Whats the 1 thing Project1999 can't revive with Classic Everquest?

[HydroPonics]

People getting butthurt over you not asking to inspect them first. Remember some of the people would walk backwards intentionally to close you're inspection window, then send you a tell, telling you to ASK first?

This has never happened to me in Project1999.

I never thought it was a big deal in classic, and i don't now. Thats why i laugh
when people ask to inspect me.

[Breeziyo]

man I remember that shit

they'd even put stuff in their little inspect text box calling you rude etc

people were dumb

[Kender]

full screen spell books

[Kagatob]

Static UI's.

[Calabee]

you used to be able to spam inspect a person to LDness (took 3-4 people chaining it), doubt that's doable anymore with the latest connections :/

[Hollywood]

Blocking people at Kelethin bank.
You had to /ignore the person in order to walk through them.

We used to sit on the floor sometimes and watch how many people would run into barbarians standing in the door way. They'd bounce off them and fall over the ledge.

[rafaone]

Blocking people at Kelethin bank.
You had to /ignore the person in order to walk through them.


This, yeah, also in my server (Sol Ro), we used to Trade at Gfay so people would just kill the banker williaem. Also i remember people chain casting harmony on PCs and causing a few LDs and a lot of flames :P. Good times ...

[nilbog]

dial up.

[Lagaidh]

I love this place and it evokes many of the things I remember but, I can't view it with an empty bank of knowledge for the game.

Since this is the best classic Emu that I know of, when people show up who never played live I am excited for that person, and jealous of them.

[nilbog]

full screen spell books

Possibly.... Since we can't change monitor resolutions, the spell book being smaller than the resolution is the issue. If the remainder of the screen was black, with the spellbook laying on top, before lvl 35, it would serve the same purpose.

Static UI's.

CRC UI files maybe.

[RahlaeRuffian]

On my server people used to /auction selling 3 bags of stuff at T2 and they would put the bags in your trade window and you'd go through them and be disappointed 9 times out of 10.

[khanable]

People getting butthurt over you not asking to inspect them first. Remember some of the people would walk backwards intentionally to close you're inspection window, then send you a tell, telling you to ASK first?

This has never happened to me in Project1999.

I never thought it was a big deal in classic, and i don't now. Thats why i laugh
when people ask to inspect me. This isn't classic Everquest, bro.


Then and now I always found it strange when people ask to inspect me. I don't care at all. 'Mire all you want, babes.

With that said I will inspect you hard without shame.

On my server people used to /auction selling 3 bags of stuff at T2 and they would put the bags in your trade window and you'd go through them and be disappointed 9 times out of 10.

I was so guilty of this in 2000.

The one thing we will never get back from EQLive was the sense of wonder. What the hell kind of sword is that?!?! /t guy hey man can you tell me the stats on that insane looking weapon?

[Swish]

It was an age of innocence in a sense, not just for online interactions but more generally where gaming was concerned.

Genuinely I was lost in Neriak the first time I played a dark elf to the point where it really took me over an hour to get out of the city. Running from Felwithe to Kelethin seemed like a MASSIVE undertaking, following the path at night, hoping not to see any orc pawns on the way.

You don't get that anymore... not with this game or any other game you play. If I'm doing the mail delivery quest in Gfay now, I just run out of Felwithe and go north-east to the newbie lift and run back without even thinking about the path.

Great times we'll never get back. Before trolling the internet became popular and the WoW kids were still too young to play :p

[fishingme]

It was an age of innocence in a sense, not just for online interactions but more generally where gaming was concerned.

Genuinely I was lost in Neriak the first time I played a dark elf to the point where it really took me over an hour to get out of the city. Running from Felwithe to Kelethin seemed like a MASSIVE undertaking, following the path at night, hoping not to see any orc pawns on the way.

You don't get that anymore... not with this game or any other game you play. If I'm doing the mail delivery quest in Gfay now, I just run out of Felwithe and go north-east to the newbie lift and run back without even thinking about the path.

Great times we'll never get back. Before trolling the internet became popular and the WoW kids were still too young to play :p

Can't agree with you more here.

[Lexical]

It was an age of innocence in a sense, not just for online interactions but more generally where gaming was concerned.

