easymode twink server?

[annonymouse]

Hey all,

I've been enjoying p99 a lot being a newb and gearing up from scratch and all, but I just don't have the playtime needed to do anything high level. I usually play for 30 mins to an hour at most so I can't really group.

But I'd still like to see some content. Is anyone aware of a server where I could basically make my own twink and then solo through dungeons? there's lots of old world stuff I'd like to see, but sadly will most likely never see in p99.

[Pyrion]

Just do the official servers. EQ made easy.

[Baler]

Just do the official servers. EQ made easy.

Came to post this.

Seriously though you'll be more OP from starting zone newbie gear on live then you could be in full p99 raid gear.
tbh it's not as fun when the challenge is taken away.

[Caiu]

^ Naw. I don't particularly care for live but just naw. You certainly are stronger out of the gate but nothing that severe.

[Icetech]

Goto the red server... It's basically easy mode for people that don't want to actually have to lvl up.. something like 230% xp (i think) but from what i have seen on the forums it has extremely rude people..

[Sonark]

High end live is waaaay the fuck harder as far as actual gameplay goes

If we're comparing 1-60, yeah p99 wins no problems on difficulty. On live it's basically something you can churn out in a couple days (or a lot less) and with the defiant gear that drops is also easy to stay powerful

p99 is "harder" in that it's a lot more unforgiving, but the amount of actual keyboard work and attention you have to pay is drastically different, and much, much harder on live

On live, my monk has like, 4 full hot bars of discs and moves and skills, and I gotta be on top of all of them or I get rolled

[username17]

Check out the 'Morrell Thule' server on the server list. It's a server where you get GM access by default. I used that server to learn my way around VP and goofed around on it for a bit. It was shut down for a while but I think it's back up.
Note: This is NOT a P99 or Classic server. It has all expansions up to GoD I think.

But you can make a level 1 and give yourself all the items you want. When it shut down I setup my own EQ Emu server on a VM. I goof around on it from time to time but in all honesty it's not very fun. You can give yourself uber gear but I haven't yet found out how to modify the ZEM to make leveling faster (other than just using GM commands). If you're tech savvy I recommend setting up your own server. But if not, try Morrell Thule.

[Darkatar]

On live, my monk has like, 4 full hot bars of discs and moves and skills, and I gotta be on top of all of them or I get rolled

Is this your monk?

http://i.imgur.com/lnC9R.jpg

4 hotbars! Must be hard.

[Crookstinger]

Check out the 'Morrell Thule' server on the server list. It's a server where you get GM access by default. I used that server to learn my way around VP and goofed around on it for a bit. It was shut down for a while but I think it's back up.
Note: This is NOT a P99 or Classic server. It has all expansions up to GoD I think.

But you can make a level 1 and give yourself all the items you want. When it shut down I setup my own EQ Emu server on a VM. I goof around on it from time to time but in all honesty it's not very fun. You can give yourself uber gear but I haven't yet found out how to modify the ZEM to make leveling faster (other than just using GM commands). If you're tech savvy I recommend setting up your own server. But if not, try Morrell Thule.
I think the Morrell Thule with GM commands has unfortunately been offline for several months. I used to tinker on it off and on but have not been able to access it in quite a while. There is a server called Morrell Thule on the list but I don't think it is the same one. The old one with GM commands was called Morrell Thule - Resurrection or something like that.

[username17]

There was a post back in March about it and the owner brought it back online.
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?p=253439

I haven't had a need for it since I setup my own EQ server so I haven't been on it to check it out.
Edit: Just tested. It kicks me to login whenever I try. So the server isn't properly running. You can try reaching out to the owner via EQEmu forums if it matters.
I'd give you my VM image for it but it's 20GB.

[Crookstinger]

Yep, I remember it being down, then coming back up briefly, then being down/login not working again. I just assumed he took it down for good and someone else put up a similarly named server, but I guess it makes more sense that it's the same one, just with continuing issues. It's rare that I get the urge to play on there so I probably won't delve further into it, but thank you for posting that link. It's nice to know where I can try to contact him if I do want to get in touch with him.

