Classic memories

[harnold]

I remember back in 1999-2000 era when i was playing and all the things I enjoyed. I remember seeing 90% the server population abuse the item recharging bug and the multiquesting bug. In fact, it was even put in the server purposely and the players initially found out through the gms that using this bug to flood the server with lvl 20 rogues with their epics was completely OK and encouraged.

I remember back when guild competition wasnt based on evil things like "rotations" or "instancing". Guild competition back in 1999 was based on awesome things like which guild can answer their batphone the quickest, who can sit and stare at a wall the longest (also called tracking), who has spent the most money on SSD's, who can lawyerquest the best, and all the other awesome features of classic everquest.

Speaking of instancing, im so glad that here on P99 we wont ever use such an archaic and inferior raid system. No petitionquest? No GM rule lawyering? Competition not based on SSD's and answering batphones at 5:30AM? No training? Who the hell would want any of that? It is so much fun for the GMs to babysit and play cops every week so it would be incredibly dumb to change it to something else.

Rotation? Fuck that! If I cant gear up my 8th alt with his epic and VP loot in only a few months, there is something wrong with that.


Anyway I'm just nostalgic about the good old days and im glad to see all the best features from classic everquest made its way to the endgame here on project1999. Anyway I have to go, my autofire program is acting up and I don't want to be booted from my position in the guild.

Thanks P99 gms for the authentic classic experience! I'm off to sit and track a mob for the next 15 hours, then i have to go mq my friends rogue his epic (hes only been playing for three days), then I have to go and petitionquest and try to get the other big raid guild suspended by manipulating the rules and bitching and crying about gm favoritism, then i have to go shopping for new SSD's for the officers in my guild because we heard that our rival guild has faster hard drives then us and we cant possibly compete within these rules without them, and then I have to go and send out a batphone through twitter to everyones cell phones so they can wake up (hopefully they can wake up faster then our rival guild! True everquest competition!)

Question of the day - What class guild were you in back in p99? Class C or Class R?

[Cecily]

Who waits till level 20 to epic their rogue?

[GreldorEQ]

This is the most ridiculous post I've read in a while.

If you don't remember batphones and high-end raiders spending their spouse's hard earned paychecks on PCI slot ramdisks to decrease load times then you were likely still deciding on a catchy name for your female high elf cleric while the rest of us were fighting over Vox loot.

People who pretend like the problems we face today are not similar to the problems of 1999 were probably born in 1998.

Stop pretending like you were there.

[Cecily]

You don't know man, you weren't there!

[harnold]

Ahh yes, all those people spending their spouses money on high end hard drives, clearly one of the defining features of classic everquest. If you didnt know people who spent their spouses money on hard drives then clearly you werent around! The amount of deadbeat spouses taking their husband or wives money for their hard drive addiction were astronomical at the time. You couldnt cross the street without stepping over one.

Yeah greldor you got me, I was born in 1998. The jig is up.

Not really. Try harder next time to make a point or dont post.

[harnold]

Greldor, your credibility can be restored if you can post a wayback machine screenshot of raid.php from back in the day. Hop to it!

[Ele]

http://i.imgur.com/36M9D9H.jpg

[Wfrench1234]

None of that shit existed in 1999 stop kidding yourselves. We didn't AOE down fear, bard kite, recharge items, MQ, track or batphone.

[Herpa Derp]

wut

[plazute]

I remember I fell down the well in Befallen and quit because it was "impossible" to get my corpse out of there. That one sucked.

[Rourk]

Definitely MQ'd back then. Probably not to the same degree, but I remember MQing jboots and Velious armor (and people fucking up the hand ins by not unstacking the gems)

[Ele]

Definitely MQ'd back then. Probably not to the same degree, but I remember MQing jboots and Velious armor (and people fucking up the hand ins by not unstacking the gems)

I messed up a Spirit Wracked Cord MQ with a guildie way back, so my druid ended up with it. :x

[maskedmelon]

You seem to have lost your hope in a mire of cynicism Harnold. Take this lifeline of acknowledged futility and let go... ^^

[Wfrench1234]

Uh, sure, but in classic and early Kunark? Our guild wasn't recharging WC caps and shit

[myriverse]

None of that shit existed in 1999 stop kidding yourselves. We didn't AOE down fear, bard kite, recharge items, MQ, track or batphone.
Batphones were less efficient, but we certainly did them.
People were already MQing jboots when I joined in Sep 1999.
And yes, bard kiting was around.

[Wfrench1234]

Was the Jboots quest even in in Sept. 99? See I got mine from Najena, cuz old school. I played a lot (A LOT), an embarrassing amount even, and I never saw any of this shit going on or being talked about. Our guilds batphone was MIRC. Bards kited, but not to the scale they do here.

[Ele]

Was the Jboots quest even in in Sept. 99? See I got mine from Najena, cuz old school. I played a lot (A LOT), an embarrassing amount even, and I never saw any of this shit going on or being talked about. Our guilds batphone was MIRC. Bards kited, but not to the scale they do here.

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October 13, 1999
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Optional Patch

- A new zone, The Temple of Solusek Ro, is now available via the
optional patch.

General Enhancements
- As mentioned on Saturday, Rubicite armor will no longer spawn. The
new class specific quests to obtain the new armor are now in for each
class that could wear Rubicite.
- Journeyman's Boots will no longer spawn where they did but rather are
the products of a quest.

