Potential new player with questions

[DinoTriz]

First off, I want to say this whole thing is amazing. You people are doing God's work. I used to play EQ back in '99-'00 with a few friends (LAN party style!) and our parents would bark at us to go outside and play. Being a 14 year old kid, I never really made it past level 20 on a dwarf cleric (who I thought could melee his way through life, I was an idiot :p) but I still got so much out of that playtime. No modern MMO has ever been able to recreate that feeling with me. I actually stopped playing Guild Wars 2 to pursue EQ again (my co-worker thinks I'm crazy but he doesn't understand!) Enough with the background...

I currently play on the Live servers, for about a week now. And while it's been nice to relive SOME of the classic moments (I had a nerd-gasm hearing the loot sound and seeing the classic character models still in some of the shops in Kaladim)

The experience just is not the same. I realized it when I no longer had an intense fear for the South Ro zone :p

One of my biggest complaints is the new character models (luclin?) and I would even prefer the original grey UI as well (as crazy as that sounds)

Sorry, I'm rambling. I'm looking to make the switch from EQLive over to P99. I know I'll have to get Titanium, sign up for EQEmulator and launcher stuff and I know the "boxing" rules but is there anything else I should know before taking the plunge?

I hope I will be asking for a bind soon! I'm dreading my first actual corpse run! :D

[Hagglebaron]

Welcome home :)

[falkun]

You will have a difficult time getting the grey UI back, but the Velious UI has been emulated fairly well. The Velious UI can be found here:
http://www.project1999.org/files/veliousuiv3.zip

A reproduction of the classic UI was in the works, but it appears it went down with MegaUpload:
http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3680

As for titanium, you could utilize those burned ISOs you kept of your EQ:Titanium disks and then you wouldn't need to pay anyone for freeware (the EQ client).

[DinoTriz]

Awesome! Thanks for the help!

And it's good to be home ;)

I just hope it all turns out for me, seems easy enough to do but then again, I can be a bit of a noob when it comes to these types of things...

[falkun]

Enjoy being a noob, its actually a good thing to have goals to look forward to.

[Swish]

I've been on this server coming up 2 years (on and off), and only got my first pair of Jboots today - little goals like that are amazing to achieve :)

[Slave]

Welcome home :)

This is what they tell you when you arrive at Burning Man too. They are both strangely appropriate.

[DinoTriz]

This is what they tell you when you arrive at Burning Man too. They are both strangely appropriate.

Sounds a little "cult-like", but you know...Everquest is THAT awesome. I'd consider joining an EQ cult...would the suicide drink be summoned by a Gnome Mage? XD

[Atira]

Glad you found your way here! You're going to love P99. It's a good community too.

[Slave]

Sounds a little "cult-like", but you know...Everquest is THAT awesome. I'd consider joining an EQ cult...would the suicide drink be summoned by a Gnome Mage? XD

The Arch Mage is a dark elf.

[DinoTriz]

That's another reason why I'm making the switch from the Live servers, the community. I hear the community is amazing. One of the first things I did on the Live servers was check out Freeport and the Commonlands (you know, my old newbie stomping grounds) and what I found was sad... the zones looked completely different and there was NO ONE....not a soul, at the tunnels. I think I died a little inside :(

[Swish]

The view of the tunnel/T1 just now - not peak time yet, it'll be way more populated in about 5 hours :P

http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh564/swishswish/EQ000069.jpg

[DinoTriz]

Ahhh that's how I remember it :D I can't wait to get home and get started on this. Another quick question: How populated are the newbie dungeons? On the Live servers they were completely dead and I pretty much solo'ed Crushbone (and still handed in the belts knowing they wouldn't give much exp but I did it anyway) ...I hope there's enough people to at least find a group with :)

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

The mainstream path of progression follows pretty much a set path as far as dungeons go. Unrest, MM, lguk or sol b, then the normal 50+ kunark dungeons. However people do go other places like CB, oasis still gets alot of love, lake of ill omen you can usually find a ledge group or people to make one. there are a few other hot spots but i can't think of em atm.

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

You won't be left to solo your way to 60 tho.

[DinoTriz]

Awesome, looking forward to it!

Now, I just have to decide on what class and race I'm going with for my first char...
Thinking Iskar Monk or Human Monk (being an evil race probably isn't the best choice for a newb like me) or a Dwarf Warrior

[bulbousaur]

Yes, you may want to choose good race for first character just until you get your feet wet, it's a lot easier when you can bank, etc everywhere.

[Lagaidh]

Welcome home :)

... mmhmm!

[Lagaidh]

Sounds a little "cult-like", but you know...Everquest is THAT awesome. I'd consider joining an EQ cult...would the suicide drink be summoned by a Gnome Mage? XD

It would most certainly be summoned by a Dwarven Cleric with a certain quest reward...

Brell's Blessed Stout anyone?

[DinoTriz]

It would most certainly be summoned by a Dwarven Cleric with a certain quest reward...

Brell's Blessed Stout anyone?

Mmm sounds tasty! Wait...I can smell arsenic! (isn't it odorless? I'm afraid to google poison while at work)

So I managed to get everything up and running last night (fairly painlessly, which was awesome). The only issue I'm running into now is that whenever I alt-tab out of the game and come back, it throws me into windowed mode and I have to manually put it back to Fullscreen every time. A little annoying but not a game breaker. From what I read on the forums, it seems pretty normal.