[kempoguy80]

Why not just go to the EZ server?

[NachtMystium]

There was a post back in March about it and the owner brought it back online.
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?p=253439

I haven't had a need for it since I setup my own EQ server so I haven't been on it to check it out.
Edit: Just tested. It kicks me to login whenever I try. So the server isn't properly running. You can try reaching out to the owner via EQEmu forums if it matters.
I'd give you my VM image for it but it's 20GB.

This server was the best for exploring / getting a feel for zones / etc etc.

Such a shame it's offline.. was fun while it lasted.

[branamil]

There was a post back in March about it and the owner brought it back online.
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?p=253439

I haven't had a need for it since I setup my own EQ server so I haven't been on it to check it out.
Edit: Just tested. It kicks me to login whenever I try. So the server isn't properly running. You can try reaching out to the owner via EQEmu forums if it matters.
I'd give you my VM image for it but it's 20GB.

Could you put the VM on google drive or dropbox or sthing?

[username17]

Yeah I was looking at it earlier and while the VM file is 20GB I'm only using ~4gb. I'm at work now but when I get home I can resize it to ~5gb and upload it.
I'm using Virtualbox. In order to connect you'll need to setup a bridged connection. Once you get the server up and running it will actually show up in the server list far below P99. But you'll be the only one who can connect to it unless you forward ports etc. This is a Linux VM so you'll need some basic Linux knowledge as there's no GUI installed. I'll write a brief readme and put it up on the dropbox.

[skarlorn]

it only takes ~1000 hrs /played to deck out a level 1 iksar into an ubertwink fungi monk

consider yourself warned

[Sonark]

Is this your monk?Nope.
4 hotbars! Must be hard.Here's how a Monk maximizes his DPS on p99:
He aims for the best weapons and haste. Oh and remembers to click Flying Kick.
I'll thrown in a bone here for mob positioning, cause why not

Here's how a Monk maximizes his DPS on Live:
He aims for the best weapons and haste
He also doesn't forget about that Flying Kick button
But with that Flying Kick button he (OR SHE but let's be real) has an entire hot bar set aside to linked combat attacks/discs that run on separate timers and another for a near constant refresh/cycle of DPS boosting discs that also run on different timers and it's up to you to keep on top of.
And don't forget your Mends, your FDs, your insta-Fade FD, your etc. Haven't played in awhile so maybe I was reaching with 4 (probably thinking of my veteran AA stuff) but 3 easily.

And the biggest difference here is that if you're not doing those things, your DPS kind of sucks. A DPS class with kind of shitty DPS isn't really a very good DPS class, now is it.

Getting into the minutiae of gameplay on high end Live and high end p99 is literally no comparison.

Am I saying it's "Hard" as in impossible? Well, no. Of course not. That's stupid. Even I managed to do it and I'm not the best Monk in the history of evers. But I'm pretty good.

But it's absolutely harder than what someone on p99 can do/has to worry about.

I am only speaking authoritatively on Monks because it's the only class on which I have anything resembling any authority (and I don't have much of that, either)

But to my understanding, it's much the same for every other class.

Even Live Warriors, because they have a lot more skills on hand to manage aggro and defense, have to do a lot more in a raid/group than any p99 Warrior will ever try and fail to have to do.

p99 is waaaay the fuck more unforgiving and is "harder" in a few specific senses, but as far as gameplay is concerned, Live is harder all the way. Let's take off the Verant coloured glasses for a minute, here.

[Sonark]

But mostly I'm sad there's no GM server to dick around in.

[Caiu]

It is a crime against nature that Live over time got away from Monk being THE pulling class. 4 hotbars good god.

[username17]

Having someone test out the VDI file and my written instructions. Once I confirm we're gtg I'll release the dropbox link to the server I setup.
Note, there is some setup involved still to get it working on your PC. Some Linux knowledge will be needed.

[Doctor Jeff]

P99 IS the ezmode twink server... That's why our pop is so high comparatively.

