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[Estu]

I was reading the Plane of Mischief thread and the following two comments struck me:

"I LOVED PoM. Was my home for a long time, unfortunately I think it'll be kinda sucky on P99 now that everyone knows the deal."

"almost all the player base here knows the secrets of most of the game...or at least, is highly familiar with them."

Really? Everyone knows the deal? Almost everyone knows the secrets of most of the game? Let me paint you a little picture. I played EQ for a couple of years starting when I was in 8th grade and ending in 10th or so. When I joined, either Kunark was out or Velious was. I enjoyed the game a lot, but I had severe altitis; I kept wanting to try every race and every class to the point that I never got a character past the teens or so. I think my highest level character on EQ was a 20 monk. When Planes of Power came out I became disillusioned by the easy teleporting between zones and all the tradeskill stuff being available in one place, and although I did a little instancing with LDoN on my monk, ultimately I decided EQ had jumped the shark and I quit. I play WoW for a while and although I have some altitis I actually end up getting some characters to high levels, and one or two to 70, or whatever the max level was during Wrath of the Lich King. Then I become bored with the game and quit it for good.

Cut to about a month ago when I'm browsing 4chan, as I do, and I see a thread about a private classic EQ server. I've seen these threads before from time to time, and though I've salivated extensively, I've just been led to some website saying that the thing is still in development or they are waiting for approval from Sony or some such garbage. So imagine my surprise when I'm reading the 'getting started' guide for P99 and it looks like it's legit and it works! I load everything up, I start playing, and this nostalgic old game that I was worried I might not like because of the flaws I remember about it, thinking maybe I just had nostalgia goggles about it, that my older and more refined gaming sensibilities would now have distaste for it - this game is still an excellent play! Life is good.

But from the beginning until now? Still a newbie! No experience with post-level-20 EverQuest. I can tell you all about starting up your tradeskills, about how you should keep your bat wings and snake eggs and snake scales but sell/trash your bat fur and snake fangs - but Plane of Mischief? My sum total of knowledge about Plane of Mischief is that it's some high level zone that maybe you need a wizard to teleport you to that has Bristlebane, the god of thieves, in it, and I've seen screenshots and I think his character model looks pretty cool. Now I'm wondering if I'm the only person like this out there, or if there's a sizable number of us and nobody seems to be aware of it! Hence this poll.

By the way: I realized just after making this poll that people who have played official EQ but only reached 50 on an emulator might not know where to put their vote. I'd put your vote in the second option.

[Tiggles]

I think the MASS majority of this server has post 20 experience.

[Harmonicdeth]

I am like that... to a certain extent. I played at release, but I didn't play in all the zones that are classic. Kunark is where I am mostly familiar with, I did it all, except raid Gorenaire. Had my epics on my ranger, had Kanors done inside and out, Seb inside and out, cept Trakakanon. VP I never touched either, though I did it in EQ2, which from what I hear aside from updated graphics is pretty damn close to the real thing.

Velious I did ToV, Kael, the 10th ring raid, and my fav zone of all time that I remember well and cant wait for, Velks lab....

I am enjoying the classic experience so far, because I don't remember leveling up my toons that well, and I don't remember all the lower level dungeons.

Have fun, of course to the hardcores all these PoM, PoG will be easy to them, but the few of us that were too young, or too stoned, will have lots of fun.

[Arclanz]

Joined Brell Serilis server July 25, 1999 which is shortly after its launch. Was among the first to get 50; and either the first or ALMOST the first paladin to get full valorium. The second Paladin, I think, to get soulfire. Played Kunark for a few months; quit at 55 and made cameos ever since.

[Seritaph]

I've leveled an enchanter past 50, but the only raid type action I've seen is Vox and Sathir. So there's still plenty out there for me to see and do. Not sure if I have the time to invest for raiding, but we'll see. Even if not, I'm still enjoying myself immensely. So far I'm finding this a great recreation with a equally great community.

[Jarnauga]

played on live for a year and quit shortly after the release of luclin.. i didn't have a computer at home, played at a relative who was moving..

long story short, my highest was a 47 war who never really raid, had also a shamy in his 30's.. loved the game, but couldn't play as i would :'(

when i heard about this server, i instantly installed the titanium client and made a shamy.. happiness.

[Lagaidh]

I got to L70 in OoW.

When the cap was raised to 75, that's when I quit. I logged in a few more times and farted around. I thought I'd made it to 73, but I think that's wrong. I think I dinged 71, sighed, and never logged back in.

I didn't reach 50 until a few months into Kunark. I didn't reach 60 until Luclin.

I'm hoping I can reach 50 before Kunark this time. I dinged 5 last night =) I even bought my first magic weapon!

I'm loving it all so, so, so much!

[Savok]

Where are the 'I still play' options?

[Estu]

Right, Savok, somehow slipped my mind. Just go with the 'I used to play' ones.

[Lagaidh]

Originally Posted by Savok [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Where are the 'I still play' options?

Man really?

This is interesting to me. Could you explain how you feel about live at this time? Do you own all the expansions and play actively in new content, or do you just kick around in what strikes your fancy?

I'm not riding you or anything, just curious about the perspective of a player who cares enough to join the p99 community (which seems to me chock full of those of us who adore the original experience) but still plays live.

Could you elaborate on some of these questions if I've made any sense at all? I know I haven't logged in since 2007 at least, and that was a cameo really.

I think I'm still logged out in Veksar. Wish I could xfer my AoN here, hehe.