Genuinely I was lost in Neriak the first time I played a dark elf to the point where it really took me over an hour to get out of the city. Running from Felwithe to Kelethin seemed like a MASSIVE undertaking, following the path at night, hoping not to see any orc pawns on the way.

You don't get that anymore... not with this game or any other game you play. If I'm doing the mail delivery quest in Gfay now, I just run out of Felwithe and go north-east to the newbie lift and run back without even thinking about the path.

Great times we'll never get back. Before trolling the internet became popular and the WoW kids were still too young to play :p

This brought back the memory of seeing kelethin for the first time. *sigh*

[Messianic]

People getting butthurt over you not asking to inspect them first. Remember some of the people would walk backwards intentionally to close you're inspection window, then send you a tell, telling you to ASK first?

This has never happened to me in Project1999.

I never thought it was a big deal in classic, and i don't now. Thats why i laugh
when people ask to inspect me. This isn't classic Everquest, bro.

Those are the people I would give inspect-spam from hell and would intentionally follow them around and irritate them for it, open trade windows during annoying times, etc. I was like 15 at the time, so I was pretty relentless.

What the hell, do you want me to ask permission to look at your toon as well?

[SamwiseRed]

100 man naggy/vox raids. basically giant pick up raids. even in PoP there were giant pick up raids, not much of that on here.

[Ele]

People getting butthurt over you not asking to inspect them first. Remember some of the people would walk backwards intentionally to close you're inspection window, then send you a tell, telling you to ASK first?

This has never happened to me in Project1999.

I never thought it was a big deal in classic, and i don't now. Thats why i laugh
when people ask to inspect me. This isn't classic Everquest, bro.

This still happens.

Edit: Ding Planar Protector !

[fishingme]

Those are the people I would give inspect-spam from hell and would intentionally follow them around and irritate them for it, open trade windows during annoying times, etc. I was like 15 at the time, so I was pretty relentless.

What the hell, do you want me to ask permission to look at your toon as well?

To this day I still ask if I want to inspect someone, mainly because it was the polite thing to do in live. I don't mind asking because i may inspect someone once every month or two. But that was just how it worked back on live. Shit's classic

[Strifer]

People getting butthurt over you not asking to inspect them first. Remember some of the people would walk backwards intentionally to close you're inspection window, then send you a tell, telling you to ASK first?

This has never happened to me in Project1999.

I never thought it was a big deal in classic, and i don't now. Thats why i laugh
when people ask to inspect me. This isn't classic Everquest, bro.

On 7th Hammer I dont recollect much of this whatsoever.

I really cannot understand why people think that it would be rude if its a one-time inspect. The only time I would think it would be an issue possibly is if a newer or under-geared player might feel they'd be to blame for a group's under-performance? Even then however, I've never yet to see a group where anyone would appear to make that an issue, as especially at lower levels theres generally a decked out twink making up for it, a higher level assisting in some way, or just the general higher skill players on this server may have for this content.

Personally I don't give a crap if someone inspects me. Don't act like I just woke up the sleeper on your EQMac server if I do it to you, children are starving in Africa and you're mad because I wanted to know what your gear is.

[Froglok]

That sense of wonder when you first discovered the internet can be used to help you with video games instead of just looking at porn and proceeed to print out every single spell, strategy guide, and maps for your necromancer, 3 hole punch it, put it in a 3 ring binder and study it front to back in history class.

[Hailto]

If the remainder of the screen was black, with the spellbook laying on top, before lvl 35, it would serve the same purpose.

Please god don't ever do this, some things do not need to be recreated.

[nichomachean]

On 7th Hammer I dont recollect much of this whatsoever...

I remember a few incidents of the server elite guild members (FS, Dili, TDE, GG, etc.) getting salty and inspect crashing one another during raid races. But mostly I always considered it a polite courtesy, and really only scoped out other bards or rogues.

The classic EQ thing I miss most is the original UI. I'd totally bust out a 15 inch CRT just to rock that thing in 800x600, but alas, it's difficult to replicate with XML files. :(

[Swish]

That sense of wonder when you first discovered the internet can be used to help you with video games instead of just looking at porn and proceeed to print out every single spell, strategy guide, and maps for your necromancer, 3 hole punch it, put it in a 3 ring binder and study it front to back in history class.