[Doctor Jeff]

Nope.Here's how a Monk maximizes his DPS on p99:
He aims for the best weapons and haste. Oh and remembers to click

disregard this man's post.

[Rivera]

EQ Live is horrendous. It's Everquest that tried to be like every other MMO, but wasn't very good at it. If you play EQ Live you may as well play a much better, newer MMO.

[Sonark]

disregard this man's post.the word press is too closely associated with actual exercise routines for me to want to use it when it comes to an MMO

[mickmoranis]

Goto the red server... It's basically easy mode for people that don't want to actually have to lvl up.. something like 230% xp (i think) but from what i have seen on the forums it has extremely rude people..

oh fak you and your bag of clicky goblin nets and /ooc wtb rez in [any zone of the game]

[mickmoranis]

Why not just go to the EZ server?

lol came here to say this, there literally is an EZ server in the emu you play RIGHT NOW
:D

[stormlord]

Nope.Here's how a Monk maximizes his DPS on p99:
He aims for the best weapons and haste. Oh and remembers to click Flying Kick.
I'll thrown in a bone here for mob positioning, cause why not

Here's how a Monk maximizes his DPS on Live:
He aims for the best weapons and haste
He also doesn't forget about that Flying Kick button
But with that Flying Kick button he (OR SHE but let's be real) has an entire hot bar set aside to linked combat attacks/discs that run on separate timers and another for a near constant refresh/cycle of DPS boosting discs that also run on different timers and it's up to you to keep on top of.
And don't forget your Mends, your FDs, your insta-Fade FD, your etc. Haven't played in awhile so maybe I was reaching with 4 (probably thinking of my veteran AA stuff) but 3 easily.

And the biggest difference here is that if you're not doing those things, your DPS kind of sucks. A DPS class with kind of shitty DPS isn't really a very good DPS class, now is it.

Getting into the minutiae of gameplay on high end Live and high end p99 is literally no comparison.

Am I saying it's "Hard" as in impossible? Well, no. Of course not. That's stupid. Even I managed to do it and I'm not the best Monk in the history of evers. But I'm pretty good.

But it's absolutely harder than what someone on p99 can do/has to worry about.

I am only speaking authoritatively on Monks because it's the only class on which I have anything resembling any authority (and I don't have much of that, either)

But to my understanding, it's much the same for every other class.

Even Live Warriors, because they have a lot more skills on hand to manage aggro and defense, have to do a lot more in a raid/group than any p99 Warrior will ever try and fail to have to do.

p99 is waaaay the fuck more unforgiving and is "harder" in a few specific senses, but as far as gameplay is concerned, Live is harder all the way. Let's take off the Verant coloured glasses for a minute, here.
I played often until 2010 and I certainly can back up hte whole hotkey thing. Just like EQ2, there're a lot of hotkeys for abilities. I had a ranger. The best abilities are the ones with long timers. There're a lot of short duration timers I don't like much in EQ1 and EQ2. I enjoyed saving up my long timer AA hotkeys for special occasions in EQ1, like near wipes. P1999 has less of that.

But in all honesty I also grew sick of all the hotbars and keys. It felt very bloated. The other thing is the harshness you dismiss is liked by many, including me. Ther'ere other things make p1999 different too, like no GPS map and not the least of which is the old content still being relevant. You can conceivably go the progression servers for old content, but it's hard to hit that perfet sweet spot inbetween classic and Velious, since it's only a matter of months and they're at luclin and planes of power and beyond. P1999 stayed at Kunark for years and will likely stay at Velious for some time. And being more accurate, it has more historical value for longtime players like me.

I do like some other things on live. I like hte fact kick was made automatic. Why honestly is it better to click it over and over and over during a fight? Nearly instant cooldown repeated abilities of this sort should never have been added. Situation specific abilitiies are good, like hide or feign death or tracking. And some need to be both manual and automatic, like backstab.

