There won't be a bunch of BRAND new players. But they'll be returners who haven't played on blue in a long time, and there will be people who only played on live back in the day, and there will be people who are more recently from live and want to check out the classic era that's not on an official TLP server, etc.

Many of those people will be nearly as nooby as a day 1 noob. Like the OP who was looking at live EQ websites and wondering if they're accurate for green and who didn't know how the shuttle-boat in Erudin worked.


I don't meant to rag on OP or on these guys, just an observation. Lots of p99 folks like to parrot around the "20 year old game PvE LOL SO EASY" but that's coming from the perspective of the people who have been playing on blue for the last decade. There will be plenty of people on green who will be nearly as wide-eyed and ignorant of zones/mobs/mechanics/classes/etc as they would have been 20 years ago.

I feel like I forget half the game every time I stop playing for a year or more. I'm sure it will be the same for a lot of people coming back after long inactive periods and playing something they haven't played before.

I think it'll be worst for people who come here from live. It's one thing to forget a bunch of stuff from early blue, or from classic live, and then try to pick it back up on green. Or to approach this for a first time in 2019 knowing it's an ancient, quirky game but wanting to try it out.

It'll be another beast entirely trying to hop into a game with the same name as one you're a pro on on live servers and not know how to find your guildmaster on green because there's no ingame maps, compass, visibility, magical lines leading you where you need to go... then you get killed by a level 1 mob after spending 5 minutes trying to find one that isn't already engaged and reappear at your bind without even your newbie weapon.

I hope to god that there is a youtube video of this happening on Friday...

I am def a newb when it comes to CLassic EQ. I started back in the day when kunark was about to release and then later on played a couple tlp's but the classic content isn't the same on tlps. I even forgot that you only get spells every 4 levels. I was a teenager when I first played EQ so memory not the greatest.

No worries. Approach it for what it is, trying to figure out a quirky, old game that has been reconstructed by a small team of volunteers and played by a bunch of classic EQ fanatics over the last decade who have been frothing at the mouth for the green server for half that time... and just try to do your thing that's fun for you.

https://wiki.project1999.com/ will be a goldmine of usually-accurate info about things on green for you.