Funnily my printer had no ink, and as ever printer cartridges were expensive... so I remember sitting down one evening and just hand writing out a brewing combination guide with trivials in the margin - and going to Highkeep upstairs and trying to do as many combos as I could with only buying vendor stuff :D

[Meiva]

For me it was the wonder of the combine spires in GFAY. What could their capabilities be? Why do I discover other Combine spires during my travels?

My first death by auto-follow in Eastern Karanas while auto-following along that huge cliff! You won't make that mistake twice...

The lore of The Hole and wanting to break in to that damn sealed door. Successfully crouching through it as a halfling, and being disappointed there wasn't a secret zone to the Plane of Underfoot.

Seeing two moons in Plane of Sky for the first time. Luclin and Drinal.

I suppose this is more nostalgia than actual features that P1999 didn't get quite right.

[Slave]

If the remainder of the screen was black, with the spellbook laying on top, before lvl 35, it would serve the same purpose.


To remove half of the current playerbase.

[nilbog]

To remove half of the current playerbase.

The half that is pre level 35 casters?

I'll keep making classic changes when I can, regardless if people threaten to quit. I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.

[Malrubius]

I'll keep making classic changes when I can, regardless if people threaten to quit. I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.

And that, is why the server is so successful.

Remember, this server was going to collapse as soon as we got rid of global ooc. :eek:

[Snagglepuss]

How big Norrath used to be...

[Ele]

I'll keep making classic changes when I can, regardless if people threaten to quit. I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.

<3

[Alarti0001]

The half that is pre level 35 casters?

I'll keep making classic changes when I can, regardless if people threaten to quit. I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.

I heard classic EQ had velious out by now>:) Just trolling, but on that point is there more testing you can crowdsource?

[49shadesofgay]

Ambient City/boat music
Forced spellbook meditation
Classic & Velious (pre-luclin customizable) UI
Correct AC and mitigation formulas
Correct damage formulas
client/server mana/hp synchronization (ghost ticks)
Overall difficulty.. this game feels so much easier the way damage/ac/mitigation work than live did

Thats what p99 is missing, but more importantly are the things p99 has no control over that just weren't as present 13 years ago:
extensive voip communication
solid internet connections
knowledgable playerbase
more "mature" (using this in reference to age only) playerbase
Smaller playerbase

[Safon]

The half that is pre level 35 casters?

I'll keep making classic changes when I can, regardless if people threaten to quit. I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.

Nilbog you are the fucking man, cheers brother

[nilbog]

I heard classic EQ had velious out by now>:) Just trolling, but on that point is there more testing you can crowdsource?

Yep. I'll make a list of quests when I have the opportunity. Thanks.

Also I recently asked for corpse aggro zones. http://www.project1999.org/forums/showpost.php?p=806455&postcount=54 Whether that mechanic still exists on eqlive, I cannot say.

[Safon]

On topic, I'd have to say that I really miss the ocean travel theme playing on boat rides. What a jaunty mariners tune that was :) I miss it! It's probably low priority, if its on the radar at all, but maybe someday it can be added? Here is the theme on youtube

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1Fz9LWFtg

[Elements]

Raiding rotations.

[Slave]

I would also like to mention the small (gigantic) issue of endgame being completely unClassic, and to all intents and purposes, ruined for the majority of the server.

[Lagaidh]

I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.

I look at Nilbog's avatar and I read all of his posts in Schwarzenegger's Terminator cadence.

<TerminatorVoice>
I'm here to ________; not to make people happy.
</TerminatorVoice>

You failed. Your server makes me happy.

[Safon]

I would also like to mention the small (gigantic) issue of endgame being completely unClassic, and to all intents and purposes, ruined for the majority of the server.

Didn't the raid rules/situation vary for different servers?

[Lagaidh]

On topic, I'd have to say that I really miss the ocean travel theme playing on boat rides. What a jaunty mariners tune that was :) I miss it! It's probably low priority, if its on the radar at all, but maybe someday it can be added? Here is the theme on youtube

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1Fz9LWFtg

AH! I'd completely forgotten that music played in OOT.