[Sonark]

I played often until 2010 and I certainly can back up hte whole hotkey thing. Just like EQ2, there're a lot of hotkeys for abilities. I had a ranger. The best abilities are the ones with long timers. There're a lot of short duration timers I don't like much in EQ1 and EQ2. I enjoyed saving up my long timer AA hotkeys for special occasions in EQ1, like near wipes. P1999 has less of that.

But in all honesty I also grew sick of all the hotbars and keys. It felt very bloated. The other thing is the harshness you dismiss is liked by many, including me. Ther'ere other things make p1999 different too, like no GPS map and not the least of which is the old content still being relevant. You can conceivably go the progression servers for old content, but it's hard to hit that perfet sweet spot inbetween classic and Velious, since it's only a matter of months and they're at luclin and planes of power and beyond. P1999 stayed at Kunark for years and will likely stay at Velious for some time. And being more accurate, it has more historical value for longtime players like me.

I do like some other things on live. I like hte fact kick was made automatic. Why honestly is it better to click it over and over and over during a fight? Nearly instant cooldown repeated abilities of this sort should never have been added. Situation specific abilitiies are good, like hide or feign death or tracking. And some need to be both manual and automatic, like backstab.Hey I'm not arguing one is better than the other.

I'm just arguing that Live is actually hard, and as far as actual gameplay goes, is harder than p99.

They each have pros and cons and whatnot, but it grinds my gears when people act like p99 is just flat out harder than live when that's just plainly not true. In specific ways, yes.

It's a Marvel vs. DC issue, for me, and one I've never taken sides on. Same with p99 and Live. But bad arguments or silly viewpoints will always bug me.

[Sonark]

The more EQ got automated and convenient the less fun it became, id argueAutomated?

Those 3 hot bars don't click themselves, fella.

Or do you mean like mercs and stuff?

I think they're both fun, but both very different.

[mickmoranis]

I'm just arguing that Live is actually hard, and as far as actual gameplay goes, is harder than p99.

maybe some small minority of the game, maybe you mean some wierd top tear raid guild?

Either way to say that live is harder than classic or p99 is kinda wrong.

Like take someone who only raids on live, they will get their shit pushed in here.

take someone that only plays p99 they will get reamed in a raid on live.

But overall i found the game to be extremely easy and I had 6 level 60s in short of a month. 2 groups with mercs, all boxed.

LAME and EZ

Oh yeah was using MQ2 per the populations very public assurance that everyone else was, and you could just warp around and kill nameds, the game was retardedly easy.

[Sonark]

Like take someone who only raids on live, they will get their shit pushed in here.Completely disagree.

I think they'd find it boring as shit, but more frustrating.

Frustration doesn't = hardtake someone that only plays p99 they will get reamed in a raid on live.100% true.

Which is my point.But overall i found the game to be extremely easy and I had 6 level 60s in short of a month. 2 groups with mercs, all boxed.

LAME and EZOk.

You know you could not have gotten mercs? Mercs are optional.

Leveling to 60 also isn't the cap of Live, so great that it didn't take you long to get to something that's a bit more than the halfway point.****

Oh yeah was using MQ2 per the populations very public assurance that everyone else was, and you could just warp around and kill nameds, the game was retardedly easy.So wait, what?

You were also hacking the game?

Yeah, hacking is pretty easy, you got me there.

****and not only that, but before you actually had to get into the more advanced gameplay of the game.

[skarlorn]

ARGUING ANY MMO IS "HARD" IN 2017
:o

u want hard? i'll show u hard :mad:

http://i.imgur.com/fPAA3vM.gif

[Sonark]

ARGUING ANY MMO IS "HARD" IN 2017
:o Not hard. Just harder than.

That doesn't mean hard in absolute terms.

Which I said 2 pages ago
Am I saying it's "Hard" as in impossible? Well, no. Of course not. That's stupid. Even I managed to do it and I'm not the best Monk in the history of evers. But I'm pretty good.

But it's absolutely harder than what someone on p99 can do/has to worry about.
u want hard? i'll show u hard :mad:

http://i.imgur.com/fPAA3vM.gifHaha okay well I'm a huge Predator fan, so you've got me there.

