When was your first experience with Everquest?

[Eangarra]

Feb 2000 I created my first character and one I still play on Live from time to time. He is now recreated in P99. Tharkis Vermanard. hfl dr00d.

[nieuco]

why don't they update this Project1999 page and why cant I post?

[Malk]

During beta, on a RL friend's account.

First character was a human ranger born in Qeynos, he couldn't see the broad side of a mammoth at 15ft at night. Memories...

[Charist]

September 1999.
Saw someone else play and got my own copy the next day.
Made a human and ran through kelethin to get to Rivervale. Oh my! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Got fed up of the night blindness really quickly and was woodelf forever after [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
'Til now, when for some crazy reason I made a Half Elf druid... guess I'm only older and not wiser...

[WolfRaiser]

Played from LoY up to slightly past DoN

Went back again around House of Thule but was vastly disappointed.

[Goodi]

I started playing with Kunark. I remember in the shop the guy said this game was taking him so much time i shouldn't buy it... He really got me crious here. I strted with a palladin dwarf that i named Esperatus. I was surprised by the time leveling would take. It felt like living an adventure out of our reality.. I was hooked!

[sworde]

Extreme new timer here! Loving every minute of the game though! Rolling a DWF Pal right now. Hoping to get pretty high level with this toon!

[Vandil]

I got started just after Velious came out. My experience is different from most P99ers, because I never really played on the Live servers. My circle of friends perferred to play on the Test Server. This was back when there was no /testcopy -- you actually rolled your toon there and played there.

Life on Test was a small town. Probably a population of 1000-1200 players at peak. The server went down every couple of days as Verant rolled out new patches and tested new things that sometimes never made it to Live.

When Test went down, my friends would roll toons on a Live server and play for a few hours until Test came back up. One time Test was down for 3 days and we wound up rolling Iksar versions of our characters on a Live server and had a ball.

I left EQ about a month after LDoN came out. My group of friends was splintering between EQ, Guild Wars, and Anarchy Online. I was pretty much left to 2-box if I wanted to do anything fun (no mercenaries then) and that's when I ended it.

P99 reminds me of the Velious era, although EC prices are pretty crazy. The low population reminds me of Test, which adds to my own nostalgia.

I first played Project 1999 5 years ago. Since 2-boxing isn't allowed, I pretty much rolled the two "main" toons I had on Test and played them to a point where I got bored and parked them.

This year, the nostalgia kicked back on and I logged on for a few months, leveling my Shadowknight to 30 and getting bored again, so I logged out.

I haven't logged on in 3 months, but it's nice to know my two toons are there should the nostalgia fire up again.

[Crazymic187]

I was a Kunark baby as I always would say...

Created an Erudite Mage... was lost as can be, then died within 15 mins to a Hammer Head Shark of all things.

I returned to seek my overdue revenge.

...turns out oddly enough my next door neighbor in high school had EQ and was playing it when i came over 1 day. I was like, I think i have this game but I've not started it yet. It looks so awesome! I later found out I had bought just the expansion and not the original game and that's why I had not been able to get it started.

I bought my game at a closing Kmart with a very crappy PC section... thank you Kmart, ty u so much.

[radda]

I think some people are fibbing