I turned the loading messages off because it gives me a placebo effect that it helps with reducing zone crashing. I had forgotten that there were actual messages in there.
This ZAM link seems to have a ton of them in the comments. I'm sure a lot of them are after classic, but the loading screens in P99 may be specific to the Titanium client and already "not classic". I dunno.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=691
Only in era loading messages for me. Full immersion is listening to Mambo #5, Sugar Ray, and Limp Bizkit while staring at this loading screen gif on my 60 lb. CRT monitor:
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