Thanks!

[Slave]

Didn't the raid rules/situation vary for different servers?

The mechanics were always the same, and they are wholly different here, and if it's purposefully or unpurposefully, the end result is the same, and that is that larger guilds have a disproportionate ability to win raid targets over what was seen on Live.

The changes were ostensibly so other guilds could compete, but now, Bush-like, the reasons have changed to "too much hassle for GMs" basically. Because the massive variance now on raid targets has been demonstrably proven to indeed hinder smaller guilds, far over what one might assume from their more limited playtimes and organizational capacity. And so it has become strikingly obvious that whenever the former reason is given, the developers are simply not playing straight with us.

Most people who have been affected by this injustice (read: anyone in the raid scene except TMO) have been waiting for changes to the raid scene for months, BEGGING to return this to Classic mechanics. Please reconcile this with the Classic quotation from Nilbog, and you will start to understand some of the frustration many of the longer-term players have been having with this unClassic perversion of EverQuest.

[Froglok]

The mechanics were always the same, and they are wholly different here, and if it's purposefully or unpurposefully, the end result is the same, and that is that larger guilds have a disproportionate ability to win raid targets over what was seen on Live.

The changes were ostensibly so other guilds could compete, but now, Bush-like, the reasons have changed to "too much hassle for GMs" basically. Because the massive variance now on raid targets has been demonstrably proven to indeed hinder smaller guilds, far over what one might assume from their more limited playtimes and organizational capacity. And so it has become strikingly obvious that whenever the former reason is given, the developers are simply not playing straight with us.

Most people who have been affected by this injustice (read: anyone in the raid scene except TMO) have been waiting for changes to the raid scene for months, BEGGING to return this to Classic mechanics. Please reconcile this with the Classic quotation from Nilbog, and you will start to understand some of the frustration many of the longer-term players have been having with this unClassic perversion of EverQuest.

We just need more server restarts/patch days that would force all raid targets to respawn all at once

[nilbog]

the developers are simply not playing straight with us.

You can blame me if you choose, I don't care. I have posted my opinions on the raid scene, suggested a plan to move forward, and I wait on Rogean to implement it.

Most people who have been affected by this injustice (read: anyone in the raid scene except TMO) have been waiting for changes to the raid scene for months, BEGGING to return this to Classic mechanics.So, instead of a variance, you want hundreds of people standing in a circle waiting for the precise time to start AEing? I mean, have you considered it's not developers that are the problem? Tell TMO to drop half their guild, or form an alliance with other guilds and beat them at what they are doing. This is not the thread for rehashing this bs.

unClassic perversion of EverQuest.


Doing the best I can.

[Slave]

Doing the best I can.

I know, and it's depressing. We're rooting for you. Thank you.

[TheSK]

It was an age of innocence in a sense, not just for online interactions but more generally where gaming was concerned.

Genuinely I was lost in Neriak the first time I played a dark elf to the point where it really took me over an hour to get out of the city. Running from Felwithe to Kelethin seemed like a MASSIVE undertaking, following the path at night, hoping not to see any orc pawns on the way.

You don't get that anymore... not with this game or any other game you play. If I'm doing the mail delivery quest in Gfay now, I just run out of Felwithe and go north-east to the newbie lift and run back without even thinking about the path.

Great times we'll never get back. Before trolling the internet became popular and the WoW kids were still too young to play :p

True story bro!

[Aelzrith]

That sense of wonder when you first discovered the internet can be used to help you with video games instead of just looking at porn and proceeed to print out every single spell, strategy guide, and maps for your necromancer, 3 hole punch it, put it in a 3 ring binder and study it front to back in history class.

an exact account of my high school days ^^

[joppykid]

On my server people used to /auction selling 3 bags of stuff at T2 and they would put the bags in your trade window and you'd go through them and be disappointed 9 times out of 10.

On my server (Tunare) we used GFay and I pretty much lived in the hut next to bank with bags and was always buying low and selling high. For some reason I have no interest in Reselling on here. Maybe now being older I find it a waste of time and don't care about fake money as much. I do miss GFay music while trading though.

