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View Poll Results: When was your first experience with Everquest?
Pre-Kunark (March 1999-April 2000) 4,623 51.27%
Kunark (April 2000-December 2000) 2,280 25.29%
Velious (December 2000-December 2001) 908 10.07%
Luclin or later (December 2001-Present) 683 7.57%
Never played Everquest on live. Project 1999 is your first experience. 523 5.80%
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Old 01-18-2011, 10:33 AM
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Man, I can still hear the Earthlink chime when you'd log on. That sound always preceded the Everquest theme music for me.

Hehe... and relogging Earthlink repeatedly until I got a 56k connection instead of 33.6k :P
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Old 05-22-2011, 02:21 PM
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Started EQ on the first week of its release in 1999. My friend and I were at times even sharing a 56k modem to play. I think we managed a few hours the first couple of weeks since the servers were down all the time.
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Old 05-25-2011, 11:05 AM
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My oldest brother got his copy for Christmas in 1999 and we started playing on dialup, he played to about level 14 before we all got to make our characters. My first character was a Dark Elf Warrior on Tunare server. His name was Nafed. I was 9 years old when I started playing. Played heaps for the following years, then after the game started going south, my interest waned. About the time EQ2 came out I was already done with the first one. Then my older brother wanted to start things up again probably in 2007, so I bought a copy of platinum and we somehow acquired a third account. I played a Wood Elf Ranger named Lloen up to about level 53 in the months following, then I started playing my druid Cagnazzo again, decked him out with new gear (as I'd stopped playing him around level 23 and he had NOTHING good) and got him up to about level 50 or so. I never capped any characters, but I had a lot of fun playing the ones I did play.

Favorite expansions were Kunark, Velious, LDoN, and Ykesha (Cause frogloks were so cool) Luclin wasn't TOO bad except the always-overkill Paludal Caverns, and the fact that it was the beginning of the end. PoP sucked really bad because it killed the porting economy. And the rest of the expansions just furthered EQs downward spiral into WoWdom.

I'm 20 now, and I'm really enjoying reliving the glory days when I have time between my job. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Thanks to the P99 team.
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Old 05-25-2011, 12:09 PM
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Kunark... When I was like 7ish.
Amazing! Had a couple twink'd characters due to friends who played, and my step father.
Good stuff~
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Old 05-25-2011, 01:58 PM
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Half life deathmatch > everyone quit to play eq at launch > quit at PoP > google'd classic EQ last summer > further loss of social life [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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Old 01-09-2012, 09:47 AM
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I started in April of 2000. My son got me hooked. First toon was a SK. I was 53 years old at the time. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Was on the Torvo server.

I still play live also. Have a 90 Monk with 3600 + AA's as my main. Retired now, spend WAY too much time playing lol.
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Old 01-09-2012, 02:10 PM
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I first played after kunark came out and quit a short time after velious came out.

Only character i play back then was a ranger and i was horrible at it lol.. thought i was a tank.. absolutely refused to use a bow xD...

people be like go pull.. i'd be like "NUUU!!! I'm tanking >:U"
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Old 01-09-2012, 05:13 PM
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I played in 99, nearly took the game back when it asked me for a credit card... maybe i should have, but i enjoyed every min of it.

even the medding looking at a spell book and specialising my first main char .. a shaman to divination as i sensed animals on my 2 week camp of the glacial bear for the totemic helmit......all the Tw players on the nameless server who QQ at all the bala

Good times..
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Old 01-13-2012, 01:42 AM
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what a carebear thread i almost shed a tear
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:40 PM
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Hubby and I got on the day of the original release! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] We had to jump through so many hoops in order to get it working because we were on dial up, lol. Good times. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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