New member with question about starting areas
 

Did Project 1999 return it to the version with the original starting areas?

Honestly, I haven't played Everquest since I created a new character in 2005 and found it in some sort of hack dungeon that was attempting to power level my character when what I really wanted was to play a different race, starting in that faction area, and flesh out the character through roleplay. Then I found myself in the Nexus...

I was so disgusted and disappointed that I canceled my subscription to Norrath immediately. Alas, even after all of these years, I have not found a MMO that I enjoyed as much as Everquest so here I am... Still downloading the necessary files so I can jump back into Norrath and begin adventuring anew.

But the question plagues me!

P99 does not use uhhh shadowreach? shadeweaver's? I can't even remember what the name of the zone was. You start in the appropriate home city based on race/religion. There is no moon (except the one you see in the sky), and any cats on it belong to Shrodinger.

-Mcoy

Yeah, it's the original game, or as close to it as can realistically be expected. It's a 99.5% accurate replica of the way Everquest was at this point in its progression, which is currently at the end of Velious for both green and blue. There are essentially no deviations from the original game unless you carefully research something and discover that some mob was meant to spawn three meters further to the left than it does here. For all intents and purposes, it's the exact same as the game was back then.

If/when a green 2.0 launches, it will be in the state that Everquest was in at the very start in 1999, just as green 1.0 was, meaning no Paineel/Warrens right at first. There is no Nexus, no Gloomingdeep or whatever that starter dungeon was called that EQ added in some future expansion. If you make a character right now, you will begin in the town that is designated as the starting area for that race/class/deity combination. There is no Plane of Knowledge, no Nexus, nothing that didn't exist in Velious.

And if a new server launches, it will start without Kunark and Velious. These will then launch after the same amount of time as it took for these expansions to launch back then. There is currently speculation that a green 2.0 could launch sometime this year, but nothing is known for certain and might just not happen, so you don't have to feel like it's a waste of time to start now. In all likelihood, the green server will remain the latest server for at least another six months and quite possibly longer.

You can also start on blue, but that server is over a decade old and it's definitely a bit stagnant. Green is the more suitable place for a new player. You could also start on red if you like PvP, but that server is pretty dead and there's no indication that the staff will launch a red 2.0, despite their promises of doing so in the past.

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Ah! That's it, thanks.

-Mcoy

Wasn’t far off, crescent reach was added with the drakkins in tss!