For those that never goto Greater Faydark, here is a link to the Kelethin Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx0oAEpqYIY

[Snagglepuss]

Sometimes I think that this server has a great sense of community, and at other times, I feel like its just full of trolls and griefers.

On classic live, the majority of players seemed more helpful and communal. I know that on P 1999 we have some great players and very helpful people, but they often get hidden beneath the drama and selfish player who ruins it for everyone. I guess I never noticed so many angry people on live, and I feel sometimes the experience of friendly, casual players will never be had again.

I played a woof elf ranger on live and never knew that it was a "bad" choice. I never had anyone not want me in a group. I was always welcomed because I had snare and could lull as a puller. There was this naive sense that we were all in this together. We all were just so excited to explore Norrath.

Do you all think that the larger portion of higher level characters has increased the hostility of the playerbase by competition? I never went to the forums or raided on live. Were the forums and guilds so mean to each other even then?

[stormlord]

People getting butthurt over you not asking to inspect them first. Remember some of the people would walk backwards intentionally to close you're inspection window, then send you a tell, telling you to ASK first?

This has never happened to me in Project1999.

I never thought it was a big deal in classic, and i don't now. Thats why i laugh
when people ask to inspect me.
This is easy.

P1999 can't revive the ignorance we had back then. P1999 can't even add a new zone because it wouldn't be classic. What this means is that unless you're new you're playing in familiar content.

I think it'd be fun to have a game exactly like p1999 but with new zones and new items and new non-players and new cities. I don't care if the game mechanics are exactly the same. The fact that it's new would add a fresh appeal to it. I mean, anything you learn has more value, since it's not on the web yet.

There's a lot of things I like about p1999. But new games inevitably will change things and since you can't please everyone it will also inevitably appeal to a new crowd of players. So while a new game like p1999 with fresh new features and mechanics would probably b e fun, it might also not be.

But anyway I already answered the question. P1999 can't revive the unknown.

[Itap]

I played a woof elf ranger on live and never knew that it was a "bad" choice. I never had anyone not want me in a group. I was always welcomed because I had snare and could lull as a puller. There was this naive sense that we were all in this together. We all were just so excited to explore Norrath.

Pretty much this. Nobody really cared about hybrid penalties in groups. After all, we were all sharing one common goal, to level and have fun while doing it.

Majority of us were very young back then and didn't look into the mechanics of the game so much as we do now.

Someone just posted a program they made to calculate experience in a group setting, I mean really?

[deneauth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA3TdLPH-V4

I love this game, pre alpha footage haha just look at that, it was so amazing at the time.

Oh and who can forget the origional battle music?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhmDqTXUok

[joppykid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA3TdLPH-V4

I love this game, pre alpha footage haha just look at that, it was so amazing at the time.

Oh and who can forget the origional battle music?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhmDqTXUok

That is aweomse!!! Lol, the way they run is awesome. Some parts of the environment look better in that I feel like. The naggy Solo was sweet at the end lol. Thanks for the share. Great battle music too haha

[Itap]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJKI1rLXNlw

Awesome vid, got my excited for SoV!

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

chat rooms to use after buffs were all gtg, to log out to,to make sure everyone was clear on strats. No cells phones, no ventrillo, etc. cuz yeah: half on dialup with one line.

What can't be reproduced is the fact that back then, EQ was likely the most amazing connection you had to an instantaneous network of global people you had access to.

that was priceless tbh. First time I ver sat in my home and said, holy shit, I'm playing an online game with people from Australia, Europe, Asia, the US, and we aretrying to make sure we are all clear who has got what in order to take down some dragon...

come the fuck on. epic. in the true sense.

[Massive Marc]

chat rooms to use after buffs were all gtg, to log out to,to make sure everyone was clear on strats. No cells phones, no ventrillo, etc. cuz yeah: half on dialup with one line.