[coki]

Instead on ventrillo or team speak it was called Roger Wilco

[xKoopa]

i remember my friend got PLed from lvl 7 or so to 36 in a day and his older brother rage quit cuz he was out lvled

[Teneran]

Instead on ventrillo or team speak it was called Roger Wilco

My guild never used any of that even during PoP, and we beat the whole expansion just using in game text. I did use a telephone to call a few guildies just to chat though ... ;-)

We might schedule a special raid but 98% of the time we just showed up for schedule raid days/times and got reports on what was up. I think the serious raiders were more spread out on the various servers though so even though server populations were higher than now on P99 it's a different, far less sophisticated, playerbase.

[Plaxico Burress]

I sold a box of abu-kar to a vendor in butcherblock at the docks. mined for hours, never saw it again, killed the vendor out of spite.

Looted a shattered emerald of corruption on my ogre warrior and multiquested it with my druid friend. I WILL TAKE THE STEW.

[Mentathiel]

The first time I ever saw Kithicor, I was heading from Greater Faydark to Qeynos for bard songs. Must have been level 14 or so, heading out that way in spite of "Lyssa's Cataloging Libretto" being less important than most songs.

My first experience of Kithicor was a quiet forest full of bee-people and some wandering animals. I suspected nothing, having never heard the stories. A guild-mate (I had just joined a guild actually) mentioned that HH was safe because both the orcs and gnolls were camped, even offering an escort just to make sure.

Like any newbie, I got lost. I had the map in front of me, but I somehow took one wrong turning after another and didn't read the notes from EQ Atlas, so I was still there when the sun went down. I was bound nearby, so it was not so bad, but that might have been my first real 'OMG noob!' conversation with the guild. I ended up sitting on the zone-line while someone logged in a higher-level alt to drag my corpse to the Rivervale entrance and rez me.

After learning about the Battle of Bloody Kithicor, I decided to take an interest in the stories...

[Brut]

A near full group of newbie ogres venturing beyond the river to camp the skeleton ruins. We were roleplaying and crap about how we'd defend the city from the undead menace.

Everyone ended up seperated and lost and died to zombies and spectres and whatnot. It was like some cheap horror movie plot, but with very handsome faces on most everyone.

[Deadmantis]

I love how the OP's sarcastic stab comparing the current game to classic has been derailed by real classic memories.

I remember being a newbie wood elf druid venturing from the Orc Lift to Orc Hill, and coming upon the entrance to Crushbone. The foreboding music, the dark of night, and big orcs hitting like trucks. This was a giant leap from my first moments hanging by the old druid ruins killing bees and wolves, and running to the guards when in trouble.

There was such a sense of danger, not knowing where I was going or what lied ahead, and the fear of dying and not being able to find or get to my body.

It was so easy to find a group then. No one cared what class you played, or even how well you played it at first. We were all learning on the fly, feeling out what we liked to play, and feeling secure in a full group even if we didn't have this or that. Having a tank in the group was nice, a healer a bonus, a bard a treat. You took what you could get and had a blast.

[PDX0621]

No one cared what class you played, or even how well you played it at first. We were all learning on the fly, feeling out what we liked to play, and feeling secure in a full group even if we didn't have this or that. Having a tank in the group was nice, a healer a bonus, a bard a treat. You took what you could get and had a blast.

Not sure what level your characters are, but check out my thread sometime HERE (http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180904), I'm bringing it back!

[FadedVision]

To call this server natural progression is ridiculous. Sure, there were twinks here and there, there were wars over mobs constantly(much cleaner on live), and I even remember being called at work for raids more than a couple of times by EQ friends 2 time zones away(I did not own a cell phone, most didn't). This is not the same everquest. It has the same mobs, same names, and some of the same items... but the real difference is that you all have been stuck in this expansion for about 3x longer than you should have been. There should be new fresh content for you guys to explore and conquer. New dragons, new loot, and a larger variety of bosses to disperse this poopsock parade. Spreading the competition throughout other areas of interest and freeing up what should be old and "boring" content to new players so that they can experience the same joys you got at that level.

Leveling as a low level, you hear the bitterness. "guilds have naggy and vox perma camped with twinks." They know that they will not be able to naturally progress as they should. That is not "natural progression" and a GM should ban you for doing that. If you have to restart fear/hate when gods spawn, then you should have to do the same for dragons, restart your raid in WC's everytime. You have locked out content from newer players for years(I'm guessing) because you are greedy. I am sorry, when I was 60 on live. If someone wanted me to level up to 52 to perma camp naggy or Vox I would have laughed in your face and went on farming TOV, farming sleepers, AOW, Tunare, etc. The fact that you do not have anything better to do and that GM's have not disbanded this monopoly speaks to the fact that the GM's are either A) part of one of these guilds and enjoy the benefits or B) the GM's have absolutely no control over this game or it's ability to recreate the natural progression of the original game. This game is not kept with the essence upon which it was made. The live staff worked to keep things like this from happening, that is why you would be teleported away if you were over 53, because in the actual game you WOULD NOT STOP LEVELING YOUR CHARACTER SIMPLY BECAUSE IT KEEPS YOU CAPABLE OF CAMPING DRAGONS. You should be wanting to keep leveling to enjoy new content. Not reliving old and tired content because you are simply put, greedy.

The greed on this server is disgusting. People pay for power leveling, pay for epics(which are actually fun to quest on their own, try it), and actually roll NbG on epic pieces just to MQ them. Try doing the rogue epic, it's filled with greedy explicitive who are sitting around farming MQ's for 25k. Try actually doing that epic(which starts at 50 btw, meaning you should not be able to own one unless you are 50). It's just a bunch of rude people fighting over MQ's, choking off people who are actually trying to finish the epic. They are rude, mean, and greedy beyond measure.

I know that some people are going to flame me on here and I don't care. /rude

[Ele]

To call this server natural progression is ridiculous.

The present servers are basically long-term betas.