[skarlorn]

Not hard. Just harder than.

That doesn't mean hard in absolute terms.


coool, sorry I honestly did not read thread past pg 2

[mickmoranis]

Completely disagree.

I think they'd find it boring as shit, but more frustrating.

Frustration doesn't = hard100% true.

Which is my point.Ok.

You know you could not have gotten mercs? Mercs are optional.

Leveling to 60 also isn't the cap of Live, so great that it didn't take you long to get to something that's a bit more than the halfway point.****So wait, what?

You were also hacking the game?

Yeah, hacking is pretty easy, you got me there.

****and not only that, but before you actually had to get into the more advanced gameplay of the game.

lol my post went entierly over your head until your last sentence.

I literally said that in my post, that perhaps there is some end game content that is more difficult than here.

But to get to it you need to fucking be playing the game for years and years.

And no, watch some mercinary fool try to pull in crusbhone and they would get wholluped, lost and never find their corpse again.

You seem to not understand classic everquest at all, why are you here?

[mickmoranis]

coool, sorry I honestly did not read thread past pg 2

he doesnt read either so dont feel bad.

Ive had exactly 1 interaction with this fool and im already done with him.

Go back to live whoever that dude is!

[mickmoranis]

You know you could not have gotten mercs? Mercs are optional.

so you say I can PRETEND the game is hard by playing NAKED?!

jesus you must be full blown austistic

[Sonark]

lol my post went entierly over your head until your last sentence.

I literally said that in my post, that perhaps there is some end game content that is more difficult than here.So you're saying that playing 17 year old content on a server that has evolved past that and is a whole different animal is easier than p99?

Can't disagree with that, but it's also a really stupid fucking thing to even bring up because it's not relevant.

But saying stupid fucking things seems like your gift to this world, so I wouldn't want to take that away from you.
But to get to it you need to fucking be playing the game for years and years.I don't even know what in the fuck this is supposed to mean.

You mean it takes longer to level up all the way on Live?

You leveled 6 characters to 60 on Live in a month, but getting to 105 on one character would be too much work for you?

How drunk are you right now?

And no, watch some mercinary fool try to pull in crusbhone and they would get wholluped, lost and never find their corpse again.A mercenary fool could fuck up royal in Crushbone and be pretty alright depending how badly, because his mercenary would keep him alive.

Are you sure you played the game, or just read about someone saying they use hacks and decided that that story made sense to you.

You seem to not understand classic everquest at all, why are you here?You don't seem to understand genuine human interactions at all.

Or how to form an argument.

Frankly I think you probably have issues with breathing under your own power at this point

Why are you on this earth?

[Sonark]

so you say I can PRETEND the game is hard by playing NAKED?!

jesus you must be full blown austisticHahahaha what in the fuck

Playing without mercs is playing naked?

I really gotta know how fucking drunk you are.

[Sonark]

I mean never mind the fact that you started this by saying you played the game hacked, and boxed, and with mercs.

None of which are compulsory. One of which can in fact get you banned

But yeah, you've got your eyes on the prize, sure enough.

Real stable personality.

[mickmoranis]

So you're saying that playing 17 year old content on a server that has evolved past that and is a whole different animal is easier than p99?

Can't disagree with that, but it's also a really stupid fucking thing to even bring up because it's not relevant.

But saying stupid fucking things seems like your gift to this world, so I wouldn't want to take that away from you.I don't even know what in the fuck this is supposed to mean.

You mean it takes longer to level up all the way on Live?

You leveled 6 characters to 60 on Live in a month, but getting to 105 on one character would be too much work for you?

How drunk are you right now?A mercenary fool could fuck up royal in Crushbone and be pretty alright depending how badly, because his mercenary would keep him alive.

Are you sure you played the game, or just read about someone saying they use hacks and decided that that story made sense to you.
You don't seem to understand genuine human interactions at all.

Or how to form an argument.

Frankly I think you probably have issues with breathing under your own power at this point

Why are you on this earth?