What can't be reproduced is the fact that back then, EQ was likely the most amazing connection you had to an instantaneous network of global people you had access to.

that was priceless tbh. First time I ver sat in my home and said, holy shit, I'm playing an online game with people from Australia, Europe, Asia, the US, and we aretrying to make sure we are all clear who has got what in order to take down some dragon...

come the fuck on. epic. in the true sense.

up until then I was used to 10vs10 2fort5 as the max amount of people in one game. I agree, there was something epic about having 100 different people from the around the world all killing Vox. I think pickup raids are one thing I miss from Classic the most, even if I have the gear, I still like going to planes with lots of people killing shit.

[Bamzal Sherbet]

There was some magic in the original EQ that will never be recreated

[Ephi]

The biggest thing IMO: Not knowing what was next. The excitement and curiosity drove me (and I'm sure many others) to keep playing, keep leveling.

I suppose that experience is a decent driver to relive it all over again, but like the previous post alludes to, there's a certain bit of magic that just cannot be relived.

[sillymonster]

checking eqlizer daily looking at crazy loot screenshots.

[Rubin]

So, instead of a variance, you want hundreds of people standing in a circle waiting for the precise time to start AEing?

Yes, reduce the window to 15 minutes or w/e if you don't want people knowing exactly when mobs will pop (and spamming ae), but if everyone is competing for FTE then the odds of winning the mob are random and guilds would agree to a rotation since they'd get the same amount of loot as they would expect to get on average FTE'ing without having to get everyone out to every pop and having to deal with FTE disputes.

[happyhappy]

You can blame me if you choose, I don't care. I have posted my opinions on the raid scene, suggested a plan to move forward, and I wait on Rogean to implement it.

Probably want to expedite this, would be a good way to retain at least fraction of the high numbers we've been seeing lately.

[Examino]

Looking down at the ground at night to follow the path that lead to kelethin/Felwithe.

[Vladesch]

Running around lost because my clip plane is on minimum to get 15 fps.
Not being able to alt tab out of the game.

[Nirgon]

Remove variance, make all raid mobs spawn 5am-1pm US EST.. make sure all resist buffs stack with each other, let mage pets hold 8 swords at once, make raid mobs charmable to kill other raid mobs in every zone

Watch pop rise

[Kritimus]

That sense of wonder when you first discovered the internet can be used to help you with video games instead of just looking at porn and proceeed to print out every single spell, strategy guide, and maps for your necromancer, 3 hole punch it, put it in a 3 ring binder and study it front to back in history class.

[rafaone]

You what i really miss man? to see the spell particles when you cast a spell on yourself o someone cast it on you, and you are on first person view, here, for some reason, the client just doesnt draw them. In Live you could see them. Normally now I use my mouse wheel to get to 3rd person view to see them, and them back into 1st view. That sucks and its the top1 dissapointing thing from me since i came here.

[Hollywood]

The half that is pre level 35 casters?

I'll keep making classic changes when I can, regardless if people threaten to quit. I'm here to recreate classic eq; not to make people happy.


I'm pretty confident in saying variance does not make people happy AND is not classic.
Double whammy.

[Swish]

I'm pretty confident in saying variance does not make people happy AND is not classic.
Double whammy.

How much voluntary work do you do?

[nilbog]

I'm pretty confident in saying variance does not make people happy AND is not classic.
Double whammy.

My quote is explicitly referring to spell books. So, I'm going to talk some more about spell books.

In August 2000, they removed the necessity of clicking the 'meditate' button while spellbook was open, and also removed the /meditate command. Meditating still required the spellbook to be open, prior to level 35.

Quote:
AUGUST 30, 2000

Opening your spellbook will automatically cause you to begin meditating providing that you have the skill.
Removed the /meditate command since it is no longer necessary.Pre-35 spellbook meditating was removed altogether in 2002.


MARCH 19, 2002

Spell casters no longer need to see their spell book when meditating. Once a character has the meditation skill, it will function when the character is sitting down.

[Malrubius]

Spellbook staring pre-35 is classic and is coming - I for one am looking forward to it.

For those who (say they) will quit if spellbook staring is implemented, or global OOC goes away, or the compass goes away, etc., etc., etc....maybe you should just leave already and stop talking about it.

[Nirgon]

Get yourself some spell books and bolts going Nilbog

[Raavak]

Can't revive me being 20-something.

[Lagaidh]

Sometimes I think that this server has a great sense of community, and at other times, I feel like its just full of trolls and griefers.

