Getting Started on Linux (v3.1) latest Wine-Staging, vulkan & dxvk Updated 26 September 2024

Getting Started with Gina on Linux

Setting up your Trader

For those not familiar, EQ of our era allows you to use a character or characters to act as merchants to sell your wares. This is possible only in the Bazaar zone. Purchase some trader satchels and any item you place in them can have a price set on it and sold while you're afk. You access the merchant window by typing /trader. You can search other's wares by typing /bazaar.

You can create a game account to use as a dedicated trader account. This account will only be usable as a trader, and once you create a character in the account, it will spawn in the Bazaar instead of its usual newbie area. You also cannot undo the trader account flag once there are characters on it. To set up the Trader:

1. Create an account in Game Accounts
2. Log into your account but do not create a character
3. Refresh the Game Accounts page (to load your login history)
4. In the summary at the top with your Forum name, click "Set Trader"
5. Read and understand the disclaimer!
   • You can't change trader accounts once set.
   • GMs will NOT change this for you if you change your mind.
   • All characters on selected account will NOT gain XP
   • Characters CAN NOT be moved in or out of selected account.
   • You have been warned.
6. Click OK
7. Under the "Set Trader" link a menu will show the accounts available to set as Trader
8. Click the account you want to set as Trader
9. The warning shows again
   • You can't change trader accounts once set.
   • GMs will NOT change this for you if you change your mind.
   • All characters on selected account will NOT gain XP
   • Characters CAN NOT be moved in or out of selected account.
   • You have been warned.
10. Click OK
11. The popup will show "Trader toggled for <accountname>"
12. Click OK
13. Log in and create your Trader character!

Item pricing is saved in your EQ folder in BZR_CharacterName_loginse.ini files. So keep this in mind if you ever need to transfer bazaar pricing to another computer, folder, or character.

Troubleshooting: Some have reported that they cannot switch an empty account to a trader account. A possible work around is to create a character on the account, log the character into the world, then log out. Delete the character and then try to toggle the trader switch again on that account.