OK

1. I tried to quote the way you did, but as it was a stupid waste of time it led me to determine that YES you are infact full blown autistic.

2. Ill answer these questions as best as I can

first question, 17 year old content question: I have no fucking clue what you are asking, rephrase that question in english instead of garbage speek.

second question, it takes longer to level up on live?: No stupid idiot, youll have to play through 10 years of worthless content to level up to app a guild that doesnt even want you in it in the first place becuse theyre all autists beyond any measurable level and play with their own crew of autsits that havent left their homes since somewhere in the early 2000's when they discovered live EQ to play while they chat with child molesters in Second Life

third question, some rambling about crushbone and mercs?!: Are you seriously saying you could use mercs to level up in crushbone on p99? Holy shit you have to be the fattest, baldest, mouth breathingest fat loser on the server. I SAID he would die in crusbhone on p99, why would I say someone from live would die in crushbone ON LIVE?! are you THAT STUPID?!

Your idiotic stupid autistic OCD hangup about the fact I said 60: Hey you fucking autistic cant tell what the hell people are feeling when they are talking to you fat ass, I meant I got to max level, i fucking forgot the max level was higher than 60 because I dont give a shit about your crap server. I got to max level, whatever the fuck it was in the expansion after secrets of fayder

the last bit: everything you said in the last 4 or 5 lines was a trainwreck of garbage and worthless.

[Sonark]

third question, some rambling about crushbone and mercs?!: Are you seriously saying you could use mercs to level up in crushbone on p99? Holy shit you have to be the fattest, baldest, mouth breathingest fat loser on the server. I SAID he would die in crusbhone on p99, why would I say someone from live would die in crushbone ON LIVE?! are you THAT STUPID?!This is the only fair point you've made, I did read that wrong.

You're still a drunk mess, but I can admit to this one.

Crushbone doesn't change from either game. If they came to p99, and went into Crushbone as a complete newb, as everyone has to at some point because no one comes out of the womb knowing how to properly play in a zone, I'd have to concede they would die. But so would anyone in the same circumstances, which makes it a loaded point, and like the rest of your drunken ramblings, completely irrelevant.

But! then they'd learn and not die. Or leave and go somewhere else. Just transplanting someone from Live onto p99 to play in Crushbone doesn't = instant death and it's a bit bemusing for you to even make that claim.

Your idiotic stupid autistic OCD hangup about the fact I said 60:Yeah, good point, I shouldn't believe anything you say when you say it because you have secret meanings that are totally obvious and what you really mean.

You sound deranged. I meant I got to max level,You should have said that.

But I'm sure the actual words you're using right now have a secret meaning that you'll sloppily yell at me in a follow up post i fucking forgot the max level was higher than 60 because I dont give a shit about your crap server. I got to max level, whatever the fuck it was in the expansion after secrets of fayderAnd it didn't take you years and years?

Curiouser and curiouser.

[branamil]

Learn to program and make your own server you helpless P.O.S.

[mickmoranis]

Hahahaha what in the fuck

Playing without mercs is playing naked?

I really gotta know how fucking drunk you are.

This game is HARD!

well use the in game features?

NO! I am pretending it is hard.

[annonymouse]

Well this turned out way more entertaining than I thought it would. You people need help, seriously. And Jesus.

[Sonark]

This game is HARD!

well use the in game features?

NO! I am pretending it is hard.You used hacks to play the game

Why are you still breathing?

Better question: How

[mickmoranis]

goodwins law about halfway in effect

[fadetree]

Both of you are idjits in my opinion. Who will call who 'cuck' first? Let's get a pool up. I vote Sonark within 3 posts.

[Sonark]

Both of you are idjits in my opinion. Who will call who 'cuck' first? Let's get a pool up. I vote Sonark within 3 posts.Is cuck what people who are afraid to say cock say?

Like, what the sort of language that a child would use to get out of trouble with their parents?

If so, that's totally me. You win already, chief.

[Rubicent]

both you and sonark have aspergers