No boxing -- will there be people to group with?
 

How do you level up without boxing on such a small community? Soloing in EQ is absurdly difficult, without boxing how are people leveling up here?

It's not a small community, which means dozens of people in each popular leveling zone.

Old Sebilis, CoM, Mistmoore, Oasis of Marr, etc all have 15-40+ people in them often.

Be good is the simple answer.

Qeynos is less populated than Freeport which is what I assume you picked for your starting city.

Soloing in EQ isn't that bad, if you're the right class. Honestly the reason I keep coming back to EQ is every game since has been deathly afraid of letting people kite for some stupid reason, and it's a fun play style.

But yeah, the server is populated to the point where there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to find a group. It's about half the normal pop of a server circa 1999-2000ish on a good day.

Um...they're grouping...

It's actually quite easy to find a group in gfaydark, FoB, or EC starting out. It's rare that a zone is completely deserted, and generally you can assume player counts are accurate, as in the number of toons in a zone matches the number of players actually playing.

I wouldn't call 1049 players currently on blue a small community. In fact, at times, some zones are overcrowded. Either you are in an area that tends to have less population like Odus or even Qeynos/Halas area, or you are on during off peak hours. But, I wouldn't even call off peak hours low population.

Boxing would ruin this server imo.

You just joined and are complaining about a "small community." The noob zones are easy peasy to solo with every class as long as you arent pulling yellows. Wait until you get to popular zones and all camps are camped. Then you will complain the game has too many players. Save bone chips, silk, med or hq pelts and sell them at ec for some starter cash. Its classic EQ. The experience is supposed to be slow.

There are a handful of classes that are painfully easy to solo with, and the community on P99 is far from small--there are groups to be had everwyere! Also, there is a small percentage of people that miss the whole point of the server, and do still box on it, despite it being a violation of the rules.

Didn't mean to offend anyone, haven't experienced the community yet, didn't realize 1000 people would result in largely populated zones, especially early on given the depth of this game.

I actually don't prefer boxing, just was wondering how people were getting along without it. Sounds as though it's a non issue. Thanks for the responses!

While this is generally good advice, I think some responders here are twinking their characters out and then saying soloing is easy.

A great guild to get in with on blue server is <Auld Sang Lyne> (might have mis-spelt it :p), they're committed to level the classic way, without twinking (so you'd fit right in).

An alternative if you've ever considered EQ pvp is the red server. Most people starting there recently are completely new as well, and you'll see a lot of bronze armor and pre-planar gear scraped together (as opposed to Velious twinks on blue who don't want to group sometimes).