It's an MMO tenant. Go to the forums for trolling, greed, immaturity and bullshit. Log into the game for a mostly fun experience.

[Slave]

It's an MMO tenant.

tenet

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

this thread is like a threeway. One person is just simply reminiscing, another person is trying to answer the original question, and another person is doing math to figure out what should be the spawn rates for contesteds.

I don't know about you guys, but every menage a trois I've been in basically ends up like this. Kinda sad. I thought this was the dawning of the age of Aquarius and such.

[Yardcore]

On Live (Erollisi Marr), I remembered there must be almost hundred people in Lower Guk. People would yell camp check every 5 minutes. /ooc and /shouts are non-stop. People were training other people, intentionally or not, it was crazy as hell.

Even on the busy day on this server, it was never that packed in Lower Guk, I surely miss that old day :).

[fishingme]

On Live (Erollisi Marr), I remembered there must be almost hundred people in Lower Guk. People would yell camp check every 5 minutes. /ooc and /shouts are non-stop. People were training other people, intentionally or not, it was crazy as hell.

Even on the busy day on this server, it was never that packed in Lower Guk, I surely miss that old day :).

+1, only way to really level from 30-40 on this server is to get a core group going of players who play during the same hours you do.

[Motrin]

One thing Project 1999 cant revive is Classic Everquest. It is physically impossible to recreate Classic Everquest from the year 1999. If you think about it... Nilbog can get VERY close but infact cant recreate it (No offense you do a great job). This game has been out for 10+ years im pretty sure everyone knows the little tricks to everything by now unless you have never played this game before. Therefore there is no classic feel since you know what you're doing every step of the way. It is illogical to think that this server is a Classic Recreation because it is in fact not. Is it a great server to play on casually? Yes. Hardcore? Hell no you just sit there and watch your SEQ and sell your loots for RMT.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

little, yellow, different

[Sularus Oth Mithas]

In the original EQ on red servers, if someone inspected you they were looking to see if you were worth killing for your gear.

[porigromus]

I love this place and it evokes many of the things I remember but, I can't view it with an empty bank of knowledge for the game.

Since this is the best classic Emu that I know of, when people show up who never played live I am excited for that person, and jealous of them.

You could be jealous of me. I did play EQ back then but have such a bad memory it's all new.

[Tecmos Deception]

Spellbook staring pre-35 is classic and is coming

My parents can remember where they were when JFK was shot.

I can remember where my main (enchanter) on live was when I dinged 35. Sitting at the FM zone of OT. Lol.

[Kekephee]

Inspection Butthurt can be revived. We just have to get people used to thinking there's some kind of a social rule against inspection. From now on whenever someone inspects me I'm going to make a big stink about it and hope it catches on. I suggest that any of you who want to bring back the hilarity of people getting pissy about being inspected do the same.

[SupaflyIRL]

My parents can remember where they were when JFK was shot.

I can remember where my main (enchanter) on live was when I dinged 35. Sitting at the FM zone of OT. Lol.

Same for me on my druid, at the FM zone ledge in OT.

[Raavak]

This came up in guildchat last night...

There seems to be an absense of EQ marriages as compared to Live.

[tenkakahn]

Having charme pets tank I believe that wasn't changed until a couple weeks before luclin but never worked here once

[Taboo]

/ooc free plat and weapons for low level toons, hail me and type /d for what I can offer you!

[rsloans84]

The most i miss about classic eq is multiple servers to play on so i dont have to deal with trolls... Id reroll if there were another p99 server or two... On the inspection thing that was basically roleplaying and p99 doesnt have that.

[rsloans84]

This came up in guildchat last night...

There seems to be an absense of EQ marriages as compared to Live.

Lack of females that know about p99... Or any that gives 2 shits

[rsloans84]

Another thing that i really enjoyed was AA's wasnt til later but made EQ 90% worth playing

[Vega]

Possibly.... Since we can't change monitor resolutions, the spell book being smaller than the resolution is the issue. If the remainder of the screen was black, with the spellbook laying on top, before lvl 35, it would serve the same purpose.


Is this correct though? In classic, couldn't you still see the chat box when book medding?