Other than that, it's been smooth sailing for me! I made a human monk (I really wanted Iskar but I wanted to ease myself into the classic mode and not give myself too many headaches by starting off with an evil character) and I'm absolutely loving it! I can't wait to get home and get back to leveling (only level 4 atm) but I've already had TONS of help from players in the game. The first 10 minutes I was on, a druid named "Sain" gave me 200 plat and a Wu's Quivering Staff...Awesome guy! Not sure if you guys know him but he's awesome. And of course, I appreciate all of your guys' help as well! I hope to see you in-game sometime! :D

[Raynz]

Hmm, I'm not sure if by manually you mean going into Options and changing to Fullscreen there, but Alt+Enter will toggle between Windowed Mode and Fullscreen for you.

[DinoTriz]

Hmm, I'm not sure if by manually you mean going into Options and changing to Fullscreen there, but Alt+Enter will toggle between Windowed Mode and Fullscreen for you.

Yeah, that's what I meant. But now I'm using Alt+Enter and it's all good, I'm getting used to it. Is this something that everyone has to do or should I try installing the "WinEQ2" optional stuff? It doesn't bother me, but if I can quickly fix it, then cool.

[Briscoe]

That's another reason why I'm making the switch from the Live servers, the community. I hear the community is amazing. One of the first things I did on the Live servers was check out Freeport and the Commonlands (you know, my old newbie stomping grounds) and what I found was sad... the zones looked completely different and there was NO ONE....not a soul, at the tunnels. I think I died a little inside :(

Right before I started on P1999 I made a F2P character on Live, got a few levels, and ran around (i.e. using PoK books) exploring some of the old, now deserted zones. Then I saw Freeport and that was kind of like the last straw for me.

The population here is like a happy medium between the oft-overcrowded zones of classic Live and the ever-deserted zones of present Live. There aren't nearly as many noobs in CB or Blackburrow, and you won't see 100+ people in DL, but as was mentioned above, the population is healthy enough that you should have little trouble finding groups. I haven't grouped since the low 20s, but I leveled up to that point mostly grouping in Blackburrow and Unrest. Each weeknight those zones would often times have 10+ people and finding a group was no problem.

In a way this slightly reduced population from classic Live is actually better because you have more of the zone to yourself. In classic Live, I would join a Blackburrow group and be confined to camping the green room, for example. But on P1999, Blackburrow groups will usually just plow through the whole zone. In Unrest, a main room group can usually kill non-stop instead of sitting around waiting for limited respawns. My main is only 47 and I have been exclusively soloing from 20+, so I can't comment on grouping at higher levels, but I really enjoyed grouping at lower levels here.

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

The only problem I see with these zones is the Powerlevelers that come in and wipe out entire areas or zones without any regard to who is there, was there, or comes in.

[Slave]

I think you'll find that a human Monk is more welcome in groups than an iksar Monk and will be faster to level both because of that and because of the iksar's experience penalty. You made a wise choice in my opinion.

[Yardcore]

Welcome!

Look for Yardcore if you need to port and bind to get you started.

I don't play that much due to my schedule/family time but feel free to add me as a friend. I can help you as much as I can.

[DinoTriz]

Right before I started on P1999 I made a F2P character on Live, got a few levels, and ran around (i.e. using PoK books) exploring some of the old, now deserted zones. Then I saw Freeport and that was kind of like the last straw for me.

The population here is like a happy medium between the oft-overcrowded zones of classic Live and the ever-deserted zones of present Live. There aren't nearly as many noobs in CB or Blackburrow, and you won't see 100+ people in DL, but as was mentioned above, the population is healthy enough that you should have little trouble finding groups. I haven't grouped since the low 20s, but I leveled up to that point mostly grouping in Blackburrow and Unrest. Each weeknight those zones would often times have 10+ people and finding a group was no problem.

In a way this slightly reduced population from classic Live is actually better because you have more of the zone to yourself. In classic Live, I would join a Blackburrow group and be confined to camping the green room, for example. But on P1999, Blackburrow groups will usually just plow through the whole zone. In Unrest, a main room group can usually kill non-stop instead of sitting around waiting for limited respawns. My main is only 47 and I have been exclusively soloing from 20+, so I can't comment on grouping at higher levels, but I really enjoyed grouping at lower levels here.

Yeah, seeing Freeport was kind of the last straw for me as well. I had a slightly different experience with the F2P Live Everquest though. Sure, the population might be larger but considering the quality of that population, you might as well be playing EQ by your lonesome. Everyone and I do mean everyone is boxing. You don't need to group at all because you're some beast in epic gear (that drops from large rats who give you a bubble of exp per kill), as a level 20-ish Monk, I literally sat in the middle of a yellow-con mob spawn, killing add after add for 20 minutes straight never going below 50% health and gaining about 5 levels in an hour. The Mercs kill the game. Project 1999 is so close to the real thing that it might as well be a time machine. It's amazing. I'm loving it so much.
Welcome!

Look for Yardcore if you need to port and bind to get you started.

I don't play that much due to my schedule/family time but feel free to add me as a friend. I can help you as much as I can.

Awesome! I appreciate it! I will definitely do that.

My monk's name is: Enlightenment , for anyone who was curious :)