1 Million Characters Created! - How did you find p99?

[Crevex]

Just wanted to say thank you and congrats to the staff of p99 for this great milestone, and ask the community how they came to discover this wonderful server.

I remember finding out about the server on an obscure eq2 flames thread back in 2010. I never imagined p99 would continue to grow into what it is today. Big props to staff for what they have accomplished here.

[Man0warr]

fohguild.org/rerolled.org

[jarshale]

Found out about it through Shards of Dalaya iirc.

[Vilkata]

Was feeling nostalgia for old EQ and was browsing old videos on youtube and ran across a p99 video.

[Silverain]

Was doing Rift beta back early 2011, and general channel went to the typical which MMO is better trash. Couple of us mentioned EQ, someone sent me a tell telling me about this P99 thing they played occasionally. That was that.

[falkun]

Its been a while. I believe it was the combination of a nostalgic feeling and a lucky google search hit. There also might have been a link found on the eqclassic.org forums.

[Gaunja]

Google search

[iruinedyourday]

Last time I felt like playing EQ was in 2009 and I saw this thing online, but it wasnt ready yet.. So I played live for about a year.

Then I quit cus live sucked -- fast forward to 2014 and p99 was up and running strong as ever! I have since quit my job, divorced my wife and don't tell her but it was me that drowned our kid on our father daughter "fishing trip".

[Cherry23]

I was in the top eq2 raiding guild, ranked top 3 world wide for my class, I was burnt out and tried eq2 pvp for a change, someone suggested I google p99 YouTube clips and after watching them I was determined to try it !!!

Pvp has opened my eyes to a whole new gaming experience... I'll never know what I saw in PVE, I guess it's fun when you don't know what to expect, but on a 16 year old elf sims, pvp is never old and always new and exciting

[Iceborn]

I was talking to my wife about how nothing since has had the "wow" factor and I searched to find EQ stuff and found this.

[Madbad]

I was waxing nostalgic about EQ classic on a public channel in another MMO and someone told me about p99

[Pyrrhica]

fohguild.org/rerolled.org

^ Although I tried The Sleeper emu first a couple years back because everyone on there trashed p99 so bad at the time. Little did I know... :D

[JackFlash]

Got sick of paying for SoE's recycleware about 5 years ago. Found this on google!

[Pipip]

I was feeling nostalgic, so I tried Live. It was awful and nothing like the EQ I remembered. I went to write a bad review on steam, and saw someone else's review that mentioned P99.

[Dillian]

was prolly me lol

[Feanol]

Had been playing an excellent Linux-native MMO called Eternal Lands. For the kind of scale it was being built on, it had a great immersing feel and all the grind you could hope for.

As I started to reach the end-game there, I sort of ran out of things to explore. I would rant in my guildchat about the wild uncharted expanses of Norrath, and eventually found EQEmulator.com while browsing for some free-to-play.

I did [PEQ] The Grand Creation at first, but saw P99 had a much higher player count. I started on Blue and leveled two characters to mid 40's over eight months or so but got disenchanted by what I understood to be an overpopulated end-game with all sorts of schedules and rules.

Then I rolled Red. I have never looked back. Thank you Nilbog!

[Valdain]

I was following the EQClassic project for a long time when it seemed to really slow down a bunch in terms of development, and I believe it was somewhere in their forums that I saw that this server had just launched. I've rarely gone back to that site since, though they have made significant progress

[Pyrocat]

Randomly got the itch to play again back in ~2009 and remembered that EQEmulator was a thing. Googled and found a thread on the EQEmu forums (I think?) about Project 1999 needing beta testers.

[Badwar]

Randomly got the itch to play again back in ~2009 and remembered that EQEmulator was a thing. Googled and found a thread on the EQEmu forums (I think?) about Project 1999 needing beta testers.

Swamp brothers!

[blondeattk]

Leveloneundercon vids on youtube.

although i think i played other emu servers before that.

felt the need to log onto p99 and help that nuub out, bless him )

[Swish]

How many of those 1 million made it to level 2? So many good names "on hold" that have been forgotten about by people who no longer play... personally I'd axe any level 1s holding a tome of discord (likely to not be mules) and let the name pool have some half decent ones in.

Sincerely,

Agalauigxx (all the good names were taken)


I found P99 while looking up a quest on Allakhazam in 2010, while in my final days playing live. Someone in the comments had it in their signature.

[Pyrocat]

Swamp brothers!

Boys from the swaaaamp!

http://i.imgur.com/XvrL294.jpg

"started from the bottom now my whole team here"

[SirAlvarex]

Was my birthday back in 2010 and I missed EQ so I logged back into my EQLive account. Didn't recognize anything so decided to see if there was an EMU that worked online. Found a few others then came to P99. Saw a *LOT* of bad reviews citing missing content and game breaking bugs (like pets not working, boats not working, lifts not working, bad pathing, etc) but decided to give it a shot.

Spent the entire evening trying to get the game installed and loaded up a new druid in Faydark where I found out the lifts DID work. You just had to hit the button twice. At that point I decided to throw out all the shitty forum posts I read and continue playing.

I fell in love with the game again almost immediately. I actually miss those days of no expansion packs.

[indiscriminate_hater]

Fun fact: over 25% of these characters have been tagged as BDA at one point

[fastboy21]

Speaking of our wayward brothers at EQClassic.org....has anybody heard any actual news from that end of the classic EQ universe lately?

[myriverse]

Got a twinge of nostalgia one day, and looked up my old guild. I found the nearly dead former EZBoard MB, and someone mentioned P99. After much begging, a few weeks later, the wife allowed me to play a bit.

[Cecily]

Asshole friend texted me about P99.

[iruinedyourday]

Boys from the swaaaamp!

http://i.imgur.com/XvrL294.jpg

"started from the bottom now my whole team here"

kinda my new favorite ss

[fastboy21]

kinda my new favorite ss

I feel really bad for that poor little froglok...wtf are they about to do to his froglok corpse? :eek:

[Baler]

Years back a close friend got some free EQ live game time and allowed me to play on his account. shortly after that we started playing on Shards of Dalaya. That was pre-p99. Long story short we played Shards less and put eq down for a while. I always kept an eye on EQ EMU and mid 2010 I noticed Project 1999 boasting it was going to recreate the classic experience of EQ. Back in 2010 P99 was a lot more rough then what we have now so I didn't stick around for long.
Move the clock forward to 2014 and I decided to re-try p99 to see how its progress was coming along. After seeing the progress that had been made since 2010 I decided to spent a lot of time on p99 and also got my old close friend to come play p99 with me.
Here we are almost 2016,. I have 2 characters very near level 60 and many fond memories. It's been a blast! :)

[Kohedron]

Probably Shards of Dalaya.

SoD is a pretty darn good game, but the population is just too low.

[Litigator]

I was lucky to find a home here. Randomly stumbled upon this having not entered the world of norrath in well over 10 years.

Also tons of good names still available, just use your imagination.